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LEOPOLD DE ROTHSCHILD IN RACING Exploits of the: Many Fine Horses Which Raced in the Colors of the Now Dead Financier. Article Two. In 1SS9, Morglay, Cotillon, Trenton, Waylarid, Lactantius, and Galloping Queen were the chief contributors to a total close upon 5,000. In 1S90 the rat-tailed Bumptious came on the scene and Avon seven juvenile races out of eleven. He was a rare galloper, and odds Avere laid on him for r six of the seven events he won, which included the Fern Hill and tlie Queens Stand Plate at Ascot. For the Fern Hill he was opposed only by four other tAvO-year-olds, of Avhich Conifer finished second and Reverend M. Blanes a bad third, AA-hile in the "Stand Plate" he demolished such speedy old uns as Noble Chieftain, Swift, Mephisto, and Maxim. Galloping Queen by Galopin Queen of Diamonds, Avon numerous races in her four turf seasons, including the Portland Plate at Doncaster as a three-year-old and the Temple Handicap at Sandown as a four. In 91, as in the two preceding seasons, the total Avon exceeded 0,000, Benvenuto, High Havens, Bumptious and Godwit being among tlie best. Tlie years 1892 and 1893 Avere only productive of minor successes, the most noteworthy Avinners being Lottery, Eros, Opoponax, Rodomont, and Mountain Chief. From 0,310 in 1893 there Avas a rise to 3,055 in 1894, when Utica, Grig, Catkin, Rodomont, Attar, and Bragget were in the string. Utica Avas by . St. Simon Biserta which won the Chester Cup of 1883, and she Avon high-class races in her first season, Avhen her victories comprised the Plantation Stakes, Exeter Stakes, arid Clear-well Stakes, to be folloAved the next year by successes in a Trienrilal at Ascot and the Zetland Stakes at Newmarket iri July. Grig was bred by the trainer, A. B. Sadler, and was bought out of a selling race at Kcmpton for 3G0 guineas. Grig did so Avell that her dams next tvd foals also passed into the possession of Mr. Rothschild. - These Avere Imposition afterwards renamed Fosco and Jest, and they Avere both by Juggler, Avhoreas Grig Avas by Crafton. Three Good Colts. In 1895 the doings of such minor lights as Grig and Utica Avere dAvarfed Jiy others, for in that year Mr. L. de Rothschild had three good tAvo-year-old colts. They Avere St. Frusquin, bv St. Simon Isabel, Galeazzo, by Galopin Eira, and Gulistan, by Brag Guinevra daughter of Kisber and Hippiu. Of these St. Frusquin Avas, of course, by far the best, and his juvenile Aviiinings 8,110 made the ,985 of Galeazzo and the ,835 of Gulistan look small enough. St. Frus-quins five successes were in the Royal Two-Year-old Plate at Kemptdn for which his more precocious stable companion, Gulistan, ran hirii to a neck, the Sandringham Gold Cup at Sandown, the Chesterfield Stakes Newmarket, the Middle Park Plate Avhich he won by a half length from Omladina, With Persimmon third, four lengths behind the second and Dewhurst Plate, for which ho gave ten pounds to. the second, Knight 6f the Thistle, with Bay Ronald unplaced. St. Frusquin should have Avon a sixth race, but in the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kenipton October Finlay rode a badly judged finisl, and the "Saint" failed by a half length to concede twelve pounds to Mr. Straus Teufel, Avhich, in the following years Derby was unable to finish nearer than a moderate fourtli to Persimmon and St. Frusquin. Chief Winning OAvner. For the first time, in 1895, Mr. Rothschild had headed the list of AA-inning owners, thanks mainly to St. Frusquin, Aith a total of 03,745, and owing chiefly" to the same colts victories in 189G in tlie Tavo Thousand Guineas, Princess of Wales Stakes, Eclipse Stakes, etc., backed up by the efforts of the half-sisters Goletfa and Utica, Galeazzo Avhich Avon tlie NeAvmarket Stakes, etc., Grig, Jest, Jaque-mart. Little Bob, etc., their OAvner Avas again placed , at the head of affairs a twelvemonth later Avith the magnificent total of 33,830.50 almost twenty thousand pounds, more than the surii Avon in the same year by Persimmons lamented royal owner. After that riiemorable Derby St. Frusquiri, which at Epsom Avas possibly a shade unlucky in that his jockey, T. Loates, broke a stirrup leather in the last stride or tAvo progressed Avell, and when it became knoAvn that he and his Derby conqueror