Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — Trained by the L. C. J. [ARTICLE]

Trained by the L. C. J.

The lord chief justice of England was once described by a great authority as “a sportsman in the custody of a lawyer.” His favorite pastimes have been kept in strait bounds, not by his profession alone, but also by his serious purpose as a politician. All the same, he had the other day a little luck in his diversion as a horse breeder, for a horse of his own training, the ownership of which was cloaked under a now de sport, was the victor in a respectable race. The event of this week has recalled the “superb groan” (no other groan has been so adjectived in all our literature) given by Lord George Bentinck when Disraeli told him that a horse he sacrificed to politics bad won the Derby. Blue Books in place of the "blue ribbon of the turf!”