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MORE ABOUT FAMOUS FOXHALL Some Unrelated Details Concerning the Great American Horses Career in England. In our issue of December 25 last year I published a paragraph anent Foxhall, which brought off the double of the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire as a three-year-old in 1881. This so interested my American correspondent, Neil Newman, that In order to correct his records in regard to this American-bred son of King Alfonso, he wanted to know what happened to the horse in subsequent years. Thanks to the courtesy of Charles Edmunds, the estate manager for Lord Rosebery at Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard, I am able to supply the following details: HISTORY OF HORSE. "Neil Newman has part of his story right, and the history of the horse is as follows: Imported into England in 18S0, and from Jamaica, by Lexington, from Fanny Ludlow, by Eclipse, Foxhall first covered mares in England in 1884 while standing at Leybourne Grange Stud. He was purchased the following season by Lord Rosebery and was located at Crafton Stud. He must have been sent back to his native land early in 1892, as there is no record In the covering books of the last-named stud as to what mares he was mated with that year. I can. find no record in any stud book of his return to England, yet he must have come back here in 1892, as he covered mares in England in 1893, 1891 1896 and 1897. I also know that he was mated with a good number of half-bred mares that were kept by Lord Rosebery for the purpose of breeding carriage horses. Foxhall was shot in 1901 and buried In the Big Wood in Mentmore Park. There is no-one at Mentmore who had anything to do with the stud in those days, so I do not know where to go for further information. However, if Neil Newman is ever in England he should come down to Mentmore and see where four Derby winners were reared and where King Tom, Macaroni and Foxhall, besides many other notable thoroughbreds, lived and died." SHORT VISIT. Mr. Newman was in England early in March, but did not remain long. He informed me, however, that he would probably return again in the near future. Foxhall was a great grandson of King Tom. which ran second to Andover for the Derby of 1854 after having been, stopped in his work by a sprained tendon for some ten days before, and was defeated by a length. King Tom belonged to Baron Meyer de Rothschild, the creator of Mentmore, where the horse did so well as a stallion, and there is a large statue of Harkaways son in the grounds near the mansion. Audax, in Horse and Hound.
