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LORD ROSEBERY S DERBY WINNERS. t Writing of the winners of the groat treble directs ■ ones thoughts to other race horses which have ■ no earned high distinction on the turf without having * figured on the classic roll of fame as winners of tiio « triple crown, lct me take, for instance. Lord Rose- t ln-rys three Dcrli.vs. won with horses of his own breeding. In 1894 lie achieved the summit of his it nit it i 11 when Ladas — the second horse of that name to carry his eaten — having already won the *■ Two Thousand Guineas, annexed the Blue Riband to « the exclusion of Matchliox and Reminder. Lord « Rosebory was then prime minister and. needless to « say. it "was a most popular victory. Lord Palmer- % vi n. another premier, was not so fortunate, but, c none the h-ss. a keen MMM of the turf and the , vast industry of thoroughbred horse breeding, and tlie more one reflects on those good old times anil conditions, the greater the regret that there are not • more such sportsmen in present times to check the , growth f the faddist taction, which strives so J , hard, in its ignorance of the true condition of : a flairs to throttle the most noble and beneficial of all national aaaita. Ladas was. assuredly, one of the handsomest and most bloodlike horses ever seen, as also one of tlie best ever got by that re- markahly successful sire. Hampton, which gained even greater fame at the stud than on the race course, great as were some of his performances, , alter singularly modest beginnings. He came of th? . laratEii — Illuminata family, that has figured so conspicuously and successfully in Lord Roseberys racing career, and made an auspicious start when some- what unexpectedly he won the Woodcote Stakes at , l-.psom as a preliminary to taking the Coventry j Stakes at Ascot, the Champagne at Doneasti r and j the Middle Park Plate, in all of which he was ridden « by A. White. Undefeated as ti two-year-old. his , successes continued without a check in the following season, when John Watts took him in hand and steered him to victory in the Guineas. Newmarket Stakes and Derby, but he never won again, lsing- , lass was too gocd for him in both the Newmarket ten thousand pounders, and dropping, as it were. , from the clouds. Throstle licat him by three-quarters j of a length after it had looked any odds on him for , the St. Jaeger, in which however, he ran true enough to form with Matchbox. Over twelve months elapsed before he ran again and made his final appearance, unplaced behind UlW in the Jockey Club Stakes. Probably he did not really stay more than a mile and a ha"lf: still. I should say he was a horse of superior class to either Sir Visto or ] Cicero, although the latter was well endowed with stamina, inherited from Barealdine. and won the St. Leger as well as the Derby. In additiou to winning the Derby three times Lord Rosebery was second . twice with Couroune de Fer and Velasquez and third with Visconti and Town Moor.— "Vigilant* in London Sportsman.
