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LIST     OF     ILLUSTRATIONS. 

(VOL.    III.) 


PHOTOGRAVURES. 

FACING   PAGE 

His  MAJESTY  KING  EDWARD  VII.         ...  ...  ...  ...  Frontispiece 

Owner  of  Persimmon  and  Diamond  Jubilee.     From  the  photograph  by  Haron  A.  de  Meyer.     (By  His  Majesty's 
special  permission.) 

LII.Y  AGNES  AND  FLEUR  DE  LYS  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••  •••      474 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Westminster.) 

BEND  OR  (1877)         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••       5°^ 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Westminster.) 

ORMONDE      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••       53° 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Westminster.) 

ORME  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••       548 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Westminster.) 

FLYING  Fox...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••  •••       578 

From  the  painting  by  Allen  C.  Seaby.     (By  permission  of  the  publisher,  F.  G.  McQueen.) 

CLOISTER  (GRAND  NATIONAL,  1893)       ...  ...  ...  •••  •••       tx>4 

The  property  of  C.  G.  Duff,  Esq.     From  the  painting  by  J.  Matthews.     (By  permission  of  C.  G.  Duff,  Esq.) 

ISINGLASS  (1890)          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••  •••      624 

From  the  painting  by  Isaac  Cullen.     (By  permission  of  the  publisher,  F.  G.  McQueen.) 

LADAS  by  Hampton;  with  WATTS  and  MATTHEW  DAWSON         ...  ...       644 

The  property  of  the  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Rosebery.     From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of 
the  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Kosebery.) 

EPSOM  LAD  by  Ladas  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••      666 

The  property  of  J.  Buchanan,  Esq.     From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  J.  Buchanan,  Esq.) 

THE  DERBY  OF  1896  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••       684 

H.R.H.  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Persimmon   beating  Mr.  Leopold  de   Rothschild's  St.  Frusquin.     From  the 
painting  by  G.  D.  Giles.     (By  permission  of  the  Artist.) 

SCEPTRE  (1899)  by  Persimmon  out  of  Ornament  ...  •••       7°° 

Winner  of  the  One  Thousand,  Two  Thousand,  Oaks,  and  St.   Leger.     The  property  of    Mr.   R.  S.  Sievier. 
From  a  photograph  by  W.  A.  Rouch. 


TEXT. 

I'AGF. 

Mr.  T.  Parr's  Weathergagc  (1849)  by  Weatherbit  466 

(By  permission  of  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq.) 

Melbourne  by  Humphrey  Clinker  (1834)  ...  ...  467 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

The  Dead  Heat  between  Lucerne  and  Tristan  for  the  Champion  Stakes  of  1884    ...       469 

From  the  painting  by  J.  Sturgess  in  the  possession  of  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq. 

Collingivood ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  47° 

Colonel  Anson's  Attila  (1839)  by  Colwick  ...  471 

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ii  LIST   OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

PAGE 

Cossack  by  Hctinaiiii  Platoff  (1844)        ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       472 

From  the  painting  by  H.  Hall. 

Mr.  John  Bowes's  Cotherstonc  (1840)  by  Touchstone         ...  ...  ...  ...       473 

West  A  ustralian  by  Melbourne  (1850)...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       47  5 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Queen  Bertha  by  Kingston  ( 1 860)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       476 

I-'rom  the  picture  by  Henry  Hall. 

Lancrcost  by  Liverpool  (1835)   ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       477 

From  the  picture  by  Harrington. 

Rataplan  by  The  Baron  (1850)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       4/8 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Alice  Haivthorn  by  Muley  Moloch  (1838)  ...  ...  478 

From  the  picture  by  W.  Tasker. 

Queen  Mary  by  Gladiator  (1843)  ...  479 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Caller  Ou      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••  •  ••       48° 

From  the  original  painting  by  H.  Hall.     (By  permission  of  H.R.H.  Prince  Christian.) 

Plenipotentiary  by  Emilius  (1831)  ...  481 

From  the  picture  by  R.  Crane. 

Carbine  at  the  Stud    ...  ...  ...  •••       482 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

Daniel  O'Rourke  by  Birdcatcher  (1849)  ...  ...  ...  ..       483 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Stockwell  by  The  Baron  (1847)  •••  •••  •••  •••  •••  •••       4$4 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

The  Fifth  Earl  of  Glasgow     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       486 

From  a  drawing  by  J.  E.  Cook. 

Admiral  Rous  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       488 

From  a  drawing  by  J.  E.  Cook. 

Boehm's  Statue  of  King  Tom  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      490 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

Newminster  by  Touchstone  (1848)  ...  .'..  ...  ...  ...       491 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Teddington  by  Orlando  ( 1 848)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       492 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Catherine  Hayes  by  Lanercost  (1850)      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       494 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

The  Fourteenth  Earl  of  Derby  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       495 

From  the  drawing  by  Haydon. 

Surplice  and  Canezou  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       497 

From  an  engraving  after  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

The  Third  Viscount  Palmerston  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       498 

From  the  drawing  by  Richmond. 

Blink  Bonny  by  Melbourne  (1854)  ..  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       500 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Virago  by  Pyrrhus  the  First  (1851)        ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       501 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS.  iii 


PAGE 


Gemma  di  Vergy  by  Sir  Hercules  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       503 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Andover  by  Bay  Middleton  (1851)          ...  ...  ...  ...  504 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Mall. 

Jem  Robinson  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       505 

Voltigeur  and  The  Flying  Dutchman      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       506 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Nisbet. 

Voltigeur  by  Voltaire  (1847)     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       508 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

George  Payne,  M.F. H.  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  509 

From  a  print  in  the  possession  of  H.R.H.  Prince  Christian. 

Lord  Lyon     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       5IO 

From  the  original  painting  in  possession  of  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq. 

Henry,  Seventh  Duke  of  Beaufort        ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       511 

From  a  drawing  by  J.  E.  Cook. 

General  Peel  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       512 

From  a  drawing  by  J.  E.  Cook. 

Beadsman  by  Weatherbit  (1855)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       513 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Blue  Gown  by  Beadsman  (1865)  ...  ..  ...  ...  ...       514 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Pero  Gomez  by  Beadsman  (1866)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       515 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Doncaster  in  1876        ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ..  ...       516 

From  the  original  painting  in  the  possession  of  the  Uuke  of  Westminster  at  Eaton. 

Busybody  by  Petrarch  (1881)    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       517 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

Lord  Falmouth  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       518 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Camarine  by  Juniper  (1828)     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       520 

From  the  picture  by  J.  F.  Herring. 

Lucetta  by  Reveller  (1826)         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       521 

From  the  picture  by  J.  F.  Herring. 

Fisherman  by  Heron  (1853)      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       523 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Fandango  by  Barnton  (1852)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       524 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

"  Tommy  and  Toddy  "  ;  or  the  English  and  the  American  seat,  Newmarket,  1898.        526 

(By  permission  of  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq.) 

J.  Reiff          ...  527 

From  the  picture  by  Mrs.  Sachs. 

Joe  Miller  by  Venison  (1849)    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       528 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Wild  Dayrell  by  Ion  (1852)      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       530 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

George  Fordham        ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       532 

From  a  drawing  by  J.  E.  Cook. 

Ellington  by  The  Flying  Dittclnnan  (1853)  ...  ...       533 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 


iv  LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

PAGE 

Imperieiise  by  Orlando  (1854)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ....     534 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Cherry  by  Sterling,  with  Fred  Archer  up  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       536 

From  the  original  painting  by  W.  Sextie  in  the  possession  of  W.  Brodrick  Cloete,  Esq. 

Sannterer  by  Birdcatcher  (1854)  ...  ...  ...538 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

St.  Albans  by  Stockwell  (1857)  ...  ...       540 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Thormanby  by  Wmdhound  (1857)          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       542 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Robert  the  Devil  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       545 

On  the  Ogbourne  Downs,  Wiltshire    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       546 

(By  permission  of  Mr.  Calvert.) 

The  Yearlings' Boxes,  Sandringham   ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       547 

(By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King.) 

Wishard's  Sand-bath  ...  549 

( By  permission  of  Conn  fry  Life. ) 

Leveret  at  Sandringham  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••       55° 

(By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King.) 

The  Stud  Groom's  House,  Sandringham  ...       551 

(By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King.) 

The  Mares' Yard,  Sandringham  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ..       552 

(By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King.) 

Nonsuch  with  filly  by  Persimmon  at  Sandringham  ...  ,..  ...  ...       553 

(By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King.) 

Launcelot  (1837)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       555 

(Ry  permission  of  the  Duke  of  Westminster. ) 

Ayrshire  by  Hampton  (1885)    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       557 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Mcadowchat  at  Sandringham   ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       558 

(By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King.) 

Macaroni  by  Sweetmeat  (1860)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       559 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Lord  Clifdcn  by  Newminster  ( 1 860)         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       561 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Gladiatetir  by  Monarque  (1862)  ...  ..  ...  •••  ...       562 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Regalia  by  Stockwell (1862)     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      563 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Fille  de  I' A ir  by  Foig-a-Ballagh  ( 1 86 1 )  . . .  ...  ...       565 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Blair  A  thai  by  Stockwell  (i86\)  ...  ...  •••  •••       5^7 

From  tlie  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Prince  Batthyany       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       569 

From  a  drawing  by  J.  E.  Cook. 

St.  Simon      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       571 

Sir  Visto  with  S.  Loates  and  Matthew  Dawson  ...  ...       573 

From  the  original  painting  by  Emil  Adam  in  the  possession  of  Lord  Rosebery. 


LIST   OF  ILLUSTRATIONS.  v 

PAGE 

Hippia  by  King  Tom  ( 1 864)     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       575 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Richard  Tattersall  (d.  1859)    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       576 

From  a  print  in  the  British  Museum. 

Kingcraft  by  King  Tom  (1867)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       577 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Formosa  by  Buccaneer  (1865)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       579 

From  the  picture  by  H.  Hall. 

Mr.  Coulthwaite's  Stables.     An  easy  fence  for  a  youngster         ...  ...  ...       582 

Finish    of   the   Grand    Military    Steeplechase    near    Newmarket   (March,    1856). 

Mr.  de  Winton  on  Primrose  and  Mr.  Maddox  on  Creole  leading  the  field  ...       585 

From  an  engraving  by  Charles  Hunt  in  the  possession  of  H.R.  H.  Prince  Christian. 

In  Sussex.     Teaching  a  young  one      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       588 

A  real  stiff  one.     Mr.  Coulthwaite's  training-grounds  at  Hednesford       ...  ...       590 

Father  O'F/ynn  (with  Roddy  Owen)     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       592 

From  the  original  painting  by  Captain  Adrian  Jones. 

Kempton.     Two  beauties  over  the  water          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       594 

Wild  Man  from  Borneo  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      596 

Sandown  past  and  present.     From  left  to  right.     Rathcannon  (Mr.  Rashbottom), 

Band  of  Hope  (the  late  Captain  Hon.  R.  Ward),  Carnroc  (Captain  R.  H.  Collis)       598 

Mr.  E.  Wood  and  Droghcda    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       600 

Kempton    Park.      King  David   ahead,   Ambush   II.    on   the   right,   Drogheda   on 

the  left  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      602 

His  Majesty  the  King's  Ambush  II.      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  .:.       605 

Sandown.     The  Grand  Military  Gold  Cup.     Marpessa  and  Major  Onslow  on  the 

right,  Ambush  II.  and  the  late  Captain  Hon.  R.  Ward  on  the  left      ...  ..       606 

Grudon  (Grand  National,  1901)              ...             ...  •••  608 

Kempton.     Making  the  pace  in  a  maiden  hurdle  race  ...                                           ...  610 

Shannon  Lass  (Grand  National,  1902)  ...             ...  •••  611 

Dnimcrec  (Grand  National,  1903)          ...             ...  •••  613 

Liverpool.     Grand  National  of  1903.    Mathew  and  Pawnbroker  leading  over  the 

water      ...             ...  ...  •••  614 

Manifesto       ...            ...  ...             ...            ...  ...  ...  615 

Mr.  Edmund  Tattersall  ...             ...             ...  ...  ...                            •••  618 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

The    Cambridgeshire    of   1896.       i.   Winkficld's  Pride.      2.    Yorker.      3.  Laodamia. 

4.   Chitchat  ...  ...  ...  ...  619 

(By  permission  of  Mr.  Calvert.) 

Henry  Custance 

From  a  pencil  drawing  by  Jane  E.  Cook. 

Tom  Cannon 

From  a  pencil  drawing  by  Jane  E.  Cook. 

Lord  Russell  of  Killowen  ......  623 

From  a  photo  by  Elliott  &  Fry.     (By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

H.R.H.  Prince  Christian  of  Schleswig  Holstein  •••       624 


vi  LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

PAGE 

The  Cesarewitch  of  1896.     i.  St.  Bris.     2.  Chitchat.     3.  Laodamia  ...  ...       625 

(By  permission  of  Mr.  Calvert.) 

Finish  of  the  Derby  of  1900.     Diamond  Jubilee  wins      ...  ...  ...  ...       626 

Mr.  John  Porter         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  627 

From  a  pencil  drawing  by  Jane  E.  Cook. 

John  Corlett,  Esq.      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       g28 

From  a  photo  by  T.  Fall.     ( By  permission  of  Country  Life. ) 

Newmarket.     Craven  Meeting,  1902    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       529 

Finish  of  the  Derby  of  1901     ...  ...  ...  ...  g^o 

Mr.  Matthew  Dawson  ...  ...  ...  ...  g,, 

From  a  drawing  by  Jane  E.  Cook. 

Minting  ...  ...  g32 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  Messrs.  Hanfstaengl.) 

Surefoot  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ... 

From  the  painting  by  Captain  Adrian  Jones. 

Sainfoin        ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  g ,  * 

From  the  painting  by  Captain  Adrian  Jones. 

Sir  J.  Blundell  Maple's  Common  ...  ...  g,-, 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

La  Fleche,  with  filly  by  Morion  ...  ... 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Throstle  ...  ...  <54O 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Perdita  II.    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  g .  2 

From  a  photograph  taken  at  Sandringham.     (Reproduced  by  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King.) 

Jeddah  (1895)  by  Janissary      ...  ...  ...  g.. 

His  Majesty's  Mead  by  Persimmon       ...  ...  644 

Florizelll. 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Diamond  Jubilee  (1897)  by  St.  Simon     ...  ...  ...  ...  646 

The  Sixth  Duke  of  Portland  ...  ...  g... 

From  a  pencil  drawing  by  Jane  E.  Cook. 

William  the  Third (1898)  by  St.  Simon...  ...  ...  ...  ...       648 

Seabreeze       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  g.q 

From  the  photograph  by  Sherborn. 

Donovan        ...  ...  ...  ...  ... 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  Messrs.  Hanfstaengl.) 

Memoir         ...  ...  ...  ...  g . 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam.     (By  permission  of  Messrs.  Hanfstaengl. ) 

Merman  (1892,  Australia)        ...  ...  ...  ...  g,,, 

Trenton         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  g,., 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Australian  Star (1896,  Australia)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  g54 

Clwyd  b.  c.  by  Beauclerc  out  of  Strathbrock         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       g5S 

(By  permission  of  Mr.  Calvert.) 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS.  vil 

PAGE 

Kilcock  ((892)  by  Kilwarlin      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      656 

The  Great  Jubilee  Stakes,  1897.     Clwyd  beats  Kilcock  and  Victor  IVild     ...  ...      657 

(By  permission  cf  Mr.  Calvert. ) 

Kendal          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       658 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

Galtcc  More  ( 1 894)  by  Kendal . . .  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      659 

Velasquez      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       660 

From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam  in  the  possession  of  Lord  Rosebery. 

Amphion       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      66 1 

From  the  painting  by  Captain  Adrian  Jones. 

Melton  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       662 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

Bend  Or  at  Eaton       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       663 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

The  First  Duke  of  Westminster  ...  .:.  ...  ...  ...  ...       664 

From  a  pencil  drawing  by  Jane  E.  Cook. 

Fred  Archer  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       665 

From  a  pencil  drawing  by  Jane  E.  Cook. 

The  late  Duke  of  Westminster  leading  in  Flying  Fox  after  the  Eclipse  Stakes 

(M.  Cannon  up)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       666 

Alicante         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      667 

From  the  painting  by  Harrington  Bird  in  the  possession  of  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq. 

"  Mr.  Acton's  "  Sir  Bevy s,  with  George  Fordham,  winner  of  the  Derby  of  1879     ...       668 

From  the  painting  in  the  possession  of  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq. 

Mr.  L.  de  Rothschild's  St.  Frusquin      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      669 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

Doricles  (1898)  by  Florizel  II.  ...             ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  670 

Cap  and  Bells  II.  (1898)  by  Domino       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  673 

Volodyovski  (1898)  by  Florizel  II.            ...  ...  ..  ...  ...  ...  674 

Elizabeth  M.  (1898,  U.S.A.)      ...             ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  675 

The  Duchess  of  Montrose  ("Mr.  Manton")  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  676 

From  a  photo  by  Thomson.     (By  permission  of  Country  Life. ) 

Sir  John  Astley  on  Drumhead (6  yrs.,  i6st.  6lb.)  ...  ...  ...  ..       677 

(By  permission  of  Sir  F.  Astley  Corbett.) 

Sir  John  Astley  ("The  Mate")  ...  ...  ...  ..       679 

From  the  painting  by  Millais  in  the  possession  of  Sir  F.  Astley  Corbett. 

Ravensbury  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      680 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Goletta  ( 1 894)  by  Galopin          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  68 1 

Caiman  (1896,  U.S.A.)              ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  682 

Chelandry  (1894)  by  Goldfinch ...  ...  ...  ..  ...  ...  ...  683 

Mr.  Hugh  Owen  at  the  starting-gate  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  684 

Sir  J.  Blundell  Maple               ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  685 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Prince  Hampton          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       686 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.} 

Royal  Lancer  ( 1 899)  by  Royal  Hampton  ...  ...       687 


vin  LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

I'AGE 

The  Earl  of  Durham  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••       688 

From  a.  photo  by  Russell  &  Sons.     ( By  permission  of  Country  Life. ) 

Hon.  L.  Willoughby  (Newmarket,  1902)  ...  ..  ...  •••  689 

Mr.  Somerville  Tattersall       ...            ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  690 

Winifrcda  (1897)  by  St.  Simon               ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  691 

O' Donovan  Rossa  (1897)  by  Donovan    ...  ...  ..  ...  ...  ...  693 

La  Roche  (1897)  by  St.  Simon ...             ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  694 

Strongbow  (1897)  by  Morion  out  of  La  Fleche     ...  ...  ..  ...  ...  695 

King's  Courier  (1897,  U.S.A.)  by  Kingston  ...  ...  ...  696 

Santoi ( 1 897)  by  Queen's  Birthday          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  697 

Handicappcr  (1898)  by  Matchmaker       ...  ...  ...  ..  •••  ...  698 

Finish  of  Sceptre's  St.  Leger  (1902)       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  699 

(By  permission  of  the  Illustrated  Sporting  and  Dramatic  News.) 

Maximum  II.  (Ascot  Gold  Cup,  1903)  ...  7°° 

Bcndigo        ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       701 

(By  permission  of  Country  Life.) 

Lord  Howard  de  Walden's  Zinfandcl  ...  ...  ..  ...  ...  ...       702 

Photo  by  Clarence  Hailey,  Newmarket. 

Ard  Patrick  (1899)  by  St.  Florian          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       703 

From  a  photo  by  W.  A.  Rouch. 

Warren  Hastings  and  his  Arab  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       705 

From  the  original  painting  on  porcelain  by  Stubbs  (1791)  in  the  possession  of  Sir  Walter  Gilbey. 

Mr.  Wilfrid  Blunt's  Arab  Azrek  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       706 

A  Roman  racer          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       706 

From  a  Grseco-Ronian  gem  of  the  first  century  A.D.,  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  C.  Newton-Robinson. 

Lord  Roberts  and  his  Arab  Vonolel     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       707 

From  the  original  sketch  for  his  portrait  by  C.  W.  Furse,  by  permission  of  the  artist. 

Thessalian  racehorse  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       708 

From  a  gold  coin  of  Larissa,  B.C.  400,  in  the  Montagu  Collection.     (By  permission  of  the  Autotype  Co.) 

Pretty  Polly  (1901),  with  Lane  up          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       708 

Thessalian  mare  and  foal         ...  ...  ..  ...  ...  ...  ...       708 

F'rom  a  gold  coin  of  Larissa,  B.C.  400,  in  the  Montagu  Collection.     (By  permission  of  the  Autotype  Co.) 

Sir  Charles  Bunbury,  winner  of  the  first  Derby  ...  ...  ...  ...       709 

From  the  print  after  Dighton  in  possession  of  H.R.H.  Prince  Christian. 

Sir  James  Miller,  winner  of  the  Derby  of  1903  ..  ...  ...  ...  ...       709 

A  Roman  racehorse  ...  ...  ...  ..  ...       710 

Much  enlarged  from  an  Augustan  carved  sardonyx  in  the  possession  of  J.  P.  Heseltine.Esq.     (By  permission  of 
the  Autotype  Co.) 

Sir  James  Miller's  Rock  Sand  (Derby,  1903)      ...  ...       711 

A  Roman  racer  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       712 

From  a  Grasco-Roman  gem  of  the  first  century  A.D.,  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  C.  Newton-Robinson. 

Ard  Patrick  beats  Sceptre  and  Rock  Sand  (Eclipse  Stakes,  1903)  ...  ...       713 

From  the  painting  by  G.  D.  Giles.     (By  permission  of  Mr.  E.  S.  Tattersall.) 


A    HISTORY   OF 

THE    ENGLISH    TURF. 


CHAPTER   XVIII. 

SOME    EARLY    VICTORIAN    OWNERS. 

".  .  .  The  sport  which  Grafton  loves, 
Which  Spencer,  Portland,  Albemarle  approves; 
Which  kings  have  fostered,  and  a  country's  pride, 
Protest  who  may,  will  never  cast  aside." 

T  T  is  a  curious  reflection  that  of  the  three  men  represented  in  the  picture  of  Miss 
Elis  (p.  462)  which  illustrated  my  chapter  on  Lord  George  Bentinck,  two  were 
alive  when  I  was  writing  these  pages  in  December,  1902  :  John  Kent,  who  holds  the 
mare,  and  Abdale  her  jockey.  The  latter  died  about  the  middle  of  that  month,  and 
there  cannot  be  many  left  who  rode  in  the  Goodwood  Meeting  of  1845,  where  the 
three-year-old  Miss  Elis  won  both  Stakes  and  Cup.  The  field  for  the  first 
numbered  twenty-three,  of  which  three  besides  the  winner  belonged  to  Lord  George, 
his  Jo/in  o  Gaunt  finishing  fourth.  Three  were  aged  horses,  two  were  six-year-olds, 
seven  were  five-year-olds,  and  four  were  four-year-olds.  The  mare  only  carried 
5st.  ;lb.,  and  ran  away  with  Kitchener  nearly  to  the  top  of  Trundle  Hill  after  passing 
the  winning-post.  The  next  day  she  carried  7 St.,  receiving  4lb.  from  Mr.  Gully's 
Weatlicrbit.  Abdale  rode  her  without  spurs,  and  she  won  easily  from  a  field  of 
twelve,  bringing  in  a  heavy  wager  for  Lord  George,  who  was  not  sorry  to  have 
"got  the  better  of  Danebury." 

Abdale    had    previously   won    the    One    Thousand    that    year   on    the    Duke    of 

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Richmond's  Picnic,  which  is  the  only  classic  standing  to  his  name.  He  also  carried 
off  the  Newmarket  Handicap  on  Mr.  Drinkald's  Vol  an  Vent,  the  Great  Ebor 
Handicap  on  Lord  Zetland's  Coheiress,  and  the  Champagne  Stakes  at  Doncaster  on 
Princess  Alice,  after  which  Mr.  Kent  entertained  a  jovial  crew,  comprising  Mr. 
"Beeswing"  Orde,  Mr.  Pedley,  "Assassin"  Smith,  and  others  at  the  Turf  Tavern, 
and  Lord  George  cheerfully  paid  ^"75  for  their  champagne.  In  1846  Abdale  won 
the  New  Stakes  at  Ascot  on  Lord  George's  filly  Slander,  and  for  Count  Batthyany 


By  permission  of  Leopold  dc  Rothschild,  Esq, 


Mr.  T.  Parr's  "  Weathergage  "  (1849)  by  "  Weatherbit? 


he  secured  the  Brighton  Stakes  with  Gannet  in  1846,  and  the  Royal  Hunt  Cup  at 
Ascot  with  Tragical  in  the  next  season.  At  Goodwood  in  1848  he  won  the 
Chesterfield  Stakes  with  Mr.  Urinkald's  Marquis  Conynghain.  One  of  his  earliest 
triumphs  was  the  Great  Yorkshire  Handicap  of  1842  at  Doncaster  on  Sir  Charles 
Monck's  Galantlnts,  by  Langar,  when  he  beat  both  Tommy  Lye  and  Jem  Robinson. 
His  best  victory  against  the  latter  was  in  the  match  between  Miss  Elis  (6st.  I2lb.) 
and  the  Duke  of  Bedford's  Oakley  (gst.  4lb.)  for  ^"300  a  side  "Across  the  Flat." 
His  decider  on  Red  Deer,  after  a  dead  heat  with  Neiacourt  for  the  Somersetshire 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


467 


Stakes,  was  always  admired,  and  he  won  the  same  race  again  on  the  celebrated 
Sweetmeat.  Twice  in  the  same  afternoon  he  ran  a  dead  heat  of  three,  the  first  for 
the  Glasgow  Stakes  on  Binnacle;  the  second  a  ^50  Handicap  Plate,  Ditch  In, 
for  which  he  finished  on  Naworth  on  level  terms  with  Little  Hampton  and  Alice 
Hawthorn.  In  the  Nursery  Stakes  next  day  he  made  yet  another  dead  heat  on 
Green  Pea,  with  Chappie  on  Dexterous.  Such  close  finishes  seem  to  have  been  more 
common  then  than  now.  In  1827  in  a  handicap  plate  Across  the  Flat,  Robinson  on 
Goshawk  (4  yrs.,  8st.  6lb.)  twice  rode  a  dead  heat  with  Arnull  on  Stumps  (5  yrs.,  gst. 
2lb.),  and  only  just  won  the  ,£50  on  the  third  attempt.  The  next  year  there  was  a 
dead  heat  for  the  Derby. 
In  1840  five  two-year- 
olds  started  over  the  last 
half  of  the  Abingdon 
Mile,  and  S.  Rogers 
twice  rode  a  dead  heat 
on  Jessica  against  T. 
Stephenson  on  the 
Fanchon  filly.  Then  the 
owners  divided.  In  1839 
Charles  XII.  only  won 
the  Leger,  after  running 
off  a  dead  heat  with 
Euclid ;  and  his  half- 
brother,  Voltigeur,  ran 

another  dead  heat  with  Russborough  in  the  same  event,  but  beat  the  Irish  "dark 
horse "  by  a  length  in  the  decider.  Curiously  enough,  both  half-brothers  won 
the  Doncaster  Cup  two  days  later,  as  if  to  emphasise  their  previous  hard-fought 
victories  :  Charles  XII.  beat  Beeswing  and  Lanercost ;  Voltigeiir  beat  The  Flying- 
Dutchman,  with  whom  his  jockey,  Marlow,  played  the  fool  even  worse  than  he  had 
done  in  the  Derby  of  the  year  before.  Neither  of  these  results  tends  to  show  that 
a  dead  heat  is  necessarily  a  severe  test  to  a  real  good  horse.  Listen,  a  moderate 
bay  belonging  to  Mr.  W.  H.  Johnstone,  also  distinguished  himself  in  this  manner. 
Ridden  by  W.  Gates,  he  ran  a  triple  dead  heat  for  a  sweepstake  of  10  sovs. 
with  Bcauclerc  (S.  Rogers)  and  Jenny  Lind  (Flatman).  In  the  decider,  ridden  by 
F '.  Butler,  he  beat  Bcauclerc  by  a  neck,  and  the  mare  was  a  bad  third.  He 


Melbourne "  by  "  Hiimphrey  Clinker  "  ( 1834). 


468  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

exactly  repeated  the  performance  at  the  next  meeting  with  Fcstiis  and  fsis,  in 
a  handicap  sweepstake  of  .£140,  and  again  won  the  decider,  this  time  by  a 
larger  margin.  John  Osborne  had  several  somewhat  similar  experiences  as  a 
jockey.  He  rode  Cathedral  in  r865  a  dead  heat  over  three  miles  at  Newcastle 
with  Mr.  McKenzie's  Oppressor,  and  both  horses  broke  down  in  the  decider,  which 
John  won  by  a  neck. 

Before  Abdale  took  to  training  with  Ska/to,  a  smart  son  of  Colsterdale,  who  ran 
some  races  with  Lifeboat  that  created  great  interest  in  1859,  he  had  a  mount 
on  Lord  Zetland's  Skirmisher  (who  had  been  only  a  neck  behind  Saunterer  as  a 
two-year-old  at  Ripon)  in  the  Derby  of  1857:  He  was  fined  £,\Q  for  disobedience 
at  the  post,  and  among  the  other  jockeys  who  were  there,  John  Osborne,  F.  Bates, 
and  William  Day  survived  him,  though  he  was  seventy-eight  when  he  died. 
Skirmisher  was  by  Voltigeur,  who  never  got  a  winner  of  the  Derby,  Oaks,  or  Leger, 
reserving  the  triumphs  of  his  blood  until  his  line  was  older.  But  Skirmisher,  like 
Buckstone,  won  the  Ascot  Cup,  though  he  could  not  get  into  a  place  behind  Blink 
Bonny  at  Epsom.  The  field  he  beat  at  Ascot  included  Gemma  di  Vergy,  Sauntcrcr, 
Pretty  Boy,  Leamington,  Winkfield,  Rogerthorpe,  and  Warlock.  He  also  beat 
Strathnarer  for  the  Biennial  at  York,  Fisherman  for  the  Queen's  Plate  at  Doncaster, 
at  the  meeting  when  the  Blink  Bonny  riot  took  place,  and  Saunterer  again  for 
the  Doncaster  Stakes.  Abdale  was  not  in  good  circumstances  when  he  died,  a 
misfortune  from  which  even  increased  fees  have  not  sufficed  to  save  all  his 
successors.  The  first  man  who  ever  gave  a  jockey  ^"500  is  supposed  to  have  been 
Captain  Scott ;  but  it  is  also  related  that  Captain  Dowbiggen  (concerning  whom 
Lord  Panmure  sent  the  enigmatical  message  during  the  Crimean  War)  gave 
Robinson  /iooo  for  winning  the  Leger  on  Matilda.  Certainly  Jem  was  glad 
enough  to  get  the  Duke  of  Rutland's  annual  ,£50  in  memory  of  Cadlands  Derby, 
and  was  by  no  means  well  off  at  his  death.  Frank  Butler,  Nat  Flatman,  and  Sam 
Rogers  did  better  for  themselves.  But  Aldcroft  was  not  so  fortunate  ;  and  Norman, 
who  rode  Stockwell  in  the  Two  Thousand  and  Leger,  and  Regalia  in  the  Oaks,  was 
not  much  better  off  in  his  latter  days  than  Bell  or  Marlow ;  while  Maidment,  who 
won  the  Derby  on  Kisber  and  Cremorne,  the  Oaks  on  Hannah,  and  the  Leo-er 

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on  Hannah  and  Wenlock,  has  become  very  poor,  though  not  in  such  bad 
straits  as  the  late  Morris,  Galopins  jockey.  No  doubt  a  boy  learns  something 
from  his  father's  experience,  whether  that  experience  has  been  good  or  evil.  The 
names  of  Watts  and  Cannon  are  sufficiently  well-known  examples  ;  and  there  can 


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hardly  be  a  Loates  alive  who  does  not  know  all  there  is  to  know  about  his 
profession  ;  for  there  was  H.  Loates  with  The  Rake  and  Friponnier ;  Ben  Loates 
with  a  promising  son  ;  T.  Loates  with  Isinglass ;  and  S.  Loates  with  Harvester 
and  Sir  Visto.  I  do  not  know  whether  Abdale  left  a  son  ;  but  I  am  certain  that 
he  never  forgot  as  long  as  he  lived  his  connection  with  Lord  George  Bentinck,  for 
the  spell  that  noble  owner  left  upon  his  generation  is  not  forgotten  yet. 

In  the  pages  of  those  memoirs  which  reveal  as  much  of  his  own  character  as 
of  the  weaknesses  of  his  companions,  Greville  describes  his  quarrel  with  Lord 
George  as  having  begun  over  "the  first  good  racehorse  he  possessed,  Preserve, 
which  I  bought  for  him  in  1833.  ...  It  was  evident  that  our  turf  connexion  could 

no  longer  subsist,  and 
accordingly  it  was  in- 
stantly dissolved,  and 
other  arrangements  were 
made  for  his  stud."  The 
situation  improved  when 
Greville  had  Mango  in 
the  St.  Leger.  "John 
Day  told  me  he  was  sure 
Lord  George  would  gladly 
try  him  for  me.  I  pro- 
posed it  to  him,  and  he 
instantly  assented.  We 
went  down  together  and 

tried  the  horse.     Mango  won  his  trial,  won  the  St.  Leger,  and  George  won  .£14,000 
on  the  race." 

The  amazement  of  the  Duke,  Lord  George's  father,  at  "seeing  a  great  number 
of  horses  running  in  the  names  of  men  whom  he  never  saw  or  heard  of,"  was 
only  equalled  by  his  indignation  on  learning  that  all  those  horses  belonged  to 
Lord  George,  who  had  promised  "that  he  would  not  bet  any  more  on  the  Turf." 
It  was  only  the  efforts  of  the  Duchess  which  at  last  brought  about  reconciliation, 
and  even  pleasure  in  news  of  his  son's  doings.  The  quarrel  with  Greville  was 
only  temporarily  made  up.  They  became  completely  estranged,  and  irrevocably 
so,  over  Crucifix.  The  two  cousins  were  as  different  as  possible,  and  should  never 
have  been  so  closely  associated  in  a  pursuit  as  to  the  conduct  of  which  they  held 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


471 


diametrically  opposite  views.  Lord  George,  "  iracundus,  inexorabilis,  acer,"  never 
forgave  and  never  forgot.  Ten  years  after  their  first  quarrel,  Mr.  Greville's 
Alarm  was  at  the  post  for  the  Derby  in  a  field  of  thirty-one.  Lord  George  had 
his  eye  upon  them,  through  a  large  telescope,  and  it  seems  to  have  been  with  some 
satisfaction  that  he  presently  proclaimed  in  loud  but  level  tones :  "  There  is  a 
tremendous  row  at  the  post.  Mr.  Hill's  Libel  has  just  savaged  another  horse. 
I  think  it  is  Mr.  Greville's  Alarm.  ...  It  is  Mr.  Greville's  Alarm.  Now  Mr.  St. 
Paul's  Mentor  is  joining  in  the  fray.  Between  them  they  have  forced  Alarm  over 
the  ropes.  Nat  Flatman  is  lying  on  the  ground.  It  looks  as  though  he  had  broken 
one  arm,  which  he  is  nursing  with  the  other  hand.  He  seems  unable  to  rise." 

No  wonder  that  Gre- 
ville  wrote  in  September, 
1848,  when  the  news  of 
Lord  George's  death 
reached  him  :  "He  had 
the  credit  of  virtues  which 
he  did  not  possess,  or 
which  were  so  mixed  with 
vices  that  if  all  had  been 
known  he  would  have 
been  most  severely  re- 
proached in  reference  to 
the  matters  in  which  he 
has  been  the  most  loudly  CoL  A"so"'s  "  AttiUt *  ^^  *•?  " Colwick" 

and  generally  bepraised."  This  must  be  taken  with  all  the  reservation  due  to 
the  "  strong  feelings  of  alienation  and  dislike "  which  the  writer  confesses  to 
have  existed  between  Lord  George  and  himself.  There  is  no  doubt  that  the 
domineering  attitude  Lord  George  naturally  and  unaffectedly  exhibited  towards 
nearly  every  one  with  whom  he  came  in  contact  accentuated  and  exacerbated 
the  feelings  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Council.  Only  when  he  met  men  whose 
eccentricity  of  character  and  larger  wealth  enabled  them  to  stand  up  to  him,  did 
Lord  George  in  the  least  abate  this  haughty  spirit.  The  tale  of  his  coming 
into  Crockforcl's  on  the  eve  of  the  Derby  of  1843,  and  asking  for  "money" 
about  Gaper,  has  probably  been  exaggerated  by  the  gambling  atmosphere  of  that 
notorious  place  ;  for  it  is  said  that  Lord  Glasgow  promptly  replied,  "  I'll  lay  you 


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,£90,000  to  ,£30,000,"  and  that  "the  Napoleon  of  the  Turf"  was  thereupon  bluffed 
out  of  the  room.  I  think  Greville  gives  a  more  correct  version  of  that  transaction 
when  he  writes  on  June  6th  of  that  year  :  "  I  have  been  very  slightly  concerned 
in  this  great  speculation,  but  larger  sums  have  been  wagered  on  it  than  ever  were 
heard  of  before.  George  Bentinck  backed  a  horse  of  his  called  Gaper  (and  not 
a  good  one)  to  win  about  ,£120,000.  On  the  morning  of  the  race  the  people 
came  to  hedge  with  him,  when  he  laid  the  odds  against  him  to  ,£7000  ;  ,£47,000  to 
,£7000  I  believe  in  all.  He  had  three  bets  with  Kelburne  of  unexampled  amount. 
He  laid  Kelburne  13,000  to  7000  on  Cotherstone  (the  winner)  against  the  British 
Yeoman,  and  Kelburne  laid  him  16,000  to  7000  against  Gaper." 

With  one  more  quota- 
tion from  the  writer  of 
these  memoirs,  I  must 
leave  Lord  George  ;  and 
I  copy  Greville's  words  in 
this  place  because  they 
seem  to  me  a  fair  estimate 
of  a  very  complex  cha- 


"  Cossack  "by"  Hetmann  Plato/"  ( 1 844) 


under  the  disadvantage 
of  strong  prejudice,  but 
written  as  justly  as  most 
of  us  can  ever  judge 
our  contemporaries,  and 
written  by  one  who 
probably  knew  his  cousin  more  intimately  than  any  one  else. 

Lord  George,  says  Greville,  "desired  to  win  money,  not  so  much  for  the 
money,  as  because  it  was  the  test  and  trophy  of  success  ;  he  counted  the  thousands 
he  won  after  a  great  race  as  a  general  would  count  his  prisoners  and  his  cannon 
after  a  great  victory  ;  and  his  tricks  and  stratagems  he  regarded  as  the  tactics  and 
manoeuvres  by  which  the  success  was  achieved.  Not,  probably,  that  the  money 
itself  was  altogether  a  matter  of  indifference  to  him  :  he  had  the  blood  of  General 
Scott  in  his  veins,  who  won  half  a  million  at  hazard,  and  the  grandson  most  likely 
chassait  de  race.  But  to  do  him  justice,  if  he  was  '  alieni  appetens  '  he  was  '  sui 
profusus.":  Certainly  it  did  not  look  as  if  he  raced  merely  for  money  when 


SOME   EARL\    VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


473 


he  cast  away  his  whole  stud  at  a  moment  when  it  promised  the  most  brilliant 
results,  in  order  to  throw  himself  wholly  into  another  pursuit  which  not  only 
removed  all  possibility  of  gain  upon  the  Turf,  but  promised  no  pecuniary  rewards 
in  compensation.  "I  have  not  the  least  doubt,"  concludes  Greville,  "that,  for  his 
own  reputation  and  celebrity,  he  died  at  a  most  opportune  period." 

In  spite  of  Greville's  admitted  distaste  for  the  manners  and  methods  of  the 
Turf,  he  was  not  above  owning  the  winner  of  the  St.  Leger  ;  and,  curiously  enough, 
Mangos  race  was  the  scene  of  an  accident,  and  a  description  of  that  accident 
which  many  must  have  remembered,  even  to  its  turns  of  phrase,  when  they  heard 
Lord  George  Bentinck's  little  oration  on  the  misfortunes  of  A/arvi.  Two  years 
before,  John  Bowes,  of  Streatlam,  had  celebrated  his  majority  by  winning  the 
Derby  with  Milndig,  after  a  scene  with  his  trustees  about  the  horse  which  led 
John  Scott  to  exclaim,  "  What  an  owdacious  young  'un !  "  and  which  gave  unfailing 
promise  of  his  calmly  successful  career  later  on.  In  1837  he  had  a  colt  named 
Epirus,  whose  first  appearance  was  in  the  St.  Leger  at  the  starting-price  of  2  to  i. 
From  the  Jockey  Club 
Stand  at  Doncaster  he 
was  watching  the  pro- 
gress  of  the  race,  when, 

as  the  horses  passed  from  ^B^  /. 

the  gravel  road  over  the 
hill,  every  one  near  him 
became  wildly  excited 
over  an  accident  that 
had  evidently  occurred. 
They  appealed  to  him 
to  know  what  had  hap- 
pened. Without  a  trace 
of  emotion,  and  without 
removing  his  eye  from 
the  telescope,  he  announced  that  "Epirus  has  fallen  into  the  ditch.  Bill  Scott  is 
lying  prostrate  and  unable  to  move.  I  think  he  is  killed.  Another  horse  is  down 
or  has  been  pulled  up.  I  think  it  is  Alderman  Copeland's  Prime  Warden." 

Scott  was  not  killed,  though  very  near  it.      Ridden  rather  too   close  to  a  ditch 
near  the  side  of  the  course,  his  horse  had   fallen   into   it,  through   the  bank  giving 
VOL.  in.  c 


Mr.  John  Bowes  "  Cotherstone"  (1840) 
by  "  Touchstone^ 


474  A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

way,  and  had  thrown  his  jockey  on  to  the  course,  where  Prime  Warden  smashed 
poor  Bill's  collar-bone  and  very  nearly  fell  himself.  The  impassive  owner  of  Epirus 
was  to  win  four  Derbys,  three  Two  Thousands,  and  one  St.  Leger,  and  to  be  a 
well-known — though  never  a  prominent — figure  on  the  Turf  until  his  Taraban 
won  the  Northumberland  Plate  and  the  Goodwood  Stakes  in  1871,  when  George 
Fordham,  who  used  to  join  the  horse  in  a  sponge  of  port  wine  before  his  races, 
hardly  knew  his  owner  even  by  sight.  Even  in  his  young  days  of  victory  Mr. 
Bowes  was  very  reticent.  Some  one  asked  why  he  was  "down  in  the  dumps" 
one  night  at  Crockford's.  He  had  just  won  about  ,£50,000  over  Cot  her  stone's 
Derby,  a  son  of  Touchstone,  from  Emma,  dam  of  Milndig.  His  most  popular  and 
his  best  winner  was  West  Australian,  who  was  first  to  wear  the  "  Triple  Crown." 
It  was  difficult  enough  to  get  him  safe  to  the  post  for  the  St.  Leger  ;  but  with  the 
help  of  Mr.  Frederick  Swindell,  John  Scott  eventually  did  it,  only  to  find  that 
Scythian  was  to  be  started  with  the  express  object  of  knocking  him  down.  Lord 
Derby,  who  also  trained  with  "  the  Wizard  of  the  North  "  at  that  time,  got  a  capital 
description  of  what  followed  from  Frank  Butler,  who  rode  "T/ie  West"  at  Doncaster. 

"He  corned  hat  me  once,  m'lord,"  said  the  jockey,  "and  then  he  corned  hat  me 
again,  and  when  he  corned  hat  me  the  third  time,  close  to  the  Red  House,  I  see 
what  he  was  hup  to  ;  so  I  hups  with  my  whip  and  I  says,  '  You  dam'  young  davvle, 
if  you  comes  hat  me  again,  I'll  knock  your  dam'  heye  hout ! ' 

"  The  West"  had  seemed  a  trifle  sleepy  at  the  start  for  the  Derby  ;  but  between 
then  and  the  St.  Leger  his  form  changed  completely,  and  he  filled  out  from  a  colt 
into  the  smart,  well-moulded  horse  he  was,  though  the  affection  of  contemporary 
artists  has  endowed  him  with  more  perfect  points  than  even  the  admiration  of 
posterity  can  ever  credit.  He  had  plenty  of  quality  from  his  dam  Mowerina, 
"the  remnant  of  old  Emmas  race;"  and  John  Scott's  idea  of  getting  bone  from 
Melboiirne  turned  out  exactly  right ;  most  of  Melbourne's  foals  were  lengthy  and 
plain-headed  with  lop-ears.  "  The  West"  was  born  on  the  24th  of  April,  and  had  such 
bad  distemper  in  the  autumn  that  he  wasted  very  thin  until  the  spring  grass  picked 
him  up  again  for  good.  It  was  when  he  was  alive  that  "  The  Druid  "  wrote  :  "  For 
the  type  of  what  a  really  serviceable  racer  ought  to  be,  commend  us  to  the  low  and 
lengthy  Fandango,  with  those  great  well-hooped  ribs  knit  into  the  most  muscular  of 
quarters,  and  that  stealing  action  close  to  the  ground  and  giving  nothing  away.  It 
is  on  the  perpetuation  of  points  like  these,  and  not  on  beauty,  that  our  English  horse- 
fame  depends."  Again  we  are  faced  with  the  multifarious  nature  of  the  types  in 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


475 


which  good  horses  win.  I  have  often  referred  to  it ;  but  the  subject  is  inexhaustible, 
especially  in  view  of  St.  Simon's  stock  at  the  present  time.  Persimmon  and  Sceptre 
proved  certainly  as  good  as  they  were  beautiful.  Beeswing'  was  a  beauty  ;  so  was 
Pantaloon.  Little  Rowton  was  exquisitely  proportioned.  Gimcrack  had  not  a  lovely 
head,  but  if  he  is  added  to  Highlander,  Meteora,  Midas,  or  Mickey  Free,  you  get  an 
average  of  fourteen-two,  which  could  carry  anything  from  8st.  to  i2st.,  and  win  at 
all  distances  from  one  mile  to  four.  The  largest  horses  whom  "  The  Druid " 
remembered  as  having  run  successfully  were  Wild  Dayrell,  Filho  da  Puta,  and 


"  West  Australian  '•'  by  "  Melbourne  "  (1850). 

