 Ladas had some success at stud , siring the Classic winners Gorgos ( 2000 Guineas ) and Troutbeck ( St Leger ) . Another successful offspring was the gelding Epsom Lad , who won the Eclipse Stakes and the Princess of Wales ’ s Stakes as a four @-@ year @-@ old in 1901 . In total , he sired the winners of 196 races and £ 97 @,@ 000 in winnings . By 1912 he had been retired from active stud duty and become extremely bad tempered : one writer said that the old stallion had " worn himself out with his restlessness and peevishness " . He died on 31 March 1914 at his owner 's stud at Mentmore . 
