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CHEVALIER ENESTREtLIS.ipol ." : ". SIGNORINA HAD NO PRICE Three years after Slgnorfaas success for the late Chevalier Genestrelli came Signorinetta by Chaleu-reux, which, to the surprise of almost everybody except her owner, easily won ho Derby of 1908, ridden by W. Bullock, and starting at 100 to 1; while two days later she secured the Oaks in the same jockeys hands. After her second victory King Edward sentyfor the Chevalier to congratulate him, and I can see them now, the Italian with his Panama hat and a rather dirty suit, and His Majesty faultlessly dressed in fashionable London nttirV, bowing jointly to the cheers of the crowd as tliey stood in the front of the royal box. ft is perhaps not generally known that the niare won the Derby on her owners seventieth birthday. Signorinetta was never so good either before or after that Epsom week, and the Chevalier, .an excitable man, would have it that he could never obtain suitable ground; to gallop on, which -was also his excuse with regard to other horses he had that failed to do well, and the epithets he applied to heath keeper Marriot concerning the heath must have greatly amused this jockey club official, if ihey- ever came to -his fears. December 13, 1911, the Chevalier sold Signorinetta to"" Lord Rosebery for 2,500, and soon after this: left, for his native land. -His colors were white : and blue hoops, blue sleeves, white cap. and the first success of any importance they gained here was when Raffaello won the Manchester November Handicap of 1885, but this fine old sportsman will always be remembered through Signoriua and her offspring. What he thought .of St. Simons daughter may be gauged by the fact that when he was offered the then gigantic and unheard-of price for a filly of 00,000, as a two-year-old, he replied: "All England coidd not buy my mare." This was true, as lie simply worshiped her. -Audax In Horse and Hound.
