 Ladas was a bay horse of almost faultless conformation , standing just under 16 hands high . He was bred at the Crafton Stud in Buckinghamshire by his owner , Lord Rosebery , a prominent Liberal statesman who became Prime Minister in 1894 . He was trained by Mathew Dawson at Newmarket , Suffolk . Dawson , who was over seventy at the time , had " retired " from large @-@ scale training in 1885 , but continued to handle a small number of horses at his Melton House Stable . Ladas was ridden in his Classic wins by Jack Watts . 
