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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-
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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