Birmingham,  who  was  sixteen-three,  or  as  big  as  the  French  Vinicius  in  the  Derby 
of  1903.  For  power  and  size  combined  with  speed  he  picked  out  Stockwell,  Longbow, 
and  Lord  George.  Even  of  West  Australian  the  same  writer,  describing  his  sale 
for  4000  guineas  to  France,  thought  that  "he  is  only  an  ordinary  horse  to  look 
at  when  his  head  is  out  of  sight."  But  when  he  strode,  with  his  beautiful  white 
reach  head  aloft,  into  the  ring,  it  was,  "  Here  comes  the  pick  of  England."  In  1854 
he  had  won  what  was  then  the  fastest  race  ever  run  for  the  Ascot  Cup,  beating 
Kingston  and  Rataplan. 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


When  John  Bowes  died  in  1885  many  people  forgot  that,  as  "Mr.  Valentine," 
Lord  Falmouth  had  had  Hurricane  and  Queen  Bertha  at  Whitewall ;  the  first  won 
the  One  Thousand  of  1862,  the  second  won  the  Oaks  in  1863  ;  they  were  the  two 
last  of  the  great  winners  trained  by  "the  Wizard  of  the  North."  Since  Blair  Athol 
had  won  the  Derby  and  the  St.  Leger,  Jenny  Hoiuletfs  chance  victory  in  the  Oaks 
of  1880  was  almost  the  only  good  thing  from  Malton  before  John  Bowes  died.  For 
nearly  half  a  century  the  home  of  John  Scott,  for  twenty  years  after  that  the  home 

of  his  widow,  Whitewall 
House  seems  never  likely 
to  train  another  winner 
in  its  stables  (1903).  The 
Musley  Bank  establish- 
ment has  been  given  up 
as  well,  where  Mr.  James 
Snarry,  son  of  old  Sir 
Tatton  Sykes's  stud- 
groom,  used  to  breed 
and  train.  One  of  the 
presents  John  Snarry 
had  received  was  Polly 

"  Queen  Bertha*  by  "Kingston"  (1860).        Agnes,  whose  blood  went 

back  to    the   Spot    mare 

foaled  in  1762.  She  was  the  dam  of  Lily  Agnes  (by  Macaroni],  dam  of  Ormonde, 
and  she  stamped  her  excellence  upon  one  of  the  most  famous  families  of  brood 
mares  on  the  Turf. 

It  is  curious  that  so  few  of  the  past  Yorkshire  trainers  were  Yorkshire  bred  ; 
John  Scott,  the  Dawsons,  John  Fobert,  and  old  John  Osborne  were  all  born  further 
south.  When  Osborne  came  to  Ashgill  in  1837,  he  found  John  Fobert  at  Spigot 
Lodge,  where  General  Chasst!  was,  whose  great  rival  and  conqueror  was  Lord 
Sligo's  Bran,  trained  by  Murphy  not  far  off.  At  Brecongill,  Tupgill,  and  Thorngill 
in  turn  the  name  of  the  Dawsons  was  well  known,  and  from  there  came  Ardrossan, 
sire  of  Jack  Spigot  and  of  Beeswings  dam,  and  Charles  XII.,  Our  Nell,  Blue 
Bonnet,  Van  Tromp,  and  Lanercost.  The  brothers  Tom  and  John  Dawson  at 
Middleham  also  trained  such  famous  racers  as  Priestess,  Rowcna,  E  Her  dale, 
Ellermire,  Ellington,  Jonathan  Wild,  Grimston,  and  St.  Bennett;  and  it  is 


SOME   EARLY   VJCTORIAN  OWNERS. 


477 


interesting  to  know  that  Thomas  Dawson  thought  Touchstone  a  better  horse  than 
either  The  Flying  Dutchman  or  West  Australian.  The  Polly  Agnes  whom  I 
mentioned  as  having  been  presented  to  James  Snarry  was  by  The  Cwe,  out 
of  Miss  Agnes,  a  daughter  (by  Irish  Birdcaicher)  of  Agnes  (by  Clarion],  who 
was  bought  by  old  John  Osborne  in  1844  with  her  clam  Annette  (by  Priam]. 
At  Middleham  Agnes 
proved  a  worthy  rival 
of  Malton's  famous  brood 
mare  Queen  Mary.  Lily 
Agnes,  who  lies  buried 
at  Eaton  near  Shotover 
and  Angelica,  was  tried 
on  Middleham  Moor  in 
the  spring  as  a  lop-eared, 
ragged-hipped  two-year- 
old,  and  beat  Enbhro- 
syne  and  Organist  (both 
three-year-olds)  at  even 
weights.  That  season 
she  was  never  beaten. 

Next  year  she  won  the  Northumberland  Plate,  the  York  Cup,  and  the  Doncaster 
Cup.  As  a  four-year-old  she  ran  a  dead  heat  with  the  French  Figaro  II.  for  the 
Queen's  Plate  at  Manchester,  and  won  the  decider  by  a  head,  with  other  successes, 
including  a  victory  over  Aventuriere  for  the  Ebor  Handicap,  which  very  much 
upset  Mr.  Fred  Swindell.  Next  year,  again,  she  won  the  Queen's  Plate  at  Chester, 
and  went  to  the  stud  as  a  six-year-old. 

It  is  interesting  to  notice  that  the  excellence  of  the  Agnes  blood  holds  its  own 
even  during  the  last  Ascot  Meeting  that  has  finished  just  as  I  revise  these  pages 
amid  the  rains  of  June,  1903.  Lord  Rosebery's  Oriole,  a  three-year-old  daughter  of 
Ladas  (whose  other  daughter  Montem  was  the  prettiest  two-year-old  filly  at  Ascot), 
won  the  Coronation  Stakes.  She  combined  the  blood  of  Rataplan,  Doncaster, 
and  Blair  Athol,  with  inbreeding  to  Ellen  Home  through  Paradigm  and  Rouge 
Rose,  the  whole  being  based  on  the  Agnes  taproot,  which  provided  other  winners 
at  the  same  meeting  in  Lord  Howard  de  Walden's  Zinfandel  and  his  Majesty's 
Mead,  besides  the  two-year-old  Rydal  Head,  who  was  not  so  successful  this  time,  and 


"  Lanercosf"  by  "  Liverpool"  (1835). 


478 


"  Rataplan  "  by  "  The  Baron  "  (1850). 


Alice  Hawthorn  "  by  "  Muley  Moloch  "  (1838). 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


479 


the   greatest  winner  of  them  all,  the   flying  filly  Sceptre,  who   was  kept  out  of  the 

Gold  Cup  to  win  the  Hardwicke  Stakes. 

But    John  Osborne's  favourite   mare  was  Alice  Hawthorn,   by   Muley  Moloch, 

who,   like   Beeswing,  Blink  Bonny,   and  the    rough-looking  Caller  Ou,   transmitted 

her  good  qualities  to  her  descendants.     She  was  the  Queen  of  the  Turf  when  she 

died,  not  long  after  Touchstone,  in  1861  at  Mr.  Winteringham's  stud  near  Darlington. 

Out  of  the  seventy-one  races  for  which  she  started  she  had  won  fifty-one  outright, 

divided  the  stakes  in  a  dead  heat,  and  was  placed  ten  times.      From  1842  to   1845 

she    won    sixteen    cups,   including   the    Chester,    Doncaster,   and    Goodwood    Cups, 

the    Queen's    Vase,    and 

eighteen  Queen's  Plates. 

She  was  first  trained  for 

Mr.  Plummer,  of  Shipton, 

by  Heseltine,  of  Hamble- 

ton,  and  was  three  and 

half  years  old  before  she 

was  broken  in,  and  this 

may   be   one   reason    for 

her  extraordinary  stay- 
ing and  weight-carrying 
powers,  which  were  com- 
bined with  a  wonderful 
turn  of  speed.  She  only 
just  failed  to  give  Red 

Deer  5st.  81b.  at  Chester.      Her  best  sons  were  Lord  Fauconberg,  Oulston,  Findon, 
and  Thonnanby,  by  Windkound. 

The  trainer  of  Blink  Bonny,  Caller  Ou,  and  Blair  Athol  was  William  I'Anson, 
of  Hungerford  House,  Malton,  whose  luckiest  purchase  was  Queen  Mary.  He 
originally  bought  her  for  30  guineas,  from  Mr.  Ramsay  at  Doncaster  in  1844,  but 
as  she  fell  and  crippled  herself  in  her  first  race,  she  was  sold  again  (when  in  foal 
with  Haricot  to  Mango),  and  it  was  not  till  her  firstborn  had  won  eleven  out  of 
his  thirteen  races  that  William  went  to  Scotland  after  her,  and,  at  the  end  of  a 
long  search,  brought  her  back  again  to  Yorkshire  for  ^"no.  She  was  the  dam  of 
Blink  Bonny,  Blinkhoolie,  Broomielavo,  and  many  more  ;  and  her  daughter  Haricot 
was  the  dam  of  Caller  Ou,  who  won  twenty-nine  Queen's  Plates  from  1861  to  1864, 


"  Queen  Mary"  by  "  Gladiator"  (1843). 


480 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


which  is  three  more  than  Fisherman  and  eight  more  than  Rataplan.  Blink  Bonny  s 
son  by  Slockwcll  was  Blair  Athol,  who  proved  worthy  of  such  mighty  parentage 
by  winning  the  Derby  and  the  St.  Leger,  and  handing  on  his  speed  to  Prince 
Charlie,  Ecossais,  Scottish  Q^leen,  and  Silvio,  winner  of  the  Derby.  Blink  Bonny  s 

skeleton  was  presented 
to  the  York  Museum, 
and  her  name  is  pre- 
served in  the  stud  farm 
controlled  by  Miles 
I'Anson,  on  the  estate 
where  another  William 
I'Anson  upholds  his 
father's  reputation  as  a 
trainer.  From  all  this  it 
will  be  seen  that  Queen 
Mary  was  another  in- 
stance of  a  mare  who 
did  no  good  on  the 
racecourse  proving  first 
rate  at  the  stud,  like  the  dam  of  Beeswing,  Ennui  (dam  of  Saunterer\  Rebecca 
(dam  of  Alice  Hawthoni),  Pocahontas,  Hybla,  and  many  more. 

Fobert,  in  The  Flying  Dutchman's  days,  may  well  have  seemed  justified  in 
thinking  that  such  breeding  had  never  been  seen  before ;  and  when  John  Scott 
saw  Canesou  beaten  like  a  common  hack  at  Ascot,  he  must  have  begun  to  wonder 
about  the  truth  of  it  himself.  Fobert  never  thought  the  public  really  knew  how 
good  "  The  Dutchman  "  was,  especially  after  Marlow  nearly  threw  away  his  Derby 
by  stupidly  trying  to  show  off  in  a  close  finish,  and  quite  spoilt  all  chance  of  the 
Doncaster  Cup  by  bursting  his  horse  at  the  start.  Marlow  died  in  a  workhouse. 
The  son  of  Bay  Middleton  and  Barbelle  was  a  very  free  goer  at  exercise,  and 
at  three  years  old  could  beat  his  five-year-old  relative  Van  Tronip.  His  sire's 
fee  had  been  reduced  from  30  guineas  to  15,  and  in  the  year  "  The  Dutchman" 
was  born,  it  was  ten.  Irish  Birdcatchcr  could  be  got  for  25  at  Newmarket; 
Melbourne,  afterwards  sire  of  West  Australian  and  Blink  Bonny,  for  12.  The 
highest  price  asked  by  Mr.  Theobald,  of  Stockwell,  was  20  guineas  for  Muley 
Moloch.  John  Day  was  getting  25  guineas  for  the  services  of  Venison;  and 


By  permission  of  H.R.H.  Prince  Christian. 


'  Caller  On." 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


481 


Touchstone,   then    sire    of  two    Derby  winners,   drew  the    top  price  at  31    guineas 
and   a  sovereign  for  the  groom.      Gladiator  got  25  guineas   in  this  same  year  of 
1 846  ;  Harkaway  had  dropped  from  30  to  1 2  ;  Hetman  Plato/  (not  yet  the  sire  of 
Cossack]  was  only  10,  as  was  John  o  Ga^mt ;  Lanercost  and  Plenipotentiary  were  15. 
It  may  well  be  asked  whether  the  prices  of  those  days,  and  the  moderate  fees  now 
asked   in   America,    are   not   more   conducive   to   getting  a   number  of  good  horses 
than  such  enormous  sums  as  are  now  demanded  on  the  English  Turf.     When  five 
and  six  hundred  guineas  can  be  got  without  advertisement ;  when  fifty  is  considered 
cheap;   when  a  hundred   is  the  average  price,  — it  might   be  imagined  that  we  are 
sure  of  plenty  of  first-rate  stock.      I  fear  it  only  means  that  fashion  has  run  up  the 
price  of  certain  strains,  and  that  as  there  are  not  enough  fashionable  sires  to  go 
round  their  owners  can  ask  what  they  please.      Like  West  Australian,  The  Flying 
Dutchman   was  sold   to   France.      It  will    be   worth   while   to  consider  the   French 
pedigrees  I  give  in  the  Appendix,  to  take  them  in  conjunction  with  French  successes 
in   breeding  stayers,   and  to  see  whether  we  are  not,   after  all,    limiting  our  circle 
too   much.     One  other  possibility   I   have   already  mentioned;   it   is   that  our  own 
blood     is    improved     by 
transportation  to  different 
climates     and     pastures, 
and    will    come    back   to 
us      reinvigorated,      and 
stronger    than    what    we 
have  kept  here.    I  cannot 
quote  an  example  of  our 
using  a  French  sire  who 
is  descended  from  stock 
long    bred    in    England. 
But   in   the    English   de- 
scendants    of    such    im- 
ported   sires   as    Carbine 
we  shall  soon  be  able  to 

judge  the  value  of  Australian  limestone  to  the  M^lsket  branch  of  Eclipse ;  and  it 
is  worth  remembering  that  Lord  Glasgow,  after  a  disappointing  two-year-old  trial, 
would  have  shot  Musket,  had  it  not  been  for  the  entreaties  of  John  Osborne 
who  rode  him,  and  for  a  firm  protest  from  Tom  Dawson,  his  trainer.  So  much 
VOL.  III.  i) 


"  Plenipotentiary  '•'  by  "  Emiliits  "  (i 83 1 ). 


482 


SOME   EARLY  VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


483 


liiimmiiiiiimiii 


was  Lord  Falmouth  against  high  fees  that  he  put  his  own  Derby  winners  Kingcraft 
and  Silvio  at  15  and  25  guineas.  Now  not  only  must  hunter  sires  eventually 
become  affected,  but  the  small  breeders  must  gradually  be  pushed  to  the  wall 
altogether ;  yet  it  was  just  the  small  studs,  which  never  went  in  for  paying  high 
fees,  which  bred  The  Flying  Dutchman,  Voltigeiir,  Wild  Dayrell,  and  Musjid ; 
while  products  of  the  same  period  of  sensible  figures  were  Cossack,  Surplice,  Alice 
Hawthorn,  Coronation,  Sir  Tatton  Sykes,  Queen  of  Trumps,  Beeswing,  Newminster, 
and  a  list  which  would  hold  its  own  against  any  decade  of  high  prices. 

The  last  of  these,  a  delicate  celebrity,  was  being  trained  by  John  Scott  at 
Whitewall  in  1852,  with  Iris,  Longbow,  Songstress,  West  Aiistralian,  and  Daniel 
O'  Rourke,  who  beat  the 
mighty  Stockwell  for  the 
Derby,  and  suffered  a 
reversal  of  the  verdict 
in  the  Leger.  In  that 
October,  Kingston,  win- 
ner of  the  Goodwood 
Cup,  beat  foe  Miller, 
who  had  won  the  Em- 
peror's Plate  at  Ascot, 
for  a  ,£50  Plate.  It  did 
not  need  huge  figures 
to  bring  out  the  good 
ones  then.  Six  years 
later  John  Scott  had 

Toxophilite,  who  was  second  to  Beadsman  for  the  Derby;  Warlock;  Imperieusc, 
the  last  Leger  winner;  Vanity,  who  got  the  Chester  Cup;  Longrange  and 
Hepatica.  William  I'Anson  had  the  four-year-old  Blink  Bonny.  At  Aske, 
Vedette  and  Qui  Vive  were  with  Abdale.  Sixty-five  were  in  Osborne's  string  at 
Ashgill.  There  was  racing,  too,  at  Middleham,  Catterick,  Richmond,  Thirsk, 
Ripon,  and  Northallerton.  At  all  these  places,  and  far  beyond  them,  John  Scott's 
was  a  name  to  conjure  with.  His  father,  at  Chippenham,  had  trained  for  such 
well-known  sportsmen  of  the  Regency  as  Sir  Harry  Featherstonhaugh,  Councillor 
Lade,  and  Sir  Sitwell  Sitwell.  At  fourteen  he  had  ridden  the  winner  of  the  ^"50 
Plate  at  Blandford,  and  sold  her  for  another  fifty  before  he  went  home.  Then  he 


' Daniel  O'Rourke  "  by  "  Btrdcatcher"  (1849). 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

studied  training  with  Tiny  Edwards  at  Mickleham  in  Surrey  ;  and  finally  he  came 
to  Middleham  in  1814  to  become  as  great  a  Yorkshire  idol  as  was  John  Gully 
of  Somerset.  He  began  at  Black  Hambleden,  and  after  a  move  to  the  Rufford 
country  with  Mr.  Houldsworth,  he  got  the  Whitewall  Stables  in  1825,  and  trained 
his  horses  on  the  springy  turf  of  Langton  Wold,  where  the  Marquis  of  Rockingham's 
thoroughbreds  had  been  exercised  before  him.  Mr.  Edward  Petre's  Matilda, 
The  Colonel,  and  Rowton  began  his  fame ;  and  he  never  looked  back.  He  was 
immensely  assisted  by  his  brother  Bill,  who  died  within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  the 


"  Stockwcir  by  "  The  Baron  "  (1847). 

stables,  at  Highfield  House,  in  1848,  not  long  after  Lord  George  Bentinck  had  so 
suddenly  passed  away.  For  the  thirty-three  years  of  his  profession  he  was  the  most 
fortunate  jockey  as  yet  known  to  a  racing  world  which  knew  not  Archer.  Both  he 
and  John  were  presented  to  Queen  Victoria  when  she  rode  over  from  Esher  to 
Leatherhead,  with  Prince  Albert,  to  interview  Cotherstone.  Though  not  a  powerful, 
or  even  a  brilliant  jockey,  he  had  a  fine  seat,  and  was  a  keen  judge  of  pace,  the  two 
things  most  essential  to  one  who  had  the  pick  of  so  magnificent  a  stable.  He  lies 
beneath  a  stone  without  any  inscription,  under  the  aisle  of  Waghen  Church.  His 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS.  485 

brother  John  very  nearly  came  to  an  untimely  end  himself  at  Doncaster  in  1854. 
Lord  Derby's  Acrobat  was  not  supposed  to  have  a  chance,  on  previous  form,  for 
the  Doncaster  Stakes.  He  won  ;  and  the  Tykes  began  to  hiss  when  the  jockeys 
came  back  to  scale.  Sim  Templeman  whipped  off  his  saddle,  and  just  got  through 
in  time.  But  when  John  Scott  came  up  to  the  horse's  head  to  lead  him  in,  one 
maddened  loser  shouted,  "  He's  laughing  ;  look  at  him  !  "  The  mob  instantly  became 
furious,  and  a  shower  of  blows  were  aimed  at  the  unlucky,  and  perfectly  honest 
trainer.  Jack  Macdonald  (who  had  seconded  Tom  Sayers)  managed  to  knock  down 
the  ringleader,  but  would  have  fared  badly  in  the  crowd  had  not  Harry  Broome, 
then  champion  of  England,  suddenly  woke  to  the  chances  of  a  scrimmage,  hit  out 
right  and  left  till  he  got  to  John's  side,  and  then,  with  sheer  hard  smashes  from  the 
shoulder,  got  the  trainer  through  into  the  safety  of  the  New  Stand. 

It  is  difficult  to  believe  it  is  so  long  since  Langton  Wold  saw  a  trial  with  Brother 
Bill  up,  and  Brother  John  walking  beside  I'Anson's  pony,  until  he  gets  into  his 
phaeton  with  Holmes  in  front,  and  a  lemon-and- white  terrier  on  the  back  seat 
looking  out  for  touts.  For  long  after  he  had  left  it  for  ever,  the  Wizard's  little 
snuggery  at  Whitewall  preserved  the  record  of  the  most  glorious  of  his  days  in 
Herring's  pictures  looking  down  on  the  room  where  the  jockeys  were  called  into 
council,  and  the  plans  for  Epsom  or  Newmarket  or  Doncaster  were  shrewdly  laid, 
and  where  such  men  as  Lord  Derby,  Baron  Martin,  Colonel  Anson,  Baron 
Alderson,  and  many  more  had  foregathered  with  the  famous  trainer.  John  Scott 
had  known  some  of  the  best  men  of  his  day  in  his  lifetime,  and  he  made  a 
comfortable  fortune  before  he  died.  The  pictures  that  preserve  his  greatest  triumphs 
still  furnish  a  vivid  recollection  of  his  work,  and  it  would  be  the  basest  ingratitude 
to  those  who  have  contributed  the  most  brilliant  of  my  pages  did  I  not  say 
something  of  the  merits  of  the  men  like  Herring  who  have  enabled  us  to  imagine 
what  those  far-off  winners  looked  like. 

Really  to  appreciate  the  "horse-painters"  of  the  past,  you  must  consider  the 
pages  of  such  a  collection  of  first-rate  engravings  as  Mr.  Tattersall's  albums,  a 
"  Missal  of  the  Turf,"  to  which  I  have  been  deeply  indebted  for  these  volumes. 
There  you  may  see  Wootton,  Stubbs,  and  Gilpin  at  their  best ;  Sartorius  and  Ben 
Marshall ;  Garrard  and  James  Ward  ;  Ferneley,  whose  hand  was  happiest  in  hunting 
scenes  ;  and  Herring,  who  began  as  coachman  of  the  London  and  York  Highflyer, 
and  finally  gave  up  the  whip  for  the  mahlstick  in  Jack  Spigot's  year.  Lord 
Rosebery's  magnificent  Flying  Dutchman,  which  looks  almost  lifesize  as  it  gallops 


486 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


over  a  mantelpiece  at  the  Durdans,  is  one  of  his  masterpieces,  in  my  opinion,  alike 
for  man  and  horse.  It  is  reproduced  opposite  page  xvii.  in  my  first  volume.  George 
Frederick  Herring  married  early,  and  ran  away  from  an  irate  father  to  Doncaster 
in  time  to  see  the  Duke  of  Hamilton's  William  win  the  Leger  of  1814.  He 
painted  in  his  leisure  time,  and  drove  for  a  living,  until  Mr.  Stanhope,  of  Cannon 
Hall,  got  him  some  commissions.  Assisted  by  Mr.  Hawkesworth  and  Mr.  Wilson 
(for  whom  he  drew  Smolensko),  he  soon  got  into  his  swing,  and  Mr.  Petre  and  Sir 
Bellingham  Graham  fairly  established  his  reputation.  After  living  in  Doncaster  till 
1830,  he  resided  in  Newmarket  and  London  for  a  time,  and  spent  the  last  ten 

years  of  his  life  at  Meopham  Park 
in  Kent,  where  he  died  in  1865.  His 
boy  Charles,  a  skilful  lover  of  art, 
and  a  good  son,  died  in  1856.  In 
the  volumes  on  Animal  Painters  on 
which  Sir  Walter  Gilbey  has  been 
engaged,  a  most  valuable  list  is  given 
of  the  work  of  all  the  best  artists 
who  perpetuated  the  favourites  of 
the  Turf. 

If  Lord  Glasgow  had  always  had 
his  way  these  favourites  might  have 
been  far  fewer  than  they  are  ;  for  I 
suppose  no  one  has  ever  ordered 
more  two-year-old  thoroughbreds  to 
be  shot  than  the  irascible  Scotchman, 
who  would  suddenly  swoop  down  on 

The  Earl  of  Glasgow.         Middleham,   out    of  the    season,    call 
for    some    of    the    resident    jockeys, 

watch  a  score  or  more  trials  the  next  morning,  and  destroy  the  losers.  It  would 
almost  seem  as  if  his  ghost  were  now  engaged  in  destroying  the  winners  as  well,  for 
days  have  sadly  changed  since  the  North  carried  away  so  many  of  the  best  prizes 
of  the  Turf.  When  horses  had  to  travel  by  road,  whether  in  a  van  or  not,  the 
Yorkshire  stables  were  practically  invincible.  Railways  enabled  owners  to  make 
Newmarket  their  racing  headquarters  and  live  in  London,  while  they  could  run 
horses  at  all  the  northern  meetings  as  well,  like  Gosforth  Park,  Stockton,  Redcar, 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS.  487 

York,  or  Doncaster ;  and  what  the  trains  did  for  locomotion  the  telegraph  has 
done  for  the  scarcely  less  important  essential  of  speedy  information.  By  degrees 
the  small  stakes  fashionable  not  only  in  the  North  but  all  over  England,  increased 
in  value,  and  large  sums  were  offered  for  competition  in  the  "Metropolitan  District," 
against  which  the  North  could  only  offer  the  attractions  of  the  St.  Leger,  the 
Northumberland  Plate,  the  Ebor  Handicap,  and  a  few  valuable  events  for  youngsters. 
Much  the  same  process,  in  fact,  went  on,  as  has  been  noticed  in  the  gradual 
migration  of  the  rural  populations  into  urban  centres.  The  North  remained  "in 
the  country."  The  owners  who  were  prepared  to  pay  any  price  for  a  yearling 
they  fancied  all  began  to  race  in  the  South,  where  the  meetings  which  offered  ample 
and  speedy  return  for  their  outlay  were  within  easy  reach.  But  in  spite  of  every- 
thing, for  true  love  of  a  horse  and  affectionate  knowledge  of  his  history,  you  cannot 
beat  a  crowd  at  Doncaster  on  a  Leger  day  ;  and  of  the  true  sporting  spirit,  which 
reckoned  nothing  in  money  and  everything  in  honour,  Lord  Glasgow,  with  all  his 
eccentricities,  was  a  fine  old-fashioned  example.  The  tales  of  him  are  innumerable. 
The  very  soul  of  integrity,  he  carried  the  diamond  of  his  honest  nature  in  the 
roughest  husk  ;  and  the  flavour  of  the  sea  which  stuck  to  Admiral  Rous  was  in  his 
old  Norse  blood  as  well  until  he  died.  Two  friends  of  his,  Lord  Kennedy  and 
Captain  Horatio  Ross,  once  walked  from  Black  Hall  in  Kincardineshire,  where  they 
were  staying  with  Mr.  Farquharson,  to  Inverness,  for  a  bet  of  ,£2,500  a  side  with 
Sir  Andrew  Leith  Hay,  starting  after  dinner  in  their  evening  dress  and  walking 
all  night,  next  day,  and  the  next  night,  straight  over  the  Grampians.  It  was  Lord 
Kennedy  who  bet  Lord  Kelburne  (as  the  Earl  of  Glasgow  was  then)  ^500  that  he 
would  drive  a  team  from  Hawkhead  to  Ardrossan  before  him,  again  after  dinner  in 
the  dark.  Lord  Kelburne  lost  through  taking  the  wrong  turning,  along  which  he 
nearly  drove  his  horses  over  the  cliff  into  the  sea.  With  a  love  of  wagering  like 
this,  a  reckless  spirit,  a  practically  unlimited  fortune,  and  a  strong  will,  Lord  Glasgow 
made  a  notable  figure  on  the  English  Turf.  He  hated  to  name  his  horses,  and  was 
generally  unlucky  with  them  ;  but  among  the  best  were  General  Peel,  Musket, 
Rapid  Rhone,  and  Tom  Bowline.  His  best  win  was  with  Actceon  in  the  York 
Subscription  Purse. 

He  often  changed  his  trainers,  but  that  was  chiefly  owing  to  momentary  irrita- 
bility, though  he  was  a  good  hater  when  once  he  had  made  up  his  mind.  Yet, 
though  his  hand  was  always  nervously  rubbing  the  back  of  his  neck,  his  face  never 
betrayed  whether  he  had  won  or  lost  the  ,£50,000  that  often  depended  on  the 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


running  of  the  wrong  horse ;  and  in  spite  of  all  the  uncertainty  of  his  physical 
temperament,  he  scorned  such  new-fangled  luxuries  as  overcoats  or  knickerbockers, 
and  wore  his  wide  white  trousers  with  determination  to  the  end.  When  he  died  the 
poor  of  Paisley  mourned  for  him,  and  the  Turf  lost  one  of  the  most  manly  and 
characteristic  of  its  supporters. 

If  the  mantle  of  Sir  Charles  Bunbury  fell  upon  Lord  George  Bentinck,  the 
third  "  Dictator  of  the  Turf,"  Admiral  Rous,  may  be  fairly  said  to  have  done  more 
than  either  of  them,  if  we  measure  reform  by  the  surviving  facts  ;  and  there  are 

many  who  think  that  "a  little  of  the 
Admiral "  would  not  be  a  'bad  recipe 
either  for  His  Majesty's  Ministers  in 
1903,  or  for  Racing  Headquarters 
in  the  same  year  of  grace.  The 
Admiral  showed  that  it  is  not  neces- 
sary to  own  a  large  stud,  or  to  make 
huge  bets,  to  be  able  to  control  and 
improve  the  affairs  of  the  Turf.  He 
scarcely  owned  a  dozen  horses  of  his 
own,  and  his  betting  was  strictly  in 
the  "ten-pound  line  of  business."  He 
believed,  and  often  asserted,  that  the 
power  of  the  Jockey  Club  was  solely 
based  upon  its  moral  force.  History, 
as  we  have  seen  in  these  pages, 
proves  that  he  was  right  then.  Such 
men  as  Lord  Crewe,  Mr.  Fitzwilliam, 
Lord  March,  and  others,  provided 

sufficient  evidence  at  the  end  of  the  nineteenth  century  that  he  is  right  still. 
His  reputation  in  the  Navy  was  made  for  ever  when  he  steered  the  rudderless 
frigate  "Pique"  safely  home  in  twenty  days  from  Labrador  in  1835.  It  is  not 
without  significance  that  the  picture  of  the  ship  he  saved  now  hangs  in  the 
Jockey  Club  Rooms  at  Newmarket.  The  Turf,  when  Admiral  Rous  became  a 
steward,  wanted  good  handling  and  courageous  steering  almost  as  badly.  He  was 
a  member  of  Parliament  for  Westminster  for  five  years  after  his  election  in  1838, 
but  by  1845  he  had  begun  to  devote  himself  almost  entirely  to  the  interests  of  the 


Admiral  Rous. 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS.  489 

Turf.  One  of  his  first  actions  was  to  secure  a  lease  of  the  training-ground  at 
Newmarket  for  the  Jockey  Club  at  30.?.  an  acre  for  99  years.  By  1874  their 
revenues  had  increased  sixfold  ;  but  the  eye  of  the  old  sea-dog  was  still  on  the 
alert,  and  in  his  memorable  manifesto  of  that  year  on  Turf  prospects,  he  expresses 
alarm  at  "the  black  cloud  on  the  horizon,"  and  points  out,  as  coming  dangers, 
many  of  those  weaknesses  which  I  have  had  to  chronicle  as  in  existence  now. 
"Suppress  betting  by  legal  enactment,"  he  wrote  once,  "and  the  game  is  up; 
thoroughbred  stock  would  be  depreciated  sixty  per  cent.,  and  our  racecourses 
ploughed  up.  .  .  .  Racing  has  always  been,  and  will  always  be,  in  the  United 
Kingdom  a  gambling  speculation."  But  he  was  not  going  to  let  it  degenerate  into 
a  blackguardly  conspiracy.  Owning  few  horses,  betting  scarcely  at  all,  the  Admiral 
was  in  favour  of  sensible  reforms  with  a  full  knowledge  of  what  was  possible  and 
what  was  not ;  with  a  fixed  determination  to  raise  the  standard  of  sport  and  of 
horsebreeding,  as  a  whole,  without  regard  to  individual  likes  or  dislikes. 

But  it  is,  of  course,  as  a  handicapper  that  his  fame  is  greatest,  and  the  first 
success  that  marked  his  amazing  natural  talents  for  this  difficult  art  was  when  Lord 
Eglinton's  Flying  Dutchman  (5  yrs.)  met  Lord  Zetland's  Voltigeitr  (4  yrs.),  and 
he  made  the  older  horse  give  his  rival  8|lb.,  with  the  result  that  there  was  only  a 
short  length  between  them  after  a  race  of  two  miles.  It  may  be  doubted  whether 
his  promotion  to  be  Rear-Admiral  of  the  Blue,  the  year  after,  gave  him  so  much 
real  satisfaction  as  his  appointment  as  handicapper  by  the  Jockey  Club  in  1855. 
From  that  day  onwards  he  was  never  dull.  His  mind  was  constantly  occupied  in 
handicapping.  "  It's  a  very  odd  thing,"  he  said  once,  just  before  his  last  illness,  "  I 
lose  my  way  now  going  from  Grafton  Street  to  Berkeley  Square  ;  but  I  can  still 
handicap."  Mr.  Frederick  Swindell  is  said  to  have  leased  the  house  next  door  to 
his  with  the  express  object  of  watching  who  drove  up  to  see  the  Admiral,  and 
drawing  his  own  conclusions.  It  was  not  without  reason  that  the  old  sailor  uttered 
the  startling  words  on  one  occasion  that  "every  great  handicap  offers  a  premium  to 
fraud,  for  horses  are  constantly  started  without  any  intention  of  winning,  merely  to 
hoodwink  the  handicapper."  But  it  was  very  rarely  that  trainers  or  jockeys  either 
managed  to  hoodwink  the  Admiral  once.  They  never  did  so  twice. 

It  may  be  worth  while  to  consider  a  little  what  the  difficulties  of  a  handicapper 
are  in  attempting  so  to  impose  different  weights  on  various  horses  that  the  result  shall 
be  a  dead  heat.  To  begin  with,  he  has  no  control  over  the  state  of  the  course,  and 
all  the  difference  may  be  made  by  the  turf  being  hard,  or  soft,  or  exactly  right.  He 

VOL.  III.  E 


490 


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SOME  EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


491 


neither  rides  the  horses  himself,  nor  does  he  train  them.  He  does  not  know,  for 
instance,  how  an  apprentice  with  an  allowance  of  five  pounds  will  manage  his  mount ; 
he  may  not  be  aware  of  the  fitness  of  an  animal  or  of  the  intentions  of  its  owner ; 
he  is  not  sure  in  all  cases  whether  drugs  have  been  used  which  may  eventually 
destroy  all  the  horse's  usefulness,  but  may  for  the  first  few  times  give  him  an 
entirely  unexpected- and  unnatural  turn  of  speed;  and,  lastly,  he  can  no  more  guard 
against  accidents  than  he  could  relieve  Epsom  of  its  "  Derby  dog."  But,  apart  from 
all  this,  his  knowledge  of  racing  must  be  intimate,  perpetual,  judicious.  He  must 
know  what  to  forget  as  well  as  what  to  remember.  He  must  be  familiar  with  the 
peculiar  features  of  every  racecourse.  He  must  cultivate  an  expert  acquaintance  with 
every  animal  likely  to 
come  before  him,  their 
individual  foibles,  their 
stamina,  their  favourite 
courses,  their  behaviour 
under  given 


circum- 


stances.     Being    unable 


"  Newminster"  by  "  Touchstone  "  (1848). 


to   take  any   more  risks 

than  are   inevitable,    the 

handicapper  must  go  by 

the    best    form    a    horse 

has    shown,    and    never 

take     off    weight     until 

his     own     certainty     of 

deterioration  practically  coincides  with  the  trainer's  conviction  that  it  is  useless  to 

enter  the  animal  again. 

A  modern  expert,  greatly  daring,  has  laid  down  a  few  general  rules.  They  are  : 
(i)  horses  which  have  never  run  should  carry  the  top  weight,  on  the  weight-for-age 
scale  ;  (2)  horses  which  have  only  run  once  should  have  a  slight  concession,  the  class 
in  which  they  run  being  taken  into  consideration  ;  (3)  after  two  races  a  considerable 
concession  can  be  made  if  they  have  been  fairly  ridden  out ;  (4)  not  till  after  three 
races  can  they  be  fairly  treated  on  their  merits,  and  take  their  rightful  place  in  a 
handicap  ;  (5)  foreign  horses  whose  form  is  unknown  should  be  weighted  more  or 
less  as  having  never  run. 

But  there  can  be  no  hard-and-fast  lines  on  which  any  handicap  can  be  drawn  up. 


492 


A   H1STORV   OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


Out  of  289  occasions  on  which  -a  list  of  candidates  was  noted  down  by  the  expert  I 
have  just  quoted,  he  found  that  he  had  "placed"  190  horses  first  in  order  of  supposed 
merit,  to  which,  after  further  consideration,  he  had  allotted  the  top  weights ;  and  that 
in  99  cases  his  first  impressions  had  been  altered  by  subsequent  knowledge  as  to  age, 
or  performances,  or  subsidiary  conditions.  That  is  a  fair  example  of  the  amount  of 
experience  a  handicapper  should  have  before  he  really  gets  into  harness  at  all  for  the 
three  or  four  hours'  hard  work  an  average  handicap  must  entail,  when  there  is  no 
specially  confusing  puzzle  in  racing  form  to  elucidate.  Each  horse  in  a  high-class 
handicap  like  the  Lincolnshire  must  involve  looking  up  about  fifteen  races  to 
ascertain  what  he  has  done  himself,  and  what  the  horses  he  has  beaten  have  also 

done.  Even  after  the 
most  careful  research 
there  must  be  a  margin 
in  which  the  guesswork 
of  the  average  man,  and 
the  experience  of  the 
skilful  handicapper,  are 
left  unaided.  And  that 
is  why  the  handicapper 
must  start  his  work  upon 
a  good  foundation  of 
knowledge,  not  of  horses 
only,  but  of  human  nature 
too,  and  must  also  have 
the  courage  to  acquire 

more  knowledge  by  an  occasional  mistake.  It  is  now  impossible  to  have  even 
so  complete  a  view  of  racing  as  was  possible  to  Admiral  Rous.  Leonardo  da 
Vinci  could  resume  within  his  own  brain  nearly  all  the  knowledge  of  the  early 
sixteenth  century.  -  The  greatest  hall  in  the  Hotel  Cecil  could  scarcely  hold 
the  army  of  contributors  considered  necessary  to  sketch  the  outlines  of  the 
progress  of  the  later  nineteenth.  And  racing  has  expanded  in  a  scarcely  less 
degree.  Yet  we  see  no  authoritatively  co-ordinated  attempt  to  systematise  the 
knowledge  of  various  handicappers  in  different  parts  of  the  country  by  means  of 
official  and  centralised  reports  to  which  each  licensed  handicapper  could  have 
access.  On  the  contrary,  when  any  nominator  or  owner  feels  aggrieved,  he  may 


"  Teddington  "  by  "  Orlando  "  (1848). 


SOME  EARLY  VICTORIAN  OWNERS.  493 

call  the  official  framer  of  the  weights  before  the  stewards  and  ask  for  explana- 
tions. Such  penalties  should  only  be  permitted  by  a  body  which  will  also  make 
itself  responsible  for  improving  the  communication  of  essential  facts,  and  should 
only  be  discussed  by  men  as  well  acquainted  with  the  difficulties  of  handicapping 
as  are  the  officials  who  may  have  been  arraigned.  Unless  this  is  recognised,  modern 
handicappers  will  only  be  able  to  protect  themselves  by  a  servile  adherence  to 
"the  book,"  in  which  they  will  be  able  to  display  their  justification  when  required. 
The  handicapper  is  no  longer  "the  dictator  of  the  Turf,"  whose  decisions  are 
above  appeal.  If  the  world  of  racing  were  not  the  generous  and  sportsmanlike 
community  it  is,  perhaps  handicappers  would  not  live  very  long  in  it ;  but  it  is 
only  fair  to  them  to  say  that  their  art  shows  every  sign  of  improving  steadily  as 
one  season  follows  another.  I  spoke,  a  few  pages  back,  of  the  number  of  dead 
heats  that  used  to  occur  in  the  early  part  of  the  Victorian  era.  This  must  not  be 
understood  to  refer  entirely  to  handicaps,  or,  much  as  I  admire  him,  I  should  be 
rightly  considered  to  have  paid  Admiral  Rous  too  high  a  compliment.  The 
statistics  show  that  if  we  take  517  handicaps  (beginning  with  the  Lincolnshire)  in 
six  years,  of  which  four  are  chosen  in  the  zenith  of  the  Admiral's  reputation,  a 
very  distinct  improvement  is  noticeable.  Indeed,  if  bookmakers  got  along  as  well 
as  they  did  when  so  many  favourites  rolled  home  from  1866  to  1875,  they  ought 
all  to  be  in  clover  now ;  for  here  are  the  figures,  which  I  quote  from  an  admirable 
article  in  the  Badminton  Magazine,  so  ably  edited  by  Mr.  Alfred  E.  T.  Watson. 


Odds-on 

No.  of 

Dead 

Head 

Neck 

Favourite 

Favourite 

Date. 

Handicaps. 

Heats. 

Wins. 

Wins. 

Wins. 

Wins. 

1866 

•••       517 

4 

5° 

61 

198 

80 

1869 

-       5'7 

II 

54 

54 

201 

83 

1872 

•-       517 

4 

74 

73 

210 

53 

1875 

-     5'7 

4 

68 

50 

237 

50 

1898 

...     517 

7 

74 

52 

...              I63 

13 

In  1902  there  were  considerably  less  victories  to  record  of  "odds-on  favourites  ;  " 
only  147  "favourites;"  the  "neck  wins"  had  increased  by  18,  the  "head  wins" 
by  20  ;  and  there  was  one  dead  heat  of  three,  and  four  dead  heats  of  two. 

It  is  sometimes  dangerous  for  a  handicapper  to  express  his  opinions  ;  and 
Lord  Calthorpe  once  fairly  caught  the  Admiral  by  asking,  "  What  chance  has 
my  horse  got  for  this  race  ?  "  R.  "  None  whatever."  C.  "  Then,  pray,  do  you 
call  that  handicapping?  I  thought  every  horse  was  at  any  rate  supposed  to 
have  an  equal  chance."  But  the  Admiral  knew  very  well  that  if  it  was  impossible 


494 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


to  stop  some  animals,  it  was  equally  impossible  for  others  to  get  home  first 
under  a  featherweight.  "  I'll  eat  my  hat  if  that  horse  wins  !  "  was  one  of  his 
favourite  remarks,  and  his  friend  George  Payne  used  to  say  that  if  only  he  had 
been  properly  conscientious,  the  Admiral  would  have  made  a  fortune  for  his  hatter 
by  ruining  his  own  digestion.  Sir  Joseph  Hawley,  soon  after  he  had  netted 
about  ,£80,000  in  bets  on  Beadsman,  made  a  vigorous  sermon  against  the  evils  of 
heavy  wagering.  This  was  not  the  Admiral's  way.  Nothing  enraged  the  old 
gentleman  so  much  as  the  reports  of  Mr.  Merry's  colossal  win  over  Thormanby, 
or  the  huge  sums  that  passed  to  Mr.  Naylor  or  Mr.  Chaplin  about  Macaroni 
or  Hermit.  He  even  wanted  to  expel  a  man  from  the  Jockey  Club  who  won 

more  than  .£50,000  on 
a  single  race.  But  when 
they  tried  to  bring  a 
"  Pari  Mutuel  "  machine 
to  the  Newmarket 
Craven  meeting,  he 
ordered  it  off  the  heath. 
Often  as  he  went  to 
extremes  himself  in  his 
letters  to  the  Times,  he 
knew  very  well  how  to 
avoid  them  when  it  came 
to  legislating  for  the 
Turf  he  loved  so  well. 
As  was  justly  said  at  the 

presentation  made  to  him  in  Willis's  rooms  on  Waterloo  Day,  1866,  "  He  has 
always  done  his  best  to  repress  everything  of  a  fraudulent  and  dishonourable 
nature.  He  has  laboured  to  reconcile  conflicting  interests,  ...  he  has  enjoyed  the 
respect  and  affection  of  every  class  of  the  racing  community.  ...  If  Admiral  Rous 
should  retire,  he  will  leave  a  void  impossible  to  fill."  Just  eleven  years  afterwards 
the  old  Dictator  died,  and  the  void  is  not  filled  yet.  But  the  traditions  of 
honourable  service  he  left  behind  him  are  still  the  foundations  of  the  prosperity  of 
racing.  It  was  Lord  Granville  who  spoke  the  words  I  have  just  quoted — that 
Minister  for  Foreign  Affairs  who  took  part  in  the  debate  on  Lord  Redesdale's  Bill 
by  saying  that  "  De  minimis  non  curat  lex,"  which  may  be  not  inaptly  translated, 


"  Catherine  Hayes  "  fy  "  Latter  cost"  (1850). 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


495 


"  You  cannot  legislate  for  featherweights  ;  "  and  while  there  are  still  statesmen  who 
can  find  time  to  give  consideration  to  the  recreations  of  the  people  and  the  improve- 
ment of  horsebreeding,  the  best  interests  of  the  Turf  will  be  safe.  The  only  man 
who  has  ever,  I  think,  started  two  Derby  winners  in  the  same  race,  at  any  rate  in  our 
time,  was  Lord  Rosebery,  a  Prime  Minister.  The  only  owner  except  Lord  Grosvenor 
who  ever  won  the  Derby  with  two  colts  by  the  same  sire  and  clam  was  His  Majesty 
King  Edward  VII.  when  Prince  of  Wales.  The  best  stallion  now  alive  is  owned  by 
the  Duke  of  Portland,  Master  of  the  Horse,  to  whom  this  third  volume  is  dedicated. 
A  sport  that  is  under  the  patronage 
of  the  highest  and  best  in  the  land  is 
never  likely  to  fall  far  below  the  ideals 

- 

^c^S,  . 

which  they  have  set  for  it. 

