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DUKE OF WESTMINSTERS NEW SIRE. Turning to another Duke, who during the war has shown himself much of a man, it is interesting to learn that the Duke of AVestminster has not sold Troutbeck, but has leased him to the Langdon Hall Stud, the vacancy at Chester being filled by Aid-ford, which has developed into a beautiful horse and should make his mark as a sire. He is now six years old and well-bred, by the French horse Mauvezin son of Reuil and Modest Martha Man-galine, a half-sister to Flying Fox, by William the Third Aampire, by Galopin Irony, by Rosebery, and is the mares first foal. Undefeated as a two-year-old, Aldford made an early start when he beat Ambassador and thirty-one others for the Bcckhampton Stakes at the Newbury April meeting and at his next essay accounted for the Stamford Plate at Chester. By George fell an easy victim to his fine speed in the Salisbury Stakes and at Ascot ho ran away from Santa Quaranta and the rest in the Sixty-First Triennial. Better form than this, however, was his next, when lie presented Lanius with twelve pounds and three-quarters of a length beating for the Stud Produce Stakes at the First July meeting at Newmarket and so far he had not been hard pressed in any of his races, but it was different at Newbury, when he had to put it all in to win the Autumn Foal Stakes by a head from Land of Song, to which lie was conceding six pounds and that ended prematurely what promised to be a smart racing career, but with such credentials there seems no reason why lie should not make up into a first-class stallion London Sportsman.
