St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-08
The Duke of Portland Gets
the Biggest Gains in Re-
cent Years.
Memoir Contributes to His
Earnings to the Extent of
$4,000.
How August Belmont Won a
Big Pot On the Horse
FrogtoWn.

the Duke of Portland, who has taken in
over 100000 on his horses in three
years, and during ten years ownership
of horses has averaged winnings OF $780,
600 annually, With small stud he has
won the Derby twice, the st. Leger
twice. the Two Thousand Guineas. the
Oaks. the One Thousand Guineas, the
Lancashire plate, the Eclipse stakes, the
Ascot cup, the ROYAL stakes at Kemp
ton, the Goodwood cup, the Middle
Park plate, and nearly all the principal
two-year-old races. Of these, the One
Thousand Guineas. the Oaks and the
st. Leger were won during the
past year, the dukes winnings for
the season being about $4,000. Memoir
was the most profitable of mis- horses,
contributing to the dukes gains the
handsome amount OF about $4,000. st.
Serf won six races, worth nearly $780,
900, and Semollna took in the l,000
guineas and $1,000. The duke has been
an easy leader in English races for some
time, although there is doubt as to
whether he can retain his supremacy
next season. Indeed, his winnings the
In In 1889, when he astOniShed the rae
ing world and beat all records of the
kind in England by winning S37O,O00
The running of his two-Year-olds Will
have to be improved if he keeps the
leadership in 1891.
A Drop in the Winners.
From the duke to the next winners is
quite a descent. Mr.. Houldsw0rth had
tr
about $4,000 less. Mr.. Houldsworth's
best representative was the wo-year-old
Orvieto, who won nearly $4,000. MIR.
Miner suffered great loss in a fatal
accident to Riviera, who, as two-year-
old. earned more than $4,000 i'll 1889,
and would probably have put Mr.. Miner
first on the list the past season. A. w.
Murray won about ST., 600, nearly all by
Surefoot, who failed at the Derby,
Ascot and Doncaster; but won the Two
Thousand Guineas, the Prince OF Wales
stakes at Leicester, and mile race at
Ascot. Col. North, Lord Calthorpe and
Mr.. Abingdon are next on the list OF
winners. with about $4,000 each.
Insulted by Duke.
Col. North, the nitrate king, has not
much to congratulate himself upon. as
his stud is both large and costly. His
tWO-year-OldS have turned out badly, in
Guiding Simonian, for which he paid
$25.0 as yearllng. North carries on
his racing stable in the same eXtavagant
and snowy style that he does every
thing else. His chief aim seems to be
to cut swell. irrespective of cost. The
English 400 are not all displeased over
his discontinue Oh the race track, as
they do not view his approaches with
favor, Notwithstanding his magnificent
outlay. just after the Duke OF Port
lands victory at Newmarket Oaks,
North called on the duke to c0ngratu-
late him. The nObleman received the
nitrate monarch freeZingly, and, when
the latter pressed his attentions, coolly
and abruptly changed the subject by
asking the latest quotation for guanO.
North left the ducal presence deeply
hurt.
The ROthschfIds' Gains.
Mr.. Abingdon, who owns Lady Rose
berry and Father ConfeSSOr, has not done
much better than Col. North, consider
ing the immense number of horses he
has in training. Lord Calthorpe won,
with Blavatsky, the richest two-year-
old race Of the season, and doubled his
total Of the previous year. although ne
was far from coming up to 1888. when
he took in about Sl5OO0 Leopold RothS
child won twenty-six races and over
year-old Bumptious, who contributed
nearly half of the total. The
Barons Alphonse and Gustave
de Rothschild, whose horses are
trained III the same stable, led in eleven
races, with profit of $4,000. The
Baron Alphonse is great personal
favorite of the Prince of Wales. He is
quiet and unassuming, makes no dis
play of riches. and is said to train horses
more as matter of duty than of pleas
ure. He has been credited with the re-
mark that every rich man owes it to
the country to do something toward i'm
proving the breed of so useful an ami
NAL as the horse. The DOOR have di-
rect interest in the winnings of MEM
bers of the ROthschild family, as it is
the inevitable rule of that honse to do
nate every penny OF such money to
charitable objects, in France and in
Great Britain.
Another well-known horse owner is
the Prince Soltykotf, whose horse,
Sheen, won the Cesarewitch, as well as
other races, and who took in altogether
about $4,000. Prince Soltykoff has
years, and is slowly making headway,
occupying better position now than
for number of seasons past. He is,
perhaps, the most eccentric of princely
and noble European horse owners, bav-
ing some peculiar superstitions by
which he is said to be guided in sending
his horses to the track. In this, how
ever, he is not alone, as some of the
most distinguished owners i'll England
confess to weakness for signs and
omens, The prince is very liberal
to his Jockeys, and it is said gives
them the lions share of the
winnings, so that they have every
reason to do the best they can for
him. At the same time he takes defeat
philosophically and has never been
known to raise any question as to the
fairness of race. The owner of Sain-
join is Sir James Miller, whose colors
were carried to victory in the Derby and
the Hardwcke, stakes at Ascot. Sain-
join earned nearly all of his masters
winnings of over $4,000.
Two Lucky NObIemen.
Lord Harrington. who met some severe
political rebuffs in 1890, was more fort
unate on the turf, winning fifteen races
and almost $4,000, an amount almost
equal to all he hao taken in the previous
four years. Another lucky nobleman is
the Duke of Beaufort, who took in only
$500 in 1889, but this year rolled up over
$4,000, while his trainer, Alec Taylor,
won $4,000 in six races. The dukes
victories included the two spring hand
leaps at EPSON and the Manchester No
vember handicap.
Westminster's Big Pile.
Lord Zetland, the lord lieutenant of
Ireland, was not lucky as racer in
England, his colors being only three
times successful, and winnings much
less than in 1889. The Duke of West
minister, on the other hand, added some
thing to his enormous income by win
ming ten races and about $4,000. His
best winner was two-year-old Orion,
who took $4,000. The dukes horses
are trained in the Kingsclere stable,
| which also trains for the Prince of