TURF AND HIGH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1921, Page 5

TURF AND HIGH POLITICS.

LORD ROSEBERY’S LAMENT. London, Sept. 9. Lord Rosebery, in his "Recollections of a Quarter of a Century,” states: "I struggled to win the Derby, and when I succeeded I was immediately attacked from quarters of an almost inspired character for owning racehorses at all. "At that time I held a high office under the Crown, and I made the discovery, which came too late in life, that what is venial or innocent in other officers of the Government is criminal in the First Lord of the Treasury. I do not even know if I ought not to have learned another lesson—that although without guilt or offence I might perpetually run second or third, or even last, it became a matter of torture to many consciences if I won. "As to the compensations of the turf, in my opinion there are friendships formed and a knowledge of the world gained on it which are invaluable to anyone wishing to get on in life. But the chief pleasures are breeding, watching the development of the foal, the growth of the horse, and the exercise at home.”