510 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE has since produced six others. Ten Oaks call to mind the fact that there were winners in all have been owned or bred great mares long before Pretty Polly by the Grosvenors, and six St. Leger and Sceptre became the idols of the hour. winners. Still clear in memory is the The blood of Doncaster is found in remarkable sale of Eaton-bred horses in profusion in the stud, reminding one of training at Eaton in 1900, when nineteen the excellent bargain made by the late were sold for an aggregate of 70,440 Duke of Westminster when he purchased guineas, and later in the year twelve that horse from Mr. Robert Peck for yearlings were sold at Newmarket for £14,000, a price sufficiently high to cause 43,300 guineas. Two new records were no little sensation in those days. established when Flying Fox was sold In lonely state in a walled paddock, for 37,000 guineas (that sum was and thoroughly contented with his lot,

ORME Photograph by XV. A. Pouch exceeded when Prince Palatine changed you will find Orme, now in the “ sere hands at £40,000) and the yearling and yellow," for he was foaled as far back Sceptre for 10,000 guineas. as 1889. What memories of stirring It has been my privilege to look over incidents does he call up ! You may this famous Cheshire stud-farm, and to read of them in John Porter’s be reminded at almost every step of reminiscences of Kingsclere, and, indeed, notable racing champions. The skeleton in every record of the racing events of of Touchstone, carefully preserved here, the past thirty years. Orme is the direct takes you back to an interesting period remaining link in this country with his in -Turf history, and the shank-bones of sire Ormonde, the greatest horse ever Beeswing, the “ pride of the North," bred in Cheshire, and perhaps the best