"  Let  no  man  who  has  no  need," 
wrote  Greville,  in  May,  1833,  "who 
is  not  in  danger  of  losing  all  he  has, 
and  is  not  obliged  to  grasp  at  every 
chance,  make  a  book  on  the  Derby. 
While  the  fever  it  excites  is  raging, 
I  can  neither  read  nor  write  nor 
occupy  myself  with  anything  else." 
It  was  in  this  year  that  the  nervous 
and  somewhat  pessimistic  Clerk  of 
the  Council  was  staying  at  the  Oaks, 
"  where  Lord  Stanley  kept  house  for 


k 


The  Fourteenth  Earl  of  Derby. 


the  first,  and  probably  (as  the  house  is 
for  sale)  for  the  last,  time."  Greville 
had  seen  his  first  Derby,  when  barely 
fifteen,  in  1809,  and  twelve  years  afterwards  he  was  managing  the  Duke  of  York's 
stable.  When  the  royal  stud  was  sold,  he  went  to  his  uncle  the  Duke  of  Portland, 
and  then  became  confederate  with  Lord  Chesterfield,  and  Mr.  Payne  was  another 
with  whom  he  went  into  partnership  later  on.  Alarm  and  Mango  were  his  favourite 
horses,  and  in  the  latter's  Leger  he  writes  that  young  Sam  Day  "  sent  his  horse 
through  with  such  a  terrific  rush  that  his  breeches  were  nearly  torn  off  his  boots, 
and  won  by  a  neck."  When  the  jockey  was  so  badly  hurt,  Greville  expressed  his 
opinion  of  him  with  greater  feeling  than  was  his  wont.  "  The  boy  himself,"  he 


A    HISTORY   Of  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

records,  in  October,  1838,  "died  like  a  hero,  with  a  firmness,  courage,  and  cheerful- 
ness which  would  have  been  extolled  to  the  skies  in  some  conspicuous  character  on 
whom  the  world  has  been  accustomed  to  gaze,  but  which  in  the  poor  jockey-boy 
passed  unheeded  and  unknown,  and  it  is  only  the  few  as  obscure  as  himself  who 
witnessed  his  last  moments  who  are  aware  that,  wherever  his  bones  rest — 

'In  that  neglected  spot  is  laid 
A  heart  once  pregnant  with  celestial  fire.' " 

For  thirty  or  forty  years  the  famous  house  near  Epsom  where  Greville  was 
staying  in  1833  had  been  "the  resort  of  all  our  old  jockeys,"  and  then  it  was 
occupied  by  the  sporting  portion  of  the  Government.  Here  is  the  Secretary's 
catalogue  of  guests :  "  Lord  Grey  and  his  daughter,  Duke  and  Duchess  of 
Richmond,  Lord  and  Lady  Errol,  Althorp,  Graham,  Uxbridge,  Charles  Grey,  Duke 
of  Grafton,  Lichfield,  and  Stanley's  brothers.  It  passed  off  very  well — racing  all 
the  morning,  an  excellent  dinner,  and  whist  and  blind  hookey  all  the  evening.  It 
was  curious  to  see  Stanley.  Who  would  believe  they  beheld  the  orator  and 
statesman,  only  second,  if  second,  to  Peel  in  the  House  of  Commons,  and  on 
whom  the  destiny  of  the  country  depends?  There  he  was  as  if  he  had  no 
thoughts  but  for  the  Turf,  full  of  the  horses,  interest  in  the  lottery,  eager, 
blunt,  noisy,  good-humoured,  '  has  meditans  nugas  et  totus  in  illis  ; '  at  night 
equally  devoted  to  play,  as  if  his  fortune  depended  on  it.  Thus  can  a  man  relax 
whose  existence  is  devoted  to  great  objects  and  serious  thoughts." 

It  may  be  added  to  Greville's  reflections  that  it  is  on  just  such  relaxation  that 
the  most  hard-working  men  depend,  not  only  for  attaining  "serious  thoughts," 
but  even  for  keeping  a  hold  upon  "  existence." 

Twenty  years  afterwards  Greville  noted  a  similarly  pleasant  party  at  Goodwood. 
"  Glorious  weather,"  he  wrote,  "  and  the  whole  thing  very  enjoyable ;  a  vast  deal 
of  great  company  :  Duke  of  Cambridge,  Duke  of  Mecklenburg,  Duke  of  Parma, 
Duke  of  Saxe- Weimar,  father  of  Prince  Edward.  Derby  was  there — not  in  his 
usual  uproarious  spirits,  chaffing  and  laughing  from  morning  till  night,  but  more 
sedate  than  is  his  wont."  It  is  even  more  interesting  to  compare  Greville's 
account  of  the  political  situation  in  which  all  that  racing  party  were  so  interested, 
in  1852,  with  the  politics  of  1902.  The  rtsumt  of  fifty  years  ago  was,  "roughly, 
about  300  Derbyites,  thoroughgoing  supporters  ;  50  or  60  that  cannot  be  reckoned 
as  belonging  to  either  party  ;  and  the  rest  divided  into  various  sections  of  opposition 
and  greatly  at  variance  with  each  other,  except  in  a  common  sentiment  of  aversion 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


497 


and  determined  hostility  to  the  Government."  It  is  strange  how  such  history 
repeats  itself,  even  to  the  detail  of  an  ex-Prime  Minister,  once  famous  on  the  Turf, 
making  brilliant  but  impractical  speeches  in  the  country  and  the  House  of  Lords. 

As  the  grandson  of  the  twelfth  earl,  who  gave  his  name  to  the  greatest  race 
in  the  world,  Lord  Derby  was  bound  not  only  to  be  "the  Rupert  of  Debate," 
but  also  to  train  racehorses  for  his  own  pleasure  and  the  improvement  of  the  breed. 
He  never  won  either  Derby  or  St.  Leger ;  but  out  of  the  243  horses  John  Scott 
trained  for  him,  54  won  over  ,£94,000  in  stakes,  which  cleared  all  his  expenses 
for  the  twenty-one  years  he  raced.  In  those  days  of  small  stakes  comparatively 
few  owners  could  do  so  much  without  betting  largely,  even  if  the  Oaks,  the 
Two  Thousand,  a 
Doncaster  Cup,  a 
Cesarewitch,  and  two 
Goodwood  Cups  were 
amongst  the  spoils. 
Lord  Derby  hated 
unprincipled  gambling 
quite  as  much  as 
Admiral  Rous ;  and 
when  the  Jockey  Club 
seemed  negligent 

about  their  duties,  he 
roused    them   with   an 

indignant    letter    that  « Surplice "  and " 

made    them    warn    off 

the  Turf  a  scoundrel  named  James  Adkins,  who  owned  racehorses  and  kept  loaded 
dice  at  a  gambling  hell  in  Albemarle  Street. 

Lord  Derby's  best  animal  was  the  mare  Canezou,  who  ran  second  to  Surplice 
for  the  Leger,  and  his  prettiest  was  Itkuriel,  whose  statuette  was  placed  on  the 
Goodwood  Cup  of  1845.  Long  after  he  had  given  up  racing  for  politics  and 
literature,  his  greatest  pleasure  was  a  walk  round  the  Knowsley  paddocks  among 
the  foals  and  yearlings  ;  and  in  spite  of  all  the  brilliant  conversations  he  must 
have  enjoyed  with  the  best  men  and  women  in  Europe,  his  visits  to  Whitewall 
to  talk  horse  with  John  Scott  were  among  the  things  he  would  most  have  missed 
in  a  full  and  strenuous  life. 

VOL.   III.  F 


498 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


There  have  been  many  famous  politicians  on  the  Turf,  some  of  whom  I  have 
tried  to  sketch  in  these  pages ;  but  it  may  be  doubted  whether  any  was  more 
popular  than  Lord  Palmerston,  who  became  Secretary  of  War  when  he  was  five 
and  twenty,  and  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  respect  of  nearly  every  section  of  his 
countrymen  before  he  died  as  Prime  Minister  and  was  buried  in  Westminster 
Abbey.  It  might  be  difficult  to  manage  affairs  now  as  he  did  then  ;  but  his 
undoubted  pluck  and  his  downright  refusal  to  allow  his  country  to  be  "put  upon" 
strongly  appealed  to  the  Briton  of  the  day,  who  lived  a  simpler  life  and  faced 

less  complicated*-  issues  than  do  we. 
His  first  hit  on  the  Turf  was  Luz- 
borough,  who  swept  the  west  country 
of  every  plate  for  which  he  entered, 
and  finally  became  a  successful  sire 
of  cavalry  chargers  in  Virginia.  The 
pronunciation  of  his  Iliona  furnished 
many  a  controversy  among  his  friends 
until  the  famous  Dr.  Whewell  sent 
word  from  Cambridge  that  the  o  was 
short.  Black  and  All  Slack,  Foxbury, 
and  Grey  leg  were  names  that  smacked 
more  of  the  old-fashioned  Turf,  and 
Bttckthorn  was  perhaps  the  best  of 
all,  a  nice  type  of  Venison  colt,  who 
stayed  as  well  as  his  father,  and  won 
at  Lord  Palmerston's  favourite  pro- 
vincial meeting,  Tiverton.  But  it  was 
the  race  for  the  Ascot  Stakes  of  1853 

which  will  always  be  remembered  about  this  horse  ;  for  in  a  field  of  thirteen  he  was 
giving  King  Pippin — a  four-year-old  like  himself — very  nearly  2st.  Alfred  Day 
(William's  brother)  lay  so  far  behind  his  horses  that  less  than  a  mile  from  home  none 
of  the  spectators  thought  anything  of  his  chance.  But  he  crept  up  round  the  bend, 
and,  coming  with  a  rush  at  the  distance,  he  won  by  half  a  length,  amid  great  applause 
from  the  public  and  the  smart  spectators  in  the  stands.  But  Buckthorn  never 
got  over  it,  and  would  never  have  won  at  all  but  for  his  very  great  superiority 
over  the  other  horses,  whom  he  managed  to  beat  in  spite  of  lying  as  far  out 


\ 


The  Third  Viscount  Palmerston. 


SOME  EARLY  VICTORIAN  OWNERS  499 

of  his  ground  as  Fisherman  or  Jitlius  when  they  were  defeated  for  that  very 
reason  at  Stockbridge.  Buckthorn  did  not  run  so  well  again,  so  it  was  probably 
with  Iliona  that  Lord  Palmerston's  racing  name  was  chiefly  connected  in  the 
public  mind.  For  this  smart  daughter  of  Priam  beat  eight  others  for  the 
Southampton  Stakes  in  1842  when  all  were  placed,  and  Retriever,  who  was 
second,  won  the  Goodwood  Stakes  the  week  after.  This  was  lucky  for  a  cheap 
purchase  at  Tattersall's  which  had  only  been  "one  of  Lord  George's  cast-offs;" 
and  she  won  Lord  Palmerston's  first  Cesarewitch  as  well. 

Abstemious  enough  in  eating  and  drinking,  Lord  Palmerston  could  do  more 
work  than  most  men  when  he  liked,  and  would  stand  at  a  high  table  and  write 
from  ten  o'clock  at  night  till  two  in  the  morning,  without  running  any  risk 
of  losing  the  reputation  as  "  Cupid  "  of  which  he  was  secretly  a  little  proud.  He 
would  gallop  over  from  Broadlands  to  Danebury  at  such  a  pace  that  he  had 
to  go  round  the  yard  once  or  twice  before  pulling  up,  in  dark  trousers  and  an 
unbuttoned  coat  flying  in  the  wind.  "Such  capital  exercise! "he  would  exclaim, 
galloping  off  again  the  moment  he  had  seen  the  horses  and  thrown  a  word  to 
old  John  Day.  But  when  the  trainer  got  past  the  policeman  and  found  Sir 
William  Codrington  in  the  House  of  Commons,  Lord  Palmerston  left  the  Irish 
debate  at  once,  and  came  out  to  shake  hands  with  him,  saying,  in  answer  to 
his  congratulations  on  the  Premiership,  "Thanks,  John;  I  have  won  my  Derby." 
In  1859  he  quite  thought  "the  real  thing"  was  in  his  grasp  at  last;  but 
Mainstone  was  not  placed.  As  Lord  Derby  said  at  Tattersall's  just  before  the 
race,  on  the  day  after  the  Derby  Cabinet  had  been  beaten  in  a  division  on  the 
Address,  "Two  wins  in  one  week  would  be  too  much."  The  political  rivals  were 
always  good  friends  on  the  Turf;  but  Lord  Palmerston  may  not  have  denied 
himself  a  quiet  chuckle  when  he  saw  that  Cape  Flyaway  did  no  better  at  Epsom 
than  his  own  colt.  The  last  thoroughbred  he  owned  (Baldwin  by  Rataplan]  he 
sent  over  to  the  stud  of  Lord  Naas  in  Ireland  ;  and  this  reminds  me  that  when 
the  fellow-citizens  of  Palmer  the  poisoner  came  to  ask  him  whether  the  name 
of  their  town  might  be  changed,  in  consequence  of  the  evil  notoriety  which  that 
cold-blooded  scoundrel  had  brought  upon  it,  he  suggested  that  if  they  desired  to 
be  complimentary  they  might  call  it  Palmerston. 

On  May  nth,  1856,  Lord  Chief  Justice  Campbell,  Baron  Alderson,  and 
Mr.  Justice  Cresswell  tried  William  Palmer,  aged  31,  surgeon,  of  Rugeley, 
Staffordshire,  for  the  wilful  murder  of  John  Parsons  Cook,  at  the  Central  Criminal 


500 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Court  in  London.  The  Attorney-General,  Mr.  Edwin  James,  O.C.,  Mr.  Welsby, 
Mr.  Bodkin,  and  Mr.  Huddleston  were  for  the  prosecution.  The  florid  and 
portly  prisoner,  defended  by  Mr.  Serjeant  Shee,  Mr.  Grove,  O.C.,  Mr.  Gray, 
and  Mr.  Kenealy,  kept  perfectly  cool  throughout,  sending  slips  of  paper  every 
now  and  then  to  his  solicitor  and  counsel  for  their  instruction.  But  Sir  Alexander 
Cockburn's  reply  was  fatal.  "  It  was  the  riding  that  did  it,"  remarked  the  prisoner, 
calmly,  as  he  left  the  dock  for  the  scaffold,  tripping  on  his  toes  with  rather  a  cat- 
like gait,  and  moving  his  body  and  head  from  side  to  side  as  if  in  search 
of  approbation. 

The  Turf  is  not  all  sunshine,  and   my  sketch   of  it  would  be  incomplete  were 

there  not  some  shadows 
to  throw  up  the  light. 
The  tale  of  Palmer  must 
not  be  taken,  fortunately, 
as  typical  of  many  others. 
But  it  is  suggestive  of 
the  terrible  results  that 
may  ensue  when  the 
wrong  man  takes  up 
racing,  becomes  reckless, 
and  finally  leaves  so 
deep  a  stain  upon  the 
noble  sport  he  has  dis- 
honoured that  unthink- 
ing faddists  attribute  to 

the  Turf  itself  the  whole  of  his  rascality.  This,  however,  is  in  fact  the  result 
of  an  ingrained  scoundrelism  that  would  have  blackened  just  as  foully  every  sphere 
of  life  with  which  it  might  have  come  in  contact. 

When  John  Osborne  first  met  Palmer,  he  thought  him  "  a  nice  sort  of  fellow 
to  speak  to."  The  Rugeley  surgeon  was  running  Doubt  in  a  handicap  which  old 
John  won  with  Alp.  This  was  one  of  his  first  horses,  and  his  Turf  career 
commenced  successfully  enough.  Very  few  people  suspected  what  the  end  would 
be.  As  a  boy  of  twelve  he  inherited  ,£7,000,  as  his  part  of  the  fortune  which  his 
father  had  accumulated  as  a  timber  merchant ;  and  he  first  learnt  the  use  of 
strychnine  as  a  student  at  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital,  whence  he  passed  into  a 


"  Blink  Bonny"  by  "  Melbourne"  (1854). 


SOME   EARLY    VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


501 


good  practice  as  a  surgeon  at  Rugeley.  Hitherto  there  had  been  nothing 
remarkable  about  him  except  that  the  naturally  amiable  disposition  of  a  child 
had  occasionally  been  obscured  by  cruel  experiments  upon  animals.  He  married  the 
daughter  of  an  Indian  officer  with  a  small  property  of  her  own,  and  of  his  five 
children  all  but  the  eldest  died  in  convulsions  a  few  weeks  after  their  birth.  His 
wife's  own  income  was  only  to  last  her  lifetime,  so  he  insured  her  life  for  ,£13,000, 
and  nine  months  afterwards  she  was  dead.  Within  another  three  months  he  was 
trying  to  effect  heavy  insurances  on  the  life  of  his  brother,  a  confirmed  drunkard, 


"Virago  "  by  "  Pyrrhtis  the  First  "  (1851). 

to  the  enormous  extent  of  ,£80,000.  Meanwhile  he  lived  handsomely;  for  in  1851 
he  cleared  nearly  ,£4,000  over  DoiMs  victory  in  the  Leamington  Stakes  ;  he  then 
netted  ,£3,000  with  Goldfindcr  in  the  Shrewsbury  Handicap,  more  at  Wolverhampton, 
and  nearly  ,£7,000  at  Warwick,  all  on  the  same  horse.  At  Manchester  he  won  again 
with  Trickstress,  and  Doubt  did  even  better  in  the  autumn.  His  genuine  love  of 
racing  then  degenerated  into  a  passion  for  gambling,  which  was  not  satisfied  with  his 
own  horses,  but  extended  to  backing  other  people's.  His  agents  began  to  hedge  ; 
the  bookmakers  laid  him  less  than  market  price  ;  the  money-dealers  got  their  hands 


502  A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

upon  him  too.  Even  Doubfs  sterling  performances  failed  to  counterbalance  the 
defeat  of  the  over-raced  Goldfender  in  1852.  But  in  the  following  year,  when  things 
looked  blackest,  he  landed  the  Chester  Cup  and  nearly  .£15,000,  and  in  1854  he 
bought  Nettle  with  the  insurance  money  procured  by  the  murder  of  his  wife.  An 
"accident"  happened  to  the  mare  in  the  race  for  the  Oaks,  which  broke  Marlow's 
leg,  and  was  evidently  no  fault  of  her  jockey.  Chicken,  which  he  purchased  at  the 
same  time,  seemed  equally  tainted  by  that  terrible  origin.  His  defeat  in  the 
Leamington  Stakes  was  a  crushing  blow.  He  was  still  a  boon  companion  with 
many  on  the  Turf,  considered  to  be  good-natured  from  his  readiness  to  take 
5  to  2  for  the  sake  of  a  bet  when  other  people  were  getting  4  to  i.  He  had  a 
queer  habit  of  drinking  his  brandy  and  water  in  one  gulp,  and  recommending  his 
friends  to  do  the  same.  It  was  only  a  little  later  that  they  suddenly  became  shy 
of  doing  so. 

Since  his  losses  in  1854,  Palmer  had  been  held  fast  in  the  clutch  of  the  money- 
lenders. One  of  them,  Pratt,  gradually  became  more  and  more  pressing.  A  friend 
named  Cook,  who  had  given  up  a  solicitor's  business  to  invest  a  legacy  of  £10,000 
in  a  racing  partnership  with  Palmer,  had  been  of  all  the  help  he  could,  eventually 
assigning  two  of  his  own  horses,  Polestar  and  S iritis,  as  collateral  security  for 
a  loan.  The  day  before  Polestar  won  at  Shrewsbury,  Pratt  wrote  to  Palmer  that 
£i 1,500  in  bills  would  have  to  be  met.  Cook  was  poisoned  the  night  after  the  race, 
with  about  £700  in  his  pocket,  and  transactions  in  his  betting  book  showing  about 
;£  1,000  more  to  his  credit  on  the  settling  day  at  Tattersall's,  which  he  was  never  to 
see.  Before  the  poor  man  died,  Palmer  had  gone  up  to  London  to  see  to  the 
collection  of  Cook's  bets,  but  returned  in  time  to  complete  his  horrible  work,  and  did 
his  best  to  render  the  post-mortem  examination  useless,  to  upset  the  jar  containing 
the  hideous  evidences  of  his  crime,  and  to  bribe  the  coroner.  But  he  was  lodged  in 
Stafford  Gaol,  and  during  his  sojourn  there  it  was  found,  from  an  examination  of  his 
wife's  body,  that  she  had  been  slowly  killed  with  antimony. 

The  sale  of  his  stud  after  his  execution  naturally  attracted  a  great  deal  of 
attention,  and  it  realized  £3,906.  The  Chickens  name  was  appropriately  changed 
to  Vengeance  after  Lord  Portsmouth  bought  him,  and  he  beat  Mr.  Snewing's  Polestar 
for  the  Cesarewitch  in  a  common  canter.  If  ever  a  racecourse  was  haunted  it  must 
have  been  on  the  day  when  the  dead  poisoner's  horse,  bought  with  the  money  paid 
for  his  wife's  murder,  beat  the  animal  which  had  once  belonged  to  another  of  his 
victims,  in  that  famous  race.  His  brown  colt  by  Sir  Hercules  was  afterwards  known 


VI 


SOME  EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


503 


as  Gemma  di  Vergy,  who  won  thirteen  out  of  his  eighteen  races  as  a  two-year-old, 
six  out  of  eleven  as  a  three-year-old,  and  once  beat  Fisherman. 

It  is  relief  to  turn  to  a  very  different  racecourse,  and  a  very  different  owner,  in 
taking  the  Earl  of  Eglinton  as  another  type  of  the  great  racing  figures  of  this  period. 
Few  more  picturesque  figures  than  the  young  master  of  Eglinton  Castle  were  to 
be  seen  in  the  society  of  the  first  years  of  Queen  Victoria's  reign.  The  Tournament 
by  which  he  strove  to  revive  the  glories  of  a  bygone  chivalry  made  his  name  famous 
wherever  the  tongue  of  Walter  Scott  was  known  and  loved.  The  victories  of 
Bhie  Bonnet,  Van  Tromp,  and  The  Flying  Dutchman:  -spread  -its  glory  even  further, 
and  will  keep  it  fresh  while  there  is  turf  upon  the  moors  of  Doncaster.  Lord 
Eglinton's  first  win  was 
with  Bathsheba  for  the 
Ayr  Plate  in  1831,  and 
old  George  Dawson, 
father  of  the  famous 
quartette,  afterwards 
trained  the  thorough- 
breds which  that  victory 
inspired  him  to  obtain. 
St.  Benet  and  St.  Martin 
had  too  strong  a  rival  in 
the  mighty  Lanercost  to 
do  all  they  might  have 
done  in  weaker  years  ; 
but  St.  Benet  won  the 

Liverpool  Cup  of  1838  in  smashing  style,  and  carried  confusion  into  the  Irish 
camp  by  beating  Mr.  Thomas  Ferguson's  famous  Harkaway  (who  had  to  give 
him  islb.)  after  a  desperate  finish  by  a  neck.  Hark&way  was  classed  by  the 
late  Joseph  Osborne  with  Ormonde,  as  the  best  pair  of  racehorses  he  had  ever 
seen,  and  I  have  already  had  to  mention  Harkaivays  breeding  and  appearance 
on  p.  318  of  my  second  volume.  Known  as  "the  Irish  Eclipse"  he  secured  a  firm 
reputation-  in~Englandvas  well,  by^vimntng  the  Goodwood  Cup  two  years  running 
in  1838  and  1839,  and  he  is  no  doubt  easily  sure  of  a  place  among  the  twenty  best 
horses  of  his  century.  Four  years  after  his  defeat  had  so  vigorously  encouraged 
Lord  Eglinton  in  his  racing  career,  Tom  Dawson  was  showing  his  patron  "the 


"  Gemma  di  Vergy"  by  "  Sir  Hercules? 


504 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


winner  of  the  St.  Leger  "  in  a  loose  box  at  Doncaster.  It  was  a  mare  in  perfect 
condition;  her  coat  shone  "like  burnished  rosewood,"  and  she  looked  fit  to  run 
for  a  kingdom.  To  his  astonishment,  Lord  Eglinton,  who  had  come  down  from 
his  moors  to  Doncaster  the  Saturday  before  the  great  race,  learnt  that  she  was  his 
own  Blue  Bonnet,  a  mare  who  had  gone  amiss  for  all  her  engagements  hitherto, 
travelled  hundreds  of  miles  without  ever  facing  the  starter,  and  had  been  practically 
banished  from  his  lordship's  mind  as  a  racing  possibility.  But  when  Dawson  told 
him  that  she  had  twice  been  successfully  tried  against  Charles  XII.,  he  went  out  to 
the  betting-rooms  and  took  .£10,000  to  .£150  about  her  with  William  Crockford, 
,£10,000  to  £200  with  another,  and  ,£10,000  to  ,£300  the  next  day.  She  won 

by  a  length,  and  Tommy 
Lye,  who  had  a  good 
deal  on  himself,  spurred 
her  cruelly  in  his  excite- 
ment. In  1844  Lord 
Eglinton  sent  his  stud 
to  Fobert,  and  the  next 
year  bought  a  brown 
yearling  by  Lancrcost 
out  of  Barbellc  without 
knowing  much  about 
him.  Charles  Greville 
and  Colonel  Anson  ap- 
praised him  at  £300,  with 
an  additional  £500  for 

contingencies.  As  Van  Tromp  the  colt  attracted  wider  attention  by  his  two-year-old 
victories,  and  Lord  George  Bentinck  stood  to  win  £20,000  on  him  for  the  Derby. 
Job  Marson  was  highly  indignant  at  being  dismissed  for  not  winning  at  Epsom  ; 
but  it  is  undoubtedly  true  that  Van  Tromp  beat  his  former  conqueror,  Cossack,  for 
the  St.  Leger  in  a  canter,  and  Job  had  to  wait  for  his  revenge  on  Voltigcur. 
Meanwhile,  Lord  Eglinton's  luck  went  on  increasing.  He  had  promised  Mr. 
Vansittart  1,000  guineas  for  every  perfectly  formed  foal  from  Barbette,  and 
in  1846  she  promptly  rewarded  him  with  The  Flying  Dutchman,  who  was 
unbeaten  as  a  two-year-old,  and  did  not  run  next  year  until  he  won  the  Derby,  after 
an  inexplicably  close  race  with  an  outsider  called  Hotspur.  He  won  the  St.  Leger 


"  Andover"  by  "Bay  A  fiddle  ton  "  (1851). 


SOME   EARLY    VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


505 


too,  and  his  only  defeat  in  sixteen  races  came  from  the  son  of  Voltaire  and 
Martha  Lynn,  who  was  foaled  a  year  later  than  himself.  Lord  Zetland's  Voltigezir 
thoroughly  delighted  the  Yorkshiremen  with  his  brilliant  Derby  victory  of  1850, 
which  cost  "  Leviathan "  Davies  about  .£50,000.  The  scene  at  that  year's 
St.  Leger  was  a  remarkable  one.  To  the  dismay  of  all  the  Tykes,  within  the  last 
hundred  yards  an  outsider  named  Russborough  crept  up  to  their  favourite's  girths 
when  all  the  field  seemed  beaten.  Neck  and  neck  they  raced  to  the  post  ;  head 
to  head  they  flashed  past  the  judge's  box ;  there  was  an  interval  of  terrible 
suspense ;  then  it  was  known  that 
the  Irishman  had  made  a  dead  heat 
of  it.  Bobby  Hill,  who  had  trained 
Lord  Zetland's  crack,  looked  as  if 
he  would  never  get  over  it.  Those 
who  looked  on  then  would  barely 
have  believed  that  the  colt's  owner 
had  almost  struck  him  out  of  the 
Derby,  and  that  Sir  William  Milner, 
who  held  Billy  Williamson's  opinion 
of  his  excellence,  had  himself  sent 
the  ^400  to  Messrs.  Weatherby  on 
the  last  Monday,  in  order  at  least 
to  ensure  getting  a  run  for  the 
.£  1 0,000  to  .£150  he  had  taken  about 
Voltigeur  with  Lord  Enfield,  after- 
wards Earl  Strafford.  He  was  a  dark 
brown,  rather  above  15.3  in  height, 
without  a  spot  of  white  except  a 
little  on  the  off  hind  foot.  His  rather  coarse  and  large  head  was  held  by  a 
very  muscular,  stallion-like  neck.  His  shoulders  were  very  fine  and  sloping, 
with  powerful  quarters  drooping  towards  a  somewhat  shabby  tail,  muscular 
thighs,  good  hocks,  and  plenty  of  bone.  Russborough  was  a  dark  chestnut, 
rather  like  his  celebrated  mother  Cruiskeen.  There  were  only  eight  starters. 
It  was  when  Marson  steadied  his  horse  halfway  up  the  distance,  the  pace  having 
been  made  very  hot  by  Beehunter,  that  Jem  Robinson  swooped  down  on  him 
like  a  hawk,  and  so  nearly  won.  There  was  some  talk  of  the  Irishman  being 

VOL.   III.  G 


Jem  Robinson. 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


four  years  old,  but  he  was  examined  and  quickly  pronounced  all  right.  A  big 
crowd  had  gathered  when  the  jockeys  dismounted,  but  it  was  nothing  to  the 
excitement  soon  after  five  o'clock  when  the  two  heroes  of  the  day  came  out  for  the 
decider.  Marson  looked  pale  but  determined.  Jem  Robinson  was  as  jaunty  as 
ever,  and  soon  showed  his  confidence  by  making  the  pace  a  cracker  from  the  start. 
Marson  waited  a  couple  of  lengths  behind,  and  lost  no  more  till  the  Red  House. 
As  "The  Druid"  wrote  next  day  in  the  Doncaster  Gazette,  "Into  the  straight 
Russborough  came  with  the  same  strong  lead,  Robinson  glancing  over  his  shoulder 
at  Marson,  who  sat  with  his  hands  well  down  on  his  horse's  withers,  and  as 
cool  as  an  iceberg.  The  vast  crowd  closed  in  upon  them,  and  the  roar  of  a 

hundred  thousand  iron 
voices  fairly  rent  the  air. 
'  Voltigeurs  beat ! '  and 
'  Is  'er  beat  ?  '  was  Bob 
Hill's  response.  'You 
maun't  tell  me  that ;  I 
knaws  'im  better.  Job's 
a-coming  !  '  And  sure 
enough  Job,  halfway 
within  the  distance, 
slipped  a  finger  off  his 
rein,  gave  the  Derby 
winner  a  sharp  reminder 
with  his  spurs,  had  him 
at  RussborougK s  girths 

in  the  next  three  strides,  and  landed  him  home  a  clever  winner  by  a  length. 
The  hurrahs  that  greeted  horse  and  jockey  as  they  returned  to  the  stand  were 
perfectly  deafening,  and  became,  if  possible,  louder  when  the  Countess  of  Zetland 
descended  with  her  husband  and  patted  the  conqueror's  neck."  Bob  Hill's  roar 
of  "  Ar  tauld  ye  so ! "  might  have  been  heard  at  Bawtry  as  he  butted  his 
way  through  the  crowd  like  a  bull  to  get  to  his  horse's  head,  and  the  air  was 
thick  with  hats  and  the  spotted  handkerchiefs  that  symbolised  Lord  Zetland's 
triumph.  It  is  said  that  every  housemaid  at  Aske  had  put  her  last  quarter's 
wages  on  the  brown,  and  even  the  fielders  cheered  a  victory  that  was  of  the 
right,  sort. 


"  Voltigeur"  and  "  The  Flying  Dutchman." 


SOME  EARLY  VICTORIAN  OWNERS.  507 

Voltigeurs  trainer  did  not  know  quite  as  much  of  his  business  as  he  might 
have  done,  in  spite  of  his  enthusiasm  ;  and  he  was  actually  going  to  put  the  colt 
into  a  stable,  give  him  a  feed  of  corn,  and  let  him  rest  after  the  first  race.  Luckily, 
one  of  the  horse's  backers,  unable  to  make  any  impression  on  the  excited  trainer, 
saw  John  Scott  talking  to  Sir  William  Milner.  The  verdict  was  instantaneous. 
"  Keep  him  walking  about  the  whole  time  until  he  runs  for  the  deciding  heat. 
That  was  what  I  did  with  Charles  XII.  after  he  had  run  a  dead  heat  with  Euclid 
eleven  years  ago."  Luckily,  the  advice  was  taken  ;  and  the  treatment  turned  out 
as  successful  as  it  had  done  before. 

Even  greater  was  the  excitement  on  Cup  Day,  when  Fobert  sent  Lord  Eglinton's 
Flying  Dutchman  to  do  battle  with  Lord  Zetland's  crack,  and  the  only  race  I  can 
compare  with  this  in  our  time  was  that  memorable  July  day  at  Sandown,  when 
Rock  Sand,  who  had  won  the  Derby,  ran  against  Sceptre,  the  best  mare  of  1902, 
and  Ard  Patrick,  who  had  beaten  her  in  the  only  one  of  the  five  classic  races 
she  had  lost.  Both  The  Flying  Dutchman,  who  carried  8st.  I2lb.,  and  was 
four  years  old,  and  the  three-year-old  Voltigeur,  who  ran  under  7st.,  had  won 
the  Derby  and  Leger  of  their  respective  years  ;  but  those  who  laid  6  to  i 
on  the  older  horse  could  not  have  known  of  the  tremendous  gallop  Fobert 
had  given  him  on  Thursday  over  the  Cup  Course.  For  the  first  time  in  his  life, 
The  Dutchman  refused  his  food  and  was  irritable  at  exercise.  Bobby  Hill's  ideas 
of  training  Voltigeur  had  been  that  when  his  neck  was  reduced  he  would  be  fittest  ; 
but  even  two  hoods  all  summer  could  not  do  that,  and  the  horse  would  sweat  week 
after  week  with  1 2-st.  lad  and  all  on  his  back,  until  his  trainer,  who  gum-bandaged 
nearly  every  horse  he  had,  could  say  proudly,  "His  legs  and  feet,  my  lord,  is 
like  hiron ; "  and  as  Doncaster  drew  near  the  only  phrase  that  would  express 
Bob's  feelings  was,  "  He's  going  tremendious  slap!  " 

Fobert,  however,  knew  enough  to  be  nervous,  and  warned  Marlow  to  wait 
on  the  three-year-old  till  they  had  got  round  the  Red  House  corner  and  were 
within  six  furlongs  of  home.  But  the  jockey  was  too  elated  to  remember  any 
instructions.  He  rushed  away,  and  passed  the  stand  for  the  first  time  at  a 
terrific  pace.  Nat  Flatman  rode  Lord  Zetland's  winner  beautifully,  and  waited  to 
close  with  his  rival  till  a  little  below  the  distance.  Marlow,  sobered  at  last 
with  sheer  excitement,  found,  to  his  unutterable  dismay,  that  all  the  steel  was  out 
of  his  horse,  and  Nat,  who  had  been  given  the  mount  because  Job  M arson  could 
not  ride  the  weight,  just  won  by  a  neck.  For  the  first  time,  and  the  only 


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A    HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


time,  The  Flying  Dutchman's  colours  were  lowered.  A  paralysis  of  astonishment 
fell  upon  the  crowd,  who  saw  the  giant  beaten  at  last.  The  backers  of  the 
Eglinton  tartan  stalked  to  and  fro  silent  as  marble  statues.  Marlow,  at  the 
weighing-house,  had  burst  into  a  flood  of  tears.  Lord  Eglinton,  pale  as  ashes 
himself,  was  trying  kindly  to  comfort  him.  In  the  distance  rose  the  joyful 
bellowing  of  Bobby  Hill  ;  and  not  a  Yorkshireman  in  Doncaster  apparently  went 
to  bed  that  night  at  all. 

So    close   a    finish    and    such    whole-hearted    partisanship    could    have    but    one 


"  Voltigeur"  by  "  Voltaire*  (1847). 

result.  Lord  Zetland  and  Lord  Eglinton  at  last  agreed  to  fight  their  battle 
again,  over  a  two-mile  course  at  the  York  Spring  Meeting  of  1861  for  a 
thousand  guineas,  The  Dutchman  to  concede  8£lb.  The  whole  of  sporting 
England  turned  out  to  see  the  match.  The  betting  was  even  almost  from 
the  day  the  race  had  been  announced  to  the  hour  they  went  to  the  post. 
Voltigeitr  made  the  running  this  time  over  heavy  going,  and  it  was  hoped  that 
The  Dutchman  would  emphasise  his  usual  dislike  for  dirt.  But  at  the  last  turn 
Marlow  brought  up  the  Eglinton  tartan,  and  they  tore  past  the  stands,  all  out. 


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locked    together    in    a   desperate    struggle    for    the    lead.      The   younger  gave    out 
first,  and    Voltigeiir  was  beaten  by  a  short  length. 

On  the  great  staircase  at 
Aske  there  hung  long  after- 
wards Sir  Edwin  Landseer's 
painting  of  Lord  Zetland's 
favourite,  as  large  as  life,  with 
his  head  down,  whispering 
soft  greetings  to  his  friend  the 
cat.  At  the  Horse  and  Hound 
Show  at  Middlesborough  in 
1860,  from  the  best  class  ever 
got  together  in  a  show-yard, 
he  won  the  ^"100  prize  as 
being  "  the  best  calculated  to 
improve  and  perpetuate  the 
breed  of  the  sound  and  stout 
thoroughbred  horse."  The 
judges  knew  their  business. 
His  son  Vedette  was  the  last 
horse  Job  Marson  rode  in 
public,  and  from  that  mighty 
line  have  sprung  the  best  sires 
of  the  modern  Turf. 

The  Flying  Dutchman  re- 
tired from  the  Turf  after  that 
glorious  contest  with  all  his 
honours  thick  upon  him,  and 
with  this  last  victory  Lord 
Eglinton  touched  the  high 

of      his      racing 

not    long    after- 
wards he  sold  his  stud  to  Sir 

John    Errington.      He   died   at  fifty,   of  a  sudden    stroke    of  apoplexy,   and   in  the 
zenith  of  his   bright  existence  there  can   scarcely   have  been  a  man  more  beloved 


water-mark 
career,     and 


By  permission  of  H.R.H.  Prince  Christian. 


George  Payne,  M.F.tf. 


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in  the  three  kingdoms  :  in  Ireland  for  his  munificence  and  hospitality  as  Viceroy  ; 
in  Scotland  for  his  burning  patriotism ;  in  England  as  the  soul  of  honour  in 
her  greatest  sport. 

George  Payne,  another  famous  Turfite,  though  a  very  different  man,  began  life 
with  prospects  almost  as  brilliant  as  those  of  Lord  Eglinton.  As  large-hearted, 
as  rich,  as  chivalrous,  as  talented,  "  G.  P."  gave  up  all  the  ambitions  which  had 
stirred  the  young  Montgomerie's  soul,  and  deliberately  devoted  life,  health,  and 
fortune  to  racing,  hunting,  and  cards.  Yet  he  never  did  a  thing  he  justly  could 
feel  ashamed  of,  and  he  was  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him,  from  the  Queen 
downwards.  A  man's  life  and  his  money  are,  after  all,  his  own.  George  Payne 

recognised      no      higher 

r  court,     nor     should     the 

reader     who     is     trying 
£%  ^j  to     imagine     him.       He 

"^^V.    .  ,*^^&^3     ^fl^ 

was  sent  down  from 
Christchurch,  and  he 
lost  ,£33,000,  when  he 
was  only  twenty,  over 
Jerry  s  Leger,  a  disaster 
he  took  with  all  Charles 
Fox's  coolness,  only 
retiring  to  bed  in  his 
Doncaster  lodgings  to 
avoid  giving  wiser  men 
the  pain  of  looking  at 

a  fool.  He  got  back  ,£12,000  of  it,  by  Mr.  Gully's  advice,  on  Memnon  the 
next  year.  Until  Charles  Greville  helped  him,  he  was  invariably  unlucky  with 
his  own  horses ;  and  he  thought  his  hair  was  turning  grey  when  his  mare 
Welfare,  backed  for  the  merest  trifle,  once  looked  like  beating  the  famous 
Crucifix,  on  whom  he  had  betted  thousands  for  the  Oaks.  One  of  his  best 
horses  never  carried  his  own  colours,  for  Lord  Glasgow  bequeathed  him  Musket, 
and  the  horse  always  ran  in  the  old  white  and  crimson.  When  Lord  Lyon 
won  the  Derby,  Payne  stood  to  win  nearly  ,£50,000  on  Lord  Ailesbury's  Savernake, 
and  Cremorne  wiped  out  almost  as  much  when  Pell  Mell  was  beaten  later 
on.  The  only  classic  victory  he  scored  was  the  One  Thousand  with  Clementina, 


By  permission  of  Leopold  de  Kothschild,  p.sq. 


'  Lord  Lyon." 


SOME  EARLY  VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


whom    he    had    reluctantly    bought    from    Lord    Jersey.       Probably    no    man    ever 
believed  so  many   "straight  tips,"  and  made  so  little  out  of  them.     Even  of  the 
results  of  his  trials  he  was  always  a  little  uncertain,  and  generally  disagreed  with  his 
confederate.      But  when  Greville,  who  did  not  invariably  do  quite  the  right  thing  by 
his  friends,   made  any  particularly  glaring  error,  it  was  always  George  Payne  who 
made  it  up.     There  has  been  something  pathetic  to  me  in  Greville's  descriptions  of 
a  pursuit  for  which  he  was  never  fitted  and  in  which  he  persistently  indulged.     "  My 
campaign  on  the  Turf,"  writes  the  suspiciously  introspective  secretary,  "  has  been  a 
successful  one.     Still  all  this  success 
has    not  prevented    frequent  disgust, 
and    I   derive   anything   but   unmixed 
pleasure  from  this  pursuit  even  when 
1    win   by  it.      Besides   the  continual 
disappointments  and  difficulties   inci- 
dent   to    it,   which    harass    the  mind, 
the    life  it  compels   me  to    lead,    the 
intimates  arising  out  of  it,  the  asso- 
ciates and  the  war  against  villany  and 
trickery,  being  haunted  by  continual 
suspicions,    discovering   the   trust-un- 
worthiness    of    one's    most    intimate 
friends,    the    necessity    of   insincerity 
and    concealment    sometimes    where 
one  feels  that  one  ought  and  would 
desire    to    be    most    open  ;    then    the 
degrading  nature  of  the  occupation, 
mixing  with  the  lowest  of  mankind, 
and  absorbed  in  the  business  for  the  sole  purpose  of  getting  money,  the  conscious- 
ness   of  a   sort    of    degradation    of   intellect,    the    conviction    of    the    deteriorating 
effects  upon  both  the  feelings  and  the  understanding  which  are  produced,  the  sort 
of  dram-drinking  excitement  of  it — all    these    things   and    these  thoughts  torment 
me  and  often  turn  my  pleasure  to  pain." 

A  man  who  thought  all  this  about  racing  would  have  earned  greater  respect 
from  me  had  he  given  it  up  ;  and  it  is  positively  refreshing  afterwards  to  hear 
George  Payne's  good-humoured  self-depreciation,  and  his  cheery  criticisms  of  a 


Henry,  Seventh  Dttke  of  Beaufort. 


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life  he  thoroughly  understood  and  never  regretted,  as  he  made  clear  to  every  one 
from  the  witness-box  in  the  famous  card-playing  libel  case,  when  Sir  John  Campbell 
managed  really  to  rouse  him.  It  was  this  bitter  barrister's  "  Lives  of  the  Lord 
Chancellors  "  which,  in  Lord  Brougham's  opinion,  added  another  terror  to  death  ; 
and  he  eventually  offered  Mr.  Payne  an  apology,  which  was  cheerfully  accepted. 
Of  "  G.  P.'s"  wonderful  games  at  dcartd,  in  Limmer's  Hotel,  or  in  a  post-chaise 
lost  in  the  New  Forest,  I  have  no  space  here  to  speak.  The  very  pickpockets 
stole  his  watch  with  consideration,  and  returned  it  in  the  certainty  of  getting  a 

ten-pound  note  each  time.  He  was  a 
master  of  the  Pytchley,  and  received 
a  magnificent  testimonial  from  the 
Northamptonshire  farmers  when  he 
resigned.  He  did  well  over  Tedding- 
tons  Derby,  and  was  equally  fortunate 
when  Scfton  won.  But  the  change 
of  luck  heralded  the  end.  Soon  after 
Kincsenis  victory  at  Goodwood  he 
died,  in  August,  1878,  having  refused 
to  shield  himself  with  an  umbrella 
from  the  burning  sun  at  Lewes. 

Another  famous  huntsman  in  the 
Midlands  was  that  George  Child 
Villiers  whose  name  will  ever  be 
associated  with  the  famous  Billesdon 
Coplow  Run  of  1800.  As  Earl  of 
Jersey  he  became  even  more  famous 
when  he  took  to  racing.  With  the 
daughter  of  Lord  Westmoreland  he  married  the  fortune  she  inherited  from  old 
Mr.  Child,  the  famous  banker  in  Fleet  Street,  whose  house  has  been  thus  indirectly- 
connected  with  the  History  of  the  Turf,  as  I  have  shown,  ever  since  the  clays 
of  Bernard  Howard  and  Nell  Gwynne.  When  the  husband  of  this  wealthy, 
accomplished,  and  influential  lady  began  breeding  thoroughbreds  at  Miclclleton 
Stoney,  there  were  those  who  remembered  that  in  a  family-tree  which  was  rich 
in  famous  and  beautiful  women  there  appeared  also  the  name  of  George,  Duke 
of  Buckingham,  who  owned  the  Helmslcy  Turk ;  and  these  foresaw  the  possibilities 


General  Peel. 


SOME  EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


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of  a  great  career,  if  sentiment  went  for  anything.  And  sentiment — that  most 
neglected,  and  most  powerful,  factor  in  the  world's  work  and  play — has  much  to  say 
with  horse-racing.  Fortune,  at  any  rate,  soon  smiled  upon  Lord  Jersey,  for  he  won 
the  Derby  three  times,  with  Middleton,  with  Mameluke,  and  with  Bay  Middleton. 
After  scoring  the  Two  Thousand  with  Riddleswortk  in  1831,  he  won  it  four  times 
running  from  1834  onwards  ;  and  he  never  ran  any  of  his  horses  as  a  two-year-old. 
He  died  in  1859,  and  in  spite  of  his  splendid  successes  he  was  nearly  half  a  million 
out  of  pocket  by  his  stud,  for  he  very  rarely  betted,  and  never  in  high  figures. 
Luckily  he  was  able  to  enjoy,  and  to  improve,  the  Turf,  without  it.  Twenty 
years  later  there  passed  away,  at  Marble  Hill,  Twickenham,  another  upright 
supporter  of  the  Turf, 
General  Peel,  the  firm 
friend  of  Admiral  Rous, 
Lord  Glasgow,  and 
George  Payne.  Brother 
of  the  famous  Prime 
Minister,  the  General 
made  almost  as  con- 
spicuous a  figure  in  the 
racing  world  as  Sir 
Robert  did  in  politics. 
He  began  in  1823  with 
John  Kent,  who  trained 
his  horses  with  those  of 
the  Duke  of  Richmond 

and  Lord  Stradbroke  at  Goodwood  ;  and  his  greatest  successes  were  with  Archibald 
in  the  Two  Thousand,  and  Orlando  in  the  Derby  of  1844,  a  race  which  will  always 
be  memorable  for  the  scandal  about  Running  Rein,  to  which  I  have  already  referred. 
His  trainers  later  on  were  Coope  and  Joseph  Dawson,  and  his  favourite  jockey  was 
Nat  Flatman;  and  his  last  win  was  the  Middle  Park  Plate  at  the  Newmarket 
Second  October  meeting  with  Peter,  the  appropriately  named  son  of  Hermit,  who 
also  recalled  his  owner's  friendship  with  Lord  Glasgow. 

