Word: studs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The classic story of Rosebery illustrates the place of the Grand National in British thought. In 1868, when the young lord was expelled from Oxford for keeping a racing stud, he proclaimed to his young friends three ambitions: to marry the richest woman in England; to be Prime Minister: to win the Grand National. He married Hannah, only daughter of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild. He became Queen Victoria's Prime Minister in 1894. He won the Derby three times. He is alive today (one year younger than Chauncey Depew) with one chief regret: no horse of his ever...