The Badminton Magazine
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362 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE when the Leger came to be considered, there seemed nothing to interfere with Jeddah, who was an odds-on favourite, 10 to 1 bar one, this price being taken about Captain Harry Greer’s Wildfowler, who beat Jeddah decisively by four lengths. It was the last appearance but one of the son of Janissary and Pilgrimage. He did not come out again until the Jockey Club Stakes at the Newmarket First October Meeting next season, and this was a hopeless enterprise, for Flying Fox looked as great a certainty as there well could be. Starting at 8 to 1 on, 100 to 7 bar i— Jeddah 50 to 1— the half-brother to Batt cantered home, and Jeddah was relegated to the stud. It was natural to entertain great hopes of him, for there could not well be a better-bred animal than the grandson of Isonomy and Jannette. He stood at a fee of 45 guineas, but has never quite justified expectations. A couple of fillies by him, Gronella and Miss Joppa, won little races in 1903. Next season his children secured four small stakes worth little more than £400, and there was no improvement in 1905 nor in 1906 ; but next season Mussulman was four times successful— the horses, it should be remarked, were now under the charge of a private trainer, Sanderson, junior, who took charge of them when they left Egerton House. In 1908, Jeddah’s son Simonson won the Duke of York Stakes, worth £1,565, and next year the Simonella filly, one of five winners, easily carried off the Sefton Park Plate, a £500 race. Unfortunately, Jeddah died. Whilst being led out for exercise one frosty morning he slipped up and ricked his back, paralysis supervening. Mr. Larnach’s name had appeared for the first time in the List of Winning Owners in 1897, with a couple of little races worth £345, and it is not often that an owner jumps so rapidly into prominence. For in 1898 he was sixth in the List of Winning Owners and only £81 behind Lord Rosebery, who was fifth. Jeddah contributed £8,150 to the total of £11,527, there having been another source of handsome profit in Victoria May, a daughter of St. Simon and Hampton Rose, who had taken Mr. Larnach’s fancy at the Newmarket July sales the previous year. He had given 1,350 guineas for her notwithstanding her lack of size ; for she was very small. He had not been deceived, however, as to her promise. She came out in the Mostyn Two-Year- Old Plate at Chester and started successfully, winning by a length from Mr. Frank Alexander’s Quassia ; but she failed by a length to give 7 lb. and sex to Knickerbocker in the Exning Plate at the Newmarket Second Spring, where, however, amongst those behind her was no less a horse than Caiman, destined to earn fame by beating Flying Fox, only giving 3 lb., a length and a half for the Middle Park Plate..