We  have  met  with  some  lucky  men,  and  we  have  heard  of  many  rich  men  in  these 
pages.  But  for  a  man  to  take  to  racing  who  is  both,  and  that  in  large  measure, 
is  somewhat  extraordinary  even  in  the  moving  History  of  the  English  Turf  and 

VOL.  III.  H 


;  Beadsman  "  by  "  Weather  bit"  (1855). 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


its  supporters.  Like  several  others  that  could  be  named,  Sir  Joseph  Hawley,  of 
Ley  bourne  Grange,  did  not  burn  to  distinguish  himself  as  a  politician  in  the  House 
of  Commons,  and  deliberately  gave  up  his  excellent  chances  of  representing  Kent 
in  Parliament  in  order  to  add  the  names  of  Teddington,  Beadsman,  Musjid,  Blue 
Gown,  Aphrodite,  and  Mendicant  to  the  annals  of  the  English  Turf.  By  1844  he 
had  registered  the  "cherry  and  black  cap"  that  was  to  become  so  famous,  and 
he  won  the  Oaks  three  years  later.  His  first  Derby  victory,  with  a  horse  really 
the  property  of  his  friend,  who  was  afterwards  known  as  Sir  J.  Massey  Stanley 
Errington,  was  appropriately  timed  for  Exhibition  year,  when  the  enormous 
Epsom  crowd  was  swollen  by  a  huge  concourse  of  visitors  from  almost  every 

country  in  the  world. 
"Leviathan"  Davis  lost 
about  ,£100,000  when 
Teddington  came  in 
ahead  of  thirty -two  other 
starters,  and  Job  M arson 
his  jockey  got  ,£2,000 
from  the  lucky  owner. 
Aphrodite,  who  scored 
the  One  Thousand,  was 
beaten  for  the  Leger 
by  Newminster,  but  Sir 
Joseph  got  a  neat 
revenge  by  breeding 
Musjid,  another  Derby 

winner,  from  the  conqueror,  and  further  consoled  himself  by  compiling  a  larger  sum 
in  stakes  than  any  other  owner  that  same  year,  besides  a  quantity  of  heavy  bets. 
Teddington  only  cost  ,£250,  with  an  additional  ,£1,000  after  his  Derby  victory. 
Another  son  of  Orlando  won  the  Two  Thousand  for  Sir  Joseph  in  1858,  when 
"Tiny  Wells  "  also  secured  the  Derby  for  him  with  Beadsinan ;  and  it  seemed  as 
if  luck  could  go  no  further  when  Musjid  won  the  great  race  again  at  the  next  time 
of  asking.  In  1867  and  1868  the  winning  numbers  began  to  turn  up  again  as  fast 
as  ever  with  Green  Sleeve,  Rosicrucian,  Bhte  Gown,  his  fourth  Derby  winner, 
Pero  Gomez,  The  Palmer,  and  Wolsey  on  the  cards.  Blue  Goivn,  though  the  darling 
of  the  public,  was  never  a  favourite  with  "the  lucky  Baronet,"  who  gave  the  stakes 


"•Blue  Gown"  by  " Beadsman"  (1865). 


SOME   EARLY   VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 


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to  his  jockey,  and  never  won  a  shilling  on  the  horse.  It  may  well  have  been  true 
that  the  fact  of  Blue  Gown  having  been  disqualified  from  the  Champagne  Stakes 
as  a  two-year-old  for  carrying  nearly  9st.,  had  leaked  out,  and  given  every  one  else 
a  strong  line  as  to  his  real  merit.  In  1869  Pero  Gomes  won  the  St.  Leger,  and 
after  a  sensational  libel  case  with  the  Sporting  Times,  Sir  Joseph  Hawley  came  out 
as  a  Turf  reformer  on  the  lines  which  I  have  already  quoted.  His  condemnation 
of  two-year-old  racing  perhaps  created  a  greater  impression  of  sincerity  than  his 
tirade  against  plunging.  He  knew  a  good  deal  about  both  ;  but  a  congregation 
always  likes  a  grain  or  two  of  practice  in  the  most  eloquent  of  its  preachers. 

Another  famous  racing  man,  whose  career  almost  coincided  with  Sir  Joseph 
Hawley's,  was  James 
Merry,  of  Glasgow, 
owner  of  Chanticleer, 
Hobbie  Noble,  Thor- 
manby,  Dimdee,  Doncas- 
ter,  and  Marie  Stuart, 
with  that  canny  Lanca- 
shire lad,  Mr.  Frederick 
Swindell,  as  his  com- 
missioner. Both  were 
very  remarkable  cha- 
racters, and  both  made 
the  Turf  the  study  of 
their  lives  with  very  fair 
success  ;  for  if  "  Lord 

Freddy "  began  his  good  fortune  with  a  bet  on  Charles  XII.  for  the  Liverpool 
July  Cup  of  1839,  James  Merry  of  Belladrum  began  by  beating  Van  Tromp 
with  Chanticleer  in  1848,  and  never  looked  back.  It  was  entirely  owing  to 
Swindell's  detecting  a  plot  and  changing  the  jockey  at  the  last  minute  that 
Chanticleer  won  the  Goodwood  Stakes ;  and  this  good  horse  later  on  became 
the  sire  of  Ellermire,  Simbeam,  and  Ella,  dam  of  Formosa,  whose  sire  was 
Lord  Portsmouth's  Buccaneer.  The  Derby  of  1860  was  full  of  sensational  incidents 
and  heavy  betting.  Lord  Palmerston's  Mainstone  and  Mr.  R.  Ten  Broeck's 
Umpire  were  in  the  field.  Fred  Swindell  had  "put  it  all"  on  Wallace,  who  slipped 
on  to  his  nose  when  the  flag  fell,  only  to  win  ,£40,000  for  this  acute  Turfite  later 


"  Pero  Gomez  "  by  "  Beadsman  "  (1866). 


a 


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on  over  the  Goodwood  Stakes,  and  to  be  sold  after  the  Great  Northern  Handicap 
for  ,£5,000.  Fred  never  backed  "anything  that  could  talk,"  or  perhaps  Wallace 
might  have  let  out  the  fact  that  he  cost  less  than  ^100.  I  need  scarcely  add  that 
the  highly  popular  winner  of  that  1860  Derby  was  Mr.  Merry's  Thormanby,  one 
of  the  very  best  he  or  any  one  else  ever  owned.  His  Dundee  got  second  on  three 
legs  the  next  year,  and  his  Buckstone  was  third  to  Caractacus.  Mr.  Merry's  chief 
trainers  were  William  Day  and  Matthew  Dawson,  and  his  greatest  triumph  was 
in  1873,  when  he  won  the  Derby  with  Doncaster  and  the  Oaks  and  St.  Leger  with 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


"  Busybody  "  by  "  Petrarch  "  (1881). 


Marie   Stuart;    but    throughout    his    political    career    he    was    known    by    Lord 
Beaconsfield's  happy  appellation  of  "  The  Member  for   Thormanby" 

Mr.  Merry  would  have  added  the  Derby  of  1870  to  his  score  if  MacGregor  had 
not  broken  clown.  But  the  disaster  gave  Lord  Falmouth  his  first  Derby  with 
Kingcraft,  and  a  career  began  that  has  few  parallels  in  the  history  of  racing.  When 
the  "black  jacket,  white  sleeves,  and  red  cap"  were  seen  no  more  upon  the  Turf, 
Matthew  Dawson  and  Fred  Archer  presented  Lord  Falmouth  with  a  silver  shield  on 
which  were  inscribed  the  names  of  the  winners  of  two  Derbys,  three  Oaks,  three 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


St.  Legers,  three  One  Thousand  and  three  Two  Thousand  Guineas,  the  Champion 
and  the  Great  Challenge  Stakes,  all  trained  and  ridden  by  the  donors.  The 
trophy  did  high  credit  to  all  three,  and  Lord  Falmouth's  winning  record  from 
1872  to  1883  was  extraordinary  for  the  days  before  the  "ten  thousand-pounders." 

He  averaged  ,£18,000  a  year  in  stakes, 
and  his  ^"38,000  for  1878  was  then 
the  largest  total  credited  to  any  single 
owner.  His  best  horses  were  Queens 
Messenger,  Atlantic,  Cecilia,  Qiieen 
Bertha,  about  whom  he  made  his  only 
bet — of  sixpence,  Spinaway,  Silvio, 
Wheel  of  Fortune,  the  fastest  thorough- 
bred he  ever  owned,  Dutch  Oven,  and 
Harvester,  who  was  sold  with  the  rest 
of  his  stud,  and  ran  a  dead  heat  for 
Sir  J.  Willoughby  with  St.  Gatien  for 
the  Derby,  while  Mr.  S.  Baird  bought 
Busybody,  and  scored  the  One  Thousand 
and  the  Oaks  with  her.  The  sale 
reached  the  total  of  110,000  guineas, 
without  counting  contingencies  on  races 
for  which  the  various  animals  had  been 
entered  by  Lord  Falmouth.  He  was  a 
splendid  example  of  the  man  who  loves 

racing  for  its  own  sake,  who  was  able  to  afford  to  race  without  betting,  and  who 
exhibited  in  his  favourite  sport  those  sterling  characteristics  of  an  honourable  and 
scholarly  life  which  endeared  him  to  his  friends  and  will  ever  preserve  his  memory 
among  his  countrymen. 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life" 


Lord  Falmouth. 


CHAPTER    XIX. 

BRITISH    STABLES    AND    FOREIGN    METHODS. 

"  Regibus  hie  mos  est  ubi  equos  mercantur  opertos 
Inspiciunt  ne  si  facies  ut  saepe  decora 
Molli  fulta  pede  est  emptorem  inducat  hiantem 
Quod  pulchras  clunes  breve  quod  caput  ardua  cervix." 

"DEFORE  the  death  of  the  Prince  Consort,  Queen  Victoria  was  often  present 
at  Ascot,  and  on  one  occasion  she  was  so  pleased  with  "  Little  Bell's  "  riding 
in  the  Ascot  Stakes  that  she  had  the  tiny  jockey  up  to  the  Royal  Box,  and 
asked  if  he  really  weighed  under  four  stone.  "  Please,  Ma'am,"  replied  that 
diminutive  but  self-possessed  personage,  "master  told  me  never  to  say  how  much 

I  weighed."  There  are,  indeed,  many  things  which  a  jockey  should  know  that 
he  is  "never  to  say,"  for  his  full  value  depends  on  several  things  besides  horse- 
manship ;  but  it  is  not  always  necessary  to  have  resort  to  such  strong  measures  as 
were  once  employed  by  Sir  Mark  Wood,  who  kept  racehorses  long  ago  at  Lower 
Hare  Park,  near  Newmarket.  Sir  Mark  called  the  lad  who  had  just  ridden  a  trial 
into  his  study.  The  colt  was  entered  for  the  Two  Thousand,  and  the  question 
of  weights  was  an  important  one.  "  Here  are  five  pounds  for  you,"  announced  the 
owner,  grimly,  producing  a  note  and  a  pistol  at  the  same  time.  "  Now,  mind  you 
hold  your  tongue.  If  this  trial  gets  about  I  will  blow  out  your  brains  with  this 
pistol." 

So  many  jockeys  have  in  after  life  become  successful  trainers,  that  before 
touching  upon  a  few  of  the  vexed  questions  which  the  trainer  has  to  face,  I  must 
emphasise  a  little  more  the  important  education  the  jockey  acquires  in  the  honest 
and  capable  exercise  of  one  of  the  hardest  professions  in  the  world.  The  racehorse 
need  not  display  any  brilliant  intellectual  qualities.  Indeed,  it  is  better  without 
them.  If  a  jockey  is  to  be  any  use  he  must  have  good  hands,  and  strength  in  a 
light  frame,  both  difficult  things  to  find.  But  if  he  has  not  got  brains  as  well,  and 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


the  will  to  use  them  quickly,  each  of  these  are  useless.  The  "American  Invasion," 
as  it  has  been  often  called,  has  at  least  effected  a  vast  amount  of  good  in  this 
direction  ;  for  it  must  be  admitted  that  American  methods,  whether  in  riding  or  in 
training,  have  done  a  great  deal  towards  stirring  up  ancient  traditions,  and  made 
many  men  think  more  than  they  have  ever  done  before.  The  trainer  who  once 
contemptuously  dismissed  the  "foreign  devils"  with  a  sneer  has  found  out  his 
mistake.  Our  visitors  may  have  gone  too  far,  as  so  many  pioneers  inevitably  do. 
But  the  problems  they  have  suggested  can  never  be  neglected  again,  as  they  have 
been  in  the  past,  either  by  our  trainers  or  our  jockeys. 

To  think  that  a  jockey's   business   is   over  when  he  has  sat  on  a  horse  from 

end  to  end  of  a  race, 
and  has  perhaps  not  been 
incompetent  enough  to 
prevent  his  mount  from 
winning,  is  to  appreciate 
very  little  of  his  real 
task.  Finer  riding  has 
often  been  shown  on  the 
slower  horse  which  ran 
into  second  place,  and 
nearly  beat  his  faster 
rival  by  sheer  skill  on 
the  part  of  his  rider. 
And  a  man  who  can  tell 
his  trainer  nothing  of 

the  events  of  the  race,  give  no  reasons  either  for  his  own  success  or  for  another's 
failure,  is  of  very  little  use  as  far  as  the  future  is  concerned.  Considering  the 
large  amounts  that  may  depend  not  only  on  the  winning  or  losing  of  a  single 
race,  but  on  the  knowledge  a  jockey  may  acquire  during  that  process,  it  is 
hardly  to  be  wondered  at  that  a  first-rate  rider,  who  is  scrupulously  honest,  and 
also  intelligently  and  accurately  observant,  is  so  rare  that  he  can  practically 
command  what  price  he  likes.  This  means  inevitably  that  far  too  much  power 
must  now  and  then  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  man  who  is  only  too  ready  to 
abuse  it,  and  who  is  enabled  to  enjoy  that  opportunity  from  the  possession  of 
certain  rare,  and  accidental,  physical  characteristics  unaccompanied  by  conscientious 


"  Camarine"  by  "  Juniper"  (1828). 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS 

scruples.  The  least  weakness  in  character  exposes  him  to  the  dangerous  condition 
of  a  spoilt  child  of  the  Turf.  Large  retainers,  not  only  for  the  first  call  upon  his 
services,  but  for  the  second  and  even  the  third,  are  pressed  upon  him,  while 
additional  presents,  and  by  no  means  infrequent  bets,  produce  an  annual  total  before 
which  two  thousand  guineas  in  bare  riding  fees  shrinks  into  insignificance. 

No  doubt  this   is  one  of  the  most   remarkable  results  of  modern   racing  ;  and 
its  consequences  are  far-reaching,   nor  can   the  jockey  be   invariably  blamed  if  his 


"  Lucetta  "  by  "  Reveller"  (1826). 

personal  antecedents  and  previous  education  are  not  of  a  kind  to  combat  successfully 
the  many  temptations  resulting  from  a  system  in  which  he  is  an  indispensable  factor. 
If  we  consider  the  position  of  the  best  riders  at  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth 
century  and  compare  it  with  what  we  know  at  the  end,  we  shall  find  that  the  jockey 
is  now  usually  the  master  of  most  employers,  and  rarely  the  servant  of  any  one  at 
all.  The  one  thing  he  has  to  fear  is  the  refusal  of  his  licence,  and  the  definite 
punishment  of  the  Jockey  Club.  Owners  and  trainers  appear  to  have  made  up 
their  minds  that  this  is  satisfactory,  and  that  it  shall  continue,  if  we  are  to  judge 

VOL.   III.  I 


522  A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

from  their  general  apathy  in  dealing  with  the  facts.  Scores  of  racing  stables  are 
in  existence,  with  hundreds  of  owners,  and  thousands  of  horses.  Yet  there  were 
not  half-a-dozen  jockeys  riding  between  March  and  September,  1902,  who  reached 
the  first  class,  only  eighteen  who  had  won  more  than  twenty  races,  and  only  twenty- 
six  who  had  reached,  or  passed,  a  dozen  victories  in  all.  After  all,  not  so  many 
jockeys  are  required  to  supply  the  demand  without  the  necessity  for  famine  prices. 
Sixty  would  be  ample,  and  I  shall  never  believe  that  in  the  length  and  breadth  of 
the  United  Kingdom  there  are  not  three  score  lads  who  have  the  requisite  physical 
and  intellectual  capacity  for  winning  races  and  knowing  their  business.  What  do 
the  few  favourites  do  that  justifies  their  fancy  prices  ?  When  there  was  such  a  run 
upon  Americans,  did  they  never  get  shut  in  ?  Did  they  always  keep  their  animals 
straight  in  a  punishing  finish  ?  And  when  we  depended  entirely  upon  a  few 
equally  favourite  British  performers  who  certainly  knew  how  to  ricle  a  finish  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Stands,  did  they  never  throw  away  a  race  at  the  start  ?  Did  they 
never  lose  it  by  racing  to  the  last  corner  and  leaving  their  animals  nothing  to  call 
upon  as  they  neared  the  judge's  box?  In  this  matter,  as  in  all  others,  competition 
is  the  one  thing  that  will  lead  to  improvement ;  but  competition  we  shall  never  have 
till  owners  and  trainers  give  their  stable-boys  more  chances,  and  let  a  lad  race  now 
and  then  purely  to  educate  him  in  his  business.  While  every  one  struggles  to  win 
stakes  as  soon  as  possible,  and  as  often  as  possible,  every  one  is  naturally  bound  to 
try  for  the  fashionable  jockey  whom  owner,  trainer,  and  public  alike  demand.  But 
with  a  little  patience  affairs  would  straighten  themselves  out  again  easily  enough. 
Jockey  Reform  is  no  more  easy,  and  can  be  no  more  rapid  than  Two-year-old 
Reform.  But  the  former  is  as  vitally  important  to  the  success  of  the  Turf  as  a 
national  institution,  as  the  latter  is  to  the  continuation  and  improvement  of  the 
thoroughbred. 

Writing,  in  1879,  on  the  racehorse  in  training,  William  Day  supported  the  opinion 
concerning  Jockey  Reform  previously  expressed  by  John  Scott,  of  Whitewall,  that 
the  weights  should  be  raised,  arguing  from  such  facts  as  that  in  1831,  when  Squire 
Osbaldestone  undertook  to  ride  200  miles  in  ten  hours,  1 2st.  was  carried  four 
miles  twenty-eight  times  by  horses  who  did  that  distance  in  periods  varying  from 
Tranbys  eight  minutes  to  the  ten  minutes  fifteen  seconds  of  the  oldest ;  or  that 
Voltigeur  could  sweat  week  after  week  with  i2st.  on  his  back;  or  that  Rataplan, 
Fisherman,  Ckandos,  and  Vespasian  all  carried  8st.  ylb.  as  two-year-olds  without 
taking  any  harm  ;  or,  finally,  that  in  1878,  in  the  three  great  handicaps  at  Goodwood, 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS. 


523 


forty  horses  carried  less  than  8st.  -jVo.,  and  six,  only,  carried  that  weight  or  above  it, 
while  at  Newmarket,  under  similar  conditions  in  the  same  year,  seventy-four  horses 
carried  under  8st.  j\b.,  and  only  one  (in  the  Cambridgeshire)  carried  that  amount  in 
full.  William  Day  had  such  a  rooted  objection  to  what  he  called  "Children's 
riding,"  that  his  idea  of  raising  the  weights  was  really  based  on  his  desire  to  get 
older  men  into  the  saddle  all  round,  and  on  his  more  justifiable  wish  to  see  more 
long  races  with  heavy  weights;  very  much  as  Admiral  Rous  declared  that  "short 
races  are  destructive  to  young  riders."  He  quoted  with  approval  the  official 
table  of  weights  for  the  Queen's  Plates  then  in  existence,  which  varied  from  the 
7st.  3lb.  of  the  three-year- 
old  for  3^  miles  and  up- 
wards, to  the  lost.  81b.  of 
the  six-year-old  and  aged 
over  the  same  distance. 
At  the  end  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  the  scale 
of  weights  for  age  sanc- 
tioned by  the  Jockey 
Club,  and  founded  on 
Admiral  Rous's  publica- 
tions, though  modified 
since  his  day,  gives  6st. 
as  the  lowest  limit  for 
a  two-year-old  over  five 

and  six  furlongs,  and  gst.  iclb.  as  the  highest  weight  mentioned  for  six-year-olds  and 
aged  over  three  miles. 

With  these  facts  before  us  it  is  possible  to  consider  whether  weights  can  really 
solve  the  jockey  question.  The  difference  which  can  be  made  to  some  horses  by  so 
little  as  5lb.  is  remarkable  when  you  consider  that  La  Fleche  won  the  Cambridge- 
shire under  8st.  iolb.,  Plaisanterie  with  Sst.  i2lb.,  and  Foxhall  with  gst. ;  or  that 
Isonomy  and  Carlton  carried  gst.  1 2lb.  first  past  the  post  in  the  Manchester  Cup  and 
Manchester  Handicap.  But  some  good  animals  seem  never  to  be  stopped,  while 
many  moderate  horses  have  been  helped  to  win  by  a  maiden  allowance  in  such 
a  race  as  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Stakes  at  Ascot.  Such  considerations  have, 
no  doubt,  led  to  the  saying  that  "  weight  will  bring  together  a  donkey  and  a 


"  Fisherman  "  by  "  Heron"  (1853). 


5^4 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Derby  winner "  ;  but  in  days  when  the  old  ambition  to  produce  a  stayer  and  a 
weight-carrier  has  long  ago  been  given  up,  the  question  of  weights  has  really 
more  to  do  with  the  jockey  than  the  horse.  John  Porter,  giving  his  memories 
of  Kingsclere  training  in  1896,  is  evidently  of  the  opinion  that  raising  the  lowest 
regulation  weight  from  431.  to  6st.  had  deprived  jockeys  of  any  chance  of  getting 
those  valuable  experiences  as  light  boys  which  did  so  much  to  form  their  riding 
later  on.  "To  say,"  he  continues,  "that  those  'infants'  could  not  ride,  is  sheer 
nonsense.  '  Weatherby '  teems  with  abundant  evidence  to  the  contrary."  It  is 
certainly  true  that  in  1856  and  thereabouts,  when  the  weights  were  low,  at  the 
end  of  the  period  I  have  discussed  in  previous  pages,  there  were  such  jockeys  to 

choose  from  as  Alfred 
Day,  James  Bartholo- 
mew, Job  Marson,  Sam 
Rogers,  Nat  Flatman, 
J.  Charlton,  Tiny 
Wells,  John  Osborne, 
Chaloner,  G.  Fordham, 
Custance,  Goater,  Snow- 
den,  Grimshaw,  Bullock, 
Loates,  Cannon,  and 
several  others.  All 
these  were  either  riding 
or  just  coming  on.  And 
they  followed  men  like 
Bill  Scott,  Frank  Butler, 

Robinson,  Holmes,  Darling,  Shepherd,  and  the  rest.  In  1902  the  first  twenty 
in  the  list  of  winning  jockeys  on  the  Flat  at  the  end  of  their  season  were  as 
follows  : — • 


u  Fandango  "  by  "  Barnton  "  (1852), 


IN    ORDER   OF   WINNING   MOUNTS. 

Mounts. 

1.  Lane,  W.          ...          ...  ...  ...          ...  807 

2.  Halsey,  W 665  

3.  Maher,  D.        ...          ...          451  

4.  Martin,  J.  H.    ...          ...  ...  ...          ...  529 

5.  Dixon,  T 352  ... 

6.  Hardy,  F.          ...          ...  ...  ...          ...  578  ...          ...      504 

7.  Cannon,  M.      ...          ...  ...  ...          ...  396  ...          ...      328 


Lost. 

55° 

449 
278 


Won. 
170 

«s 

1 06 

80 

74 
68 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND   FOREIGN  METHODS. 


525 


9- 
10. 
ii. 

12. 


1  6. 


18. 
19. 

20. 


Mounts. 

McCall,  G 549 

Cannon,  K.       ...          ...          ...          ...          ...  372 

Watts,  J.  E 522 

Trigg,  C.  ...  238 

Randall,  H 317 

Miller,  T.  L 351 

Griggs,  W 405 


Bray,  W. 
Aylin,  H. 
Childs,  J. 
Dalton,  J. 
McCall,  J. 
Dillon,  B. 


347 
324 
386 
202 
230 
182 


Lost. 
491 
321 

473 
191 

270 
306 
360 
308 
286 

35° 
172 
204 
159 


Won. 
58 
51 
49 
47 
47 
45 
45 
39 
3» 
36 
3° 
26 

23 


1.  Maher,  D. 

2.  Lane,  W  .......... 

3.  Dixon,  T  .......... 

4.  Trigg,  C. 

5.  Halsey,  W.        ...         ...          ...          ...     17-29 

6.  Cannon,  M.       ...          ...          ...          ...      i?'i7 

7.  Martin,  J.  H  .............      I5'i2 


IN   ORDER   OF   WINNING   PERCENTAGES. 

Per  cent. 

...       23-50       II. 
2I'o6 
2TO2 
1974 


8.     Dalton,  J 


14-85 


9.     Randall,  H.       ...  ...      14-82 

10.     Cannon,  K.       ...          ...          ...          ...      i3'/o 


Per  cent. 
Miller,  T.  L 12-82 


12.  Hardy,  F.  ...         ...          ...         ...  12-80 

13.  Dillon,  B.  ...         ...         ...         ...  12-63 

14.  Aylin,  H.  ...          ...          ...          ...  11-72 

15.  McCall,  J.         ...                      11-30 

16.  Bray,  W.           11-23 

17.  Griggs,  W i  i-ii 

18.  McCall,  G ...  10-56 

19.  Watts,  J.  E ...  9-38 

20.  Childs,  J.  ...          ...          ...          ...  9-32 


Can  1902  compare  very  favourably,  on  this  showing,  either  with  1852  or  1802? 
I  think  not.  In  1900  it  was  considered  by  many  that  a  panacea  for  all  our  evils  had 
been  brought  over  by  the  "  American  methods."  But  this  was  not  Lord  Durham's 
opinion.  In  one  of  those  remarkably  outspoken  utterances  with  which  he  has  more 
than  once  benefited  the  English  Turf,  he  announced  in  the  October  of  that  year  that 
Newmarket  had  sadly  changed  in  the  course  of  the  last  generation,  for  it  was  "  now 
a  sort  of  cosmopolitan  dumping-ground."  Explaining  himself  at  greater  length,  he 
objected  specifically  to  many  American  visitors,  because  "they  consider  horse-racing 
as  merely  an  instrument  of  high  gambling,"  and  he  denounced  the  prominence  of 
American  jockeys  in  view  of  the  fact  that  one  of  them,  Sloan,  "  was  suspended  last 
year  for  disobedience  at  the  post.  This  year  he  was  reprimanded  for  unscrupulous 
riding  in  the  Derby  ;  he  was  disqualified  for  bumping  and  boring  at  Liverpool  July 
Meeting  ;  and  he  was  complained  of  for  unfair  riding  at  Doncaster,  and  suspended 
for  the  remainder  of  the  meeting."  Speaking  of  the  same  American  jockey,  another 
critic  wrote  that  season  :  "In  race  after  race  we  see  them  come  all  over  the  course. 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 


pushing  and  shoving  where  they  have  no  business  to  go,  and  on  the  face  of  it  often 
trying  to  win  by  trick  when  the  chance  of  winning  by  honest  riding  seems  hopeless. 
In  all  probability  such  wild  riding  as  was  seen  all  through  the  Doncaster  Meeting  of 
the  present  year  ( 1 900)  was  never  equalled  a  hundred  years  ago  when  the  '  cross 
and  jostle '  style  was  allowed,  but  though  little  else  was  talked  of  during  the  week, 
the  steward's  did  nothing  more  than  warn  one  jockey  and  suspend  another  for  a 
single  day." 

Lord    Durham's    indignation    was    well    founded.      But    he    carefully    made    one 


By  permission  of  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq. 


"  Tommy  and  Toddy  "  ;  or  the  English  and 
American  seat,  Newmarket,  1898. 


exception  in  his  indictment.  In  that  year  D.  Maher  arrived  from  Connecticut 
for  the  first  time  on  September  21,  aged  about  eighteen,  and  rode  27  winners 
his  first  season,  got  second  on  the  list  in  1901  with  94,  and  won  a  higher  percentage 
than  any  one  else  in  1902.  Of  him  Lord  Durham  wrote  that  "he  rides  well 
and  seems  a  most  respectable  boy."  In  July,  1903,  Maher  had  a  very  severe 
accident  in  a  motor-car,  and  got  off  much  better  than  was  at  first  expected  by 
only  losing  a  portion  of  his  season.  But  other  critics,  who  had,  perhaps,  less 
concern  for  the  moral  aspect  of  the  question,  and  certainly  felt  less  responsibility 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND   FOREIGN  METHODS. 


527 


for  it,  confined  themselves  to  considering  the  advisability  of  the  American  seat— 
a  forward,  crouching  attitude  with  very  short  reins,  hard  on  the  horse's  neck, 
and  shortened  stirrup-leathers.  This  peculiar  attitude  was  said  to  have  been  copied 
from  the  Indians,  and  to  save  a  great  deal  of  wind-pressure.  What  the  unprejudiced 
observer  noticed  was  that  it  led  to  far  more  objections  on  the  score  of  bumping, 
crossing,  and  boring,  than  had  been  known  for  some  time,  owing  to  the  difficulty 
it  seemed  to  involve  in  keeping  a  horse  straight.  This  might  happen  anywhere 
on  the  course.  But  at  the  start,  where  a  sudden  backward  shy  is  common,  a 
shortened  stirrup-leather  seems  even 
more  dangerous.  Down  hill,  too, 
round  Tattenham  Corner,  for  instance, 
the  descending  weight  of  a  jockey  is 
thus  placed  exactly  on  that  part  of 
the  horse  which  is  least  able  to  bear 
it,  instead  of  near  the  stronger  hind- 
quarters. The  terrible  accident  to 
Ho/ocauste  (Tod  Sloan  up)  in  Flying 
Fox's  Derby  will  recur  to  every  one's 
memory  in  this  connection.  And 
lastly,  at  the  finish,  shortened  stirrups 
prevent  a  rider  from  shifting  his 
weight,  and  tightening  his  grip,  or 
stopping  a  swerve.  Then  as  to  the 
wind-resistance.  If  the  crouch  pre- 
vents wind-pressure  occasionally,  it 
also  loses  the  benefit  of  a  thirty-five 
knot  breeze  coming  dead  aft ;  for  you  cannot  have  it  both  ways,  and  very  few 
courses  are  so  exactly  straight  that  a  breeze  which  would  really  make  a  difference 
would  come  from  the  same  quarter  all  the  way.  Moreover,  men  who  ride  "  like 
a  lifeo-uardsman "  down  hill,  or  with  the  breeze  behind  them,  do  not  retain  that 
position  up  hill  or  in  a  steady  headwind.  Their  long  stirrup-leathers  enable  them 
to  change  their  seat  as  required.  Shortened  stirrup-leathers  necessitate  the  same 
posture  all  the  time. 

Yet  when  all  this  had  been  said,    the  hard  fact  remained  that   Lester  Reiff  in 
1900  was  at  the  head  of  the  winning  jockeys  with  143  out  of  553  mounts,  beating 


7-  Raff. 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Sam  Loates  (who  had  256  more  mounts)  by  six  victories  ;  J.  Reiff  was  third  with 
124  out  of  604  ;  J.  T.  Sloan  was  sixth  with  82  out  of  310.  Of  the  ten  jockeys  who 
had  won  fifty  or  more  races,  five  were  Americans.  It  is  significant  of  the  power 
of  fashion  that  H.  Jones,  who  rode  the  winner  of  the  Two  Thousand,  Newmarket 
Stakes,  Derby,  St.  Leger,  and  Eclipse  Stakes,  and  took  Diamond  ftibilee  through 
his  victories  as  well  as  that  difficult  colt  could  have  been  taken,  does  not  appear  in 
the  winning  list  at  all,  because  the  chances  he  had  of  a  winning  mount  were  almost 
entirely  restricted  to  the  horses  of  the  Prince  of  Wales,  as  His  Majesty  then  was. 
Yet  the  American  victories  need  more  explanation  than  the  fact  that  every  one 
was  eager  to  give  them  the  best  choice.  Two  explanations  have  been  given. 

One  was  that  Australian 
jockeys,  being  accus- 
tomed to  timing,  are 
therefore  better  judges 
of  pace  than  the 
English,  apart  from 
their  habit  of  making 
the  running  and  being 
able  to  finish  strong 
and  straight  with  long 
stirrup-leathers.  Ameri- 
cans, therefore,  being 
equally  familiar  with 
the  watch,  scored  by 
their  experience  in  the 

same  way.  But  the  second  explanation,  which  was  favoured  by  William  Day  in  a 
letter  he  published  in  May,  1901,  was  that  the  pace  the  Americans  made  at  the 
start  was  the  sole  reason  for  their  success.  He  refused  to  admit  that  their 
knowledge  of  pace  was  anything  extraordinary,  arguing  that  the  boys  of  431.  and 
4st.  lolb.  who  won  the  Chester  Cup  with  Red  Deer  and  foe  Miller  had  no  idea  of 
pace  at  all,  for  they  jumped  off  ahead,  were  a  hundred  yards  ahead  three-quarters 
of  a  mile  from  the  finish,  and  kept  ahead  to  the  judge's  box.  Too  many  English 
riders  imagined  they  had  got  Sam  Chifney's  rush,  or  the  patience  and  skill  of  Jem 
Robinson.  They  waited  too  long,  left  their  final  effort  till  too  late,  and  meaning  to 
win  on  the  post,  they  never  had  time  to  get  level.  In  any  case  the  Americans  did 


"  Joe  Miller"  by  "  Venison  "  (1849). 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS.  529 

a  vast  amount  of  good  in  compelling  races  to  be  run  right  through,  instead  of 
crawling  at  the  start  and  hurrying  home  from  the  distance. 

Their  position  in  the  saddle,  too,  was  by  no  means  the  novelty  many  seemed  to 
imagine.  The  fact  that  it  had  been  seen  before  on  the  English  Turf,  and  had 
never  become  universal,  is  one  of  the  strongest  arguments  against  its  permanent 
effectiveness.  No  one  cared  to  copy  Tommy  Lye,  who  was  so  small  that  as  he  sat 
forward  along  his  horse's  neck,  you  could  only  see  a  little  bit  of  his  back  during  a 
race.  He  was  often  successful,  but  when  he  lost,  the  public  blamed  his  "awkward 
style."  Then,  again,  only  forty-six  years  ago,  Mr.  Ten  Broeck  brought  over  an 
American  jockey  called  Tankersley,  whose  name  was  the  same  as  that  horse  of 
Lord  Fitzwilliam's  which  beat  Cockfighter  over  a  four-mile  course  at  Doncaster  in 
1801.  This  imported  lad  had  the  mount  for  the  Cesarewitch  in  1857,  on  the 
American-bred  four-year-old  Prioress,  who  had  escaped,  in  the  Goodwood  Cup,  the 
scrimmage  which  brought  down  Gunboat,  Arsenal,  Kestrel,  and  Gemma  di  Vergy. 
In  a  field  of  thirty-four,  Prioress,  carrying  6st.  gib.,  started  for  the  Cesarewitch 
an  absolute  outsider  at  100  to  i.  But  she  made  a  dead-heat  of  it  with  El  Hakim 
and  Queen  Bess,  the  last  ridden  by  Jimmy  Grimshaw  at  4st.  lolb.  In  the  run-off 
Mr.  Ten  Broeck  discarded  Tankersley,  whose  "American  seat"  was  laughed  at, 
and  put  up  George  Fordham,  and  "the  Demon"  won  amidst  great  cheering  by 
a  length  and  a  half.  In  the  Cambridgeshire  Fordham  won  with  Odd  Trick,  and 
Tankersley  on  Prioress  was  unplaced.  Tankersley  then  went  home  and  George 
Fordham  rode  for  Mr.  Ten  Broeck,  and  many  people  think  that  the  English 
jockey  practised  (and  sometimes  used)  the  crouching  position  afterwards.  But 
he  did  not  use  it  with  such  excessively  short  stirrup-leathers,  and  never  without 
being  able  to  change  it  whenever  he  thought  necessary.  Fred  Archer,  too,  had 
a  wonderfully  effective  way  of  suddenly  throwing  his  weight  forward  (and  with 
it  his  body  and  head)  in  the  last  couple  of  strides.  But  he  knew  better  than 
to  keep  his  weight  there  all  the  time. 

Careful  experiments  have  been  made  as  to  this  question  of  the  incidence 
of  weight  in  different  styles.  A  saddled  horse  was  first  weighed  alone,  and 
turned  the  scale  at  i,oo5lbs.  Placed  with  its  fore  feet  on  the  scale  and  its 
hind  feet  on  the  ground,  the  animal  registered  58olbs.,  or  yslbs.  more  than 
half  its  weight,  the  difference  being  caused  by  the  head  and  neck.  While  the 
horse  remained  in  this  position,  a  lad  weighing  i3olbs.  was  placed  in  the  saddle, 
and  the  scale  showed  an  increase  of  62lbs.,  or  less  than  half  the  lad's  weight. 

VOL.  III.  K 


530 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


The  jockey  was  then  ordered  to  take  the  crouching,  American,  forward  position, 
which  was  in  this  instance  carefully  copied  from  a  carved  figure  accurately  made 
for  Mr.  August  Belmont,  the  famous  American  racing  man.  It  was  now  found 
that  the  increase  of  weight  on  the  horse's  fore  legs  amounted  to  i281bs.,  or 
only  2lbs.  less  than  the  total  weight  of  the  jockey,  and  66lbs.  more  than  when 
the  lad  was  seated  in  the  saddle.  In  other  words,  the  effect  upon  the  horse's 
fore  legs  produced  by  a  i3olb.  boy  crouching  forward  was  the  same  as  that 
which  would  be  produced  on  them  by  a  man  of  i8st.  riding  in  the  saddle.  But 
even  this  does  not  sufficiently  emphasise  the  anatomical  result.  One  of  the  vital 
points  of  a  thoroughbred  is  the  back  tendon  of  the  fore  leg  with  the  suspensory 

ligament.  That  tendon 
is  elastic,  but  it  will  not 
stretch  for  ever  ;  and 
when  it  is  strained  or 
broken  the  horse  is  use- 
less. To  increase  the 
weight  on  it  is  there- 
fore a  fatal  risk  to  take 
at  the  very  part  of 
the  horse's  frame  least 
capable  of  bearing  it. 
It  may  be  causation  or 
it  may  be  coincidence, 
but  it  is  a  fact  that 
since  Tod  Sloan's  seat 

became  fashionable  all  over  the  United  States,  the  percentage  of  horses  which 
broke  down  early  in  their  career  became  so  large  as  to  cause  widespread 
comment.  Much  the  same  effect  was  very  noticeable  at  the  beginning  of  the 
twentieth  century  in  England.  Causes  for  this,  common  to  both  countries,  may 
be  found  in  the  large  prizes  and  the  increasing  number  of  races  for  two-year- 
olds,  the  strain  of  starting  for  short  scurries  caused  by  the  starting-gate,  and 
in  in-breeding.  But  it  must  be  remembered  that  two-year-old  racing  is  even 
worse  in  the  United  States  than  it  is  here,  because  their  racing  year  begins  on 
January  i.  By  1903  it  began  to  look  as  if  the  American  seat  was  likely  to 
make  the  life  of  a  jockey  short,  in  England,  at  any  rate,  whatever  its  effect  might 


"  Wild Dayreir  by  "Son"  (1852). 


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be  upon  the  horse  ;  for  in  the  list  of  licences  published  by  the  Jockey  Club  in 
the  first  week  of  March,  the  names  of  O.  Madden  and  Sloan  did  not  appear. 
Rickaby  was  naturally  not  mentioned.  Two  of  the  best  were  sons  of  Tom 
Cannon.  In  less  than  two  years  after  Volodyovski 's  win  for  the  Derby,  of  all 
the  jockeys  who  rode  in  his  race,  there  was  now  no  sign  of  L.  Reiff,  J.  Reiff, 
O.  Madden,  Rickaby,  Henry,  Jenkins,  Pratt,  or  Turner.  Of  the  competent 
riders  who  might  be  expected  to  take  their  place  there  were,  besides  the  Cannons, 
S.  Loates,  Childs,  Randall,  Halsey,  Jones,  Maher,  and  J.  H.  Martin ;  but  the 
remainder  were  either  clearly  second-class  or  certainly  unknown.  Luckily  the 
Derby  of  1903  only  brought  out  quite  a  small  field.  Contrast  this  with  Wells, 
Flatman,  Aldcroft,  and  Fordham,  the  first  four  in  Beadsman  s  Derby ;  or  with 
Wells,  Sam  Rogers,  Alfred  Day,  and  William  Day  when  Musjid  won.  Early  in 
1903  those  old  and  deadly  rivals  William  Day  and  John  Kent  were  both  alive, 
residing  not  far  from  each  other.  Yet  John  Kent  galloped  Priam  in  Goodwood 
Park  in  1831,  and  William  Day  won  the  Ascot  Cup  the  year  Queen  Victoria 
came  to  the  throne.  Times  seem  to  have  changed  suddenly  indeed,  not  merely 
since  Buckle's  day,  but  since  the  comparatively  recent  years  of  those  memorable 
feats  of  horsemanship  when  Chaloner  won  the  Leger  on  Caller  Ou  and  on  the 
Marquis,  when  Custance  won  the  Brighton  Stakes  of  1870  for  Sir  Charles 
Legard  on  Border  Knight,  when  Fordham  won  the  Cambridgeshire  on  Sabinus 
and  the  Jockey  Club  Cup  with  Ladislas,  and  when  Archer  on  Melton  triumphed 
in  the  Derby. 

In  John  Osborne's  opinion,  who  raced  a  good  deal  against  both,  Archer  and 
Fordham  had  two  different  styles  altogether— as  different  as  possible.  "  Fordham 
rode  short,  and  Archer  long.  Fordham  rode  more  with  his  hands  than  Archer.  I 
should  think  he  was  a  better  jockey  than  Archer  all  round.  Fordham  did  not  punish 
his  horse  so  much  as  poor  Fred,  although  I  have  seen  him  give  '  one,  two,  three ' 
on  the  post."  Osborne  rode  against  Jem  Robinson  in  his  first  Derby,  and  admired 
him  immensely,  as  he  did  Frank  Butler  and  Nat  Flatman;  so  he  forms  a  link 
between  the  generations  which,  for  purposes  of  comparison,  it  would  be  difficult  to 
beat.  His  best  races  with  Archer  were  when  he  won  twice  on  Privateer,  with 
Passaic  close  up,  and  at  Liverpool,  when  Archer  had  his  revenge  on  Voluptuary 
against  Ishmael.  Against  George  Fordham  on  Fortissimo,  Osborne  also  had  a  tight 
struggle  in  the  Goodwood  Stakes,  and  was  beaten  by  a  head  on  Reveller.  Fordham 
had  the  knack  of  making  horses  win  when  nobody  else  could,  and  had  a  wonderfully 


532 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


light  hand.  Archer,  on  the  contrary,  was  one  of  the  most  industrious  jockeys  that 
ever  rode,  for  he  knew  no  fear,  and  therefore  ventured  on  all  kinds  of  liberties,  being 
always  able  to  start  at  a  great  pace.  He  could  win  a  race  with  lolbs.  in  hand,  and 
make  it  look  as  if  he  had  2i!bs.  in  hand.  Fordham  could  win  on  the  same  terms, 
and  make  every  one  believe  that  he  had  only  just  got  home  by  the  skin  of  his  teeth. 
In  fact,  as  Osborne  used  to  say,  "you  never  quite  knew  where  you  had  him  ;"  and 
this  ignorance  on  the  part  of  his  rivals  gave  him  a  superiority  over  the  more 
dashing  Archer.  A  fine  example  of  Fordham's  skill,  patience,  and  determination 

was  shown  in  the  Goodwood  Cup  of 
1 86 1,    when    Osborne   was    on    John 
Scott's       favourite,       The       Wizard. 
Among  the  field  were  a  French  mare, 
Custance  on    Thonnanby  the    Derby 
winner,  and  Mr.  Ten  Broeck's  Starke. 
After  Wallace  had  made  the  running, 
The   Wizard  was  well  ahead  at  the 
distance,  and  Johnnie  raised  his  hands 
to  ease  him  a  few  strides  from  home. 
Up  went  his  head,   and    like   a  flash 
Fordham  and  Starke  were  on  to  him, 
and   won   by   a   head.      Custance  got 
the   fur  rug  which  one    of   Air.   Ten 
Broeck's    admirers     meant     to    give 
Starkes    jockey    after     the    victory. 
George   did    not    look  pretty   in    the 
saddle,    for    he    was    careless    on    his 
way   to   the   start,   and   shrugged    his 
shoulders   a   good    deal    afterwards.      But    his    good    hands  were   made  even   more 
valuable    by  a  talent    for  gammoning  the  rest  of  the   riders,    which  amounted   to 
genius,  and  earned  him  the  nickname  of  "The  Kid"  in  addition  to  that  of  "The 
Demon."     His  victory  on  Starke  was  only  due  to  his  invariable  habit  of  riding  his 
horse  right  out  to  the  last  ounce.      His  first  race  (when  he  was  under  5st.)  was  at 
Brighton    in    1850,  and  his   reputation   began  with  winning   the  Cambridgeshire  on 
Little  David  in   1853  for  Mr.  W.   Smith,  whose  only  literature  consisted  of  "The 
Racing  Calendar,  the  Duke  of  Wellington's  Despatches,  and  the   Holy  Bible,"  no 


George  Fordliam. 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS. 


