PRIME MINISTERS AND THEIR RACEHORSES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE
" SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—In your review of " Newmarket's " Chapters from Turf History do you not rather summarily dismiss the Derby wins of Lord Rcsebery? After more than thirty years of political and turf aspirations Lord Rosebery attained. the summit of both within one month in 1904. The following year, while still Prime Minister, he again won the Derby, and about a month later was out of office. Lord Rosebery, therefore, appears to have earned a trebly unique distinction.
1. He won every Derby which was run while he was Prime Minister. 2. He is the only Prime Minister who has won the Derby during his term of office. 3. He is the only man who has ever, even on different occasions, been Primo Minister and won the Derby. Ladas was, no doubt, a certainty (prob- ably more so than the Premiership). Sir Visto may be called a fortunate coincidence. But the actual double " double " has always struck me as a romance of Turf history.—I am, Sir, '8w., 20 Kensington Gate, Glasgow.- SIDNEY BECKWITH.
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