AA-ould again cross swords in the ten thousand pound race, the Princess of Wales Stakes, in which Persimmon had to give three pounds to his doughty rival, excitement ran higher, perhaps, than at Epsom. Lobkirig- back at that day at Newmarket it makes one smile at the Idea that neither Of tlie two great colts Avas faA-orite, that post being awarded to the late Duke of Westminsters cobby colt Regret, Avhich was in receipt of twelve pounds from Persimmon and nine pounds from the "Saint." The other runners Avere all four-year-olds arid included Sir Visto, LaA;erio, Kirkconnel, tlie ill-fated Troon and one Or two more. The Avriter can see the race noAv; As they cliriibed the firial ascent coming into tlie Dip Troon, Avhich Avas running AA-ell, threAV up his head, but he had no chance before that, only St. Frusquin arid Persimmon being iri if, and St. Frusquin led up the hill, with Persimfnon clinging to his quarters and Regret Immediately behind them. Strive though Watts, on Persimriion, might, the three pounds Avas too much to give to a horse which almost dead-heated AA-ith him on level terms at Epsom and St. Frusquin won by a half length. In the .Eclipse Stakes St. Frusquin AA-as again opposed by Regret and Troon, with Labrador to assist Regret, but the "Saint" beat tlie latter more easily than at NeAvmarket, AAith Troon third. That AA-as St. Frusquins last race, for leg trouble caused him to be withdraAA-n from the Leger. His stud career Avas from tlie first highly successful and his stock includes such good winners as St. Amant Tavo Thousand Guineas and Derby, Rhodora One Thousand Guineas, Greenback secorid to Lemberg in the Derby, Flair One Thousand Guineas, Quintessence, Lesbia and many others. A Great Feat. In 1897 Gal tee More enabled Mr. John Gub-bins to relegate Mr. Rothschild to second place, but in 189S Mr. Leopold again headed the poll A-ith a total of 51,337.50. It Avas indeed a great feat to head the list three years out of four, and be second the other year. In those four seasons alone Mr. Rothschild won OAer 75,000 in -stakes, and in the thirty-two years from 1879 to 1910 inclusive he AA-as credited Avith the huge total of ,078,636. In 1S9S Goletta won for him his second Prince of Wales Stakes, arid other good winners about then and in 1899 were Gay Lothair, Guisla, Galinthia, Ayah, Allegro, Jaquemart, Trident, Fosco, Griffon, Atbara, Chosen, Vatel, Golden Bridge, Pie PoAvder and St. Gris, the latter making amends for the defeat of his elder half-brother, St. Frusquin, a few years earlier by snatching a victory in the Imperial Produce Stakes of-1898 froiri the famous Flying Fox, Avhich Avas giving five pounds and was beaten a head. The Duke of Westminsters colt was not quite at his best, hoAA-ever, just at that time, for in the following week ho was just beaten in the Middle Park Plate by the American, Caiman, AAiiich vainly tolled in pursuit of him in the next years Two Thousand; Fosco won the 1898 Great Eastern Railway Handicap1 arid Pie PoAvder afterwards to earn stud fame as the dam of Santn Strato and Pietri brought off a 100 to 8 chance in the HigliAACiglit Handicap at Newmarket First July from Form, White Frost; Hcn-dersyde, Dumbarton, NouAeau Riche, Survivor like Form, an Australian-bred horse, Invincible II. and other smart handicap horses. In all Mr. Rothschilds flat racers A-on 53 races in 1898, but considerably less money than in his record year 1S96, Avhen the races won numbered 5-1 the most he ever secured in one season. Mention should not be otnitted of Trident, by Ocean Wave Lady Love-rule He was her second foal the first AA-as Cat-in and he accounted for such races as a juvenile in 189S as the Fulbburne Stakes, the Great Foal Plate. Lingfield, and the more valuable Chesterfield "Nursery at Derby NoA-ember, for AVhicli, carrying the top AA-eight of 121 pounds,, he defeated Sir James Millers Ionia colt. Mr. Torterolos La Urii-guaA-a, Manners, Galopin Lassie, Fairy Field, Black-Aving, Umbrosa, Vara arid mariy more. The American-bred Golden Bridge Bridegroom II. renamed scored no feAVer , than sir successes that year, iii the last of AA-hich; the Lancashire Handicap at Manchester November, the: runner-up Avas, rather curiously, the original Bridgeroom, at that time no longer Mr. Calverts, but owned by Mr. Jersey. To be continuedi