533 


bad  library  for  a  racing  man.  On  Epaminondas  for  the  Chester  Cup  of  1854  George 
was  pronounced  "  the  most  wonderful  lightweight  that  ever  got  into  a  saddle,"  by  no 
less  a  judge  than  the  late  Lord  Howth.  But  he  once  lost  a  race  by  looking  round, 
and  that  was  the  Derby  on  Lord  Clifden,  who  was  well  ahead  at  Tattenham 
Corner.  At  the  Bell  "  The  Kid "  looked  round  and  saw  Tom  Chaloner  stealing 
up.  He  began  to  ride  for  his  life,  but  it  was  too  late,  and  it  was  Macaronis 
number  that  went  up.  Exactly  the  same  thing  happened  seventeen  years  after  to 
Rossiter,  who  had  made  running  with  Robert  the  Devil,  and  was  a  length  ahead 
when  he  looked  round  at  the  Bell.  Fred  Archer  on  Bend  Or  saw  his  chance 
at  once,  and  came  with  such  a  terrific  rush  that  the  Duke  of  Westminster  was 
credited  with  the  Derby 
by  the  circumstances  of 
a  few  seconds'  riding. 
It  is  strange  that  with 
all  Fordham's  successes 
elsewhere,  he  only 
managed  to  win  one 
Derby,  on  "Mr.  Acton's" 
Sir  Bevys.  His  delicate 
handling  of  a  horse's 
mouth,  and  his  well- 
known  preference  for 
winning  "with  his  head" 
to  any  butchery  with 
whip  and  spurs,  were 

especially  seen  in  his  victories  with  Lord  Clifden's  Homily  at  Leamington  in  1855; 
with  Sabinus  over  A  I/brook  in  the  Cambridgeshire  of  1871  ;  with  Lord  Rosebery's 
Levant  (by  the  desire  of  Constable,  his  usual  rider)  in  the  July  Stakes  of  1875; 
and  with  Pctroncl  in  the  Two  Thousand  Guineas  of  1880.  It  was  said  during 
his  lifetime  that  no  other  jockey  then  alive  could  have  won  those  four  races. 
The  last  was  ridden  without  whip  or  spur,  as  was  his  fine  finish  on  Mr.  Graham's 
Formosa  for  the  Two  Thousand  of  1868.  It  was  also  the  opinion  of  Custance, 
another  rival,  and  therefore  well  qualified  to  speak,  that  Fordham  was  the  best 
jockey  he  ever  rode  against.  When  George  reappeared  on  one  occasion,  after  two 
years'  illness,  Mr.  T.  Jennings  mounted  him  on  Count  Lagrange's  Pardon  at  the 


"Ellington  "  by  "  The  Flying  Dutchman"  (1853). 


534 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Craven  Meeting  of  1878.  Archer  won  the  race  by  three  lengths  on  Advance. 
But  after  it  was  over  "  The  Kid  "  said  to  Custance,  with  a  wink,  "  You  don't  think 
I  was  going  to  let  Archer  beat  me  by  a  neck  the  first  time  I  rode,  which  he  would 
just  have  done."  So  Pardon  was  sent  out  again  for  the  Bretby  Plate,  and  loud  was 
the  cheering  Fordham  got  when  he  walked  the  winner  back  to  weigh  in.  Another 
match  between  him  and  Archer,  who  confessed  afterwards  that  "he  never  could 
understand  what  old  Fordham  was  up  to,"  was  at  Newmarket  on  Mr.  Leopold 
Rothschild's  Brag  against  Reputation,  a  speedy  horse  whose  one  chance  was  to  wait. 
But  George  "kidded"  Archer  to  such  an  extent  that  Fred,  who  had  the  worst  of 

the  weights,  made  too 
much  of  his  horse  at 
first,  tired  him,  and  was 
beaten  by  a  neck. 

Custance  used  to 
think  that  Archer, 
riding  long,  often  got 
up  the  horse's  neck  at 
the  finish,  with  a  loose 
rein,  so  that  his  mounts 
frequently  changed  their 
legs  and  shortened 
stride  ;  whereas  Ford- 
ham,  sitting  back,  and 
driving  his  horse  before 

him  right  up  to  the  judge's  box,  never  loosed  its  head,  with  the  result  that  it 
finished  straight  and  very  seldom  changed  its  legs.  Archer,  on  the  other  hand,  was 
the  best  man  at  starting  ever  seen,  with  iron  nerves,  and  such  an  extraordinary 
eye  for  seeing  what  was  happening  in  a  race  that  the  sporting  reporters  always  tried 
to  find  out  all  about  it  from  Fred  as  soon  as  they  could  get  a  chance.  Archer 
was  born  at  Cheltenham  in  January,  1857,  and  was  apprenticed  as  quite  a  small 
boy  to  Matthew  Dawson's  stables,  the  first  link  of  his  famous  connection  with 
Lord  Falmouth's  horses.  No  jockey  who  ever  lived  has  ever  taken  so  firm  or 
so  widespreading  a  hold  upon  the  popular  affection,  though  he  died  before  he  was 
thirty.  In  that  comparatively  brief  period  he  actually  rode  the  astonishing  number 
of  2,447  winners  which  included  five  Derbys — Silvio,  1877;  Bend  Or,  1880; 


"  Imptrieuse  "  by  "  Orlando  "  (1854). 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS.  535 

Iroquois,  1881  ;  Melton,  1885;  Ormonde,  1886 — four  Oaks,  six  St.  Legers,  four 
Two  Thousands,  and  two  One  Thousands.  Considering  his  weight,  the  number 
of  times  he  headed  the  list  of  winning  jockeys  was  very  remarkable,  and  he 
eventually  paid  forfeit  with  his  life  for  the  continuous  strain  of  wasting,  a  tragedy 
which  has  been  often  used  as  an  argument  against  the  system  of  light-weight 
racing.  No  jockey  ever  lost  fewer  races  he  might  have  won.  If  Fordham's  honesty 
suggests  Francis  Buckle,  Archer's  brilliancy  always  reminds  me  of  Jem  Robinson  ; 
and  by  strict  attention  to  the  details  of  his  business,  by  sound  judgment,  and  by 
resolute  riding,  Fred  won  himself  a  place  that  is  different  to  that  of  any  other 
horseman  in  the  history  of  the  Turf.  He  undoubtedly  punished  his  horses  very 
severely  when  they  "ran  like  a  pig,"  in  his  own  phrase,  and  when  he  felt  at 
liberty  to  do  so.  But  he  had  the  rare  faculty  of  communicating  his  own  courage 
to  the  animal  he  rode  to  such  an  extent  that  many  a  moderate  horse  did  wonders 
under  him  after  failing  with  everybody  else.  This  he  showed  more  particularly  at 
Epsom,  where  his  amazing  dash  round  Tattenham  Corner  won  him  many  a  race. 
It  was  at  this  place,  in  the  struggle  on  Bend  Or  just  related,  that  Archer  was 
driven  into  the  rails  and  rode  for  fifty  yards  with  his  left  leg  on  his  horse's  neck. 
Enthusiastic  admirers  used  to  say  that  leg  occasionally  got  right  over  the  rails. 
It  must  be  remembered,  too,  that  Fred  was  riding  Bend  Or  with  one  hand  disabled 
by  the  accident  which  had  nearly  killed  him  on  May  Day,  1880.  He  had  just 
been  giving  Muley  Edris  a  gallop  over  Newmarket  Heath,  and  dismounted, 
with  the  reins  over  his  arm,  to  adjust  one  of  the  "  dolls  "  on  the  grass.  Remem- 
bering, perhaps,  the  thrashings  he  had  received,  Mitley  grabbed  Fred  by  the  arm, 
and,  starting  to  carry  him  off,  soon  dropped  him  and  knelt  on  him.  Luckily  the 
brute's  hind  legs  slipped  at  that  critical  moment,  and  he  was  frightened  enough  at 
the  unexpected  fall  to  bolt  and  leave  Archer  free  to  count  his  injuries.  He  was 
thought  to  have  won  so  much  money  for  himself  and  other  people  that  the  crowd 
called  him  "The  Tinman,"  and  gaily  followed  every  possible  indication  of  his  fancy. 
But  he  confessed,  a  few  weeks  before  his  death,  that  he  would  have  been  much 
happier  if  he  had  never  betted  a  penny ;  and  his  private  fortune,  though  considerable, 
was  much  exaggerated  by  unfounded  rumour. 

In  the  autumn  of  1886  Archer  and  Custance  crossed  over  to  Ireland,  where  he 
had  to  ride  Cambusmorc  for  Lord  Londonderry  at  the  Curragh.  He  got  down  to 
8st.  i2lb.  for  Mr.  C.  J.  Blake's  Isidore,  on  Thursday,  after  weighing  gst.  4lb.  on  the 
Tuesday,  entirely  by  the  aid  of  physic  and  Turkish  baths.  He  won  two  races  out 


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BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS.  537 

of  three,  and  went  back  to  waste  down  to  8st.  6lb.  for  St.  Mirin  in  the  Cambridge- 
shire, the  only  important  race  he  had  never  won.  "  If  I  cannot  win  it  to-morrow," 
he  said  to  Mr.  Corlett,  "  I  will  never  try  again."  He  had  got  down  to  8st.  ;lb. 
by  great  privations,  going  three  days  without  food,  with  medicine  and  Turkish 
baths  all  the  time,  and  it  was  "the  back-end  of  the  year."  He  looked  ghastly, 
but  he  rode  in  the  big  handicap,  and  he  went  down  to  the  Lewes  Meeting 
afterwards,  where  he  had  his  last  mount  (November  4,  1886)  on  Tommy  Tittlemouse 
in  the  Castle  Plate.  He  felt  ill  on  his  return.  Typhoid  symptoms  made  their 
appearance.  He  became  delirious,  and  shot  himself  before  he  could  be  prevented, 
while  his  sister  was  watching  in  his  bedroom.  The  world  of  Racing  has  rarely 
felt  so  deep  a  shock. 

After  heading  the  list  of  winning  stallions  for  several  seasons  in  the  Argentine, 
St.  Mirin  died  in  June,  1903.  By  Hermit  out  of  Lady  Paramoiint,  he  was  foaled 
in  the  remarkable  year  which  produced  Ormonde,  Minting,  and  The  Bard.  After 
finishing  third  in  the  Derby  and  second  in  the  Leger,  he  only  lost  the  Cambridge- 
shire of  1886  in  the  last  stride  to  Sailor  Prince,  with  Car/ton  behind  him,  and 
Melton  fourth.  All  four  went  abroad  later  on,  but  before  that  the  Duke  of 
Westminster  bought  St.  Mirin  from  "Mr.  Manton "  for  4,500  guineas,  and  won 
the  Liverpool  Cup  with  him  ;  but  his  name  is  chiefly  connected  with  that  of  the 
Duchess  of  Montrose,  one  of  the  most  sportsmanlike  ladies  on  the  English  Turf, 
who  bought  him  for  2,100  guineas  from  the  Yardley  Stud,  little  imagining  that 
he  was  to  prove  an  indirect  cause  of  Archer's  death. 

Whether  it  be  true  or  not  that  Archer's  life  would  have  been  saved  if  the  "  lowest 
weight "  had  been  6st.  7lb.,  it  is  certain  that  wasting  can  never  be  avoided  however 
much  the  weights  are  raised.  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  a  better  reform  would  be, 
in  Lord  Durham's  words,  "an  increase  of  English  boys,"  in  order  that  when  a  light- 
weight was  wanted  he  could  be  got  in  a  natural  state  without  the  necessity  for 
calling  upon  a  heavier  man  to  waste.  This  "  increase  "  could  be  produced  if  only 
trainers  had  more  time,  or  more  inclination,  to  look  for  future  jockeys  among  the 
likely  stable-lads,  and  to  instruct  those  who,  from  want  of  tuition,  never  get  a  chance 
of  rising  from  their  "  keep,  and  a  sovereign  a  week."  A  continuous  grind  of  nothing 
but  stable  work  will  never  make  a  jockey,  though  both  Archer  and  Fordham  were 
glad  enough  to  do  it  for  a  start.  If  a  good  boy  who  has  shown  nerve,  ability,  and 
pluck  were  only  given  a  fair  chance,  and  not  wholly  discouraged  after  a  few  defeats 
owing  to  his  inexperience,  he  would  very  soon  improve.  A  little  work  with  the 

VOL.   III.  L 


538 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


watch  would  give  him  some  knowledge  of  pace  to  begin  with.  Pricle  in  his  own 
stable's  successes  would  do  the  rest.  Between  3,000  and  4,000  horses  race  every 
year  on  the  English  Turf.  Almost  every  animal  has  his  own  boy  to  ride  him  at 
exercise,  groom  him,  and  attend  to  his  stable.  These  boys  must  all  be  able  to  sit  a 
thoroughbred,  and  nearly  every  one  has  now  and  again  to  ride  a  trial,  and  thus  learn 
a  little  of  what  racing  means  even  before  he  is  allowed  to  appear  at  all  upon  a 
racecourse.  If  he  were  only  allowed  to  ride  for  the  one  stable  from  which  he 
accepted  a  retainer,  both  sides  would  be  benefited.  There  are  plenty  of  boys  who 
can  ride,  and  they  never  get  an  opportunity  because  owners  and  trainers  prefer  to 
give  all  their  best  to  half-a-dozen  fashionable  jockeys.  The  importance  in  many 

other  ways  of  each  stable 
having  its  own  jockeys 
I  cannot  emphasise  here ; 
but  I  believe  owners 
would  soon  see  that  a 
very  powerful  motive 
had  been  added  to  the 
jockey's  wish  for  success, 
and  I  am  sure  that  many 
a  rising  lad  would  be 

O 

only  too  glad  of  the 
chance  of  entering  the 
only  profession  in  the 
world  which  will  enable 
him  to  claim  his  retainer 

before  the  season    begins,   and  to  get  his  riding  fee  from    Messrs.   Weatherby  as 
soon  as  every  race  is  over. 

Fred  Archer's  proportion  of  wins  to  mounts  has,  in  big  figures,  never  been 
equalled.  In  1884  he  rode  577  races  ;  he  won  241,  he  was  second  in  120,  and  third 
in  94  ;  he  was  unplaced  on  only  122  occasions.  He  won  246  out  of  667  in  1886,  the 
last  year  of  his  life.  In  1901  L.  Reiffs  victories  were  23  per  cent,  of  his  mounts. 
In  1900  Sloan  had  26  per  cent.  The  lower  percentage  of  the  two  years  quoted 
from  Archer's  record  is  36,  and  in  1884  it  was  41.  I  cannot  believe  that,  had 
he  been  alive  in  1900,  he  would  have  fallen  below  his  average.  The  best  jockey 
in  the  United  States  in  1902  was  Redfern,  who  scored  120  wins  in  634  mounts, 


"  Saunter er"  by  "  Birdcatcher"  (1854). 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS.  539 

the  only  other  horseman  to  pass  the  century  being  Odom,  who  won  108  out  of 
508  mounts.  During  the  same  season  in  England,  W.  Lane  won  170  out  of  807 
races,  an  average  of  2ro6  per  cent.,  which  was  beaten  by  the  23-50  per  cent,  of 
D.  Maher,  who  was  third  with  106  wins  out  of  451  races.  None  of  these  figures 
come  up  to  what  was  accomplished  when,  in  1878,  George  Fordham  won  58  in 
247,  or  one  in  four  ;  or  when  (in  the  same  year)  the  extraordinary  proportion 
of  229  in  619,  or  about  four  in  eleven,  was  scored  by  Fred  Archer.  Between  his 
long  riding  and  George  Fordham's  shorter  stirrup,  it  has  always  been  considered 
that  Tom  Cannon's  beautiful  seat  struck  the  happy  medium  ;  and  if  rumour  be 
true,  it  will  be  a  good  deal  through  Tom  Cannon's  influence  that  we  shall  eventually 
hit  the  mean  between  English  "  Lifeguardsmen  "  and  the  American  forward  crouch. 
Certainly  that  brilliant  horseman  now  provides  an  admirable  example  of  what 
may  be  done  by  the  intelligent  assimilation  of  new  principles,  and  by  the  careful 
training  of  his  lads ;  for  his  skill  has  been  transmitted  not  only  to  four  sons, 
but  to  pupils  like  Sam  Loates,  W.  Robinson,  and  the  late  John  Watts,  who 
steered  His  Majesty's  Persimmon  to  victory  in  a  never-to-be-forgotten  Derby. 

The  chief  difference  between  the  season  of  1902  and  its  predecessors  as  far 
as  riding  was  concerned,  was  provided  by  the  rule  (passed  in  1901)  which  allowed 
every  apprentice  5lbs.  in  handicaps  and  selling  races  for  one  year  after  winning  his 
first  race.  This  rule  resulted  from  the  appreciation  of  the  fact  I  have  already  noticed, 
the  dearth  of  good  English  jockeys,  a  dearth  which  was  made  still  more  obvious  by 
the  constant  use  made  of  Americans  whatever  their  ability  might  be,  though  less  than 
half-a-dozen  of  them  could  really  ride  a  race  at  all.  We  had  lost,  in  fact,  our  best 
talent,  and  we  had  not  even  quantity  to  make  up  for  the  quality  that  had  disappeared. 
It  is  certainly  an  argument  in  favour  of  what  weight  can  do,  even  when  it  is  only 
5lbs.,  that  the  almost  immediate  result  of  the  Apprentice  Rule  was  to  bring  to  the 
front  such  riders  as  Griggs,  Miller,  the  two  Dillons,  C.  Escott,  and  Purkiss,  with 
others  who  had  previously  benefited,  such  as  Childs,  Gibson,  the  Aylins,  C.  Loates, 
and  Bray. 

In  the  winning  list  for  1902,  already  quoted,  T.  Dixon  was  one  of  these.  With 
only  one  winner  to  his  credit  previously,  he  rose  to  fifth  place  with  74  victories,  the 
same  total  scored  by  F.  W.  Hardy,  who  lost  his  allowance  in  mid-season,  but  put 
Sceptre  s  Leger  to  his  credit  and  also  her  St.  James's  Palace  Stakes,  besides  winning 
the  Jubilee  Stakes  and  the  Gold  Vase  at  Ascot.  Charles  Trigg,  too,  is  a  third 
instance  of  the  same  thing,  and  he  showed  the  advantage  of  making  the  running  in 


540 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


a  way  of  which  William  Day  would  have  heartily  approved.  But  no  one  shows  signs 
of  approaching  Archer's  feat  of  standing  at  the  head  of  the  list  of  winning  jockeys 
at  the  close  of  no  fewer  than  thirteen  consecutive  seasons.  Since  his  death  no  one 
has  held  that  proud  position  for  more  than  four  years  consecutively,  as  Morny 
Cannon  did  from  1894  to  1897,  his  longer  sequence  from  1891  having  been  spoilt  by 
T.  Loates  in  1893. 

In  the  list  just  mentioned  it  is  worth  noticing  that  the  leader  won  the  first 
race  of  the  season  and  the  last,  a  record  from  Lincoln  to  Manchester  which  speaks 
well  for  W.  Lane's  industry,  three  of  his  seven  races  at  the  first  meeting  being 
credited  to  his  chief  patron,  Sir  J.  Blundell  Maple,  who  came  third  in  the  list  of 

winning  owners  for  1902, 
with  the  record  number  of 
sixty-seven  races,  though 
Mr.  Siever's  Sceptre  and 
Colonel  McCalmont's 
Rising  Glass  and  St. 
Maclou  (splendidly  rid- 
den for  the  Lincoln- 


"Sf.  Albans"  by  " Stockweir  (1857). 


shire  by  G.  McCall) 
scored  bigger  prizes.  W. 
Halsey  worked  hardest 
for  Sir  Ernest  Cassel, 
Lord  Durham,  and  Lord 
Ellesmere.  Maher  was 
troubled  with  his  throat, 

but  did  well  on  Rock  Sand  and  Flotsam,  riding  for  Egerton  House  as  well  as 
Blackwell's  stables.  He  thoroughly  confirmed  Lord  Durham's  previous  impressions 
of  his  excellence,  and  put  to  his  credit,  among  many  other  wins,  the  Eclipse 
Stakes  at  Sandown,  the  Woodcote  at  Epsom,  the  Fiftieth  Triennial  at  Ascot, 
the  Prince  of  Wales's  at  Goodwood,  the  Gimcrack  at  York,  and  the  Champagne 
at  Doncaster,  besides  valuable  prizes  at  Newmarket  and  elsewhere,  all  of  which 
enabled  him  to  show  the  best  winning  average  for  the  season.  The  chief  patrons  of 
Martin,  another  American,  were  Mr.  Musker  and  Sir  Waldie  Griffiths  ;  he  was  the 
second  American  to  score  the  Derby,  on  Ard  Patrick,  and  would  have  done  better 
on  the  year  but  for  his  accident  at  Redcar.  George  McCall  did  well  for  Captain 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS.  541 

Beatty's  stable,  and  J.  E.  Watts  (whose  father  thought  Persimmon  the  best  he  ever 
rode)  soon  showed  that  he  had  inherited  a  good  share  of  talent  by  his  successes, 
when  only  fifteen  years  of  age,  on  the  horses  trained  by  Richard  Marsh.  His  best 
race  was  on  Ballantrae  for  the  Cambridgeshire  against  Morny  Cannon.  H.  Randall, 
a  good  amateur  in  his  day,  had  the  luck  to  get  Sceptre  as  a  professional,  besides 
winning  on  Quintessence  for  Lord  Falmouth  ;  and  Herbert  Jones  showed  that  his 
Diamond  Jubilee  victories  were  no  fluke  by  successes  on  Orchid.  The  changes 
produced  between  1897  and  1902  will  be  best  seen  from  the  following  table  of  the 
winning  mounts  for  those  years,  the  absence  of  S.  Loates  being  accounted  for  by  his 
severe  accident  at  Northampton  in  1901  : — 


1897.            1898.            1899. 

1900. 

1901. 

1902. 

Lane,  W. 

...                ...          i      ... 

29 

47      .. 

.      170 

Halsey,  W. 

4     ...         8     ...        18      ... 

40 

...        63      .. 

•      "5 

Maher,  D. 


27 

94     -. 

106 

Martin,  J.  H.      ... 

43     ••• 

52 

45      .. 

80 

Hardy,  F. 


— 

29     .. 

74 

Dixon,  T. 


— 

i 

74 

Cannon,  M. 

145        ...        140        ...        I2O 

82 

...        76     .. 

68 

McCall,  G. 

i      ...          9     ... 

24 

91      .. 

•       58 

Cannon,  K. 

32    ...     13    ...     27    ... 

75 

...       46     .. 

5i 

Watts,  J.  E. 


— 

... 

49 

Trigg,  C. 


— 

... 

47 

Randall   H 

*-                            96 

*S6 

•67 

4.7 

Miller,  T.  L.       ... 

J 

( 

H/ 

45 

Griggs,  W. 

—     ...             ...     —     ... 

— 

2 

45 

Bray,  W. 

—     ...     —     ...     — 

— 

8     .. 

39 

Aylin,  H. 

...             ...     —     ... 

2 

...       49      .. 

•       38 

Childs,  J. 

—     ...     —     ...     —     ... 

2 

...       59      .. 

•        36 

Dalton,  J. 

4     ...          6     ...        28     ... 

7 

3 

3° 

McCall,  J. 

...                ...      —      ... 

7 

29      .. 

26 

Dillon,  B. 

—      ...       —      ...      — 

— 

3     •• 

23 

In  this  list  it  is  worth  noting  that  George  McCall  achieved  the  remarkable  feat  of 
winning  all  five  events  on  the  card  at  Beverley,  in  October,  1901,  and  bringing  home 
the  favourite  in  every  case  but  one,  and  this  with  fields  of  average  size  on  an  ordinary 
programme  ;  neither  in  events  of  only  two  or  three  competitors  as  sometimes  were 
seen  forty  years  before,  nor  in  a  day's  racing  which  began  at  eleven  in  the  morning 
and  included  several  matches,  as  was  the  case  with  George  Fordham  or  Jimmy 
Grimshaw.  An  instance  of  the  opposite  kind  may  be  quoted  in  the  Thursday  of  the 
July  Meeting  in  1836,  when  a  ^,"50  Plate,  over  the  Ditch-In  was  the  solitary  item. 

*  Riding  as  an  amateur  in  these  years. 


542 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


But  even  this  was  better  than  a  day  in  the  Spring  Meeting  of  1830,  when  the 
"card  "  consisted  of  a  match,  and  the  decease  of  one  of  the  animals  suspended  even 
that  limited  entertainment.  It  should  be  mentioned  that  the  first  of  McCall's 
victories  was  a  dead  heat ;  but  we  must  go  a  long  way  back  to  find  any  parallel 
to  his  success.  At  the  Lewes  Summer  Meeting  of  1882,  Fred  Archer  had  a  mount 
in  six  out  of  seven  races,  four  being  on  the  favourite.  He  won  every  time,  and 
had  he  ridden  Mowerina  in  the  last,  his  record  would  have  been  unbeaten.  Perhaps 
F.  Mason's  feat  at  the  Cavan-  Steeplechase  Meeting  of  September,  1900,  may  be 
given  the  credit  of  added  peril  over  hedges  and  ditches  to  counterbalance  smaller 
fields,  for  Mason  won  all  five  events  on  the  card,  and  had  the  favourite  four  times. 

On  the  Newmarket 
Houghton  Friday  in 
1864,  Fordham  scored 
six  out  of  the  seven 
races  on  the  card.  But 
the  first  was  a  walk 
over  ;  the  second  a  win 
with  Dr.  Syntax  in  a 
handicap  from  a  field  of 
seven  at  3  to  i  ;  the 
next  two  were  matches 
for  Mr.  Ten  Broeck  and 
the  Marquis  of  Hastings, 
each  on  the  favourite ; 
and  another  was  a  match 

for  the  Duke  of  Beaufort,  also  on  the  favourite.  But  McCall's  victories  on  five 
horses  have  still  to  take  a  second  place  to  the  remarkable  occurrences  at  Salisbury 
Races  on  August  9,  1827.  On  that  day,  Arthur  Pavis  rode  Mr.  H.  Jones's  five- 
year-old  bay  mare  Conquest  in  no  less  than  five  heats  (or  nine  miles  in  all),  by 
means  of  which  he  landed  all  three  races  on  the  programme,  and  about  ^150  in 
money  value.  No  wonder  that  Conquest  fell  down  and  died  while  running  her 
twelfth  mile  at  Doncaster  a  month  after.  Happily  McCall's  record  was  made  under 
more  humane  conditions. 

It  is  sometimes  of  interest  to  know  what  horses  a  jockey  preferred.     I  am  able  to 
give  a  few  instances  of  this.     Charles  Wood,  though  he  ran   a  dead  heat   for   the 


"  Thormanby"  by  "  Windhound"  (1857). 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND   FOREIGN  METHODS.  543 

Derby  of  1884,  thoroughly  agreed  with  the  justice  of  the  cheering  the  public  gave 
him  when  he  won  on  Galtee  More,  a  race  which  his  rival,  Sam  Loates,  only  puts 
second  to  the  victory  of  Sir  Visto,  which  was  recognised  by  an  enthusiastic  crowd  as 
a  specially  popular  success  for  a  Prime  Minister.  Sam  preferred  Harvester  to  any 
horse  he  ever  rode.  Rickaby  always  liked  Mimi  and  Canterbury  Pilgrim,  better 
even  than  Sirenia,  on  whom  he  probably  rode  his  best  races.  Troon,  who  was  killed 
by  a  fall  while  Tom  Loates  was  riding  him,  was  the  favourite  of  the  north-country- 
man Robert  Colling ;  and  "  Tiny  "  White  was  never  tired  of  praising  Sailor  Prince. 
Kempton  Cannon  (whose  most  sensational  win  was  Doricles  St.  Leger)  has  rarely 
won  a  better  fight  than  that  against  Tod  Sloan  for  the  Cambridgeshire  ;  he  did  all 
that  was  possible  for  Mr.  Leopold  de  Rothschild  in  1902.  Morny,  who  rode  1,524 
winners  between  1890  and  1900,  made  one  of  his  best  sequences  during  the 
Doncaster  St.  Leger  Meeting  of  1894,  when  he  won  no  less  than  ten  events,  on 
Bushey  Park,  Grey  Leg,  and  Throstle,  who  did  not  bolt,  as  Cannon  expected  she 
would,  but  won  the -St.  Leger  at  50  to  i.  His  favourite  mount  was  Flying  Fox. 
In  1902  he  was  slightly  handicapped  by  the  ill-luck  of  Porter's  horses  at  Kingsclere  ; 
but  he  showed  all  his  old  dash  and  judgment  on  St.  Maclou  and  William  the  Third. 
The  beautiful  horsemanship  of  their  father,  Tom  Cannon,  was  as  well  known  in 
Paris,  where  he  won  the  Grand  Prix  five  times,  as  in  England.  His  first  mount  was 
Mavourneen  at  Plymouth  in  1861,  who  threw  him  over  the  rails  and  left  him 
unconscious.  Being,  however,  only  54lbs.  in  weight,  he  rode  Lord  Portsmouth's 
My  Uncle  to  victory  next  day.  At  eighteen  he  scored  the  Cambridgeshire  for  the 
Marquis  of  Hastings,  and  after  that  he  put  Shotovers  Derby,  three  Oaks,  the  St.  Leger 
with  Robert  the  Devil,  and  the  Two  Thousand  to  his  credit.  His  pupil,  John  Watts, 
won  four  Derbys  and  five  St.  Legers,  besides  a  double  victory  in  both  the  Guineas. 
Another  pupil,  Sam  Loates,  won  two  Derbys,  a  St.  Leger,  and  an  Oaks  ;  and  a  third, 
W.  Robinson,  rode  Seabreeze  and  Kilwarlin  in  the  St.  Leger.  It  is  probable  that  if 
we  combine  race-riding,  horse-training,  and  jockey-making,  Tom  Cannon  possesses 
about  as  much  knowledge  of  all  three  as  any  other  man  alive.  When  he  began  to 
learn  to  ride,  there  was  fortunately  no  School  Board,  and  he  practically  grew  up  in 
the  saddle,  as  his  father  was  a  horse-dealer.  By  seven  he  was  as  much  at  home  on 
a  pony  as  in  an  armchair.  Nowadays  a  boy  can  scarcely  begin  at  all  till  he  is 
fourteen.  In  May,  1903,  Mr.  Brassey  brought  before  the  Jockey  Club  a  proposal 
made  by  Mr.  Luscombe,  which  had  been  considered  by  a  Committee  composed  of 
Lord  Marcus  Beresford,  Lord  Enniskillen,  Mr.  T.  H.  Weatherby,  and  others.  The 


544  A   HISTOKY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

objects  of  this  scheme  were  to  raise  the  moral  character  of  the  boys,  to  increase  their 
efficiency,  and  to  produce  a  large  number  of  capable  jockeys,  the  idea  being  to 
combine  the  education  required  by  the  law  of  the  land  with  a  sound  course  of 
instruction  in  riding  and  stable  duties,  so  as  to  supply  trainers  with  a  continuous 
stream  of  "half-made  jockeys."  It  is  significant  that  this  proposal  came  up  just  as 
the  Bishop  of  Hereford's  Betting  Bill  had  been  rejected  by  a  small  majority  of  the 
House  of  Lords,  and  when  the  country  was  considerably  agitated  over  the  Govern- 
ment's new  Education  Bill.  Neither  Mr.  Lowther  nor  Lord  Durham  saw  their  way 
to  supporting  the  scheme  as  it  stood,  and  the  matter  fell  through.  The  fact  is  that 
the  prevalent  craze  for  over-education,  in  subjects  of  which  the  utility  is  controversial, 
made  any  such  combined  system  impossible,  and  it  is  probably  only  under  such  an 
exceptional  master  as  Tom  Cannon  that  any  good  could  really  have  been  effected. 
Even  he  could  never  teach  an  apprentice  to  have  "hands."  That  is  a  gift  that 
is  born  and  not  made.  So  is  the  mysterious  sympathy  which  exists  between  a  few 
people  and  all  the  horses  they  have  to  do  with.  Yet  each  of  these  qualities  is 
practically  essential.  A  boy  of  fourteen,  fresh  from  school,  must  at  least  possess 
them,  or  he  will  get  no  further  than  a  stable-bucket  for  several  years  out  of  the  five 
of  his  apprenticeship.  When  the  lad  has  been  taught  not  only  how  to  look  after 
his  horse  in  his  stable,  but  also  to  sit  on  his  back  at  exercise,  he  has  a  lot  more  to 
learn  before  he  can  be  trusted  to  ride  any  trials.  On  his  success  in  these  depends 
his  chances  of  a  mount  in  public.  Once  he  is  weighed  out  in  his  silk  jacket  and  cap 
by  the  clerk  of  the  course,  he  has  the  opportunity  of  his  life  before  him,  with  far  more 
races  in  which  to  learn  his  business  than  was  ever  the  case  before,  and  with  prospects 
of  a  far  higher  reward.  Tom  Cannon  himself  may  have  deserved  ,£15,000  paid  in 
advance  as  a  retainer  for  three  years  ;  but  Fordham  only  got  .£1,000  a  year  from  Mr. 
Stirling  Crawfurd  for  many  successive  seasons  ;  and  Archer  preferred  to  have  his 
liberty.  Sam  Rogers  only  got  ,£50  a  year  from  Colonel  Lowther.  Frank  Butler 
was  paid  ,£100  a  year  by  Lord  Derby  to  take  Bill  Scott's  place.  Jem  Robinson, 
earlier  still,  received  still  less,  being  content  with  ,£25  from  Mr.  Rush,  and  "two  .£10 
notes  "  from  Lord  Jersey  for  his  victories  on  Cobweb.  When  I  compare  the  fees 
such  men  as  these  were  paid  with  the  thousands  squandered  on  the  American 
brigade,  I  find  it  difficult  to  offer  any  explanations  ;  for  apart  from  Tom  Cannon, 
who  rides  races  no  longer,  I  can  think  of  no  one  now  living  who  can  compare 
with  any  of  his  predecessors  I  have  just  mentioned.  Though  Morny  Cannon 
has  only  won  the  Derby  with  Flying  Fox,  it  must  have  been  an  unusual  sensation 


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for  him  to  look  on  at  other  people  riding  in  it,  as  he  did  in  the  race  of  1 903,  when 
many  people  thought  Vinicius  would  have  got  nearer  winning  if  he  had  been 
given  the  Frenchman's  mount.  But  Morny  got  his  revenge  in  the  Oaks,  which 
he  won  on  Mr.  J.  B..  Joel's  Our  Lassie,  by  Ayrshire,  out  of  a  daughter  of  Melton, 
and  the  crowd  showed  their  appreciation  by  giving  him  a  rousing  reception. 

His  father  Tom  Cannon's  energies  have  by  no  means  been  exhausted  with  race- 
riding  or  jockey-making.  He  has  now  followed  the  example  of  many  other  famous 
jockeys  and  become  a  trainer,  and  after  what  has  been  said  of  the  experience  gained 
by  a  jockey's  life,  it  is  clear  that  few  better  apprenticeships  could  be  served  for  the 
still  more  responsible  profession  of  training,  in  which,  perhaps,  the  first  essential 
is  to  be  a  sound  judge  of  condition,  in  order  to  give  each  animal  its  proper  work, 


By  permission  of  Mr.  Culvert. 


On  the  Ogbourne  Dott'/ts,  Wiltsliire. 


to  enter  it  for  the  races  that  will  suit  it  best,  and  to  draw  the  right  conclusions 
from  its  trials.  And  the  second  essential  is  like  unto  it,  for  the  moment  when  a 
trainer  gets  his  yearlings,  if  it  is  among  the  most  interesting  in  his  life,  is  also  one 
of  the  most  important.  He  always  hopes  for  the  "unknown  treasure,"  the  animal 
that  is  to  turn  out  "the  Horse  of  the  Century,"  whatever  is  sent  him;  but  if  he 
is  apt  to  look  for  it  first  among  the  stock  that  were  bought  at  auction  on  his  own 
advice,  he  must  remember  that  it  is  just  as  likely  to  turn  up  among  the  queer-looking 
brutes  sent  him  by  owners  from  their  own  stud  farms.  So  strange  are  the  ways 
by  which  Nature  comes  to  her  own,  that  racing  men  have  been  reduced  to  thinking 
that  "they  run  in  all  shapes."  Certainly  if  the  anatomy  of  the  classic  winners 
were  ruthlessly  dissected,  it  would  be  difficult  to  arrive  at  any  average  form  that 


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would  prove  an  infallible  guide.  It  is  an  old  adage  that  a  badly  built  one  never 
won  the  Derby.  But  its  truth  has  been  confirmed  by  not  a  few  exceptions. 
Fashionable  strains  of  blood  provide  no  surer  indication  ;  yet  breeding  must  be 
a  most  important  factor  in  the  problem,  or  nearly  all  previous  records  must  be 
meaningless.  On  the  whole,  I  take  it  that  your  perfect  trainer  must  know  enough 
of  the  ways  of  the  thoroughbred,  and  estimate  his  own  skill  and  opportunities 
sufficiently  well,  to  be  able  to  judge  whether  a  yearling  is  worth  taking  trouble 
over  or  not  ;  he  must,  above  all,  be  broadminded  enough  to  realise  that  if  there 


Bv  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King. 


The  Yearlings  Boxes,  Sandringham. 


is  no  such  thing  as  certainty  of  success,  the  balance  is  held  level  by  the  fact  that 
certain  failure  is  almost  equally  difficult  of  prediction  until  everything  possible  has 
been  tried. 

But  if  your  trainer  be  the  most  perfect  in  the  world,  his  work  and  his  com- 
binations will  be  ruined  unless  he  has  a  trustworthy,  capable,  and  silent  head  lad, 
with  a  conscience  as  fine  as  his  hands,  and  a  head  as  sound  as  his  heart.  \\  ith 
something  approaching  such  an  one,  a  stable  will  lose  a  multitude  of  worries,  and 
its  horses  will  benefit  accordingly,  for  the  brutes  have  the  queerest  knack  of  picking 


548  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

up  the  prevalent  atmosphere  of  dejection  or  of  confidence.  The  yearlings,  too, 
whose  manners  should  be  perfectly  trained  when  they  arrive  from  any  decent  stud, 
will  not  learn  vice  from  ill-treatment  while  they  begin  their  first  lessons  in  hard 
work,  and  will  not  flinch  when  you  go  up  to  them  in  their  stall  any  more  than 
they  did  when  you  patted  them  as  foals  in  the  paddock.  The  routine  of  training- 
stables  is  not  so  unfamiliar  to  any  reader  of  these  pages  that  I  need  describe  it 
at  length.  Most  trainers  will  tell  you  that  when  they  make  their  first  early  round 
at  five  or  six,  and  earlier  in  summer,  it  is  always  the  most  promising  who  have 
had  a  bad  night,  or  suddenly  revealed  "something  wrong"  with  a  joint.  But  if 
all  goes  well  the  "sheeted  string"  is  off  to  the  downs  long  before  breakfast,  while 
the  trainer  and  his  head  lad  follow  them  and  talk  over  the  work  that  is  to  be  done, 
until  the  horses  are  warmed  up  with  a  little  walking  and  cantering  in  preparation  for 
their  harder  work  over  distances,  and  at  a  pace,  that  have  been  carefully  settled 
beforehand.  Kisber  (for  instance)  was  always  lame  in  the  stable,  and  was  generally 
walked  about  for  two  hours  before  commencing  fast  work.  He  would  have  won  the 
Leger,  as  he  had  the  Derby  and  the  Grand  Prix,  had  he  not  broken  down  in  the  pan 
of  the  heel  some  time  before  the  race.  His  owner,  who  had  hedged  when  this 
happened,  doubled  his  stake  after  Hayhoe  had  given  the  horse  a  couple  of  canters  at 
the  last  moment. 

Some  of  the  two-year-olds  are  practised  in  starting,  with  the  boys  in  silk  jackets, 
and  the  starting-gate  apparatus,  of  which  I  shall  have  a  word  to  say  later  on.  But  in 
every  case  the  greatest  care  is  taken  not  to  worry  the  horses  in  ways  that  can  be 
prevented,  and  not  to  make  their  racing  preparations  too  distasteful  to  them,  either 
by  trials  that  break  their  hearts  before  they  see  a  racecourse,  or  by  undue  punish- 
ment at  the  wrong  time.  The  business  of  "  trials  "  in  the  technical  sense  is  not  one 
that  can  properly  be  treated  here,  but  it  has  changed  very  much  in  the  last  fifty 
years,  with  the  changes  that  have  been  brought  to  life  in  general  by  the  newspaper 
press  and  advancing  electrical  facilities  of  every  sort.  I  may  say,  however,  that  if  it 
is  quite  possible  for  a  good  jockey  to  give  a  trainer  the  most  valuable  information  in 
the  world  about  a  horse's  pace  after  a  good  trial  against  carefully  selected  animals,  it 
is  equally  on  the  cards  that  careless  or  deliberately  dishonest  riding  will  produce 
a  result  that  may  fatally  mislead  the  most  sharp-eyed  and  experienced  trainer.  The 
tale  of  misleading  "  trials  "  is  as  old  as  Tregonwell  Frampton. 

It  will  do  the  young  ones  no  harm  to  let  them  nibble  a  little  fresh  dewy  grass 
on  the  downs  and  get  quite  calmed  down  after  their  gallop  before  they  walk  home 


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again  behind  a  trusty  animal,  who  will  not  tire  them  with  too  big  a  stride.  The 
Americans  have  introduced  several  sensible  reforms  in  Newmarket  stable-manage- 
ment, which  all  tend  in  the  direction  of  letting  the  racehorse  enjoy  himself  in  a 
natural  way,  and  forget  that  he  is  being  artificially  prepared  to  amuse  other  people. 
The  sand  bath  is  perhaps  as  valuable  as  any  of  these  ;  at  any  rate,  the  intense 
enjoyment  many  horses  show  in  it  must  be  as  healthy  as  it  is  undoubted.  The 
success  of  an  American  trainer  like  Wishard,  when  he  first  came  over,  was  due,  as 
far  as  I  can  judge,  to  his  sympathetic  knowledge  and  perception  of  what  each  horse 
required  in  the  way  of  treatment  or  of  work,  and  to  his  realisation  of  the  fact  that 
the  horse  was  not  a  machine,  but  a  creature  with  individual  tastes  that  had  to  be 
studied,  with  a  character  of  its  own,  and  with  a  natural  preference  for  finding  its 


By  permission  of  "  Country  Life" 


Wishard 's  Sand-bath. 


training-ground  an  amusing  place  where  recreation  as  well  as  racing  could  be  found. 
Practice  that  was  founded  on  such  ideals  could  hardly  fail  to  be  successful  when 
it  was  the  result  of  that  careful  attention  to  detail  which  the  Americans  bestow 
on  every  form  of  sport  they  ever  touch. 

The  spare  lot,  whose  engagements  are  still  some  time  off,  come  out  about 
ten,  and  by  the  time  their  exercise  is  over,  their  mouths  sponged  out  (with  a  touch 
of  disinfectant  in  the  water  used),  and  all  put  shipshape,  the  lads  can  go  to  dinner. 
And  so  the  days  draw  to  their  close,  and  the  trainer  turns  in  the  evening  to  the 
Racing  Calendar,  with  a  few  more  details  to  help  him  make  up  his  mind  about 
those  entries  that  are  left  to  his  discretion.  His  decision  in  turn  counteracts  upon 
the  programme  of  work  for  the  next  day  or  two.  Some  animals  have  to  be  "big" 


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as  well  as  fit ;  others  can  never  stand  often  doing  the  full  distance  before  the  actual 
day  ;  others,  again,  are  never  so  happy  as  when  they  are  working  at  full  steam  all 
the  time.  Their  constitutions  are  as  different  as  their  conformations  ;  and  so  the 
thoughtful  trainer  ends  his  day  as  he  began,  thinking  over  the  way  a  horse  is 
built.  At  the  present  time  it  seems  as  if  the  "long,  low  ones"  were  as  much 
out  of  fashion  as  the  seventeen-handers,  in  spite  of  the  Frenchman  Vinicius 
and  his  bold  bid  for  the  Derby.  He  was  beaten  by  a  much  smaller  horse,  all 

quality.  St.  Simon  and 
his  best  offspring  have 
perhaps  done  as  much 
as  anything  to  form 
the  trainer's  ideal  just 
now.  A  two-year-old 
that  stands  straight  and 
true,  and  moves  easily, 
with  pasterns  not  too 
straight,  good  shoulders, 
and  only  just  room  for 
a  saddle  on  his  back,  is 
after  all  a  lovely  sight. 
I  do  not  wonder  that 
owners,  and  trainers  too, 

have  made  a  number  of  mistakes  over  such  animals  before  they  found  out  either 
that  they  were  working  them  the  wrong  way,  or  that  they  were  not  worth 
working  at  all. 

Even  so  great  a  master  of  his  art  as  Mat  Dawson  never  performed  the  feat 
brought  off  by  his  pupil,  Blackwell,  in  1903,  of  training  both  first  and  third  in 
the  Derby.  It  was  not  long,  however,  before  this  feat  was  beaten  in  the  same 
season,  for  R.  Denman  had  the  luck  to  train  first,  second,  and  third  in  the  Grand 
Prix  for  M.  E.  Blanc,  who  thus  won  the  race  (worth  nearly  ,£11,000  in  1903)  for 
the  sixth  time  under  quite  exceptional  circumstances,  after  sending  enough  horses 
to  the  post  to  ensure  the  truth,  on  this  occasion,  of  the  motto  his  father  made  so 
famous  at  Monte  Carlo :  ""Blanc  gagne  toujours."  The  winner.  Quo  Vadis,  was 
by  his  owner's  WinkfieltCs  Pride,  who  shares  with  Flying  Fox,  the  honours  of  a 
stud  that  supplies  quite  sufficient  reason  in  itself  for  no  English  horse  having 


By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King. 


'•''Leveret"  at  Sandringham 


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won   the   Grand   Prix  since    Mr.  Vyner's   Minting  in    1886.     The  year  before  that 

Mr.  Brodrick  Cloete's  Paradox  had  been  successful,  and  no  less  than  five  English 

horses   ran    in    1863,    when    the    Due    de    Morny   established    the   race   as  a   polite 

equivalent  for  the  many  opportunities  given  to  French  horses  on  the  English  turf 

from  the  days  of  Gladiateur  and  before  him.      The  pedigree  of  Quo  Vadis  is  worth 

careful   consideration,   revealing  as   it   does  the   use   made   in    France   of  the   Solon 

branch   of    West  Australian;   and   it   may  be   considered   significant   that   Vinichis, 

whose  trials  made  him  his  owner's  favourite,  was  beaten  into  third  place  by  Caius. 

The  best  parallel    I   can   think  of  to   this  triple   victory  is  the  memorable  occasion 

at  Goodwood  in  August, 

1830,     when     our     own 

William      IV.      "started 

the  whole  squadron,"  and 

came  in  first,  second,  and 

third,      with     Fleur     dc 

Lys,  Zinganee,  and    The 

Colonel,    in    that     order, 

as  is  related  on  page  xix. 

of  the  Preface  to  my  first 

volume ;  and  though  this 

was    in    a    field    of    nine 

instead    of   the   fourteen 

at    Paris,    the   competing 

horses  were  relatively  of 

a     very      much      higher 

quality,  if  records  go  for  anything.      The  dangers  of  having  more  fancied  candidates 

than  one  in  the  same  race  was  exemplified  a  little  earlier  by  the  same  owner,  whose 

Grand  Prix  turned  so  fortunate  ;  for  M.  Blanc  lost  the  French   Derby  entirely  owing 

to  one  of  his  jockeys  waiting  for  the  other  while  a  stranger  beat  them  both.      In  1843 

much  the  same  thing  happened  to  the  famous  Whitewall  stables  in  the  St.  Leger,  for 

which  it  had  been  arranged  that  Cotherstone,  winner  of  the  Two  Thousand  and  the 

Derby,  was  to  be  sacrificed  to   Lord  Chesterfield's  Prizefighter,  against  whom  Lord 

Glasgow  had    laid  a  very  heavy  bet ;    but  it  is  very  doubtful  whether  Mr.   Bowes 

knew  this.      In  any  case,  Nutwith  got  the  better  of  Prizefighter,  who  did  not  give  up 

the  struggle  in  time  to  let  Frank  Butler  know  that  Cotherstone  was  badly  wanted  after 


By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King. 


