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LORD ROSEBERY AND HIS GOOD HORSES. Lord Rosebery is a sportsman of whose patronage the turf may well be proud, and it dates back to his " Varsity" days. Well I remember the the occasion forty-two years ago when James Dover, long since gone over to the majority, won for him with Aldrich his first City and Suburban. It was a memorable race for more reasons than one. as he started at the long odds of 40 to 1. ridden by Morbey, still alive to tell the tale, and beat Minister by a neck, after Bugle March, Petition and Bulls Eye had fallen coming down the hill to Tattonham Corner. By a curious coincidence the Westminster Stakes, next on the card, was won by Lord Stamfords Lady Rosebery, not to be confounded with the mare of the same name that won the Liverpool Autumn Cup in SS and 90. Epsom has always been a favorite battle ground for the primrose and rose hoops, and many have been its triumphs there, including a second "City and Sub" by the aid of Roysterer; but of far greater importance were the Derby victories of Ladas. Sir Visto and Cicero, while Bonny Jean won tlie Oaks in S3. Ladas, which was the second horse of that name to carry his colors, was unquestionably the best of Lord Roseberys Derby winners, and it was he which helped to achieve the height of his ambition by bearing away the Blue Riband the while Lord Rosebery was in office as prime minister, truly a proud and unique record. Previous to that the roarer, Couronne do Fer, in the same colors, had run second to George Frederick, Visconti third to Sir Bevys, and Town Moor was similarly placed to Iroquois, while in 97 Velasquez, which afterwards went blind, was proximo acccssit to Galtee More. Lord Rosebery has owned many good horses during his career, but without doubt I should say Kermesse was his best two-year-old and of high class, too. A remarkable accident kept her out of her. engagements in the following spring, for she split both her pasterns at exercise and, in spite of her brilliant form and her high breeding, she was an unaccountable failure at the stud. Another higli-class horse was Cameliard, which, however, could never be properly trained on account of faulty knees. It is not my purpose to detail the many successes of this popular jacket on the turf, but I cannot pass over two great Lincolnshire Handicap coups with Controvarsy and Touchet, and that grand timber-topper, Pruilhomme, in the days when hurdle races were of some account. He also won the Chester Cup. and in recent times Wrack was also useful at the game, but nothing near the same high class, for Priulhomnie was a real champion. In spite of the strenuous times, Lord Rosebery has helped materially to keep the game alive, and his colors have been frequently seen since the war broke out, besides which it is well that his sons, Lord Dalmeny and the Hon. Neil Primrose, are equally keen in their love of sport. It is true that at the Newmarket winter sales several mares including Black Potts, Love Blink, Orange, Oriana, and Scammony were drafted out of the Crafton Stud and a few yearlings disposed of in the summer, but the famous Mentmore establishment still remains at full strength, with twenty-six brood mares, while a new stud has been made, in order that the Durdans paddocks at Epsom may be left free for the accommodation of the yearlings. It is here that Cicero is now standing. He was lucky to catch Jardy off color on the day ho won the Derby, but he was, nevertheless a good horse, and has made his mark among the fashionable sires. Unfortunately, his dam proved barren for several seasons in succession, and has been destroyed. She is buried at Mentmore. Cicero is supported by Neil Gow, whose desperate Two Thousand Guineas and Eclipse Stakes battles with Lemberg are still green in memory. Junior, originally tlie property of Mr. Hulton, and for some unaccountable reason sold at the close of his two-year-old career, which was leased for a couple of seasons for Crafton, has gone to Cundells establishment, but Lord Rosebery gave, him a good chance, and from all accounts the son of Symington has left some rare good-looking foals behind him. -The mares last season were mated as follows: Attic Salt to Junior, Chelys to Cancer, Bobolink to Junior, Greek Girl to Neil Gow, Ciiar-mian to Junior, Chelandry dam of Neil Gow to Junior; also Loveite, Martial Note, Montem, Oriole, Pasta, Samphire, Sixpenny, Tanaquil, Verve and a mare by Sunstar out of Montem, while Prne has been put to Chaucer, Prune to Cicero, Rhetoric to Simon Square, Signorinetta winner of the Derby and Oaks to Cicero, Thrasy-mene to Simon Square, Turpitude to Cylgad, Valve to Swynford and mares by Dark Ronald out of Chelandry and by Sir Geoffrey or Uncle Mac out of Sister Sue to The White Knight, while Ukraine has been given a rest. The foals are thirteen in number, and include colts by Cicero. Junior, Swynford and Light Brigade, and fillies by Junior, Neil Gow, Bayardo and Stedfast. For reasons already given the yearlings are reduced to seven, made up of fillies by Santry, Beppo and Fowling-piece, and colts by Swynford, Sunstar, St. Amant and Spearmint. Vaucluse, winner of the One Thousand Guineas last year, has been turned out of training, and is at present at the Durdans. She will be bred next year. Although the season has been rather a lean one, Frank Hartigan has, on the whole, done well for Lord Rosebery since he took his horses, and presumably the yearlings will in due course be sent to him to be trained at Woyhill. Rickaby used to ride for the stable until he was called to the colors, when J. H. Martin was retained, and he also succeeds him as jockey for Stanley House. Of the old horses Dark Sapphire is the only winner, but has been placed in each of his two other races, and two victories have fallen to the share of Lammermuir, a filly that may be relied on to do the stable further service. The colt by Loch-ryan, out of Samphire, has run six times without hitting the mark, but came near to it twice, when second to Tom Fool for the Granby Plate, and again when similarly placed behind the Oh Fie filly, while the beautifully-bred lillv by Sunstar, out of Chelandry, is useful, and would be better with a little more grit, but is not a game finisher. A better than either of the above may, however, some day be revealed in the big, good-looking Swynford colt from Chelys, which has run once, unplaced to Grand Fleet, Fleetwood and Nuns Veiling, for he is a youngster of considerable promise that should lose his maiden certificate before the end of the season, and there should also be a race in the filly by Lochryan, out of Whim. "Vigilant" in London Sporting Life.
