[1] Sydney Paget served with the British Army in the Second Boer War, achieving the rank of Lieutenant with the machine gun section of the XIIth Yeomanry.
Paget ran a ranch at Big Horn, Wyoming for William Whitney where he raised Thoroughbreds on the open range.
[1] Among the other top horses Paget was involved with was the filly Hamburg Belle who won the prestigious Belmont Futurity Stakes in 1903.
Paget sold Plaudit back to Madden for $12,000 who sent him to stand at stud at his Hamburg Place breeding farm near Lexington, Kentucky.
Triple Crown era, Paget owned the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt of 1898, Jean Bereaud.