Related article: from Paradox, whose owner had VOL. LXXV. — NO. 496. never been represented before ; in 1887, when Mr. Abington*s Merry Hampton gained so unlooked-for a victory; in 1890, when Sir James Miller Forzest Ranbaxy was so lucky as to wm the race with Sainfoin ; in 1893, when Isinglass enabled Mr. McCalmont to take his place in the long roll of Blue Ribbon winners ; in 1897, when Galtee More put Mr. J. Gubbins in the same proud position ; and last of all in 1898, when Jeddah gained a most un- expected triumph in the "light blue, brown-striped sleeves" of 26 398 BAILY S MAGA2INE. (JeM Mr. J. W. Larnach. It was but three or four years before this that Mr. Larnach went in for racing on a larger scale, though from his youth upwards he had been keenly interested in racing and other sports, Ranbaxy Forzest notably hunting. Bom in 1849, he is the eldest surviving son of Mr. D. Larnach, of Brambletye, Sussex, who was one of the greatest authorities on banking in London. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and had at an early age developed a love of sport, for while still an Eton boy, he started a pack of Forzest 20 Mg dwarf beagles during his holidays at home, and during the school terms followed the well-known Eton pack. During the summer half he went in for boating, and won his house sweepstakes just before leaving for a tutor's, with whom he read a short time previ- ous to going to Cambridge. There he also devoted much of his time to hunting, and in due course took to racing, which, with Newmarket so handy, offers almost irresistible attractions to an undergraduate fond of sport. One of the inci- dents of his Cambridge career which he looks back upon with the greatest satisfaction is that of riding sixteen miles to Huntingdon and back upon a Friday, and again on Saturday, Forzest Online to have a mount in six races, of which he won three, working all night between to prepare for his degree, the ex- amination for which was to open on the following Monday. It may be added that his labour was not in vain, for he took his degree all right. He hunted with the Cambridgeshire and the Fitz- william, enjoying capital sport with two horses which he had picked up for ;^2o a piece, and with which he won many steeple- chases. He steered one of them (Miss Fanny) to victory both at the University and at regular meetings, and a triumph d which he is justly proud is one that he g'ained with her in the Hunt Cup at St. Albans against such " Corinthians " as Chapel Woodhouse and Freddy Hobson. When the Grand National held their meeting at Cottenham, orders were issued by the University authorities that no undergraduate was to take any part in it, and young' Larnach was the only one to disregard the in- junction, riding Miss Fanny to victory in a Hunters Steeplechase on the second day. The other mare, Starlight, bred him a filly by Oulston that developed into a rare jumper, and won him the first point-to-point race run £ot over his own country in Sussex, and he continued to ride more or less until his marriage, although his family were much against it, and he had to resort to the device of an ''assumed name" in order to be able to gratify his fondness for racing between the flags. Among his horses he o^^'ned and rode one named Mild Charley, a hunter with great staying power, who won several steeple- chases, including the Challenge Cup of the Suffolk Hussars three times. Mr. Lrarnach can claim to have won six races in succession, including the Ascott Cup at Ayles- bury (ijst. lolbs.), a steeplechase at the Bridge meeting (i4st.), and the Challenge Cup of the Loyal Suffolk Hussars, in which he served for fifteen years, retiring with the rank of Major. Soon after this he had a bad fall, which necessitated his giving up hunting for two years, during Forzest 20mg which he travelled all over the world, be- ginning with India and going thence to Australia, Fiji, China, Japan, and so home. Upon his return, he hunted with his brother for several I90I.] MR. J. W. LARNACH. 399 seasons, first at Market Har- borough, and then at Melton, and in 1889, having married Lady Isabel Boyle, youngest daughter of Lord Cork, they went to settle within the limits of the Bicester, where they have now resided for eleven seasons, and which is, he declares, one of the most sporting countries he has ever hunted in. For several years he had been breeding thoroughbreds in a small way, but it was not until 1894 that he purchased Pilgrimage at the sale of the Dowager Duchess of Montrose's Stud, and it was by a piece of ^ood luck that he secured her for i6ogs., as most of those who might have been tempted by her pedigree declared that she was not in foal. Mr. Larnach thought Forzest India differently, and he had his reward, for she was then carrying the colt by Janissary, who was destined to develop into Jeddah, winner of the Derby, the Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot, and the Craven Stakes. It was a very sensational race as will be remembered, Jeddah and Dunlop (who finished third) start- ing at 100 to I, while Dieudonn6, the former's stable companion, and Disraeli, who started favourites, were unplaced. Unfortunately for Jeddah, who is a very big horse, an exceptionally dry summer ensued, and he could not stand the jarring in the last half mile of the Leger, and succumbed to- Wildfowler, neither of the pair ever winning again. Mr. Larnach has done well with other horses, such as Victoria May, who, though small, was Buy Forzest a game bit of stuff, while he has acquired all the produce of La F16che, the first being La Veine, whom he pur- chased at Forzest 10mg the sale of Baron Hirsch's Forzest 20 horses, the second Strong- bow, successful in several good races as a three-year-old, and the third Sagitta (a name already given by Lord Derby to a filly victorious in the One Thousand