Tlic  Stud  Grooiris  House, 
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all.  In  the  St.  Leger  of  1858  the  catastrophe  with  Cotherstone  was  not  repeated 
with  Mr.  Merry's  Blanche  of  Middlebie,  only  because  Luke  Snowden,  on  his  other 
mare,  Sunbeam,  realised  in  time  that  Aldcroft  on  The  Hadji  had  got  between  them 
and  was  actually  winning.  So  Sunbeam  was  called  on  for  an  effort  just  in  time,  and 
won  by  half  a  length. 

It  was  Bill  Scott  who  first  found  out  for  Whitewall  what  a  real  good  one  they 
had  got  in  Touchstone  s  son,  and  Mr.  Bowes  did  well  over  both  Derby  and  Two 
Thousand.  On  Letcombe  Downs,  near  the  little  Berkshire  town  of  Wantage, 
old  Tom  Parr  once  asked  Saucebox  a  question  on  the  day  before  the  St.  Leger 
of  1855.  He  had  to  be  "as  good  as  Scythian  in  the  Chester  Cup,  with  Fanny 

Gray  to  make  the  run- 
ning, and  Mortemer  to 
take  it  up  at  the  end  of 
a  mile."  The  victory 
by  five  lengths  proved 
a  true  portent ;  and 
Weathergage  was  just  as 
thoughtful  on  another 
occasion.  But  such  accu- 
rate prophecies  are  rare. 
With  yearlings  they  are 
apt  to  be  even  more  de- 
ceptive, as  Lord  George 
Bentinck  must  have 
discovered.  General 

Peel's  Peter  beat  Wanderer  by  a  head  over  three  furlongs,  receiving  iolbs., 
on  Christmas  Day,  1877.  His  defeat  by  Wheel  of  Fortune  at  Goodwood  was 
his  only  two-year-old  failure.  T.  Jennings  was  equally  fortunate  in  his  trial  of 
Ecassais  with  the  five-year-old  Liiisette.  With  Trappist  and  Lollypop,  Ecossais 
turned  out  one  of  the  fastest  sprinters  of  his  time.  As  an  instance  of  a  contrary 
result  in  two-year-old  trials,  we  may  take  that  recorded  of  Queen  Bertha,  who  was 
beaten  by  Old  Orange  Girl  and  Laura  on  Langton  Wold  in  July,  1862.  She  won 
the  Oaks,  was  second  in  the  St.  Leger,  and  left  a  mark  on  the  Stud  Book  which 
not  many  other  mares  have  beaten.  Curiously  enough,  Fantail,  who  came  in  last 
in  the  same  trial,  proved  better  later  on  than  any  of  the  others  except  Queen  Bertha. 


By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King. 


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East  Ilsley  was  luckier  in  1866,  when  they  tried  Achievement  at  lolbs.  with  the 
seven-year-old  Grisette,  half  a  mile  and  a  hundred  yards,  and  the  young  one  came  in 
six  lengths  ahead.  The  year  before  both  Grisette  and  Riistic  had  beaten  Lord  Lyon, 
the  mare  carrying  gst.  ylb.  to  the  8st.  of  both  the  two-year-olds  ;  and  in  spite  of 
Lord  Lyons  wonderful  showing  as  a  yearling  against  Uzabel  in  1864,  his  later 
trial  evidently  made  Sir  R.  Sutton  think  that  Rustic  was  the  better  horse.  On 
August  3  and  17  in  1865  Lord  Lyon  beat  the  three-year-old  Gardevisure  with 
considerable  ease,  receiving  iSlbs.  and  i7lbs.  on  the  respective  occasions. 

The  authors  of  the  "Badminton"  volume  on  "Racing"  give  another  very 
interesting  instance  of  a 
misleading  trial  which 
took  place  on  the  Mon- 
day in  the  Epsom  sum- 
mer week  of  1867.  Sir 
Joseph  Hawley  believed 
so  strongly  in  the  merits 
of  The  Palmer  that,  in 
the  winter  before,  he 
betted  Mr.  Chaplin 
,£40,000  that  his  horse 
would  beat  Hermit  for 
the  Derby,  and  was 
apparently  confirmed  in 
his  opinion  by  a  trial  in 
which  The  Palmer  beat 

three  other  three-year-olds  on  May  20  over  a  mile  and  a  half.  When  he  tried 
Rosicnuian  on  May  12,  1868,  the  brown's  victory  over  Blue  Gown  and  The  Palmer 
settled  all  his  chances  for  racing  immediately  afterwards,  and  in  another  trial  nine 
days  afterwards  he  came  in  last  of  four.  Scarcely  less  disastrous  was  Sir  Joseph's 
trial  of  May  20,  1869,  when  Lictor  and  Morna,  the  two  winners,  were  placed  second 
in  Derby  and  Oaks  respectively.  Few  owners  can  afford,  as  Lord  Falmouth 
enjoyed  doing,  to  see  their  horses  race  without  a  trial  at  all,  and  only  find  out 
their  form  at  the  finish  of  a  classic  race.  He  probably  lost  far  less  by  it  than 
many  would  imagine,  and  even  he  could  not  resist  the  temptation,  now  and  then, 
to  see  whether  he  had  really  got  hold  of  a  good  thing  or  not,  if  only  to  gratify 

VOL.    III.  N 


By  permission  of  His 
Majesty  the  King. 


"  Nunsuch  "  with  filly  by  "  Persimmon  " 
at  Sandringham. 


554  A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 

a  very  legitimate  curiosity  on  the  part  of  his  more  speculative  friends.  In  one  of 
the  most  interesting  events  of  this  kind,  in  which  Silvio  (5  yrs.),  Jannette  (4  yrs.), 
Wheel  of  Fortune  and  Charibert  (3  yrs.)  took  part,  neither  Lord  Falmouth  nor 
Matthew  Dawson  could  ever  remember  where  Charibert  came  in,  though  he  won 
the  Two  Thousand  afterwards,  and  the  winner  of  the  trial  secured  both  the  One 
Thousand  and  Oaks,  having  proved  her  merit  on  this  occasion  against  a  former 
winner  of  the  Derby  and  Leger,  and  a  former  winner  of  the  Oaks  and  Leger. 
The  quartette  probably  composed  as  warm  a  trial  as  has  ever  been  seen  over  the 
Rowley  Mile,  though  Mr.  Sievier's  Sceptre  was  put  to  an  even  more  searching 
test  during  her  Derby  preparation,  as  will  be  related  further  on. 

A  strange  lesson  was  read  both  to  trainers  and  to  stud-grooms  by  the  incident 
which  resulted  in  the  famous  inquiry  about  Bend  Or.  This  all  hinged  on  the 
question  whether  he  was  really  the  son  of  Doncaster  and  Rouge  Rose,  or  whether 
he  was  Tadcaster.  The  evidence  against  him,  as  alleged  by  servants  who  were 
discharged  by  the  Duke  of  Westminster  at  the  end  of  June,  1880,  revealed  the 
extraordinary  fact  that  very  few  breeders,  of  valuable  thoroughbred  stock  kept  a 
register  containing  the  dates  of  the  birth,  with  the  marks  and  colouring  of  the 
foals,  one  of  the  most  important  necessities  of  a  racing  stable,  it  might  be  imagined. 
In  this  case  there  was  not  the  faintest  imputation  of  dishonesty  against  any  one 
chiefly  concerned  in  Bend  Ors  Derby.  But  one  racehorse  has  been  substituted 
far  another  perhaps  more  often  than  is  realised,  and  by  this  means  a  "  surprise " 
has  been  effected,  which,  however  temporary  its  results,  may  have  entirely  upset 
the  careful  trials  of  the  most  conscientious  trainer.  But  Gladiateur,  difficult  as  he 
must  have  been  to  train,  with  his  queer  fetlock  joints,  was  one  of  those  who  was 
as  satisfactory  in  his  racing  as  in  his  trials,  and  rarely  did  even  T.  Jennings  know 
as  much  about  a  real  flyer  as  when  he  began  to  sweep  the  board  for  Count  Legrange. 
Donovan  gave  the  Duke  of  Portland  some  equally  useful  "knowledge  before  the 
event "  by  beating  the  four-year-old  Ayrshire  over  "  The  Flat  "  in  the  spring  of  1889. 
On  April  12,  1890,  the  showing  of  Memoir  against  Semolina  over  the  Rowley  Mile 
can  have  hardly  prepared  the  Duke  or  the  public  for  the  sad  sight  of  George  Barrett 
pulling  Memoir  back  opposite  the  stand  in  the  One  Thousand  Guineas,  on  account 
of  the  declaration  which  her  owner  had  made  to  win  with  the  other  mare.  When 
allowed  her  own  way  in  the  Oaks  Memoir  proved  herself  conclusively  the  better. 

Much  the  same  thing  occurred  when  Maroon  had  to  be  pulled  back  several 
times  to  allow  the  Duke  of  Westminster  to  win  the  St.  Leger  of  1840  with  his 


555 


i)       ^ 


556  A   HISTORY  Of  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

other  nomination,  Launcelot.  Again,  the  difficulty  of  having  two  strong  strings 
to  one's  bow  was  seen  with  Lord  Jersey's  Maine  hike  and  Glenartney  in  the  Derby 
of  1827.  The  famous  Fred  Swindell  got  his  start  in  life  from  the  fact  that 
Rockingham  won  the  St.  Leger  of  1833,  though  Mr.  Watt's  money  was  on  his 
other  horse,  Belshazzar.  This  must  have  been  a  result  which  the  trainer  could 
possibly  have  explained.  A  similar  catastrophe  has  occasionally  occurred  owing 
to  the  annoyance  of  a  jockey  at  being  put  up  to  ride  on  what  the  stable  had  publicly- 
confessed  to  be  their  second  string.  It  must  have  been  for  some  such  reason  that 
Whitehouse  won  the  Stewards'  Cup  at  Goodwood  in  1847  with  The  Cur,  after 
Mr.  Rolt  had  declared  to  win  with  his  other  horse,  Collingwood ;  and  Tom  French 
must  have  been  inspired  with  similar  motives  when,  on  Gomera,  he  beat  Daley  by  a 
head,  onfa/ius,  for  the  Hurstbourne  Cup  at  Stockbridge  in  1868,  though  the  Duke 
of  Newcastle  had  only  put  in  Gomera  to  make  up  the  number  of  runners  sufficient 
to  secure  Julius  a  prize.  Sometimes  the  public  entirely  neglect  the  lessons  of  a 
race,  run  where  all  the  world  may  see,  under  strict  regulations  and  with  reasonable 
precautions,  yet  they  will  pin  their  faith  to  the  mere  rumour  of  a  private  trial  that 
may  mislead  any  one  who  is  not  fully  aware  of  all  the  circumstances.  At  other  times 
the  public  back  their  fancy  in  spite  of  any  declaration,  as  it  was  fully  expected  they 
would  have  done  if  the  Duke  of  Portland  had  not  let  Memoir  run  her  own  race 
for  the  Oaks,  and  as  they  certainly  did  when  the  Duke  of  Hamilton  declared  his 
Midlothian  (10  to  i)  for  the  Stewards'  Cup  (on  the  afternoon  that  Wheel  of  Fortune 
and  Peter  appeared  as  two-year-olds),  and  his  Lollypop  started  nearly  favourite 
at  4  to  i.  It  was  Admiral  Rous's  opinion  that  to  tell  a  jockey  to  pull  a  horse,  under 
any  circumstances,  was  to  brutalise  him  ;  whereas  Mr.  Chaplin,  with  more  fairness 
and  logic,  held,  in  a  famous  case  at  Shrewsbury  in  1871,  that  an  owner  who  made  a 
public  declaration  had  done  all  that  could  reasonably  be  expected  of  him.  Certainly 
the  owner  is  very  badly  treated  when  a  jockey  ignores  both  riding  instructions  and 
declaration.  But  a  trainer  is  even  worse  served  whose  jockey  deliberately  pulls 
a  horse  in  a  trial  in  order  to  produce  a  false  impression.  This  happened  when 
Edwards  stopped  Lord  Stamford's  chestnut  Diophanttis,  by  Orlando,  one  of  the 
favourites  for  the  Two  Thousand  of  1861,  when  he  was  tried  with  Imdus,  a  trick 
which  was  played  in  order  that  French,  the  stable's  first  jockey,  should  have  a  losing 
mount.  Prince  Batthyany  was  astonished  at  the  opportunities  he  was  given  for 
getting  his  money  on  to  Diophantus,  owing  to  an  early  and  very  considerable 
commission  having  been  forgotten  when  the  result  of  the  false  trial  was  acted  upon 


557 


558 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 


by  the  rest  of  the  stable  in,  of  course,  an  entirely  contrary  direction.  Lord  Stamford 
must  have  been  equally  surprised,  after  seeing  Edwards  win  on  the  "second  string," 
to  discover  that  he  had  had  a  real  good  race  after  all.  When  the  public  saw  Wells 
in  the  first  colours  on  Bhie  Gown,  they  did  not  perhaps  pay  so  much  attention 
as  they  might  have  done  to  Sir  Joseph  Hawley's  declaration  to  win  with  either 
Rosicrucian  or  Green  Sleeves.  But  it  must  be  remembered  that  John  Porter 
considered  the  handsome  black-brown  son  of  Beadsman  to  be  as  good  as  anything 
he  had  hitherto  trained,  and  lolbs.  better  than  Bhte  Gown,  whose  victory  over  the 
two  their  trainer  and  owner  fancied  more  may  have  been  due  to  the  fact  that  he 
had  escaped  the  influenza  from  which  both  had  suffered  in  the  sprino-.  The 

Derby      of      1868      was 
indeed     full     of     "  Turf 
History."     The    ill-fated 
Marquis      of      Hastings 
had  become  involved  in 
the    hands  of   Mr.    Pad- 
wick,  and,  wrote  Admiral 
Rons      to      the      Times, 
"  What     can     the     poor 
fly     demand     from     the 
spider  in  whose  web  he 
is      enveloped  ? "        The 
eleventh-hour  scratching 
of      The     Earl,     added 
to     the     hopelessly     bad 
showing    of     Lady    Elizabeth,     had     roused     all     the     Dictator's     indignation,     and 
whatever  may  be  said  of  the  evils  of  the  modern   Racing  Press,  it  would  certainly 
be  impossible  for  it  to  be  practically  unknown,  nowadays,  that  a  famous  filly  had 
lost  her  form  and  never  been  able  to  undergo  any  preparation  for  the  Derby.      The 
Admiral,  under  threat  of  a  libel  action  from  John  Day,  had  to  withdraw  the  letter 
in  which  he  had  permitted  a  good  deal  of  truth  to  be  obscured  by  an  unnecessary 
amount   of   angry  accusation.      The    fact   was   that  Lady  Elizabeths    amazing  two- 
year-old  career  led  to  40  to    i   having  been  laid  against    The  Earl  for  the   Derby  ; 
so  when  Danebury  discovered  that  the  mare  had  lost  her  form,  and  that  the  colt 
was   one   of  the  best   they   had    ever  had   at   a   mile   and   a   half,  it  was  absolutely 


By  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King. 


"  Meadowchat "  at  Sandringham. 


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559 


impossible  to  start  The  Earl  with  winning  orders,  as  it  was  hopeless  to  attempt 
to  get  back  the  money  laid  against  him.  This  was  why  he  was  scratched  at  the 
last  minute  and  reserved  for  the  Grand  Prix,  which  he  won,  and  then  rushed  over 
to  Ascot,  where  he  won  three  more  races  within  the  five  days.  This  broke  him 
up  so  much  that  when  John  Day,  contrary  to  Enoch's  wishes,  put  Tom  Cannon 
on  to  him  for  a  good  stripped  gallop  the  Thursday  before  the  Leger,  he  pulled 
up  lame  and  never  saw  a  racecourse  again.  Before  the  year  was  out  Lord  Hastings 
was  dead.  He  had  not  reached  the  age  of  twenty-eight,  yet  he  had  shown  himself 
one  of  the  cleverest  tacticians  on  the  Turf,  one  of  the  finest  judges  of  racing, 
and  a  master  in  the  art  of  trying  horses,  as  indeed  he  was  bound  to  be,  for  the 
enormous  bets  he  made 
in  his  chimerical  deter- 
mination to  "break  the 
Ring  "  necessitated  leav- 
ing as  little  as  possible 
to  chance,  even  if  ex- 
tremely severe  tests  were 
therefore  requisite.  The 
Earl  (450  guineas)  had 
been  one  of  the  cheapest 
of  his  purchases.  With 
Ackworth  (supposed  to 
be  dear  at  2000  guineas) 
the  "scarlet  and  white 
hoops "  won  their  first 

great  victory  in  the  Cambridgeshire  of  1864.  In  1866  little  Lecturer,  a  foal  from 
the  Sledmere  sale,  won  ,£40,000  for  the  Donington  party  in  the  Cesarewitch. 
That  winter  the  Marquis  made  up  his  mind  that  Hermit  could  never  win  the 
next  Derby.  His  opinion  cost  him  .£103,000  and  the  estates  of  Loudoun.  Lady 
Elizabeth  and  Lecturer  got  back  some  of  this  at  Ascot,  defeating  a  field  of  ten 
for  the  Gold  Cup,  including  three  Oaks  winners — Regalia,  Tormentor,  and  Hippia— 
after  a  splendid  finish  by  Fordham.  But  Lady  Elizabeth's  match  at  gibs,  with  the 
three-year-old  Julius  had  done  her  no  good.  The  Derby  of  1868  followed,  and  at 
the  First  October  Meeting  the  Marquis  was- 'on  the  Heath  in  a  basket  carriage, 
putting  "a  pony"  on  Athena,  "which  was  once  a  mare  of  mine."  "All  the  wheels 


"  Macaroni"  by  "Sweetmeat"  (1860). 


56°  A    HISTORY   OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

were  down,"  as  "The  Druid"  said,  and  his  career  was  soon  but  the  moral  of  a  trainer's 
tale.  His  brief  years  upon  the  Turf  must  have  been  an  extraordinary  time  for 
Danebury  ;  for  when  George  Forclham  had  nothing  to  ride  for  the  Marquis,  he  was 
fairly  sure  to  get  a  good  one  from  the  Duke  of  Beaufort,  and  neither  John  Day 
nor  Joseph  Enoch  can  have  had  much  time  to  spare,  in  the  duties  of  which  a  scanty 
outline  has  been  given,  from  the  day  when  The  Diike  won  the  Stockbridge  Biennial 
Stakes,  at  5  to  4,  from  a  field  of  fourteen.  This  light  bay  son  of  Stockwell,  out 
of  Bay  Celia,  was  the  first  really  good  two-year-old  the  Marquis  owned,  and  was 
such  a  desperate  puller  that  even  so  fine  a  horseman  as  T.  Cannon  could  only  hold 
him  in  a  plain  snaffle.  I  have  already  mentioned  some  of  the  trials  which  the  stable 
had  to  arrange  at  this  period,  and  I  have  quoted  the  doings  of  the  Marquis  of 
Hastings  as  one  of  the  best  illustrations  possible  of  how  much  may  depend  upon 
a  trainer's  skill.  It  is  worth  noting,  too,  that  Danebury  had  the  Duke  of  Beaufort's 
Ceylon  and  Vauban  at  the  same  time.  The  defeat  of  the  latter  in  Hermifs  Derby 
Enoch  always  explained  by  saying  that  Fordham  was  not  well  enough  to  ride  a 
proper  race.  Such  an  extraordinary  lot  of  two-year-olds  as  there  were  to  be  seen 
at  Danebury  in  1867  has  probably  never  been  equalled  elsewhere  in  any  year;  for 
though  Crucifix,  Achievement,  Wheel  of  Fortune,  St.  Simon,  and  Ormonde  may  be 
produced  in  half  a  century,  Lady  Elizabeth,  The  Earl,  See  Saiv,  Athena,  Europa, 
and  Mameluke  were  the  produce  of  a  single  season,  and  many  think  that  among 
them  the  best  two-year-old  that  ever  galloped  was  to  be  found.  The  beautiful  bay 
daughter  of  Trumpeter  was  once  asked  one  of  the  severest  questions  ever  put  to 
a  two-year-old,  and  Mr.  Sydenham  Dixon,  son  of  "The  Druid,"  gives  the  figures  as 
follows  for  the  result  of  the  trial  over  six  furlongs  of  the  Stockbridge  racecourse  :— 

Lady  Elizabeth,  2  yrs.,  8st.  lolb.    .....     i 

Lord  Ronald,  5  yrs.,  gst.  61b.          .  .,         .         .2 

Challenge,  3  yrs.,  8st.  I2lb 3 

Pantaloon,  5  yrs.    .         .  .  .         .     o 

This  the  filly  won  comfortably  by  two  lengths  as  early  in  the  year  as  June  4,  and 
having  regard  to  what  she  beat,  it  is  probably  one  of  the  best  two-year-old 
performances  ever  done  in  private.  No  wonder  it  was  followed,  four  months  later, 
by  her  equally  fine  victory  over  falius. 

It  is  sad  to  think,  as  I  revise  these  pages  in  the  spring  of  1903,  how  many  of 
the  men  mentioned  in  this  chapter  have  only  lately  left  us,  and  become  but  names 
in  the  history  they  helped  so  much  to  make.  John  Day's  head  lad  in  the  sixties,  for 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND   FOREIGN  METHODS. 


instance,  Joseph  Enoch,  died  at  his  training-establishment  on  the  day  when  His 
Majesty  King-  Edward  VII.  was  making  his  first  appearance  on  a  racecourse  (with 
Ambush  II.  at  Kempton  Park)  since  the  lamented  death  of  Queen  Victoria.  The 
stirring  days  with  which  Enoch  had  been  associated  at  Danebury  have  been  already 
hinted  at.  He  achieved  many  successes  later  on  with  the  Earl  of  Zetland  and 
Mr.  James  Lowther,  though  it  may  be  doubted  whether  he  had  ever  such  material 
to  work  upon  again.  His  kind-hearted  geniality  will  for  long  be  missed  at  New- 
market. John  Watts,  who  died  all  too  soon  at  the  early  age  of  forty-one,  was  a 
jockey  at  Danebury  when  there  were  so  many  good  riders  that  he  was  chiefly 
employed  in  carrying 
letters  to  the  post-office. 
But  he  never  foro-ot 

o 

his  early  apprenticeship 

with  Tom   Cannon,  and 

began    to    do  well  with 

some  of  his  first  masters, 

the    Duke  of  Hamilton 

and      the     Marquis     of 

Zetland.       His    win    on 

the    penalised     Foxhall 

for  the   Cambridgeshire 

of  '8 1  brought  him  into 

strong  prominence,  and 

he  made  his  mark  with 

Marsh's  stable  at   Newmarket,  especially  on  His  Majesty's  Persimmon.      He  was  a 

fine  example  of  the  old  school  of  riding,  on  which  it  will  be  difficult  ever  to  improve. 

Thomas  Jennings,  whom  we  lost  in  December,  1900,  was  an  example  of  a  trainer 
who  was  almost  as  much  concerned  with  Continental  as  with  English  racing.  He 
was  as  well  known  in  Italy  as  in  France,  and  it  was  a  sudden  visit  of  his  to  the  latter 
country  which  probably  preserved  Gladiateur  to  the  Turf.  For  that  great  horse, 
who  scarcely  passed  a  week  of  his  life  without  showing  lameness,  and  could  never  be 
properly  trained,  was  gifted  with  an  ugly  enlargement  on  one  of  the  joints  of  his 
off  fore  leg  as  a  yearling.  Jennings  advised  Charles  Pratt  to  "let  Nature  take  its 
course,"  and  this  proved  to  be  the  right  course.  Nothing  but  "  Nature"  could  have 
helped  an  animal  with  chronic  navicular  disease  to  do  what  he  did. 

VOL.   III.  O 


"  Lord  Clifden  "  by  "  Newminster  "  (1860). 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


In  his  first  trial  as  a  yearling  at  Chantilly  he  was  beaten  by  Le  Mandarin,  on 
whom  Jennings  won  a  new  hat.  But  Count  Lagrange  remained  unshaken  in  his 
belief  in  his  favourite.  The  difficulties  of  training  him  were  the  greatest  triumphs 
of  Jennings'  career,  and  it  was  in  trying  to  get  a  line  as  to  the  other  three-year-old 
form  that  Argences,  his  stable  companion,  was  beaten  for  the  Newmarket  Biennial 
by  Kangaroo,  soon  afterwards  to  be  sold  to  Lord  Hastings  for  .£12,000,  probably 
the  worst  bargain  ever  made  before  the  present  craze  for  fashionable  yearlings.  By 
a  combination  of  skill  and  good  fortune  rarely  equalled,  Gladiateur  reached  Epsom 


. 


"  Gladiateur"  by  «  Monarque"  (1862). 

(after  winning  the  Two  Thousand)  as  fit  as  he  ever  was  in  his  life,  and  his  Derby 
trial  was  one  of  the  best  ever  run  ;  for  he  gave  his  owner's  Fille  de  FAir  (who  had 
won  the  last  Oaks)  a  year  and  81bs.,  and  35lbs.  to  each  of  two  other  four-year-olds, 
and  beat  them  all  easily.  There  was  a  moment,  however,  of  extreme  agitation  in 
the  Derby,  for  which  a  bad  field  of  twenty-eight  came  to  the  post.  When  they 
neared  the  Bell,  Christmas  Carol  seemed  to  be  winning  from  E  It  ham  at  the  head  of 
all  the  other  horses.  Gladiateur,  on  the  high  ground  and  full  of  running,  was  being 
hard  held  by  Grimshaw,  who  was  too  short-sighted  to  see  what  was  happening  on 


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563 


the  rails.  Luckily  Goater  (on  Lord  Westmoreland's  Brahma]  shouted  out,  "  Don't 
you  see  where  Tom  French  is  ? "  whereupon  Gladiateur  was  let  go,  and  the  race  was 
over  at  once.  His  finest  race,  in  the  opinion  of  that  excellent  judge,  Mr.  Sydenham 
Dixon,  who  saw  it,  was  the  Ascot  Cup  of  1866  against  Breadalbane  and  Regalia. 
His  leg  was  worse  than  usual,  and  Grimshaw,  apparently  putting  a  very  liberal 
interpretation  on  his  instructions  to  nurse  his  mount  carefully  downhill,  let  Breadal- 
bane pass  the  stand  the  first  time  twenty  lengths  ahead  of  the  filly,  who  was  about 
ten  ahead  of  the  Frenchman,  and  when  they  were  on  level  ground  again  after  the 
hill  the  gap  was  at  least  three  hundred  yards.  It  was  closed  up  in  the  most 
astonishing  manner  when  Gladiateur  was  at  last  allowed  to  stride  along.  People 
could  hardly  believe 
their  eyes  when  Regalia 
was  beaten  by  forty 
lengths,  and  Breadal- 
bane never  finished  at 
all.  James  Waugh,  also, 
thought  this  the  finest 
performance  ever  accom- 
plished. Gladiatcitr  died 
young,  after  having  been 
sold  to  Mr.  Blenkiron, 
founder  of  the  Middle 
Park  Stud,  at  the  out- 
break of  the  war,  and 
besides  Grand  Co^lp, 

who  appeared  in  the  Derby,  he  only  left  Hero  to  represent  him  on  the  Turf,  a 
bay  colt  out  of  Tcsane,  foaled  in  1872.  What  Hero  might  have  grown  into  will 
never  be  known,  for  when  both  Jennings  and  Count  Lagrange  thought  he  "was 
as  good  as  his  father,"  he  split  one  of  his  hind  legs  at  exercise,  and  had  to  be 
destroyed.  I  have  mentioned  Regalia  in  Gladiateur 's  mighty  Ascot  victory.  Its 
value  will  be  enhanced  by  the  knowledge  that  this  big  chestnut  daughter  of  Slock^c// 
won  the  Oaks  of  1865,  and  was  second  to  the  Frenchman  for  the  Leger.  She  ran 
thirty-eight  times  after  her  only  outing  as  a  two-year-old  at  the  Houghton  Meeting. 
For  the  Gold  Vase  at  Ascot  she  was  only  beaten  by  Tom  Cannon's  remarkable 
riding  on  the  "66  to  i  Mail  Train"  She  never  forgave  Heartfield  for  striking  her 


"  Regalia  "  by  "  Stock-weir  (1862). 


564  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 

at  the  start  for  the  Hunt  Cup  next  day  ;  but  he  knew  her  little  ways  better  than  any- 
one else,  as  all  the  other  jockeys  recognised.  Again,  it  was  Fordham's  horsemanship 
on  Lectiirer  which  beat  her  in  the  Gold  Cup,  her  third  race  at  the  meeting. 

We  are  accustomed  nowadays  to  seeing  foreigners  not  only  enter  for  our  best 
sporting  events,  but  even  win  them.  On  the  Turf  we  have  had  Mr.  Richard  Ten 
Broeck,  Mr.  Pierre  Lorillard  with  Iroqiiois,  Mr.  Keene  with  Foxhall,  Mr.  William 
C.  Whitney  with  Volodyovski,  and  others  from  the  United  States  ;  the  Germans 
won  the  Cambridgeshire  of  1854;  Baron  Petroffski's  Vision  (bred  in  Russia)  appeared 
at  Newmarket  three  years  afterwards  ;  Kisber  and  Galopin  were  the  property  of 
Hungarians  ;  the  best  mare  they  ever  sent  from  the  Kisber  stud  was  Kincsem,  in 
1878,  who  won  the  Goodwood  Cup  among  her  many  victories.  She  held  an 
unbeaten  record,  and  won  thirty-six  races  off  the  reel  before  she  came  to  England, 
four  being  walk-overs.  After  Goodwood  she  won  the  Grand  Prix  de  Deauville,  and 
the  Grand  Prize  at  Baden-Baden.  She  was  a  little  like  Virago,  standing  over  i6'i, 
and  "as  long  as  a  boat."  She  was  a  granddaughter  of  Newminster,  bred  in  1874, 
by  Cambuscan  out  of  Water  Nymph,  and  proved  a  valuable  brood  mare  when  at  last 
she  was  given  a  rest  by  M.  Blascovitz,  whose  colours  she  carried.  Her  grandson 
ffazafi  won  the  Royal  Handicap  at  Sandown  in  1903  under  the  same  jacket,  which 
is  a  curious  coincidence.  This  colt  was  by  Orwell  (brother  to  Ornament,  the  dam  of 
Sceptre)  out  of  Ollyan  Nines  by  Buccaneer  (sire  of  Kisber,  who  won  both  Derby  and 
Grand  Prix  easily)  out  of  Kincsem.  From  France  we  know  the  names  of  Count 
Lagrange,  M.  Caillault,  M.  Abeille,  M.  Aumont,  M.  Edmond  Blanc,  M.  C.  Blanc, 
M.  de  Bremond,  M.  Lupin,  and  M.  Lefevre.  But  never  before  had  a  foreigner  created 
so  much  sensation  as  when  Count  Lagrange's  Gladiateiir  was  trained  by  Jennings 
for  the  Derby.  When  M.  Lupin's  Jouvence  and  Baron  Nathaniel  de  Rothschild's 
Baroncino  won  the  Goodwood  Cup  in  1853  and  1855,  they  were  carrying  over  a 
stone  less  than  the  English  horses  of  their  own  age,  a  fair  indication  of  the  opinion 
we  held  at  the  time  of  French  racing-stables.  In  1857  the  same  race  was  especially 
exciting  from  the  fact  that  besides  Monarque  (the  sire  of  Gladiateur]  there  were 
Mr.  Ten  Broeck's  Prior  and  Prioress,  and  M.  Lupin's  Florian,  in  a  field  of  fourteen, 
which  included  the  famous  Fisherman,  and  will  always  be  remembered  for  the 
scrimmage  created  by  the  fall  of  Gunboat  on  the  hill.  It  was  won  by  Monarque ; 
but  though  it  was  far  from  being  his  only  success  on  this  side,  no  one  imagined 
he  was  to  sire  a  Derby  winner.  He  came  from  the  Aumont  stables,  which  were 
bought  by  Count  Lagrange,  and  also  contained  Mademoiselle  de  Cliantilly,  who  won 


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565 


the  French  Oaks  and  the  City  and  Suburban  at  Epsom  the  following  year.  Tom 
Jennings  looked  after  the  Count's  stable  at  Newmarket,  while  his  brother  cared 
for  the  French  brigade  at  Compiegne.  The  running  of  Hospodar,  Stradella,  and 
Jarnicoton  (whom  the  Ring  called  "Darning-cotton")  did  not  make  the  stable 
popular  in  England,  and  when  Fille  de  FAir  won  the  Oaks  there  was  a  disgraceful 
riot,  though  similarly  in-and-out  running  has  been  well  known,  in  the  case  of  mares, 
both  before  and  since.  Gladiateiir  changed  all  that,  and  with  the  usual  swift 
reversal  of  popular  feeling,  it  was  then  imagined  that  the  English  Turf  was  going 
to  the  dogs. 

But  French  owners  were  far  from  having  produced  such  an  effect,  any  more 
than  they  did  when  the 
Due  de  Chartres  ran  an 
English-bred  horse  for 
the  Derby  of  1784, 
or,  as  Due  d'Orleans, 
entered  a  son  of  High- 
flyer two  years  later. 
In  spite  of  the  horrors 
of  1789  and  1790  in 
his  own  country,  the 
Due  was  running  about 
a  dozen  horses  on  this 
side,  until  he  was  guil- 
lotined soon  afterwards. 
From  that  time  his 

fate  seems  to  have  exercised  so  discouraging  an  influence  that  no  French  horse 
appeared  till  in  1860  Dangn  finished  fourth  in  Thormanbys  Derby  at  200  to  i, 
after  travelling  over  from  the  French  Derby.  The  next  year  Count  Lagrange 
ran  the  handsome  Royallieu,  who  came  in  sixth  ;  and  by  the  time  Hospodar  (by 
Monarque]  had  won  the  Clearwell  and  the  Criterion,  we  had  begun  to  imagine  that 
there  might  be  something  in  a  French  horse  after  all,  especially  when  Marignan  and 
Cosmopolite  (a  Lanercost  horse)  did  so  well  at  Newmarket,  the  latter  being  a  wonder 
over  six  furlongs,  or  when  Palestro  and  Gabrielle  d'Estrees  had  run  first  and  second 
for  the  Cambridgeshire  of  1861,  an  especial  triumph  for  Jennings.  But  Gladiatcur 
seemed  to  mark  the  zenith  of  the  Count's  fortunes.  Plutus,  who  ran  in  Lord  Lyons 


"  Fille  de  FAir"  by  "  Foig-a-Ballagh  "  (1861). 


566  A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

year,  had  been  picked  up  cheap  in  Newmarket  by  Jennings.  Neither  Dragon  nor 
Rouge  Dragon  had  justified  the  odds  taken  about  them.  The  Franco-German  War 
was  a  severe  shock  to  our  neighbours'  breeding,  and  Dangu,  the  birthplace  of 
Gladiateur,  never  seemed  to  recover  from  its  Prussian  occupation.  Count  Lagrange, 
who  had  been  hard  hit,  leased  his  horses  to  M.  Lefevre,  who  raced  as  "  Mr. 
Lombard"  in  England,  and  was  well  known  to  Lord  James  of  Hereford  in  connection 
with  the  Honduras  Loan.  M.  Delamarre's  entry  in  the  Derby  of  1871  can  hardly 
count,  for  like  M.  Lefevre's  Ravenshoe  and  Drummond,  it  was  born  and  bred  and 
trained  in  England.  The  former  sportsman's  Condor  was  an  outsider.  But  the 
Count  de  Juigne's  Montargis  was  a  very  different  animal  in  1873.  Though  he  failed 
in  the  Derby,  he  won  70,000  English  sovereigns  in  the  Cambridgeshire.  Boiard  was 
perhaps  a  better  stayer,  for  he  beat  our  Derby  winner  in  the  Grand  Prix,  and  won 
the  Ascot  Cup  next  year.  It  was  M.  Lefevre  who  bought  Ecossais,  of  whom  I  have 
already  spoken.  He  lost  the  Derby  of  1874.  Braconnier  came  over  with  a  great 
reputation  in  1876,  and  though  he  won  the  Jockey  Club  Cup  later  on,  he  was  only- 
tenth  in  Kisbers  Derby,  one  of  the  best  winners  ever  seen.  In  the  next  year 
Chamant  and  Jongleur,  both  French,  were  perhaps  as  good  as  any  of  their  age  alive. 
The  latter  took  another  Cambridgeshire  across  the  Channel,  and  beat  the  big 
Verneuil  as  a  two-year-old  for  the  Criterion.  Chamant,  who  was  a  son  of  Mortcmcr, 
a  winner  of  the  Ascot  Cup,  won  the  Two  Thousand  very  easily,  and  was  thought 
by  Lord  Falmouth  to  be  a  stone  better  than  the  Derby  winner  Si/vio.  In  1878,  by 
which  date  Jennings  had  been  for  two  years  again  in  the  service  of  his  old  master, 
Insulatre  won  the  French  Derby,  but  was  second  at  Epsom  and  for  the  Grand 
Prix,  returning  to  beat  the  winner  of  the  Oaks  at  Ascot.  In  1879  the  strapping, 
overgrown  Rayon  d'Or,  beaten  for  the  Two  Thousand  and  Derby,  made  the  whole 
of  the  running  and  won  the  St.  Leger  in  smashing  style.  It  was  a  splendid  finish  to 
Count  Lagrange's  racing  career.  The  Frenchman  had  won  the  Prix  du  Jockey  Club 
no  fewer  than  eight  times.  His  Canidlia  (One  Thousand  and  divided  the  Oaks) 
Verne^lil,  and  Zut  are  among  many  of  his  horses  which  will  long  be  remembered  in 
England.  M.  Lefevre's  Tristan  in  the  Derby  of  1881  was  bred  by  Lord  Rosslyn,  and 
Ladislas  in  St.  Blaises  year  was  English  bred.  In  Melton  s  Derby  the  Frenchmen 
were  all  betting  on  M.  Lupin's  Xaintrailles,  who  finished  fourth,  below  his  true  form. 
In  1889  M.  Blanc's  Clover,  who  had  won  the  French  Derby,  broke  down  in  our  race. 
But  his  Goitverneur  and  Reverend  were  only  beaten  by  Common  for  the  Derby  and 
St.  Leger  of  1891.  The  next  year  his  Bnccntanrc  was  third  to  Sir  Hugo,  and 


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567 


M.  C.  Blanc's  Rueil  finished  ninth.  After  that  there  was  a  pause  until  M.  de 
Bremond's  Holocauste  came  over  in  1899.  This  splendid  grey  inherited  the  blood 
of  Thormanby  through  his  sire  Lc  Sancy,  and  on  the  dam's  side  of  Kisber,  who  was 
thought  by  Hayhoe,  when  he  was  in  John  Scott's  stable,  to  have  been  better  than 
West  Aiistralian.  If  Holocauste  had  won  he  would  have  been  the  first  Derby 
winner  of  his  colour  since  Gustaviis  in  1821.  He  was  an  unusually  good  horse,  and 
anything  more  tragic  than  the  accident  which  necessitated"  his  destruction  on  the 
course  has  seldom  been  seen  at  Epsom.  Jennings  must  almost  have  imagined  at 
one  time  that  here  indeed  was  "the  second  Gladiateur"  that  had  been  so  long 
expected.  He  was  dead  before  M.  Blanc's  Vinicius  had  handsomely  beaten  all  our 
small  field  except  Rock 
Sand  in  the  Derby  of 

r9o3-  JU(%m»  from  the 
subsequent  running  of 

Vinicins  in  the  Grand 
Prix,  Rock  Sand  was  a 
good  horse  in  a  year 
of  only  moderate  three- 
year-olds.  Jennings  had 
a  long  and  varied  career 
since  he  learnt  his  first 
jockeyship  with  Carter 
under  Lord  Henry  Sey- 
mour in  Paris.  He 
had  trained  for  Prince 

Carignan  at  Turin  as  well;  and  in  1887  he  took  over  Prince  Soltykoff's  horses 
from  Charles  Arnull.  After  the  death  of  Matthew  Dawson  he  was  the  doyen 
of  English  trainers  ;  but  he  never  loved  anything  so  well  as  his  favourite  French 
horse. 

Another  instance  of  attachment  between  man  and  horse  worthy  to  be  included  in 
these  memories  of  famous  trainers  is  that  of  John  Dawson  and  Galopm.  Usually' 
rather  a  reserved  man,  he  could  not  conceal  his  feelings,  as  the  Duke  of  Westminster 
or  Lord  Rosebery  tried  to  do,  when  he  led  his  favourite  back  after  the  Derby  had 
been  won.  He  showed  his  delight,  too,  most  unmistakably  at  Newmarket  after  the 
famous  defeat  of  Lowlander.  Each  of  the  four  in  that  great  quartette  of  training 


•  Blair  At/tor  by  " Stochvell"  (1861). 


568  A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

brothers  had  a  special  favourite.  The  eldest,  Thomas,  preferred  Tomboy,  sire  of 
Nittwith.  Matthew  loved  Thormanby.  Nothing  shook  Joseph's  allegiance  to 
Prince  Charlie.  But  they  were  far  from  being  "one-horse  men."  In  fact,  three 
of  them  were  absolutely  the  making  of  Newmarket  as  a  training  centre  in  the  sixties, 
and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  no  single  family  of  trainers  have  ever  done  so 
much  for  the  English  Turf.  Their  father  trained  at  Gullane  at  the  period  I  have 
mentioned  in  previous  chapters,  when  John  Scott  at  Whitewall  was  "  the  wizard 
of  the  North,"  when  Croft  and  Lonsdale  were  at  Middleham,  when  Robson  was 
carrying  all  before  him  in  the  South.  After  the  downfall  of  Whitewall  and  Danebury, 
it  was  the  Dawsons  who  stepped  into  the  breach,  and  since  1850  the  record  of 
the  family  is  astonishing.  They  have  carried  off  the  Two  Thousand  twelve  times, 
the  One  Thousand  ten  times,  eleven  Derbys,  eight  victories  in  the  Oaks,  ten 
St.  Legers,  and  four  wins  in  the  Ascot  Gold  Cup.  When  Galopin  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty-eight  in  1899,  his  stock  had  won  close  upon  five  hundred  races,  of  an 
aggregate  value  of  a  quarter  of  a  million  sterling,  and  his  most  famous  son,  St.  Simon, 
is  still  the  champion  stallion  of  the  world  (May,  1903).  John,  the  last  of  the  four 
brothers,  is  just  dead,  but  he  has  left  two  sons,  John,  with  a  big  stable  at 
Newmarket,  and  George,  who  at  Heath  House  trained  Donovan,  Ayrshire,  Memoir, 
Mrs.  Butterwick,  Amiable,  and  Semolina.  But  after  carrying  off  in  succession  a 
brace  of  Derbys,  a  brace  of  Oaks,  a  brace  of  St.  Legers,  a  Two  Thousand,  a  third 
Oaks,  and  ,£73,000  odd  in  a  single  season  for  the  Duke  of  Portland,  George  seemed 
inclined  to  rest  upon  his  laurels,  and  has  been  very  quiet  of  late  years. 

Tom,  the  eldest  son  of  the  old  Gullane  trainer,  rarely  crossed  the  border  for 
a  long  time,  and  then  never  went  further  south  than  Middleham.  He  was  very 
popular  in  the  North,  and  trained  Pretender,  who  beat  Pero  Gomez  by  a  head  after 
a  desperate  struggle,  ridden  by  J.  Osborne,  in  1869.  Long  before  that  his  three 
brothers  had  migrated  to  the  metropolis  of  the  Turf.  John  had  been  with  the 
eccentric  Earl  of  Glasgow  for  a  time,  but  he  was  at  Compton  soon  after,  near 
Matthew,  while  his  brother  Joseph  was  at  Ilsley.  When  Matthew  went  to  Russley, 
and  Joseph  to  Newmarket,  John  soon  followed,  and  began  that  connection  with 
Prince  Batthyany  at  Warren  House  which  meant  so  much  to  both  of  them  from 
1 86 1  until  the  tragic  afternoon  in  1883  when  Galliard  won  the  Two  Thousand 
after  a  close  race,  and  the  owner  of  Galopin  fell  dead  in  the  Rowley  Mile  stand  as 
his  favourite's  son  passed  the  post.  At  the  sale  which  followed  St.  Simon  was 
purchased  for  1,600  guineas. 


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569 


John  Dawson's  second  City  and  Suburban  was  Prince  Batthyany's  first  notable 
victory,   in    1862.      The    success    of   Suburban   was    repeated    five    years    later  with 
Vandevelde.     These  two  horses,  with  Bel  Esperanza,  also  scored  three  Lincolnshire 
Handicaps  to  John's  credit.     Wise  Man,  in  1889,  was  his  last.     Typhoeus  was  another 
good  one  he  had  ;  and  the  two-year-olds  that  ran  for  the  Middle  Park  Plate  of  1867 
would  be  hard  to  beat  in  any  year.     Besides  the  Prince's  colt,  there  were  Rosicrucian, 
Lady  Elisabeth,   Green   Sleeve,  Lady  Coventry,  Formosa,   St.  Ronan,  Le  Sarrazin, 
and  Michael  de  Basco.      But  the  bay  yearling,  by  Vedette,  from  the  Diss  stud,  which 
the  Prince  purchased  for  520  guineas 
by    John     Dawson's    advice    at     the 
Middle    Park   sales,   proved    the   best 
bargain    they    ever    made.      Though 
he  lost  a  famous  Middle  Park   Plate, 
which    he   would   have   certainly   won 
had      not     Horse      Chestnut      nearly 
knocked     him     off    his    legs    in     the 
Abingclon    Bottom,    his    two-year-old 
career  was  good  enough  to  justify  his 
trainer  being  very  anxious   to  match 
him   against  Prince  Charlie  over  the 
T.   Y.  C.       His    Derby    victory   was 
an    undoubted    proof   of   his  superior 
excellence.       His     match     that    same 
year  with  the  five-year-old  Lowlander 
(Fordham     up)    again    confirmed     it. 


