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mnrj! or roKTLAirarfl iamoug stud. I in- Itnke ol Portland, after aaeceedkag to ibe • title in is7 . regialereil tight blue, white sleeves ami 1 a, 1 as his racing colors, hut theee gave waj to the more tamiliai white, black aVnvta and cap 1 within three years of his Iral appearance on the turf. He was elected a member of the Jockey club alter ■ short apace of time, and straek a I lucky vein straight away, as after Mowerina had I earned the eolora of her breeder, Mr. otto Sraven-ius. Mr. Beddington, and I »rd Rowsnaore, she be caaae bis property, and bet., re retiring to the siu.i I " 11 for biui the Portland Plate at Doncaater and I the Chatsworth Plate at llerliv. Sin was a speed male, aed was bred in Denmark, bj Hcottiah Chief out of Stockings, bj Stockwell. Apart from whal sin- a.-.-oni|di-!i ,1 on ti,,. n ■unrse she proved an 1 extraordinarily lock purchase, a- sin- prodiu-ed I Donovau, Semolina, Ka 111 11, Rliaabetb llardwirk and 1 tt iters that Bgnred iinspk-aonaly both on the race course and afterwards. Itonovan, foe example, was he unluckiesl horse imaginable when beaten a 1 bead bj Enthusiast fo« the Two Thonsand Gnlneaa, a defeat line entirely to Tom Cannons yoefceyahip, as tin- son of lialopin showed siibseonentlj in t li -Derby, St, Leger ami other important racea; . 27."..sij in stakes fell to bis shate. a record aeeunil oal to I that of Isin-iass. which, if memory serves me. was only beaten one.-, when he tailed to give ten 1 pounds to Raebnrn at Manchester. Donovan was ; one Of tile lew. iiab-ed lie Hard was Til* i.. ol.ier of note thai trained on into a topeawyer after winning the Brock leshj stakes. Semolina won the . One fiiousand Guineas in 1*400, which was ., good year for the magpie Jacket, as Memoir won the aks and St. Leger, ami to these claaaic victories . ina he added tbos.- of Ayrshire In the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, Amiable in the One Thousand and ai,s. ubieh race waa aleo woe b. Mra. Batterwlek and l.a Roche, a mare owned in part iierahip with Lord Berkelej Paget, while Amiable was partly the property of Lord Lnrgan. Airs ami I Graces, by Ayrshire, was bred by the Duke of Portland, but carried the eolora of Mr. W. T. Jones. hen she won the Oaks, after which she went to Prance to breed Jardy, which won the Middle Park Plate for M. Bdmood Blanc, and would have won the Derby bad ho not been dead amiss at lie time. Now if Mowerina was a lucky chance purchase. what shall be said of St. Simon, which had never run in public when, following the tragic bath , of Ins breeder and owner, Prince Batthyany, be was. as a wo-voar-old. bought for l.iibo guineas by Matlicw Dawson on behalf of the Duke? Never was sin h a bargain in the history of the turf, and pessihlv never a better horse. Ormonde notwithstanding, lie was never beaten and never ioessed iii any of his races. To commence with be romped away with the Halnaker and Maiden Slakes at Goodwood, next with top weight did the same in the Devonshire Nursery at Derby, and then, with 12i pounds up. came home eight lengths in froat for the mile Prince of Wales" Naraerj at Doncaater. These One performances notwithstanding, the Dllke of Weslllllllsler det elln ined to have a out at him with Duke of Richmond, but "the Saint" made a back of biin in a natch for n monkey" at level weights over the Bretby Stakes" course. Of course, he had no place in the classic races of the following year, which was lucky for Soot Free. St. .alien. Harvester and The Lambkin. Nothing had the temerity to oppose him for the Kpsotn Gold Cup. in connection with which occurred the unconventional trial with Tristan, ta whicb reference was recently made in this column, and although Mr. Lefevrea celebrity bad a turn at Ascot he oouhi n | extend him for rhe Gold Cap, ami was beaten twenty lengths, although he easily won the Hardwioke on the following day. That was 1 real eye-opener as Car aa the three-year-old was concerned, and nexl he went to Newcastle to win the Costorth IJoM Cup. unchallenged by cbisiehuisi . Ho terminated bis racing career ai Goadwood, for be never ran again alter trounc- ing the "St. Leger winner for the Cup. His sue-■ 1 ss as a sire was phenomenal, and the tale told in detail would till a rntume. Ho was the sire of two winners of the Two Thousand Unlet aa In Sr. 1ius.piin and Diamond Jubilee, four Of the bio Thousand in Semolina, l.a Fleche. Amiable and Wlnfreda. two of the Derby In Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee, live of the oaks in La Fleche, Memoir. Mrs. Butterwick, Amiable ami La Roche, anil lour of the St. Leger in Memoir. La Fleche. Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee. The s,.n of Galopin was a veritable gold mine to the Duke of Portland, and. what is more, the St. Simon stands first in fame all over the world by reason of the stud successes of IPs sons and daughters. To the recent death of St. Serf in bis twenty-ninth year reference lias already been made. There still remain at the Welheck Stud William the Third, a well -established and fajnona s,,i, ,,f Si. Sim u and Gravity; Primer, a horse of rare quality and power, by the same sire out of Breviary; and q 01u1gsicr of exceptional premise in Bfriing bam. by William the Third out of Queen Marguerite. It will be strange indeed if be does not *el race horses. The entire horses Bine Light, by Far-iman. and Griagley, by Marco, are kepi for the Use of the half bred mares belonging to the dukes tenants. At the present time there are twenty-two broodmares at Welheck, Including Mich ohoiee ma iroiis as Amiable. Belle of Erin. Bojaria. Butter mere. Caadebec, Countess Resy. Fair Nell. GaBoft-ide. Gandaretta. Jtatena. La Belle France, l.a Roche. I.mlit .l.me. Loaguerillc, Miss Gnanina II., Mrs. Butterwick. Nilgnai, Recoil, Salt Hill. Silent Lady. Spaiato and Stolen Love. -"Vhrilant" in London Sportsman.
