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LORD DERBYS TURF SUCCESSES Iteysoc the Siztli Tilly to Win the St. Leger His Two Great Mares. The victory of Keysoe in the St. Leger last T-eek was a turf triumph for Lord Derby, the British ambassador to France, such as few horsemen over achieved. He not only bred the winner of this oldest and longest of the classic English races, but lie also bred her sire and her dam. and nearly all his noteworthy successes as a breeder and turfman have come through her faniiy; the story of which is Interesting. Lord Derby about tweuty-five years ago purchased two fillies called Lock and Key and Canterbury Pilgrim, that were bred by the Duchess of Montrose. Lock and Key was by Janissary, son of Isonomy, and the Oaks and St. Loger winner Jannette. by the St. Loger winner. Lord Clifden. Janissary got the Derby winner Jeddah. and his daughter Lock and Key. when bred to tiie Derby and St. Leger winner Persimmon, produced Keystone II., winner of the Oaks for Lord Derby In 1900, and dam of Keysoe. his St. Leger winner of 1919. Canterbury Pilgrim, the other of the two fillies, was by the Ascot Cold Cup winner Tristan, son of the Derby winner Hermit, whose sire, the St. Leger winner Newminster. got Lord Clifden. Pilgrimage, the dam of Canterbury Pilgrim, won two of the five classic English races, the One Thousand Guineas and the Two Thousand Guineas. Canterbury Pilgrim herself won the Oaks for Lord Derby, and when he bred her to St. Simon she produced Chaucer, sire of Canyon, the filly that won the One Thousand Guineas for him in 191;. A few years later he bred Canterbury Pilgrim to John o Gaunt, son of the great Isinglass, by Isonomy, and in 1907 she produced Swynford, a colt that won the St. Ixger in 1910, beating the Derby winner Lemberg, and that got Ferry, his home-bred winner of the One Thousand Guineas last year, and Keysoe, his St. Leger winner last week. Here are six winners of the classic races that have come from Lord Derbys investment in the two fillies twenty-five years ago. and five of the six winners bred by him to win in his colors. It is a record that has been equaled by few. if any, turfmen now living. Lord Derby has won twenty-five races with horses of his own breeding this year. Keysoe is the first filly since Pretty Polly to win the St. Loger. Run over a course that is 1.029 feet longer than that of the Derby and nearer two miles than a mile and a half in length, the race at Dolicastcr is the stiffest as well as the oldest of the English turf classics, and with a difference of but three pounds in favor of the fillies they have usually found it too much for them, only twenty-five having won in 144 years. That it takes a great filly to beat the colts under ordinary circumstances is indicated by the names of the last few female winners, including Pretty Pollv, 1904; Sceptre, 1902; Throstle, 1891; La Fleche, 1.S92: Memoir, 1.S90, and Sea Breeze, 18S8. Throstle and Keysoe are the only ones that did not also win the Oaks, and they did not start in the Epsom race. Pretty Polly. Sceptre and La Fleche won three of the four classic races in their respective years. No filly lias ever won them all. Thoroughbred Record.