Prince  Batthyuny. 


Over    the    last    mile    and    a    half    of 
the   B.  C.   he  smashed  Craig  Millar, 

winner  of  the  St.  Leger,  at  even  weights  for  the  Newmarket  Derby.  At  Epsom 
he  had  already  beaten  the  winner  of  the  Two  Thousand,  Camballo.  Much  against 
his  trainer's  wishes  his  owner  would  never  risk  another  race,  and  took  his  favourite 
home  with  an  untarnished  shield,  to  be  the  sire  of  the  immortal  St.  Simon,  of 
Galliard  and  Disraeli,  winners  of  the  Two  Thousand,  of  Galcottia,  who  won  the 
One  Thousand,  of  Donovan,  winner  of  Derby  and  St.  Leger  and  much  more,  and 
of  many  another  good  one.  He  died  in  the  Derby  week  of  1899,  and  no  one 
has  since  ventured  to  attack  the  strain  of  Blacklock. 

VOL.   III.  P 


570  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

Lord  Dupplin's  Petrarch  was  another  of  John  Dawson's  charges,  and  won  the 
Two  Thousand  after  his  owner  had  declared  with  Kaleidoscope.  He  was  full  of 
quality,  but  extremely  delicate,  and  difficult  to  train,  and  only  finished  fourth  for 
the  Derby.  In  the  St.  Leger  he  could  do  no  less,  however,  than  follow  in  the 
victorious  footsteps  of  Lord  Clifden,  of  Neiuminster,  and  of  Touchstone,  his  sire, 
his  grandsire,  and  his  great-grandsire.  He  was  sold  for  12,000  guineas  (only  2000 
more  than  he  had  cost)  to  Lord  Lonsdale,  and  was  handed  over  as  sound  in  wind 
and  limb  as  when  he  had  first  come  to  Warren  House.  Luke,  who  had  steered 
Petrarch  in  the  Two  Thousand,  also  rode  Mr.  Naylor's  Jester  for  the  Cesarewitch 
of  1878,  and  brought  off  a  chance  that  was  almost  equally  unexpected.  The  winner's 
starting  price  was  20  to  i,  and  the  placed  horses  were  quoted  at  50  to  i  and  66  to  i 
respectively.  It  will  not  be  forgotten,  too,  that  at  one  time  John  Dawson  had 
under  his  care  both  St.  Simon  and  Perdita  //.,  and  it  was  from  Mr.  Benholm  that 
John  Porter  bought  the  mare  for  the  Prince  of  Wales  after  her  racing  days  were 
over,  and  thereby  founded  the  prosperity  of  the  Sandringham  stud. 

It  was  Matthew  Dawson  who  trained  St.  Simon  during  his  unbeaten  career. 
He  was  very  properly  regarded  as  the  doyen  of  his  profession,  and  from  his  first 
Derby  winner  in  1860  to  his  last  in  1895,  he  had  a  great  record  on  the  Turf. 
Between  Thormanby  and  Sir  Visto  came  Kingcraft,  Silvio,  Melton,  and  Ladas.  He 
also  trained  the  winners  of  five  Oaks,  five  Two  Thousands,  and  half  a  dozen  victors 
in  the  St.  Leger  and  the  One  Thousand.  Indeed,  to  write  of  Matthew  Dawson, 
especially  during  the  era  when  he  was  with  Lord  Falmouth  at  Heath  House,  would 
be  to  give  details  of  almost  every  race  worth  winning  at  the  time.  But  the  first 
years  of  his  arrival  at  Newmarket  were  not  unmixed  with  disappointment,  and 
one  instance  of  this  may  be  mentioned  to  show  that  the  best  of  trainers  cannot 
escape  a  bad  time  now  and  then.  Two  of  his  earliest  employers  were  the  Duke 
of  Hamilton  and  the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  for  Lord  Falmouth  was  then  with  Boyce. 
With  them  were  connected  the  names  of  Julius  and  of  Leonie,  already  mentioned. 
But  in  1868  among  the  two  Dukes'  youngsters  was  a  big  colt  called  Wild  Oats  (bred 
by  Lord  Dorchester  from  The  Golden  Heron  by  Wild  Dayrcll],  whose  own  sister, 
Hue  and  Cry,  ran  a  double  dead-heat,  and  was  rather  easily  beaten  in  her 
third  attempt.  Stephenson,  the  biggest  and  boldest  bookmaker  of  his  day,  "  knew 
something,"  with  the  result  that  after  Chatclherault  and  Abstinence  from  the  same 
stable  finished  first  and  second  for  the  Chesterfield  Stakes,  he  opened  out  with 
most  extraordinary  odds  against  Chatelherault  for  the  Derby,  "betting  to  lose,"  as 


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57 2  A   HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

a  good  authority  has  recorded,  "fifty  or  sixty  thousand  pounds  at  66  to  i  and 
100  to  i."  Wild  Oats,  however,  was  so  badly  beaten  for  the  Middle  Park  Plate 
that  the  Dukes  of  Hamilton  and  Newcastle,  whose  good  opinion  of  the  colt 
Stephenson  had  evidently  discovered,  were  seriously  annoyed  ;  and  Mat  Dawson, 
very  much  on  his  dignity,  told  them  to  "try  him  themselves,"  adding  that  "If  the 
young  'un  does  not  win,  I  will  retire  from  Heath  House  and  give  up  training." 
He  was  quite  right ;  for  "  the  young  'un  "  did  all  he  was  asked,  and  more,  against 
the  three-year-old  Leonie.  He  proceeded  to  win  the  Prendergast  Stakes  by  ten 
lengths  against  no  less  than  Morna,  who  had  not  long  before  beaten  Belladrnin. 
Then  came  the  fatal  crisis.  Against  Pero  Gomez  in  the  Criterion  Stakes  he  ran  one 
of  the  most  remarkable  two-year-old  races  ever  witnessed,  and  scored  a  dead-heat 
after  a  terribly  punishing  finish.  He  never  got  over  it.  The  Duke  of  Newcastle 
lost  enormous  sums  of  money,  chiefly  by  trying  to  get  back  what  he  had  originally 
dropped.  Soon  afterwards  the  Duke  of  Hamilton  landed  at  Marseilles  to  find 
himself  black-balled  for  the  Jockey  Club.  Their  studs  were  put  up  to  auction. 
Stephenson  committed  suicide.  All  this  must  have  tried  Matthew  Dawson  fairly 
high.  But  the  tide  turned  when  he  got  Lord  Falmouth's  horses. 

"  Mat's "  first  business  visit  to  Epsom  was  with  Lord  Kelburne's  (afterwards 
Lord  Glasgow's)  Pathfinder^  who  failed  to  win  the  Derby.  It  says  much  for  the 
Dawson  family,  by  the  way,  that  John  and  Joseph  also  trained  for  that  eccentric 
nobleman,  as  did  Thomas  of  Middleham,  who  twice  had  his  horses,  and  probably 
understood  him  better  than  any  other  trainer.  Matthew's  first  little  stud,  at 
Compton,  where  he  trained  for  Lord  John  Scott,  contained  such  useful  animals 
as  Miserrima ;  The  Reiver,  whom  West  Australian  beat  for  the  Leger ;  Catherine 
Hayes,  who  won  the  Oaks  ;  Kihneny  ;  and  Hobbie  Noble,  who  was  sold  to  Mr.  James 
Merry  as  a  two-year-old  for  what  was  then  the  big  price  of  6500  guineas.  It 
was  to  Mr.  Merry's  quarters  at  Russley  that  Matthew  moved,  and  the  remainder 
of  Lord  John  Scott's  stud  was  bought  to  go  there  for  rather  less  than  Hobbie  Noble 
had  cost  alone.  Two  years  afterwards  (in  1859)  Prince  resigned,  and  Matthew 
ruled  alone.  It  was  by  him  that  Thormanby  (by  Windhound]  was  bought  for 
Mr.  Merry  from  a  breeder  named  Plummer  for  "three  fifty,"  and  the  son  of  Alice 
Hawthorn  credited  his  owner  with  nearly  ,£100,000  in  bets  over  the  first  Derby 
his  trainer  ever  won.  Custance  rode  him,  after  the  jockey  who  had  been  brought 
over  from  Russia  for  the  purpose  had  failed  to  realise  the  responsibilities  of  his 
situation.  He  won  the  Gold  Cup  at  Ascot  afterwards.  In  1864  Scottish  Chief  was 


573 


.V. 


574  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

beaten,  in  one  of  the  hottest  fields  that  ever  started  for  the  Derby,  by  Blair 
Athol,  whom  Matthew  and  Thomas  both  thought  "a  grand  racehorse."  Matthew's 
beginnings  at  Newmarket,  after  he  left  Russley  for  Heath  House,  have  been  already 
sketched.  Lord  Falmouth's  Kingcraft,  by  King  Tom,  began  a  list  of  famous 
winners  in  which  occur  such  names  as  Atlantic,  Charibert,  Galliard,  Cecilia, 
Spinaway,  Wheel  of  Fortune,  Silvio,  Jannette,  Dutch  Oven,  and  Busybody,  a  perfect 
string  of  classic  winners.  Fred  Archer  helped  as  much  as  any  other  single  cause 
in  such  successes  as  were  these.  But  neither  his  riding  nor  Mat  Dawson's  training 
could  have  effected  what  they  did  unless  they  had  got  good  material  to  work  upon. 
The  Duke  of  Portland,  to  whom  my  third  volume  has  been  dedicated,  contributed 
some  more  of  this  material,  and  it  was  Mowerina,  again  one  of  Matthew's  purchases, 
which  largely  assisted  in  so  desirable  a  result.  She  was  the  dam  of  Donovan, 
Raeburn,  Semolina,  and  Modwena.  In  purchasing  the  son  of  Galopin  and  St.  Angela 
for  i, 600  guineas  at  the  sale  of  Prince  Batthyany's  stud,  Matthew  Dawson  not  only 
again  did  well  for  the  Duke,  but  probably  secured  the  best  bargain  ever  made 
in  thoroughbred  stock.  I  have  already  spoken  of  St.  Simons  value  as  a  sire ; 
and  though  he  has  not  yet  beaten  Stockwelfs  record  in  the  days  before  big  prizes, 
of  ,£61,391  for  his  progeny  in  a  single  season,  he  has  probably  done  more  for 
modern  racing  than  any  single  living  sire  that  could  be  named.  If  we  acid  the 
influence  of  Donovan,  of  Ayrshire,  and  of  the  same  owner's  Carbine,  who  brought 
back  Muskefs  staying  blood  to  England,  it  will  be  difficult  to  find  any  other  single 
stud  of  equal  value  to  the  modern  Turf.  I  shall  have  to  speak  of  Paradox  again 
when  I  come  to  John  Porter's  doings  in  a  later  chapter  ;  but  it  was  Dawson  who 
trained  Melton,  winner  of  the  Derby  and  St.  Leger  of  1885.  Paradox  was,  no 
doubt,  the  better  horse,  and  was  beaten  only  by  Archer's  rush  at  the  finish,  which 
was  made  owing  to  that  astute  jockey's  knowledge  of  the  fact  that  Paradox  would 
never  do  his  best  in  the  lead.  Mr.  Richard  Vyner  was  another  of  Matthew's  lucky 
owners,  whose  Lambkin  had  already  won  the  Leger,  when  Minting  (by  Lord  Lyoii) 
turned  up  for  the  Two  Thousand.  Than  1886  there  was  no  better  year  for  three- 
year-olds  since  1864,  and  Ormonde  was  the  best  of  them.  Mr.  Vyner  very  wisely 
went  for  the  Grand  Prix,  which  he  won.  Even  when  the  Duke  of  Westminster's 
great  colt  had  turned  roarer  he  beat  Minting  for  the  Hardwicke  Stakes.  But 
Matthew  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  the  son  of  Mint  Sauce  win  the  Jubilee  Cup 
at  Ascot,  and  the  Jubilee  Handicap  at  Kempton  Park,  the  latter  under  lost, 
after  having  had  a  swelled  hock  a  week  before.  After  retiring  to  a  little  farm 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND   FOREIGN  METHODS. 


575 


of  his  own  at  Exning,  Matthew  was  called  out  again  to  train  for  Lord  Rosebery, 
and  helped  to  achieve  that  nobleman's  ambition  to  win  the  Derby  and  be  Prime 
Minister,  not  only  with  the  handsome  Ladas,  but  with  Sir  Visto  as  well. 

From  the  picture  of  St.  Simon  which  I  reproduce,  it  will  be  realised  that  as 
a  colt  he  was  not  particularly  attractive,  being  short-coupled  and  rather  too  straight 
in  front.  As  a  young  one  he  was  undoubtedly  thought  to  be  on  the  small  side  ; 
but  William  Day  has  put  it  on  record  that  "you  may  get  fifty  good  small  horses 
for  one  good  large  one.  ...  A  good  big  horse  may  beat  a  good  little  one  over 
a  short  course,  or  even  at  a  mile  or  so ;  but  I  think  at  three  or  four  miles  a 
good  little  one  would  beat  the  best  big  one  I  ever  saw."  Neither  Camarine 
nor  Touchstone,  the  best 
long-distance  thorough- 
breds of  their  day  (and 
many  other  days),  stood 
more  than  an  inch  over 
fifteen  hands.  Venison 
was  less,  and  a  better 
type  of  the  old-fashioned 
hardy  English  racehorse 
it  would  be  difficult  to 
find.  He  cost  only  ^100 
at  first.  He  must  have 
walked  over  1,300  miles 
from  one  place  to  another 
during  his  racing  career 

before  the  days  of  railways.  When  old  John  Day  was  at  Danebury,  Venison  was 
the  trial  horse  for  Elis,  on  whom  Lord  George  Bentinck  won  so  much  for  the 
Leger  of  1836.  Joe  Miller  was  another  good  little  one,  and  the  only  two  big  ones 
William  Day  thought  worthy  to  compare  with  him  over  a  distance  were  Rataplan 
and  Fisherman.  Lecturer  is  another  instance  at  Danebury,  later  on,  of  the  way 
a  "pony"  can  win  the  Cesarewitch.  Of  his  trial  in  1866  with  Rustic,  Blue  Riband. 
and  The  Duke,  the  great  tale  of  the  Touts'  Luncheon  at  the  Grosvenor  Arms, 
Stockbridge,  has  often  been  told.  They  were  all  locked  in  over  their  banquet 
until  the  trial  was  over.  When  the  weights  for  the  Cesarewitch  came  out,  Lecturer 
would  have  been  scratched  with  the  rest  of  Lord  Hastings'  horses  had  he  not 


"  Hippia  "  by  "  King  Tom  "  (1864). 


5/6 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


been  entered  under  the  name  of  Mr.  Peter  Wilkinson.  He  was  tried  for  the 
race  with  Ackworth  (Cambridgeshire,  1864),  who  had  just  previously  been  used  by 
Mr.  Frederick  Swindell  to  try  his  own  favourite  Proserpine,  and  Hibberd  had  not 
much  difficulty  in  bringing  off  the  race. 

But  I  have  said  enough  to  give  examples  of  the  general  statements  with  which 
this  chapter  began  ;  and  it  is  only  necessary  to  add  that  any  one  who  only  studies 
Turf  facts  in  his  Library  must  try  to  remember  that  what  held  good  a  century 
is  not  likely  to  satisfy  modern  requirements,  whether  the  race  of  horses  as 

a  whole  has  really  improved  or  not. 
Many  think — and  I  am  one  of  them 
—that  we  have  lost  a  lot  in  abolishing 
nearly  all  our  real  tests  of  endurance. 
The  French,  at  any  rate,  have  found 
it  worth  while  to  keep  them,  and  the 
history  of  their  gradual  success  at 
Ascot  is  instructive.  There  was  un- 
doubted cruelty  in  the  old  system 
of  running  heats;  but  then  in  1750 
only  one  horse  in  ten  raced  a  second 
time.  By  the  time  of  Fisherman  we 
find  that  good  horse  running  thirty- 
five  times  in  one  year,  and  winning 
twenty-one  races,  of  which  the  Ascot 
Cup  (2^  miles)  and  the  Queen's  Plate 
(3  miles)  were  run  on  the  same 
day.  Now,  it  is  only  the  first-rate 

ones  who  are  let  off  lightly.  Orme  won  ,£34,626  in  eighteen  races  ;  Ormonde 
(,£28,265),  Ayrshire  (.£35,915),  and  Velasqiiez  (,£26,385)  all  ran  sixteen  times; 
Diamond  Jiibilee  (.£29,185)  and  Galtee  More  (,£27,019)  went  to  the  post  on  thirteen 
occasions;  St.  Fnisquin  (.£32,960),  Ladas  (.£18,515),  and  Flying  Fox  (,£40,096)  on 
eleven.  To  compile  ,£57,453  Isinglass  was  only  asked  to  carry  silk  twelve  times 
during  his  four  years  of  training,  and  then  retired  to  the  comforts  of  a  luxurious 
stud.  Persimmon  did  least  of  all,  for  his  ,£34,706  was  the  result  of  only  nine  races. 
This  may  not  be  so  great  a  contrast  to  the  old  times,  as  far  as  the  actual  number  of 
starts  is  concerned.  What  differentiates  modern  methods  from  the  eighteenth  century 


Richard  Tattersall  (d.  1859). 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METH'ODS. 


577 


is  the  hard  work  put  upon  our  moderate  thoroughbreds,  the  way  they  are  constantly 
worried  with  railway  travelling,  and  perpetually  being  pulled  out  to  earn  their 
corn  bill  all  over  the  country,  until  they  are  worn  out  and  useless  for  anything 
but  a  four-wheeler.  This  means  a  restriction  in  sires,  and  the  narrowing  of  stud 
possibilities  to  a  few  lines  starting  from  such  famous  winners  as  those  mentioned 
above.  One  result  is  that  out  of  the  enormous  number  of  English  thoroughbreds 
foaled  every  year  only  seven  are  good  enough  to  go  to  the  post  to  oppose  a 
Frenchman  in  the  Derby,  as  in  1903.  This  is  not  because  our  Turf  prizes  are 
not  valuable  enough.  There  were  no  "Ten  Thousand  Pounders"  in  BlacklocKs 
day.  Nor  is  it  because 
we  do  not  have  rac- 
ing enough.  In  1902 
W.  Waugh,  the  private 
trainer  of  Sir  J.  Blundell 
Maple  at  Falmouth 
House,  scored  67  vic- 
tories with  30  winners 
out  of  the  47  with  which 
he  started  in  training, 
and  got  fifth  in  the  list 
of  winning  trainers  with 
.£17,912,  though  only 
two  of  his  races  were 
worth  more  than  £  i  ,000. 

It  will  be  interesting  to  compare  with  this  the  records  given  (on  p.  461)  for  Lord 
George  Bentinck's  season  in  1845,  or  1844. 

I  have  spoken  of  the  value  of  our  Turf  prizes  nowadays.  It  is  worth  noting 
that  in  Cotherstones  year  (1843)  the  total  value  of  the  stakes  came  to  ,£38,000  for 
the  season.  It  is  now  about  half  a  million  of  money,  and  Ascot  alone  can  furnish 
more  than  the  whole  calendar  of  sixty  years  ago.  The  number  of  two-year-olds 
running  in  1843  was  213,  and  there  were  1300  brood  mares.  We  have  now  6000 
of  the  latter,  and  seven  times  as  many  two-year-olds  as  there  were  in  1843.  The 
fees  for  our  best  sires  have  increased  in  a  similar  proportion.  When  we  breed 
a  winner  in  direct  line  from  Eclipse,  we  sell  him  to  the  French,  for  the  descent 
of  M.  Blanc's  famous  stallion  is  as  follows,  direct  from  sire  to  son: — Eclipse  (1764). 

VOL.   III.  (.) 


" Kingcraft"  by  "King  Tom "  (1867). 


578  A   HISTORY    OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

Pottos  (1773),    Waxy  (1790),    Whalebone  (1807),   Sir  Hercules  (1826),  Birdcatcher 
(1833),    The  Baron   (1842),   Stock-well  (1849),   Doncaster  (1870),   Bend  Or  (1877), 
Ormonde  (1883),  Orme  (1889),  Flying  Fox  (1896).     We  have  started  several  prizes 
for  ,£10,000,  but  we  have   left  the  Derby  at  the  same  it  was  in  Lord  Lyons  day, 
thirty-seven  years  ago.     Taking  other  figures  again,   in    1813   we   find   there  were 
barely  800  horses  running  on  the  flat  in  the  103  race-meetings  held  in  Great  Britain. 
Out  of  these   103,  only  Ascot  remains  of  the  four  Berkshire  meetings  ;  Chester  of 
the    four    in    Cheshire ;    none  at  all    in   Cornwall,    Dorset,    Hertford,    Hereford,    or 
Oxfordshire;  many  others  have  vanished  altogether.     Yet  in  1900,  3955  horses  ran, 
on  the  same  basis  of  calculation  ;  more  than  4000  in  1901.     We  have  six  or  eight 
races  in  a  day's  card   now,   compared   to   the   three  or  four,  sometimes   the  single 
match,  which  our  forefathers  were  content  to  see.      But  this  would  not  alone  give 
employment  to   the  vast   total   of  thoroughbreds  in  training.      Racing  has   become 
far  more  frequent  than  was  ever  the  case  before.      It  is  true  that  when  a  license 
was  requested  in  the  autumn  of  1902  for  a  new  course  at  Rotherham,  it  was  refused 
by  a  Jockey  Club  which  had  added  an  eighth  meeting  to  Newmarket.      But  our 
Turf  legislators  are  evidently  only  slowly  realising  that  meetings   have  grown   too 
fast  of  late.     There  are  four  at  Alexandra  Park  ;   nine  (including  steeplechases)  at 
Birmingham;    and    four  at   Derby  and    Doncaster;    while    Hurst   Park,    Lingfield, 
Kempton,  Nottingham,  Windsor,  Sandown  Park,  and  the  rest,  keep  us  going  hard 
right  through  the  season.     The  tendency  towards  centralisation  has  been  inevitable. 
The    most    indefatigable    Londoner   could    hardly   do    his    round    if  meetings   were 
scattered  all  over  the  country  as  they  used  to  be.     The  success  of  Bendigos  Eclipse 
Stakes  at    Sandown    confirmed    the  feeling    that   enclosed    meetings    near    London 
would  prove  popular.      But    it    may    be    doubted    if  every    one    realised    what    the 
result  would  be  in  later  years.      How  the  trainers  stand  it  is  a  question  they  alone 
can  answer ;  and   I   do  not  believe  they  would,  as  a  body,  oppose  the   elimination 
of  Saturday  and  Monday  from  the  Racing  Calendar,   if  only  to  give  a  little  more 
time  to  themselves  and  their  charges  to  recover  from  their  constant  journeys.     We 
get  a  "  real  smasher  "  now  and  then  among  the  thousands  of  our  young  stock  ;  but 
so  they  did  when  the  sires  and  dams  were  far  fewer  in  number.     What  we  have 
increased    enormously   is   the   moderate   animal    who   is    good    enough   to   make   an 
occasional  win,  and  give  his  backers  a  chance  of  keeping  up  their  stable.     The  need 
of  a  good  one  is  sufficiently  emphasised  by  the  huge  prices  paid  for  a  fashionable 
yearling,  which  may  after  all  turn  out  as  worthless  as  the  worst  bred  of  them  all. 


• ; 


BRITISH  STABLES  AND   FOREIGN  METHODS. 


579 


This  can  hardly  be  considered  a  satisfactory  state  of  things  by  any  except  the 
jockeys  whose  opportunities  of  making  money  are  vastly  increased,  without,  as 
far  as  can  be  seen,  any  proportionate  production  of  such  good  riders  as  we  used 
to  have.  Some  ,£7000  a  year  in  two  hands  for  three  years  to  a  lad  of  twenty 
who  has  power  to  add  to  this  by  riding  others  when  his  special  stable  does  not 
want  him,  is  quite  enough  to  turn  a  wiser  and  an  older  head.  Pampering  him  as 
we  do  is  worse  than  bullying  him  as  was  once  the  custom.  But  the  system  is 
only  what  might  be  expected  of  the  days  of  preposterous  fees  for  sires,  ridiculous 


I 


"  Formosa  "  by  "  Buccaneer"  (1865). 

sums  for  yearlings,  and  inflated  prices  all  round.  This  is  not  what  used  to  be 
thought  good  sport  ;  it  looks  more  like  hysterical  money-juggling,  without  the  small 
excuse  that  can  be  made  for  the  extravagant  betting  it  has  replaced.  As  usual,  the 
faddist  has  gone  for  the  wrong  end  of  the  stick.  He  cries  aloud  about  a  gambling 
which  has  very  sensibly  diminished  ;  and  says  nothing  about  far  more  serious  evils 
which  have  notoriously  increased. 

We  hear  a  good  deal  about  the  fortunes  made   by  trainers  nowadays,  and   we 
certainly  see   something  of  the   luxury   in   which  some   of  them   think  it  necessary 


580  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

to  live.  Their  work,  and  their  anxieties,  must  often  be  hard  enough  to  justify 
their  "relaxations,"  whatever  form  they  choose.  But  let  them  remember  the  reward 
that  came  to  one  member  of  their  profession  for  sticking  soberly  to  his  business. 
There  was  once  a  little  jockey  named  Ward,  who  was  born  at  Howden,  in  Yorkshire. 
Being  trustworthy  as  well  as  capable,  he  was  sent  over  with  some  thoroughbreds  to 
Vienna.  There  Prince  Lichtenstein'  kept  him  in  his  service,  and  his  name  gradually 
became  transmogrified  into  Signer  Tommasso,  while  his  intelligence  increased  and 
ripened  under  the  influence  of  the  constant  study  he  managed  to  combine  with 
his  training  duties.  By  degrees  his  master  asked  his  advice  about  other  matters 
besides  horses.  The  trainer  blossomed  into  a  diplomat,  and  by  one  inspired  stroke 
restored  the  fortunes  of  the  Duchy  of  Lucca  and  placed  Charles  III.  upon  the 
throne  of  Parma,  rising,  himself,  from  the  post  of  Minister  of  Finance  to  that  of 
Prime  Minister.  This  is  a  romance  of  the  Turf,  indeed ;  but  there  are  many 
of  "  Signor  Tommasso's "  old  companions  who  would  have  deliberately  preferred 
training  a  Derby  winner  to  being  the  Prime  Minister  of  any  other  country  in 
the  world.  I  have  often  wondered  how  many  foreign  diplomats  would  be  willing 
to  reverse  that  process ;  and  I  fancy  Lord  Rosebery  would  be  the  most  likely 
man  to  know. 


CHAPTER   XX. 

STEEPLECHASING. 

"  Then  crash'd  a  low  binder,  and  then  close  behind  her 

The  sward  to  the  strokes  of  the  favourite  shook  ; 
His  rush  roused  her  mettle,  yet  ever  so  little 

She  shortened  her  stride  as  she  raced  at  the  brook. ' 

I  "HE  date  at  which  men  first  began  to  jump  fences  on  horseback  cannot  even  be 
surmised.  I  find  in  no  book  or  record  whatever  any  expression  of  surprise 
that  any  horseman  of  old  time  had  jumped  a  hedge,  a  brook,  a  stile,  or  anything 
else.  Jumping,  like  other  things,  must  have  been  a  matter  of  gradual  advance. 
The  earliest  war-horses  may  have  been  called  upon  to  "negotiate"  some  ditch  or 
gully  ;  they  may  have  cleared  the  body  of  some  fallen  steed  or  a  portion  of 
a  broken  chariot  ;  and  this  may  have  been  the  first  step  towards  high  and  broad 
leaping. 

Prior  to  the  accession  of  William  III.,  however,  the  Charlton  Hunt  at  Goodwood 
was  a  flourishing  concern,  and  we  hear  of  gates  being  jumped  then.  Erom  time 
immemorial  horses  have  been  matched  for  speed  on  the  flat,  and  it  is  only  in  the 
natural  course  of  events  that  matches  over  obstacles  should  also  take  place,  and 
no  doubt  a  certain  number  were  decided  ;  but  the  first  we  hear  of  was  brought 
off,  appropriately  enough,  in  Ireland  in  1/52.  This  was  a  match  between  Mr. 
O'Callaghan  and  Mr.  Edward  Blake.  The  distance  was  four  miles — from  Buttivant 
Church  to  St.  Leger  Church  ;  and  that  is  all  we  know  about  it,  for  the  name  of 
the  winner  is  not  on  record.  Readers  of  my  first  volume  may  remember  that 
on  pp.  38  and  48  it  is  recorded  that  in  1607  Lord  Haddington  went  to  Huntingdon 
"to  a  match  of  hunting  that  he  hath  there  against  my  Lord  of  Sheffield's  horse." 
In  the  same  place  I  quoted  Gervase  Markham's  sentence  about  the  "  infinite 
VOL.  in.  s 


582 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


labour  and  long  endurance  which  is  to  be  desired  in  our  hunting  matches."  But 
it  is  still  an  open  question  whether  the  phrase  can  strictly  be  interpreted  a.s 
meaning  a  steeplechase,  so  I  prefer  to  leave  the  honours  of  origination  with  the 
Emerald  Isle. 

It  is  needless  to  give  even  a  curtailed  list  of  the  many  little  matches  like  that 
of  1752  which  undoubtedly  took  place  at  various  times  all  over  the  country  after 
that  date  ;  but  it  may  be  noticed  that  all  the  early  contests  were  for  two  horses 
only.  That  which  took  place  in  Leicestershire  in  1792  was  of  a  somewhat 
curious  character.  The  stake  was  1,000  guineas.  One  of  the  horses  belonged  to 
Mr.  Loraine  Hardy,  the  other  was  the  property  of  the  Hon.  Mr.  Willoughby,  who 

was  at  the  time  hunt- 
ing Lord  Middleton's 
country,  and  eventually 
succeeded  to  the  title. 
Mr.  Willoughby's  whip- 
per-in rode  for  him,  and 
the  valet  was  on  the 
back  of  Mr.  Hardy's 
horse.  It  appears  a 
curious  selection  on  both 
sides,  as  Mr.  Willoughby 
was  himself  no  mean 
horseman,  and  some  of 
his  Yorkshire  friends 
must  have  been  able  to 
ride.  However,  Mr.  Hardy's  horse  won,  owing,  it  was  said,  to  the  intimate  local 
knowledge  possessed  by  the  valet.  The  start  took  place  near  Melton  Mowbray  ; 
the  finish  was  at  Great  Dalby,  about  nine  miles  away. 

We  do  not  find  any  steeplechase  with  more  than  two  starters  until  the  year 
1792.  This,  too,  happened  in  Leicestershire,  from  Barkby  Holt  to  the  Coplow 
and  back,  eight  miles  altogether,  and  was  over  the  same  ground  as  that  crossed 
by  Mr.  (afterwards  Captain)  Horatio  Ross  on  Clinker,  and  Captain  Douglas  on 
Radical,  in  their  historic  match ;  but  they  ran  one  way  only,  four  miles.  The 
competitors  in  the  1792  race  were  Mr.  Charles  Meynell  (son  of  the  famous  Hugo 
Meynell ;  eight  years  later  he  gave  up  the  Ouorn  Country),  who  won  ;  Lord 


Mr.  CoitlthwaitJs  Stables. 
An  easy  fence  for  a  youngster. 


STEEPLECHASTNG.  583 

Forester    (a    forward    rider    of  the    day),    who    came    in    second  ;    and    Sir    Gilbert 
Heathcote,  who  was  third. 

No  chapter  professing  to  give  merely  an  outline  history  of  steeplechasing  would 
be  complete  without  a  passing  mention  of  what  has  erroneously  been  called  "  The 
First  Steeplechase  on  Record."  This  was  supposed  to  have  taken  place  just  before 
Christmas,  1803,  and  to  have  been  the  outcome  of  a  challenge  given  in  the  mess- 
room  of  the  Ipswich  barracks  by  a  Lieutenant  Hansum  to  ride  one  of  his  horses 
over  a  country  against  any  horse  in  the  regiment.  The  cartel  was  taken  up,  and 
as  the  moon  was  shining  brightly  it  was  suggested  that  the  race  should  take  place 
then  and  there,  and  the  horses  are  supposed  to  have  finished  at  Nacton.  Every 
one  must  have  seen  Alken's  picture  of  this  race,  the  men  with  nightshirts  over 
their  regimentals  and  wearing  nightcaps.  Nothing  whatever  was  said  about  the 
race  at  the  time,  but  a  detailed  account  was  given  many  years  later  in  the  New 
Sporting  Magazine.  The  truth  probably  is  that  the  affair  never  took  place  at  all. 

Annual  steeplechase  meetings  began  in  the  year  1831,  when  Thomas  Coleman 
established  the  St.  Albans  gatherings,  which  were  the  forerunners  of  all  other 
meetings.  Coleman  was  originally  in  the  racing  stables  of  Wetheral,  who  trained 
a  good  many  of  the  horses  which  used  to  compete  at  Ascot  for  the  Plates,  given 
by  George  III.,  for  horses  which  had  been  hunted  with  his  hounds.  About 
the  date  of  Waterloo  Coleman  set  up  for  himself  in  Hertfordshire,  trained  for 
several  owners,  and  took  the  Chequers  Tavern  at  St.  Albans,  which  he  afterwards 
pulled  down  to  make  way  for  the  Turf  Hotel,  which  contained  the  then  almost 
unheard-of  luxury  of  several  bath-rooms  supplied  with  hot  and  cold  water. 

The  first  steeplechase  at  St.  Albans  took  place  in  1830,  and  was  suggested 
by  some  officers  of  the  Household  Cavalry  who  were  dining  at  the  Turf  Hotel. 
They  left  the  details  to  Coleman,  who  was  a  successful  organiser,  and  the  result 
was  a  steeplechase  from  Harlington  Hill,  where  the  church  now  stands,  to  the 
obelisk  in  West  Park.  The  winner  was  a  grey  horse  belonging  to  Lord  Ranelagh, 
ridden  by  Captain  MacDowall,  the  second  being  a  little  Irish  horse  called  Nailer, 
belonging  to  and  ridden  by  Lord  Clanricarde,  who  was  one  of  the  first  amateurs 
to  be  captivated  by  the  "steeplechase  craze,"  as  it  was  termed.  He  succeeded 
his  father  as  fourth  earl  in  1808,  and  was  made  a  marquis  in  1825.  He  was  born 
in  1802,  and  twenty  years  later  donned  a  silk  jacket  for  the  first  time  at  the  Curragh, 
winning  the  first  Corinthian  race  ever  run  in  Ireland  on  Penguin,  by  Waxy  Pope, 
repeating  his  success  in  the  next  year  on  the  same  horse.  He,  however,  cared 


584  A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

nothing  for  flat  racing  ;  but  soon  after  leaving  Oxford  he  had  a  mount  on  Haivk, 
by  Scherdone,  over  the  stiff  Roxburgh  course  in  County  Galway,  jumping  one  wall 
where  it  was  five  feet  nine  inches  high.  Lord  Clanricarde  also  won  a  couple  of 
steeplechases  on  Elmore's  famous  horse,  Moonraker,  a  tremendous  puller,  but  so 
big  a  jumper  that  he  is  said  to  have  once  cleared  a  lane  and  both  hedges  in  the 
Metropolitan  district  under  Lord  Clanricarde.  He  won  the  National  Hunt  Steeple- 
chase in  1864  with  Caustic,  by  St.  Luke,  a  horse  which  only  three  weeks  before 
was  carrying  his  owner  with  the  Ouorn  Hounds  from  Melton  Mowbray.  He  had 
but  a  fortnight's  training  at  Howth  Castle,  yet,  ridden  by  Mr.  Long,  he  won  by 
three  lengths. 

The  soldiers'  race  of  1830  having  proved  so  great  a  success,  Coleman  set  himself 
to  work  to  found  an  annual  meeting,  the  first  of  the  regular  series  taking  place  on 
the  ist  of  March,  1831,  under  the  name  of  the  Hertfordshire  Steeplechase.  The 
winner  was  Moonraker,  then  the  property  of  Mr.  Lee ;  but  he  was  ridden  by- 
Mr.  Parker,  who  wore  the  same  crimson  jacket  in  which  Conolly  had  won  the 
St.  Leger  on  Mr.  Beardsworth's  Birmingham  in  1830.  The  year  1839,  when 
entries  were  meagre  and  the  horses  of  poor  quality,  saw  the  last  of  the  St.  Albans 
Steeplechases  ;  but  they  had  set  an  excellent  example,  and  in  a  very  few  years 
after  they  were  started,  steeplechasing  on  Coleman's  lines  began  to  crop  up 
everywhere.  During  the  nine  years  over  which  St.  Albans  continued  a  good 
many  notable  men  and  horses  appeared  there.  Among  the  former  was  Captain 
Becher,  son  of  a  Norfolk  farmer  and  horsedealer,  for  whom  the  boy  acted  as 
rough-rider.  When  he  joined  the  Yeomanry,  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  conferred 
upon  him  the  courtesy  title  of  captain.  Some  one  who  had  seen  him  ride  was  so 
taken  with  his  horsemanship  that  he  procured  for  him  a  berth  in  the  department 
of  the  Store- keeper  General,  and  for  two  or  three  years  he  was  abroad  with  the 
army  of  occupation.  Then  he  returned  to  England,  rode  his  first  race  on  Reuben 
Butler  at  Hounslow  for  Coleman,  with  whom  he  lived  on  and  off  for  twenty  years, 
became  eminent  as  a  steeplechase  rider,  gave  his  name  to  the  brook  at  Aintree, 
retired  from  riding  in  1838,  was  for  a  few  months  in  the  employment  of  the 
Great  Northern  Railway,  and  now  lies  buried  in  Willesden  Cemetery.  Captain 
Becher  won  the  St.  Albans  Steeplechase  on  Grimaldi  in  1836;  but  no  sooner 
had  he  passed  the  post  than  the  horse  reared  up,  fought  with  his  fore  legs,  and 
dropped  stone  dead,  whereupon  an  objection  was  lodged  against  Elmore  receiving 
the  stakes,  on  the  ground  that  he  did  not  return  to  the  weighing-room  ;  but  it 


V.  I  8 


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JJ§ 


Is 


I 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

was,  of  course,  overruled.  Colonel  Charretie  was  another  of  the  old  school  of 
steeplechase  patrons  who  appeared  at  St.  Albans  and  elsewhere.  An  Irishman,  he 
was  born  in  1794,  and  fought  at  Waterloo  in  the  Life  Guards.  He  took  part 
in  several  duels,  but  was  never  hurt.  He  was  an  intimate  friend  of  Colonel 
Berkeley,  and  was  invariably  at  the  Castle  when  the  owner  was  keeping  open 
house.  Although  his  horse,  Gorhambiiry,  ran  second  to  Cothcrstone  for  the  Derby 
of  1843,  he  really  cared  more  about  match-making  than  for  entering  his  horses 
in  steeplechases.  The  Colonel  died  at  his  house  in  Bryanston  Square  on  the 
1 2th  of  January,  1866,  at  the  age  of  84. 

Soon  after  the  St.  Albans  Steeplechases  had  been  organised,  there  arose,  in 
1834,  at  Crockford's  Club  in  St.  James's  Street,  an  argument  about  the  difficulty 
of  crossing  Aylesbury  Vale.  Mr.  Henry  Peyton,  son  of  the  Sir  Henry  Peyton 
of  the  time  (both  father  and  son  were  famed  as  coachmen  and  riders  to  hounds), 
undertook  to  find  a  fair  four-mile  course  over  which  he  stated  he  had  often  ridden, 
and  which  was  regularly  faced  by  those  who  fairly  rode  to  hounds  in  the  Vale. 
The  offer  was  accepted.  Mr.  Peyton  consulted  his  friend  Captain  Lamb,  who 
provided  a  2O-guinea  cup  ;  the  entrance  was  20  guineas,  p.p.,  each  horse  carried 
i2st.  ;lb.  ;  second  saved  stake.  Twenty-one  entries  were  received.  The  following 
particulars  are  partly  extracted  from  "Echoes  of  Old  Country  Life,"  "Reminiscences 
of  Old  Country  Life,"  and  "  Records  of  Old  Times,"  by  Mr.  J.  K.  Fowler,  who  was 
for  many  years  the  tenant  of  the  Prebendal  Farm  over  which  the  steeplechases  were 
held.  The  course  was  from  Waddesdon  Windmill,  about  four  miles  and  a  half  from 
Aylesbury,  to  a  field  in  front  of  the  church.  The  fences  were  absolutely  untrimmed. 
"  The  course  was  most  severe,  and  comprised  several  doubles,  tall  bullfinches, 
ox-fences  with  posts  and  rails,  big  singles,  one  cross-road,  one  deeply  rutted  lane,  one 
fair-sized  brook,  one  thick  spinney,  and  the  river  Thame,  about  twenty-eight  feet 
wide !  " 

There  were  no  flags,  and  until  the  morning  of  the  race,  the  line  was  kept  a 
profound  secret.  The  Marquess  of  Waterford  was  one  of  the  competitors  on  his 
cocktail  Lancet,  and  with  characteristic  impulsiveness  essayed  to  jump  the  river  at 
a  fly.  The  horse  did  get  his  fore  feet  on  the  further  bank,  but  was  so  much  injured 
that  he  died  about  a  fortnight  later.  Twenty  horses  started,  and  after  Mr.  Allnutt 
(father  to  the  late  Lady  Brassey,  who  retained  the  original  purple-and-green  jacket 
in  which  he  rode)  had  led  nearly  all  the  way,  Laurestina  fell  from  exhaustion, 
when  Captain  Martin  Becher  on  Vivian,  slipping  through,  just  won.  Among  the 


STEEPLECHASING.  587 

riders  in  this  race  were  Jem  Mason,  who  made  his  first  appearance  in  public,  and 
John  Brown,  of  Tring,  who  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the  characters  in  the  poem  of 
"  Lord  Lonsdale's  Harriers."  This  was  but  the  prelude  to  many  more  steeple- 
chases at  Aylesbury.  In  those  days  the  Royal  Buckhounds  used  to  go  there  for 
a  fortnight,  and  the  steeplechases  used  to  take  place  during  that  very  merry  time. 
Nearly  all  the  horses  which  ran  at  St.  Albans  appeared  at  Aylesbury  at  one  time 
or  another,  and  a  couple  of  rather  celebrated  matches  took  place  there.  The  first 
was  between  The  British  Yeoman,  ridden  by  Jem  Mason,  and  Vain  Hope,  steered 
by  William  Archer,  father  of  Fred  and  Charles  Archer  ;  the  other  was  between 
two  horses  the  property  of  rival  livery-stable  proprietors  at  Oxford — Mr.  George 
Symonds's  Janus,  ridden  by  Fred  Enoch,  who  afterwards  became  a  trainer,  and 
Mr.  Perrin's  Phoenix,  ridden  by  Tom  Price.  The  race  resulted  in  a  dead  heat,  and 
as  the  owners  would  not  divide  it  was  run  off,  when  Janus  won  by  a  bare  length. 
"  The  value  of  the  stakes  was  only  £j"  Mr.  Fowler  tells  us. 

In  the  year  1859  Pratt's  Club  held  a  meeting  at  Aylesbury,  when  Lord  Strathmore 
won  a  couple  of  races  on  Charm  and  The  Tartar  respectively.  Messrs.  Blundell 
and  Dewar,  who  both  figure  in  the  pictures  of  the  Oxford  Drag,  and  who  often 
performed  over  the  Aylesbury  course,  were  first  and  second  for  the  steeplechase  held 
in  the  Crimea,  both  riders  distinguishing  themselves  in  the  course  of  the  war.  As 
already  mentioned,  Oxford  undergraduates  had  for  many  years  held  a  cross-country- 
meeting  over  Aylesbury  Vale,  first  over  the  Broughton  course,  and  later  over  the 
Prebendal  Farm.  The  dons  of  Oxford  never  encouraged  steeplechasing,  of  course, 
and  at  one  period  resolved  to  put  it  down  altogether.  The  undergraduates,  however, 
had  one  champion  in  Mr.  Neate,  a  Fellow  of  Oriel,  at  one  time  Professor  of  Political 
Economy  and  M.P.  for  the  city.  He  often  hunted  from  Oxford,  and  on  this 
particular  occasion  stood  up  for  Oxford's  younger  sons,  and,  to  lend  them  his  support, 
entered  for  one  of  the  races  a  horse  which  he  called  Vice-Chancellor.  Every  one  was 
wondering  who  the  jockey  would  be,  but  the  question  was  soon  set  at  rest  by  the 
Professor  (he  was  no  mean  horseman)  getting  up  ;  he  was  in  his  shirt  sleeves  and 
wore  a  tall  hat.  The  brook  was  a  very  formidable  jump  in  that  year,  and  it  proved 
too  much  for  Mr.  Neate's  horse,  which  fell  in  ;  but  the  Professor  consoled  himself  for 
the  mishap  by  saying  that  he  had  made  his  protest  and  vindicated  the  rights  of  those 
in  statu  pnpillari  to  indulge  in  a  manly  sport.  The  year  1874  saw  the  Grand 
National  Hunt  Steeplechase  run  at  Aylesbury,  the  winner  being  Mr.  C.  Vyner's 
Lucellum,  Mr.  A.  Peel  being  second  on  Ballot  Box.  At  that  meeting  there  was 


588 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


a  Master  of  Hounds  Steeplechase,  won  by  Mr.  F.  Bennett's  Miss  Hnngerford,  the 
late  Lord  Willoughby  de  Broke  running  second  with  his  mare  Abbess. 

Nearly  all  steeplechase  meetings  have  had  their  ups  and  downs  ;  but  for  some 
years  two  places  may  be  said  to  have  stood  out  rather  prominently — Cheltenham 
and  Leamington.  Both  enjoyed  influential  patronage ;  both  were  well  attended 
while  their  grand  carnivals  were  regarded  as  among  the  more  important  events 
of  the  season.  The  first  of  the  Cheltenham  series  took  place  about  1833,  but 
by  1835  the  meeting  was  quite  a  going  concern  ;  it  took  place  on  the  ist  of  April. 
The  chief  event  was  the  "Grand  Steeplechase,"  as  it  was  called  on  the  card; 
and  the  course  was  certainly  big  enough.  The  first  jump  was  a  newly  erected 

wall  five  feet  high ;  a 
couple  of  brooks  came 
in  the  way,  the  last 
obstacle  being  another 
wall  five  feet  four 
inches  in  height.  There 
were  eleven  starters, 
and  what  betting  there 
was  favoured  Fugle- 
man, ridden  by  Mr. 
Doyle,  who  had  won 
in  the  previous  year ; 
but  the  rider,  mistaking 
the  flags,  went  out  of 
his  course,  so  that  Mr. 
Pitt's  Bobadil,  ridden  by  Mr.  Patrick,  beat  Mr.  Baring's  Caliph,  with  Captain 
Becher  in  the  saddle.  Another  well-known  rider  in  the  race  was  Dick  Christian, 
who  came  in  fourth  on  a  horse  called  Shade.  The  last  horse  in  had  to  pay  the 
stake  of  the  second  horse,  one  of  the  not  uncommon  though  queer  conditions  of 
those  days. 

