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■ QUEER, ADVENTURES OF A BROODMARE Rosedrcp Passes to Various Owners Before Winning Fame as Gainsboroughs Dam. Gainsborough, of course, is entitled to the chief honors of the week, and unless I am much mistaken, it is for him only a question of health, that he should lake Ma place among the triple-crowners. of which soVct coterie we have already had two since the war began. It may lx- that Zinovia will prove a formidable opponent to the son of Bayardo -Itosedrop. hut 1 dont think anything else is likely to trouble him. Jainsborough is. in fact, no more at his Ixs; „„„- ih.,11 was Gay Crusader at the same time hi-i v,ar ami he is even more like improving oa Ma waft as the season advances. Th-re has from the first been a strange shufflins alxuit of Rosetlr. p among various owners. Simons Harrison baagfcl her as a foal together with her dam. When she ..is a yearling at Done-aster he tried in rata to g i m,. c,,x to haw her. but that gentleman objected to her flaxen mane and tail, so Sir William l.ass h came the purchaser and she was trained at M.intoi, to win the Oaks and Yorkshire Stakes Ixiting WiUoayxl. Afterwards, when Sir William Pass hariiia wire sold. Mr. Cox forgot his color objections r,nd bought llosetlrop for 5.000 guineas. Then In- n waved to have changed his mind, for having mated the mare with Bayardo. he proceeded to turn her over to Lady James Douglas, for whom she prtidu • --I a filly, slnewhat on the small side. Hi aiiwhin . Simons Harrison had sold Rosedrops dam i:-.s:.line to Senor Ignacio Covreas and she was despatth-d to South America, where she has bred gtatd winners to Diamond Jubilee. Lady James Douglas had one disapp .iiitment with Rosetlrop. for the ii, ,|e pa*] another visit to ltayardo and provd barren However, Gainslxirongh came at the third time of asking and then for some unknown reason Lady James decided that she had had .ugh of Uosedrop and sold her at one of the Newmaik i nhs John Scott lx-ing the purchaser and he. I believe, sent her to Payardo tigain last year, but I .mi toil she has not proved to lx- in foal. This i bad luck indeed, for Payardo is dead and so tin- anting that produced Gainsborough can never lx- repeated. However, It may well be that Gay CraaadVr win lx- retired to the stud next year aut he Might make as gixid a mate for Rosetlrop as his sire did. LADY JAMES DOUGLAS* LUCK. The curious vicissitudes of the family did not caii-e with the various sellings and resellings ,f llos.-rop md i,er dam for. as is well remembered. I.ady Jam.- Donelas offered Gainslxirongh for sale with her other v.-arlings in l*M anil the reserve of LMitii guiin-as for such a royally-bred and good-I.m.Uiu: e. it was anything but a prohibitive one. enough to bid that Still, there was no one bold -urn mid Gainslxirongh passetl through the ring un-sold and I-ady .lames had to send him into training on he* awa account. It was lucky for her that huyi rs were M, blind to their own interests. When offered for snle the yearling Oainslxirough was big in raawHttuu. not to say Ix-efv. and there was an idea that In- was to.i thick set and "stuffy to make ■ race horse. |,.it I know that I thought well of him at thai l hue ;,,id wrote accordingly. H is given to few to 1»- possessed of a classic winner Bgainat their will, but it has hapix-ned so in this c.ise :iud. what is more. I~nly James Douglas will al-o tini! that she owns a most valuable stallion without having gone to the expense of buying him The year hefere the war slie offered Mr. ltel-moal no 1,-ss than 44UH* eiiineas for Tracery and the off.r was refused. Now she has Gainsborough just for the cost of having bred him. which cost he has already much more than recoii|M-d ill stakes won. It is hardly to he txix-ctetl that in the coming time fees vw|| remain at the high level to which we have lM-eoine accustomed, but the sons of ltayardo will certainly command the highest scale, whatever that may be. :lI,d if Oaiusb irougli gets through his cim.ifconioiits successfully, as there is every reason to anticipate, there will lx- really nothing to rheeee between him ami Ga* Crusader. — W. Allison in ljuaiou .;poitsmau.
