Related article: good work to be accomplished vol the development of our trout fisheries, and none more impor- tant than a practical treatment of the fly question. W. H. PoPB The Late Duke of Westminster. It is not too much to say that the death of the Duke of West- minster was a national loss, for not only was he a sportsman of the very first water, but the very type and pattern of the grand seigneur in all his ways and in every action of his busy and well-filled life. This is not the place in which to eulogise, as it deserves, the liberal spirit in which he administered the vast estates which were his by in- heritance, and which he did so much to improve, not only for those who were to come after him, but for those who were or less his dependents. His generous heart also was always open to relieve distress and to champion the cause of the op- pressed in other lands than his own. The good that he did will live after him, and the name of Hugh Lupus, first Duke of West- minster, will be remembered long after those of others who have won almost as much renown as sportsmen have sunk into ob- livion. But if the Duke of Westminster had other interests, family, social and political, to occupy much of his time and thoughts, his was not a nature to do anything by halves, and when, Thyroxine Sodium 100 Mcg comparatively late in life, he Where Can I Buy Thyroxine Tablets became an active supporter of racing, he threw his whole heart into the forma- tion of a stud worthy of the past glories of the house ct Grosvenor, which had been iden- tified with the Turf for more than a century. Earl Grosvenory the great-grandfather of the duke, won the Oaks three years in succession, and also the Derby three times, while it was his son, created Mar- quis of Westminster in 1831, who continued the paternal success by winning the Oaks and the Two Thousand Guineas soon after his father's death. It was not, how- ever, until he was much more advanced in life that the first Marquis of Westminster achieved his greatest successes, winning the Oaks with Ghuznee and the St. Leger first with Touchstone (who, as all the world knows, was destined to found a family which entitles him to rank with the greatest sires which have existed in this century), and then with Satirist and Lancelot. It was in 1834 '^^* Touchstone secured the Doncaster race for Lord Westminster, after whose death, in 1845, the Eaton pad- docks were not peopled by many thoroughbreds. It cannot be said, however, that the second Marquis of Westminster neglected breeding altogether, for he generally had a few mares at Eaton, and in i860 two of them gave birth to colts destined to make names for them- selves on the Turf. These were Macaroni and Carnival, and it must be noted, as a curious coin- THE LATE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, ICG. 1900.1 THE LATB DUKE OF WESTMINSTER. 95 ddeoce, that they were bought as yearlings by the late Mr. R. C. Naylor, who had recently pur- chased the late Sir John Massey- Stanley's place at Hooton, which is not far from Eaton, and had brooght thither Stockwell, whom he bad rescued from the '* foreign- ers" at the late Lord Londes- borongh's sale ; and who was to become, Buy Thyroxine Online Uk in the fulness of time, the sire of Doncaster, the originator of the Duke of Westminster's racing fortunes. It was not until 1875 — six years after his father's death, and shortly after he had been raised to a dukedom — that he was tempted to pay the unprecedented price of i^i4,ooo for Doncaster, who had won the Derby in 1873, and had, as a five-year-old, secured the Ascot Cup and the Alexandra Plate. Doncaster belonged to Mr. James Merry, who had adopted the yellow jacket and Hack cap of the Grosvenors, these colours not being then in use, and it is needless to say that he would have surrendered them to the duke, even if he had not been retiring from the Turf, as, unfor- tunately, failing health compelled him to do. Doncaster was pur- chased through the intermediary of the late Robert Peck, who had been training for Mr. Merry for several years and remained in charge at Russley for the next six or seven seasons. The critics were all down on Peck for asking such a price, exceeding by a thousand or more what had been pwd three years before for another of Stockweirs sons, the beautiful Blair Athol ; and it certainly did seem plenty of money, but the result showed that the Duke had made a capital bargain, for, put- ting aside the mere money value of the prizes won by Doncaster's descendants, we have in a direct line from him Bend Or, Ormonde, Orme, Flying Fox. The mere mention of these four horses in one line is the best testimony that can be offered to the soundness of judgment shown by the duke in paying what was asked of him. Readers of Baily will not care for a long narrative of the success — the almost unbroken success — which attended the Duke during the four-and-twenty years that he had horses in training, for nearly all the daily and weekly papers, including many of those which do not, as a rule, devote much space to sport, have described in detail his long and honourable career as an owner of thoroughbreds. Begun with Doncaster, this success was immediately followed up by the purchase of several brood mares, which were not long in shedding fresh lustre upon the Eaton pad- docks. Two of these were Clemence, by Newminster, and Rouge Rose, by Thormanby ; and it is an old story now how, both having foals by Doncaster, bred respectively Tadcaster and Bend Or. Whether the two foals were actually changed by mistake soon after birth will never, perhaps, be known for certain, but at all events there was no evidence which satis- fied the Stewards of the Jockey Club, and it would have been very hard on the Duke to have been deprived of his first Derby because of a technical error by which no one else was prejudiced. But well as Bend Or did on Thyroxine Sodium 50 Mcg the turf, his record at the stud