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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... comfortably lounged over that meal would return to the course to see the finish of the day's sports. Such were the surroundings of Epsom races when Diomed won the first Derby and "made himself an everlasting name." It is sad, however, to relate that the first Derby winner did not maintain an unsullied reputation, for in the following year he started for the principal stakes at Nottingham, with long odds betted upon him, and was beaten by Lord Grosvenor's Fortitude, a horse of far inferior antecedents. Some rather nasty remarks were made by the losers about Diomed's running on this occasion, and Sir Charles had a dispute with his jockey--not Arnull--on the subject, which ended in the man's being discharged from the baronet's service. Later in the same year, however, Diomed was beaten at Newmarket by Colonel O'Kelly's Boudrow, who had run second to him in the Derby, and Sir Charles in disgust refused to let the horse start in 1782. In the following year Diomed started seven times, but was only once returned a winner, and falling lame at the close of the season was put out of training and sent to the stud, a circumstance which was destined to prove advantageous to the turf in two hemispheres. Diomed commenced his career as a stallion at Uppart, near Chichester, in 1785, at a fee of 5 guineas, and was subsequently removed to Barton Hall, where his fee was doubled. He was sire of many illustrious colts and fillies, but we need only mention Young Giantess, of whom more anon. In 1798, when he was two-and-twenty years of age, Diomed was sold for 50 guineas to go to America, though why his owner should have parted with him for so ludicrously small a price it is impossible to conjecture. At any rate there were sportsmen in America who valued the horse at his true w...
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