The  Captain  Becher  above  mentioned  was  perhaps  as  closely  identified  with 
Vivian  as  with  any  other  horse  he  was  in  the  habit  of  riding,  and  on  him  he  won 
at  Aylesbury,  when  Lord  Waterford  and  Elmore  regarded  the  race  as  a  certainty 
for  either  Lancet  or  Grimaldi.  In  1835  a  print  representing  Captain  Becher 
on  Vivian  was  published,  and  met  with  a  ready  sale.  Lancet's  defeat  in  the 


In  Sussex. 
Teaching  a  young  one. 


STEEPLECHASING.  589 

above-mentioned  race,  it  may  be  mentioned,  was  such  a  disappointment  to  him 
that  Lord  Waterford  matched  Cock  Robin  against  Vivian  for  1,000  guineas,  but 
the  latter  won,  owing,  it  was  said,  to  a  fine  exhibition  of  horsemanship  on  the  part 
of  Captain  Becher  at  a  critical  moment.  Not  a  word  was  ever  breathed  against 
his  integrity.  He  always  rode  to  win,  and  it  was  perhaps  on  that  account  that 
when  he  gave  up  riding  he  was  not  in  very  affluent  circumstances.  Lord  Segrave 
was  a  great  friend  to  Cheltenham  ;  he  subscribed  liberally  to  its  funds,  gave  some 
added  money  to  the  Grand  Steeplechase,  and  acted  as  umpire.  In  1839  the 
Grand  Steeplechase  was  won  by  that  fine  combination,  Jem  Mason  and  Lottery. 
This  famous  horse  was  foaled  in  1830,  and  was  by  Lottery — Parthenia  by  Welbeck, 
her  dam  by  Grog  out  of  a  mare  by  Staghunter ;  so  Lottery,  though  virtually  as 
"thoroughbred  as  Eclipse"  had  "h.b."  after  his  name.  In  the  name  of  Chance, 
he  ran  in  a  couple  of  races  on  the  flat  at  the  Holderness  Hunt  Meeting  of  1834, 
winning  once  ;  and  just  afterwards  Mr.  Jackson,  his  breeder,  who  lived  near  Thirsk, 
took  him  to  Horncastle  Fair,  where  the  only  man  to  look  twice  at  the  narrow, 
mean-looking  horse  was  Elmore  the  dealer,  who  lived  near  Harrow.  He  became 
his  owner,  put  him  to  jumping,  sold  him,  bought  him  back  ;  and  discovering  his 
good  qualities,  afterwards  put  him  to  steeplechasing,  at  which  he  made  his  mark, 
until  at  last  he  was  so  heavily  penalised  that  it  was  useless  to  start  him. 

It  is  in  the  year  1840  that  we  first  find  the  name  of  William  Holman  (father  of 
George  Holman,  who  rode  the  club-footed  horse  The  Doctor  in  the  Grand  National) 
among  the  riders  at  Cheltenham  Steeplechases.  In  1847,  William  Archer,  who 
acquired  some  fame  as  a  steeplechase  rider,  seems  to  have  made  his  first  appear- 
ance at  Cheltenham,  riding  Mr.  Evans's  Daddy  Longlegs,  but  he  was  beaten 
by  Mr.  Smith's  well-known  Stanmore,  ridden  by  William  Holman,  who  trained 
Freetrader  and  The  Doctor,  and  died  at  Cheltenham,  on  Tuesday,  the  roth  of 
January,  1888,  in  his  78th  year.  Born  in  Leicestershire,  Holman  began  his  career 
quite  in  the  early  days  of  steeplechasing.  He  saw  Jem  Hills,  afterwards  the 
famous  huntsman  of  the  Heythrop  Hounds,  win  the  first  steeplechase  ever  run 
in  Wiltshire  ;  he  rode  at  St.  Albans,  and  at  Liverpool,  though  he  was  never 
fortunate  enough  to  ride  the  winner  of  the  Grand  National.  In  1845  he  rode 
The  Page  in  that  race,  but  was  unplaced;  in  1852  he  was  third  on  Sir  Peter 
Laurie,  and  fourth  in  the  following  year  on  the  same  horse,  when  Freetrader, 
trained  by  him,  won,  George  Stevens  being  the  jockey.  Holman  hoped  to  lead 
back  another  Grand  National  winner,  and  in  1870  he  thought  that  he  should 

VOL.   III.  T 


590 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


do  so,  as  he  made  sure  of  winning  with  The  Doctor,  ridden  by  his  son  George  ; 
but,  as  most  people  know,  he  was  just  beaten  by  The  Colonel,  ridden  by  George 
Stevens. 

For  a  number  of  years,  dating  from  the  early  thirties,  the  Leamington  and 
Warwick  Steeplechases  enjoyed  great  repute,  and  in  1839  there  were  thirty-eight 
fences  in  the  line,  several  of  them  being  posts  and  rails,  and  two  fair-sized 
brooks  had  to  be  crossed.  The  three  placed  horses — Lord  Macdonald's  The  Nun, 
Mr.  Walker's  Sportsman,  and  Mr.  McDonough's  Sir  William— were  ridden  by 
three  famous  riders:  Jem  Mason,  Tom  Olliver,  and  Mr.  Alan  McDonough, 
the  owner  of  the  third.  Jem  Mason,  a  consummate  horseman,  was  born  at 

Stilton,  and  was  sent  to 
Huntingdon  Grammar 
School,  where  was  Frank 
Butler,  afterwards  the 
famous  flat-race  jockey. 
Mason,  sen.,  bred  and 
dealt  in  hunters,  and 
horsed  a  coach  or  two 

':  -;  •  over  some  of  the  middle 

ground,  and  here  it  was 
that  Jem  Mason  first 
learned  riding.  Mr. 
Mason,  sen.,  finding  it 
necessary  to  leave  Stil- 
ton, he  went  to  live  at 
Pinner,  where  young  Mason  was  thrown  among  a  number  of  steeplechasing  men 
like  Elmore  and  Anderson,  and  made  his  first  appearance  at  St.  Albans  in  1834 
on  The  Poet,  a  horse  which  really  belonged  to  Lord  Frederick  Beauclerc,  though 
it  ran  in  another  name.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  quite  at  the  head  of 
his  calling,  his  services  being  in  great  request  everywhere.  His  health  gave  way 
at  last,  and  he  had  to  give  up  riding.  Jem  Mason  died  in  1886  after  an  operation 
for  tracheotomy.  Tom  Olliver,  or  Black  Tom,  as  he  was  called,  was  a  brilliant 
horseman,  but  an  eccentric  person,  who  had  a  marvellously  varied  career  from 
a  financial  standpoint,  what  little  success  he  had  being  due  chiefly  to  Jem  Mason, 
who,  in  one  way  and  another,  set  him  on  his  legs  more  than  once.  Olliver  had 


A  real  stiff  one. 
Mr.  Coulthwaite's  training-grounds  at  Hednesford. 


STEEPLECHASING.  591 

a  very  ready  tongue,  and  was  the  reputed  author  of  a  number  of  quaint  sayings. 
On    one    occasion    he    was    confined    in   Oxford  Gaol    for   debt,   and,    on    a   friend 
asking   him    if  there  was  anything  he   would  like,   made  answer,    "  Yes,  send  me 
a   d — d   good    wall-jumper."     At    another    time,    when  some   one  was  complaining 
of  having  ridden  an  unpleasant  horse,  Tom  Olliver  replied,    "  Ah !  you  won't  know 
what  real  misery  on  horseback  is,  till  you  ride  a  hard-bucking,   ewe-necked  horse, 
downhill,  in  a  snaffle  bridle,  with  a  fly  in  your  eye,  and  one  foot  out  of  the  stirrup." 
The    third    of    this    trio    of    brilliant    horsemen,    Mr.    Alan    McDonough,    was    an 
Irishman,    born    in    1804,    who   died    at   his  house    in    Dublin    in    1888.      He  first 
became  known  as  a  cross-country  rider  in  Ireland  in   1830,   where  his  fine  horse- 
manship soon  attracted  attention.      He  won,  among  other  races,  the  Ormond  Hunt 
Cup  four  years  in  succession,  and  came  over  to  England  about   1835.     When  he 
first  began  to  ride  over  here,  neither  Irish  steeplechasers  nor  Irish  riders  were  very 
common,  so  Alan    McDonough 's  successes  gave  rise  to   a  great  deal    of  jealousy, 
which    led    to    unpleasant  results    sometimes.      McDonough    rode   a  great  number 
of  races  on  both  sides  of  St.  George's  Channel,  but  he  was  most  closely  associated 
with    Mr.    Preston's  wonderful    mare  Bmnette,   mentioned    later   on   in    connection 
with  Liverpool. 

The  Leamington  Steeplechase  of  1838  was  perhaps  one  of  the  earliest  instances 
of  a  gate-money  meeting,  as  from  two  to  five  shillings  were  charged  for  vehicles, 
and  one  shilling  for  horsemen. 

The  Leamington  Hunt  Steeplechase  of  1847  is  noteworthy  because  it  was  the 
occasion  of  The  Chandler  making  his  historic  jump  at  the  brook.  The  short  history 
of  the  leap  is  that,  early  in  the  race,  The  Chandler's  chance  was  nearly  extinguished, 
as  Captain  Broadley,  who  rode  the  horse,  nearly  fell  off  owing  to  one  of  his  feet 
striking  a  strong  binder  as  he  was  jumping  a  fence.  At  an  artificial  fence,  Regalia, 
a  very  shifty  mare,  refused  ;  but  jumped  it  at  the  second  attempt,  and  then  raced  on 
in  pursuit  of  King  of  the  Valley,  who  was  leading.  The  brook  was  the  next  fence  ; 
and  Captain  Broadley,  thinking  that  Regalia  would  get  in  the  way  of  some  one,  did 
his  best  to  pull  The  Chandler  back.  The  leaders  raced  at  the  water  and  went  in. 
Captain  Broadley  could  then  neither  stop  nor  turn  The  Chandler,  so  he  rode  him 
as  hard  as  he  could,  and  the  old  horse,  making  a  mighty  effort,  handsomely  cleared 
the  two  men  and  horses  in  the  water,  landed  far  on  the  opposite  side,  and,  as  others 
tumbled  down,  won  easily  at  his  leisure.  Captain  Peel,  William  Archer,  and 
several  others  were  standing  on  the  landing  side  ;  and,  noticing  how  The  Chandler 


592 


STEEPLECHASING.  593 

sped  through  space,  measured  the  distance,  which  Captain  Peel  declared  to  be 
thirty-seven  feet.  Archer  made  it  thirty-five  feet ;  but  from  the  best  accounts  it 
may  be  taken  at  thirty-seven,  though  some  asserted  that  it  was  thirty-nine  feet. 
The  Chandler,  by  Dr.  Faustus,  was  at  this  time  eleven  years  old,  having  been 
foaled  in  1836.  He  was  bred  by  Sir  Edward  Scott,  by  whom  he  was  sold  to 
a  Mr.  Wilkinson,  a  chandler  of  Sutton  Coldfield  ;  the  horse's  next  owner  was 
Mr.  Garnett,  who  used  The  Chandler  for  harness  work  alone,  and  it  was  a  pure 
accident  that  Captain  Peel  had  a  mount  on  the  horse,  liked  him,  and  bought  him. 
The  Chandler  continued  to  be  Captain  Peel's  best  hunter  for  three  or  four  years, 
and  it  was  not  until  he  was  ten  years  old  that  he  ran  his  first  steeplechase  at 
Birmingham  in  1846,  for  which  he  was  second.  His  next  race  was  that  just 
described.  In  ordinary  course  Captain  Peel  would  himself  have  ridden  the  horse, 
but  as  he  had  just  lost  a  relative,  Captain  Broadley  had  the  mount.  Not  long 
afterwards  a  half-share  was  sold  to  Captain  Little,  by  whom  the  horse  was  almost 
invariably  ridden  afterwards,  and  this  combination  in  the  next  year  (1848)  won 
the  Grand  National,  though  the  victory  was  attended  by  great  good  luck.  For  a 
year  or  two  Leamington  fared  better,  but  it  lost  its  prestige. 

The  fact  that  the  Liverpool  Grand  National  is  in  the  programme  of  the  Liver- 
pool Spring  Meeting  is  an  enormous  help  to  the  undertaking,  as  it  is  certainly  the 
foremost  steeplechase  of  the  year.  Its  history  is  worth  tracing.  By  the  time  the 
year  1836  dawned,  the  St.  Albans  meeting  was  six  years  old,  and  the  example  set 
by  Coleman  had  been  more  or  less  followed  by  others.  For  some  years  before 
steeplechases  had  ever  been  dreamed  of  at  Liverpool,  flat  races  had  taken  place  under 
the  auspices  of  Mr.  W.  Lynn,  proprietor  of  the  Waterloo  Hotel,  and  it  is  curious 
to  note  how  close  in  early  times  had  been  the  connection  between  the  Turf  and 
the  licensed  victualler.  Mr.  Lynn,  feeling  assured  that  he  had  hit  the  popular 
taste,  so  far  as  his  arrangements  for  flat-racing  were  concerned,  conceived  the 
idea  that  steeplechasing  would  pay  its  way  at  Liverpool,  as  it  appeared  to  be  so 
popular  everywhere  else.  Captain  Becher  and  Mr.  Powell  were  among  Mr.  Lynn's 
friends,  with  them  he  took  counsel,  and,  after  haggling  with  sundry  landowners  and 
occupiers,  the  three  succeeded  in  laying  out  a  course,  partly  over  the  old  flat-race 
course  and  partly  over  some  adjoining  land.  Having  succeeded  in  finding  a  home 
for  his  undertaking,  Mr.  Lynn  advertised  his  steeplechases  to  take  place  on  the  2gth 
of  February,  1836.  There  were  two  races,  in  which  the  well-known  horses  of  the 
day  took  part  ;  and  the  first  year's  experience  appears  to  have  been  sufficient  to 


594 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


assure  the  success  of  Mr.  Lynn's  venture.  The  second  year  (1837)  was  somewhat 
memorable  from  the  fact  that  the  Irish  horse,  Dan  O' Council,  who  had  done  well 
in  Ireland,  was  among  the  competitors  for  the  chief  race,  and  at  the  start  he  was 
an  odds-on  favourite  ;  but  he  could  barely  complete  the  first  round  ;  and  The  Dnke, 
a  horse  which  at  one  time  in  his  career  had  carried  a  whipper-in  of  one  of  the 
Midland  packs,  won  for  the  second  year  in  succession.  The  year  1838  saw  Alan 
McDonough's  Sir  William,  ridden  by  Mr.  Pott,  the  winner  of  the  chief  Liverpool 
race.  Sir  William,  a  grand-looking  chestnut,  by  Welcome,  was  brought  over  to 
England,  from  Ireland,  by  his  owner  in  1837,  and  when  in  the  humour  he  would 
go  kindly  enough,  but  proved  himself  generally  wayward.  When  McDonough 

rode  him  in  a  steeple- 
chase in  Cheshire  Sir 
William  fell,  and  the 
rider  was  dragged  for 
a  long  distance.  When 
the  horse  was  stopped 
by  some  bystanders, 
McDonough  remounted 
and  won,  his  victory 
being  anything  but  ac- 
ceptable to  the  English 
division,  who  were  ex- 
tremely jealous  of  the 
Irishman.  Not  long 
afterwards  McDonough 

was  deliberately  upset  at  Dunchurch  by  a  man  named  Ball,  who,  after  a  chase 
of  about  a  mile,  received  a  severe  thrashing  from  the  whip  of  Captain  Lamb, 
the  owner  of  the  steeplechaser  Vivian.  Interfering  with  unwelcome  competitors 
was  by  no  means  an  unusual  occurrence. 

Returning,  however,  to  Sir  William  and  Alan  McDonough,  the  injuries 
sustained  by  the  latter  —  a  broken  collar-bone  and  three  or  four  ribs — were  so 
severe  as  to  keep  him  in  bed  for  a  considerable  time.  The  accident  led  to  the 
sale  of  Sir  William  for  ^350,  and  Elmore  resold  him  a  few  days  later  to  Lord 
Cranstoun  for  ,£1,000,  who  at  once  matched  him  against  Lord  Suffield's  ferry 
for  ,£1,000  aside.  The  next  thing  was  to  find  a  jockey.  Several  Leicestershire 


Keinpton.     Two  beauties  over  the  water. 


STEEPLECHAS1NG.  595 

horsemen — the  match  took  place  in  the  Quorn  Country — essayed  to  ride  him,  but 
were  powerless  to  induce  him  to  jump.  McDonough  had  in  the  mean  time  left 
for  Ireland,  and  in  sheer  despair  Lord  Howth  sent  a  messeng-er  from  Melton 
Mowbray  to  Wellmont,  begging  the  famous  Irish  rider  to  come  over  and  steer 
his  old  horse.  There  were  no  railroads  in  those  days  ;  but  McDonough  arrived 
at  Melton  on  the  Sunday  before  the  match  took  place,  and  found  that  Jem  Mason 
was  to  ride  Jerry.  After  making  the  running,  to  McDonough's  delight,  Jerry 
refused ;  Sir  William,  however,  went  on,  and,  jumping  kindly  enough,  won  very 
easily.  In  1840  Mr.  Villebois  nominated  Jerry  for  what  we  may  term  the  Grand 
National,  though  the  race  had  not  then  received  the  name,  and,  in  the  hands  of 
Bretherton,  he  won. 

The  year  1839  is  memorable  in  the  history  of  the  Aintree  Course,  because 
it  then  passed  out  of  the  private  ownership  or  lesseeship  of  Mr.  Lynn,  owing 
to  his  bad  health,  to  a  kind  of  syndicate.  The  Trustees  for  the  Thousand 
Proprietors  with  a  ^25  share,  were  Lord  Stanley,  Sir  Thomas  Massey  Stanley 
(at  one  time  racing  confederate  with  Sir  Joseph  Hawley),  Messrs.  W.  Blundell, 
James  Aspinall,  and  William  Earle.  The  Racing  Committee  were  the  Earls 
of  Derby,  Sefton,  Eglinton,  and  Wilton ;  Lords  George  Bentinck,  Stanley,  and 
Robert  Grosvenor  ;  Sirs  John  Gerard,  T.  Massey  Stanley,  and  R.  W.  Bulkeley  ; 
the  Hon.  E.  M.  Lloyd  Mostyn,  and  Mr.  E.  G.  Hornby.  These  gentlemen 
had  the  fixing  of  all  races ;  while  a  third  body,  called  "  Directors,"  who 
managed  the  racecourse  and  its  finances,  were  elected  from  the  general  number 
of  the  subscribers.  Mr.  Lynn  was  a  tolerably  large  shareholder,  and  continued  to 
assist  the  company  with  advice  and  suggestions.  So  far  as  can  be  ascertained, 
Aintree  was  the  first  proprietary  racecourse  ever  organised.  That  it  was  a 
gate-money  meeting  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that  the  payment  of  ^10 
out  of  the  £25  entitled  the  subscriber  to  a  silver  ticket,  admitting  him  free 
to  course  and  stand.  The  first  "Great"  Steeplechase  under  the  new  regime  took 
place  on  the  24th  of  February,  1839,  when  an  enormous  crowd  came  together; 
but  though  the  race  was  set  for  one  o'clock,  it  was  nearly  three  o'clock  before 
the  seventeen  competitors  paraded  in  front  of  the  grand  stand,  and  it  was  not 
until  that  moment  that  the  public  knew  how  many  of  the  fifty-three  entries 
were  going  to  start.  Lord  Macdonald's  The  Nun  and  Elmore's  Lottery  were 
the  two  favourites,  and  the  latter,  ridden  by  Jem  Mason,  won  with  great  ease. 
It  was  in  this  race  that  one  of  the  fences  became  known  as  Becher's  Brook. 


596 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


4LM 

•i  sjmtr~**k 

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It  appears  to  have  been  the  eighth  obstacle,  and  was  a  post  and  rail  in 
front  of  a  hedge  with  six  or  seven  feet  of  water  on  the  far  side.  Conrad, 
ridden  by  Captain  Becher,  who  seems  to  have  made  the  running  from  the 
start,  never  rose  at  the  rails,  which  he  broke  through  and  tumbled  into 
the  water,  Lottery  and  two  or  three  others  jumping  over  the  pair,  and  just 
missing  them.  Jerry  was  the  winner  in  1840,  in  which  year  Lord  Sefton 
was  begged  to  make  a  stone  wall  one  of  the  obstacles  in  the  course,  to 
encourage  the  Irish  owners  to  send  their  horses  over.  Lord  Sefton  agreed, 
but  intimated  that,  to  give  the  Leicestershire  horses  a  chance,  he  would  also 
have  an  ox-fence  set  up,  and  a  very  tolerable  imitation  of  the  genuine  article 

it  was.  Jerry,  like 
Lottery,  a  Lincoln- 
shire-bred horse,  was 

!0N^Mnm^^:':   ^        ^^  by    Catterick   out    of 

y>  /  ^k^^^tf^fe^v  a  sister  to  Jenny,  by 

Belltrophon.  Jerry 
ran  in  the  Liverpool 
race  as  Mr.  Ville- 
bois's  nomination. 
Lottery,  meantime, 
ran  for  four  or  five 
times  after  he  won, 
but  met  with  no 
further  success. 

The  word  "  National "  occurs  for  the  first  time  in  connection  with  the  race  in 
1843,  when  it  was  called  "The  Liverpool  and  National  Steeplechase,"  and  became 
a  handicap.  In  the  previous  year  (1842)  the  winner  was  Mr.  D'Arcy's  Gay  Lad, 
ridden  by  Tom  Olliver,  who  won  again  on  Lord  Chesterfield's  Vanguard,  and  for 
the  third  time  on  Captain  Little's  Peter  Simple  in  1853,  after  a  lapse  of  ten  years. 
There  are  one  or  two  circumstances  which  call  for  notice  in  connection  with  this 
"  Liverpool  and  National "  Steeplechase.  In  the  first  place,  not  one  of  the  nineteen 
competitors  fell  ;  secondly,  the  race  was  considered  a  certainty  for  Tom  Tug  by 
those  connected  with  him  ;  but  the  horse,  being  an  inveterate  puller,  overpowered 
his  rider,  Rackley,  who  was  told  to  wait,  and  ran  himself  to  a  standstill,  so  that  he 
could  only  get  third  to  Mr.  Quartermaine's  Discount  and  Mr.  Stirling  Crawfurd's 


Wild  Man  from  Borneo" 


STEEPLECHASING.  597 

The  Returned.  Thirdly,  the  winner  Discount  had  up  to  the  time  of  his  winning 
been  a  complete  failure  at  everything.  In  1845  Mr.  Loft's  Cure- All,  who  ran  as 
the  nomination  of  Mr.  W.  S.  Crawfurd,  and  was  ridden  by  her  owner,  was  bought 
a  few  months  previously  for  ^50,  and  was  described  as  "a  short-legged,  compact, 
strong,  and  rather  coarse-looking  animal."  A  strong  field  of  twenty-nine  started  in 
1847,  when  Mat  hew,  the  favourite,  won,  he  being  the  first  Irish  horse  to  carry  off  the 
Liverpool  race.  The  Irish  brigade  mustered  rather  strongly,  as  Mat  hew,  Saucepan, 
Miss  Tindall,  St.  Leger,  and  Brunette  were  all  claimed  as  being  Irish.  Mathew,  a 
blood  bay,  standing  about  15  hands  3  inches,  by  Vestris,  was  bred  by  Mr.  John 
Westrop,  of  Coolreagh,  near  Scarriff,  in  1838.  He  won  several  races  in  Ireland, 
before  coming  to  England,  and  often  ran  against  Brunette.  The  latter  was  a  very 
famous  mare.  She  was  a  black,  or  very  dark  brown,  foaled  in  1834,  and  bred  by 
Mr.  Walker  in  Co.  Meath.  She  was  by  Herciiles,  dam  by  Yeomanry,  grand-dam 
by  Welcome.-  She  did  not  run  till  she  was  seven  years  old,  when  she  won  the 
Meath  Gold  Cup  at  Trim  in  a  canter,  ridden  by  a  young  farmer  named  Murray. 
Mr.  Knaresborough  (very  likely  the  owner  of  Dan  ffConnell,  who  started  at 
Liverpool  in  1837)  then  bought  her,  and  in  his  colours  Brunette  won  the  Kilrane 
Cup  twice — in  •i8'42,  the  year  in  which  the  race  was  instituted,  and  again  in  1843, 
the  year  in  which  Alan  McDonough  at  the  last  moment  entered  Peter  Simple, 
just  then  at:  his  best.  He  was,  however,  third  only,  Brunette  winning  easily, 
though  ten  lengths  behind  at  the  last  fence.  The  mare  won  a  number  of  other 
races  all  over  Ireland  ;  but,  like  so  many  good  performers,  she  never  had  a  foal 
that  could  have  won  a  saddle  at  a  country  meeting.  Brunette  was  subsequently 
sold  to  the  Hon.  W.  Hely  Hutchinson,  of  Palmerstown,  and  died  in  1855,  in 
the  twenty-second  year  of  her  age  in  foaling  to  Portrait. 

Matkciu  tried  to  win  again  in  1848,  but  was  cannoned  against  and  knocked 
clown,  so  his  chance  was  extinguished  ;  some  other  much-fancied  horses  fell,  so 
The  Chandler,  ridden  by  his  owner,  Captain  Little,  achieved  what  was  generally 
thought  to  be  a  lucky  victory,  especially  as  at  that  time  "  The  Little  Captain,"  as 
he  was  often  called,  had  not  had  very  much  practice  in  steeplechase  riding,  and 
had  to  fight  out  the  finish  with  his  old  tutor,  Olliver,  on  The  Curate.  Captain 

o 

Joseph  Lockhart  Little,  the  "Josey"  Little  of  many  friends,  was  born  in  1821  at 
Chipstead,  Surrey,  joining  the  King's  Dragoon  Guards,  in  which  regiment  he 
remained  until  1848,  when  he  exchanged  into  the  Sist  Foot,  in  consequence  of 
having  lost  his  money  by  the  failure  of  a  bank.  When  he  first  received  the  news, 
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he  was  leaving  the  paddock  at  Worcester,  mounted  on  The  Chandler.  Davies,  a 
bookmaker,  laid  him  .£500  to  £20  against  The  Chandler,  and  as  he  won  the 
race,  as  well  as  the  Worcester  Grand  Annual,  he  felt  himself  on  his  legs  again. 
Being  a  lightweight  he  occasionally  rode— and  won— on  the  flat;  while  a  goodly 
number  of  cross-country  races  stood  to  his  credit.  About  the  year  1851  or  1852 
Captain  Little's  name  dropped  out  of  the  list  of  gentleman  riders,  and  on  the 
1 7th  of  February,  1877,  he  died  at  the  Hotel  Clarendon,  Paris,  from  a  cold  which 
brought  on  sundry  complications.  Running  as  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Mason,  junior, 
the  famous  grey,  Peter  Simple,  won  in  1849,  again  in  1853,  when  he  belonged 
to  Captain  Little  and  was  ridden  by  Tom  Olliver,  while  he  ran  in  the  race 

up  to  1855.  In  the 
first-mentioned  year 
Peter  Simple  started 
at  20  to  i,  as  his 
chance  of  success 
was  thought  hopeless. 
Captain  D'Arcy  rode 
his  own  horse,  The 
Knight  of  Gwynne, 
which  he  had  backed 
heavily,  and  when, 
on  coming  into  the 
straight,  the  Captain 
found  that  he  could 
not  beat  the  grey, 

Cunningham  declared  that  he  was  offered  ,£1,000,  and  subsequently  ,£4,000,  to  stop 
his  horse.  The  hero  of  1850  and  1851  was  the  late  Mr.  Joseph  Osborne's  little 
horse  (he  stood  just  under  15 '2)  Abd-el-Kader,  ridden  on  the  former  occasion  by 
Green,  and  on  the  second  by  T.  Abbott.  Abd-el-Kader  s  dam  worked  as  near-side 
leader  in  one  of  the  Shrewsbury  coaches,  and  Mr.  Osborne,  taking  a  fancy  to 
her,  became  her  owner,  it  is  said  at  the  price  of  50  guineas,  a  large  sum  then  for 
a  "middle  ground"  horse;  but  Mr.  Osborne  always  averred  that  her  price  was 
no  more  than  25  guineas.  She  was  discovered  to  be  by  Hit  or  Miss  out  of  a 
half-bred  mare,  and  under  the  name  of  English  Lass  won  some  steeplechases  for 
Mr.  Osborne,  who  then  bred  from  her,  and  in  1842  she  was  put  to  Ishmael,  a  sire 


Sandoivn  past  and  present.  From  left  to  right. 
"  Rathcannon  "  (Mr.  Rashbottom),  "  Band  of 
Hope  "  (Captain  Hon.  R.  Ward),  "  Carnroe  " 
(Captain  R.  H.  Collis). 


STEEPLEC 'EASING.  599 

of  some  repute  in  Ireland,  and  bred  Abd-el-Kader,  who  turned  out  such  a  Tartar 
that  he  was  unsexed,  and  it  was  two  years  after  the  operation  before  he  was  able 
to  be  made  any  use  of;  and  then,  just  as  he  was  put  to  work,  he  sustained  another 
accident  which  nearly  put  a  stop  to  any  more  jumping.  Like  Mr.  Preston's 
Brunette,  Abd-el-Kader  made  his  first  appearance  on  an  English  course  at 
Worcester  and  won  a  number  of  races. 

As  was  the  case  with  a  number  of  other  winners  of  the  Grand  National  and 
other  steeplechases,  the  merits  of  Miss  Mowbray,  the  winner  in  1852,  were 
discovered  merely  by  accident.  She  was  bred  in  Bedfordshire,  and  was  by 
-Lancastrian  out  of  Norma,  the  dam  belonging  to  Mr.  Magniac,  at  that  time  the 
master  of  the  Oakley  Hounds.  She  proved  too  slow  for  racing,  but  for  five  years 
carried  her  owner  very  well  in  the  hunting-field.  Then  she  was  sold  to  a  Manchester 
man,  who  at  once  returned  her  as  being  unsound,  and  a  year  younger  than  repre- 
sented. Neither  Messrs.  Bevill  nor  Goodman  would  look  at  her  a  second  time, 
and  then  Mr.  J.  F.  Mason,  after  riding  her  one  day  with  the  Oakley  Hounds, 
became  her  purchaser,  after  she  was  sent  from  Manchester.  The  sequel  showed 
that  Mr.  Mason's  judgment  was  superior  to  that  of  those  who  passed  her  by,  as 
she  won  the  Warwickshire  Hunt  Cup,  the  Welter  Stakes,  the  Open  Steeplechase 
at  Leamington,  and  then  the  Liverpool  Grand  National.  By  a  curious  coincidence 
she  was  ridden  at  Liverpool  by  the  still  living  Mr.  Alec  Goodman,  one  of  the 
very  few  steeplechase  riders  in  regular  practice  who  wore  a  beard,  and  who 
(as  mentioned)  would  at  first  see  no  connection  between  Miss  Movubray  and 
steeplechasing. 

The  Liverpool  of  1856  saw  George  Stevens  win  for  the  first  time  on 
Mr.  Barnet's  Freetrader,  while  for  the  first  time  since  its  institution  the  meeting 
extended  to  two  days.  There  were  a  good  many  casualties  in  the  race,  but 
Stevens  avoided  riderless  horses  and  all  other  dangers ;  and  so  pleased  was 
Mr.  Barnet  with  his  jockey's  horsemanship  that  he  is  said  to  have  given  him 
^500  ;  while  a  few  days  later  some  backers  who  profited  by  Freetrader 's  success 
presented  the  rider  with  a  "capital  hunter  of  the  value  of  ^80."  George  Stevens 
occupied  a  somewhat  curious  place  in  the  ranks  of  steeplechase  jockeys.  Although 
he  was  in  racing  stables  as  a  lad,  and  began  to  ride  over  a  country  for  Mr.  Vevers 
in  Herefordshire  when  about  sixteen  years  old,  he  was  never  one  of  those  steeple- 
chase riders  who  were  seen  in  the  saddle  all  over  the  country.  His  first  important 
win  was  on  ffardwuke  in  the  Grand  Annual  at  Wolverhampton  in  1851,  running 


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second  in  the  same  year  for  the  Leamington  Grand  Annual  on  Bourton,  the  winner, 
three  years  later,  of  the  Grand  National.  About  1852  Mr.  Vevers  (who,  in  1846, 
when  sixty-four  years  old,  rode  his  own  horse  Little  Tommy  in  the  Paris  steeple- 
chase) retired  from  the  sport  which  he  had  taken  up  with  all  the  ardour  of  the 
younger  school.  Then  it  was  that  George  Stevens  returned  to  Cheltenham,  his 
native  place.  In  the  course  of  his  career  he  achieved  the  unequalled  distinction 
of  winning  the  Grand  National  five  times,  and  on  two  occasions  equalled  Tom 
Olliver's  feat  of  carrying  off  the  great  race  two  years  in  succession.  His  first 
victory,  as  mentioned  above,  was  on  Freetrader  in  1856.  In  1863  and  1864 
he  won  on  Lord  Coventry's  Emblem  and  Emblematic  respectively,  and  in  1869 

and  1870  he  steered 
The  Colonel  to  victory, 
having  in  course  of  a 
twenty-two  years'  ex- 
perience of  steeplechas- 
ing  won  seventy-six 
races  in  all,  or  on  an 


average 
than 


rather 
three      a 


more 


year. 


Mr.  E.  Wood  and  "  Droeheda? 


Although  Stevens  had 
ridden  over  all  kinds  of 
courses  without  coming 
to  serious  injury — he 
always  made  a  practice 
of  lying  well  away  from 

the    other    competitors — he  met   his  death   on   June   8,    1871,    while   riding  quietly 
home  from  Cheltenham  to  Emblem  Cottage  on  Cleeve  Hill. 

The  National  of  1856  need  only  be  referred  to  shortly  for  the  purpose  of 
mentioning  that  Mr.  Capel's  Little  Charlie,  the  winner,  was  ridden  by  William 
Archer,  father  of  Charles  and  Fred  Archer.  He  was  born  at  Cheltenham  on  the 
ist  of  January,  1826,  where  his  father  kept  livery  stables,  and  it  is  said  that  he  rode 
a  pony  in  a  hurdle-race  near  Cheltenham  when  he  was  no  more  than  nine  years 
old.  Running  away  from  home,  Archer  first  picked  up  a  precarious  living  by- 
riding  on  the  flat  in  the  Midlands.  His  next  move  was  to  George  Taylor,  the  late 
Alec  Taylor's  father,  under  whom  he  made  a  great  advance.  Thence  he  migrated 


STEEPLECHASING.  601 

to  Hednesford  with  fair  success,  and  then  to  Russia  for  a  couple  of  years  to  ride 
for  the  Czar;  but  returning  in  1844  he  took  to  hurdle-racing  and  steeplechasing, 
doing  so  well  in  that  line  of  business  that  he  settled  down  at  Cheltenham.  In 
1848  Archer  won  the  principal  race  on  Tkurgarton,  beating  Tom  Olliver,  riding 
his  own  horse,  Vanguard.  In  1862  he  gave  up  riding  over  a  country;  his 
eldest  son,  William,  was  killed  at  Cheltenham  steeplechases  in  1878,  and  in 
December,  1889,  Archer  himself  passed  away  at  the  age  of  sixty-three. 

In  the  sixties  and  seventies  there  was  no  more  popular  or  able  gentleman  rider 
than  Mr.  T.  Pickernell,  who  rode  under  the  name  of  Mr.  "Thomas,"  and  won 
his  first  Grand  National  in  1860  on  Mr.  Capel's  Anatis.  This  was  quite  an 
amateurs'  year,  as  they  rode  the  first,  second,  and  fourth  horses.  Mr.  Thomas 
rode  in  the  Grand  National  no  less  than  seventeen  times,  winning  thrice — in 
1860,  on  Anatis;  in  1871,  on  Lord  Paulet's  The  Lamb;  and  finally  in  1875,  on 
Mr.  W.  Bird's  Pathfinder,  when,  though  the  competitors  were  regarded  as  of 
moderate  quality,  there  was  a  most  exciting  finish  between  the  above-named  and 
Mr.  S.  Davis's  Dainty,  ridden  by  Mr.  Hathaway,  Pathfinder  winning  all  out  by  half 
a  length.  The  National  of  1862,  won  by  Viscount  de  Namur's  Huntsman,  ridden 
by  Lamplugh,  proved  fatal  to  James  Wynne,  son  of  "Denny"  Wynne,  who  won 
on  Mat  hew  in  1847.  He  was  on  Lord  de  Freyne's  O'Connell,  and  was  neither 
very  strong  in  the  saddle,  nor  very  robust.  On  the  morning  of  the  race  he  heard 
of  the  death  of  his  sister,  whereupon  Lord  de  Freyne  advised  him  to  stand  down. 
As  he  had  travelled  so  far  to  ride  he  begged  to  have  the  mount,  so  the  owner 
gave  way.  Willoughby  and  O'Connell  cannoned  at  a  flight  of  hurdles,  their  riders 
trying  to  avoid  a  prostrate  horse  and  rider ;  both  fell  ;  O'Connell  rolled  over 
Wynne,  inflicting  fatal  injuries. 

Next  came  Lord  Coventry's  two  years  of  success.  Emblem  (1863)  was  a 
thoroughbred  mare  by  Teddington  — Miss  Batty,  and  for  some  time  she  was  useless 
over  a  country.  When  a  three-year-old,  in  1859,  she  won  a  race  on  the  flat  (at 
Cardiff),  out  of  thirteen  starts.  Lord  Coventry  bought  her  not  a  great  while  after- 
wards, and  sent  her  to  be  trained  by  Golby,  at  Northleach,  at  that  time  a  well-known 
teacher  of  jumpers,  and  afterwards  to  Weever,  of  Bourton.  A  few  falls  made  her 
positively  dread  the  sight  of  a  fence.  One  day  Weever  rather  lost  his  temper  with 
her,  and  in  the  heat  of  the  moment  picked  up  a  stick  which  he  let  the  mare  feel  ;  but 
this,  though  not  quite  an  orthodox  manner  of  schooling,  was  the  first  step  towards 
success  ;  for,  after  doing  rather  better  in  subsequent  trials,  Emblem  was  taken  out 


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"    •    I/ V 


with  the  hounds,  and  on  being  given  a  lead  over  some  gorsed  hurdles,  jumped  them 
very  well.  The  leap  appeared  to  infuse  new  courage  into  the  mare  for  she  refused 
nothing  all  day  ;  proved  to  be  a  tremendous  jumper,  and  won  the  Grand  National. 
Like  Emblem,  her  sister  Emblematic,  winner  in  1864,  was  a  very  weedy-looking 
mare,  yet  they  carried  lost.  iolb.  and  lost.  6lb.,  respectively,  to  victory  at  Liverpool  ; 
just  at  the  time,  curiously  enough,  when  an  agitation  was  on  foot  for  the  weights 
to  be  raised  in  order  to  attract  a  better  class  of  horse  ;  yet  these  two  "  weeds  " 
carried  quite  respectable  imposts  to  the  front.  There  was  a  tremendous  race  in 
1865,  when  Mr.  B.  J.  Angell's  Alcibiade,  ridden  by  Mr.  Coventry,  beat  Captain 
Browne's  Hall  Court  (a  bond  fide  hunter),  ridden  by  Captain  Tempest,  by  a  head. 

Mr.  Angell,  known  as 
"Cherry"  Angell,  from 
his  colours,  kept  a 
good  many  horses  and 
was  connected  with  the 
fortunes  of  the  Brighton 
Coach  in  the  early  days 
of  the  revival.  Captain 
(now  Major)  Tempest 
used  also  to  ride  in 
a  good  many  steeple- 
chases, and  was  master 
of  the  Blankney  Hounds 
for  some  seasons  before 
Mr.  N.  C.  Cockburn, 
the  now  retiring  joint  master,  took  the  country.  The  winner  on  this  occasion, 
Alcibiade  (by  Cossack — Aunt  Phyllis],  made  his  first  public  appearance  over  a 
country,  though  he  had  been  well  tried  at  Lakenham,  where  he  was  schooled. 
He  cost  Mr.  Angell  400  guineas,  after  winning  the  Brighton  Club  Stakes,  and 
in  1863,  when  three  years  old,  was  claimed  out  of  a  Selling  Race  at  Epsom.  The 
National  went  to  a  rank  outsider  in  1866,  Mr.  Studd's  Salamander,  who  it  was 
understood  could  have  been  bought  on  quite  reasonable  terms  a  year  or  two  before. 
Cortolvin,  who  ran  second  to  Salamander  in  1 866,  when  he  was  owned  by  the  late 
Lord  Poulett,  could  never  win  a  race  for  his  old  master  ;  but  no  sooner  had  the  Duke 
of  Hamilton  bought  him  than  he  won  the  National  in  1867,  the  Duke  netting  it  is 


Kemflton  Park.     "King  David"  ahead,  "  Ambush  //." 
on  the  right,  "  Drogheda  "  on  the  left. 


STEEPLECHASING.  603 

said,  about  ,£11,100  over  the  race.  If,  however,  Lord  Poulett  was  unfortunate  with 
Cortolvin  in  1866,  he  achieved  success  in  1868  with  The  Lamb,  an  Irish  horse  he 
leased  for  his  racing  career.  On  this  occasion  (he  won  again  in  1871)  he  was  ridden 
by  Mr.  George  Ede,  whose  nom  de  course  was  Mr.  "  Edwards,"  a  most  elegant 
horseman,  and  a  most  successful  amateur  rider.  Mr.  George  Ede  and  his  twin 
brother,  Mr.  Edward  Ede,  were  the  sons  of  Mr.  Edward  Ede,  of  Clayfield  Lodge, 
near  Southampton.  They  were  born  in  1834,  were  sent  to  Eton,  which  they  left  in 
1850,  and  soon  afterwards  Mr.  "Edwards,"  who  had  taken  kindly  to  horses,  put 
himself  under  the  tuition  of  Ben  Land,  then  at  the  height  of  his  fame  as  a  steeple- 
chase rider,  and  soon  became  so  accomplished  a  horseman  that  his  first  mounts  were 
on  Ben  Land's  horses.  He  had  his  first  chance  in  1856,  and  in  the  next  year  won 
the  Birmingham  Grand  Annual  Steeplechase  (then  an  important  race)  on  Land's 
Weathercock.-  Twenty  wins  was  Mr.  Edwards's  score  for  the  year  1858,  two  years 
only  after  he  started  riding  in  public.  Between  1856  and  1870.  a  period  of  fourteen 
years,  Mr.  Edwards  won  306  races ;  whereas  George  Stevens,  a  professional,  as 
mentioned  above,  won  no  more  than  76  in  twenty- two  years.  Mr.  Edwards  had 
always  been  fond  of  cricket;  in  1862  he  took  to  it  seriously,  and,  in  conjunction 
with  his  twin  brother  Edward,  was  mainly  instrumental  in  founding  the  Hampshire 
County  Club.  As  cricket  in  the  summer  called  Mr.  Edwards  a  good  deal  away  from 
the  flat-race  course,  his  mounts  were  fewer;  but  in  the  year  1862  he  beat  Fordham 
by  a  head  at  Hampton,  and  on  the  following  day  made  122  runs  at  Southampton  in 
a  match  between  East  and  West  Hants  ;  while  in  1863  he  scored  1,200  runs.  In  the 
prime  of  life,  Mr.  Edwards  met  his  death  at  Liverpool,  when  riding  Mr.  Stortford's 
Chippenham  in  the  Sefton  Steeplechase  of  1870.  The  horse  struck  into  a  flight  of 
hurdles,  fell,  and  rolled  over  his  rider,  but,  recovering  his  feet,  dragged  Mr.  Edwards 
for  some  distance.  This  was  on  a  Thursday ;  Mr.  Edwards  never  regained 
consciousness,  and  died  on  the  following  Sunday,  sincerely  regretted  by  every 
one  who  had  come  in  contact  with  him. 

The  years  1869  and  1870  are  wrapped  up  with  the  history  of  George  Stevens 
and  The  Colonel.  The  horse,  bred  by  Mr.  John  Weyman,  was  by  Knight  of  Kars 
— Boadicea,  and,  though  having  a  fine  forehand,  did  not  strike  the  spectator  as  being 
an  exceptionally  powerful  horse  behind.  He  ran  in  1869  in  Mr.  Weyman's  name, 
and  in  1870  in  that  of  Mr.  Evans,  whose  niece,  Miss  Powys,  had  previously  become 
the  wife  of  George  Stevens.  In  the  first  year,  the  finish  was  confined  to  The  Colonel 
and  Hall  Court  (second  in  1865  to  Alcibiade);  once  more  ridden  by  Captain 


604  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

Tempest  ;  while  in  1870  came  the  memorable  finish  between  The  Colonel  and  the 
club-footed  horse  The  Doctor,  ridden  by  the  late  George  Holman.  George  Stevens, 
as  was  his  wont,  lay  behind  until  the  second  time  round,  when,  after  the  brook  had 
been  jumped,  he  brought  up  The  Colonel,  who  took  a  leading  position,  the  race 
being  then  confined  to  The  Colonel,  The  Doctor,  and  Mr.  R.  W.  Brockton's  pulling 
mare,  Primrose,  who,  but  for  her  failing,  would  have  won  more  races  than  she  did. 
The  Colonel  eventually  beat  The  Doctor  by  a  neck,  Primrose  being  a  length  behind 
the  second.  Subsequently  George  Holman  was  summoned  by  the  R.S.P.C.A.  for 
excessive  whipping  and  spurring  ;  but  the  case  was  dismissed. 

In  the  hands  of  Mr.  "Thomas,"  The  Lamb  won  the  National  again  in  1871. 
Whether  Mr.  "Edwards,"  who  won  on  The  Lamb  in  1868,  would,  in  ordinary 
course,  have  been  in  the  saddle  is  not  known.  Mr.  Thomas,  however,  was  put  up  in 
consequence  of  Lord  Poulett's  dream,  or  rather  two  dreams.  In  the  first  The  Lamb 
finished  last ;  in  the  second  he  won,  ridden  by  Mr.  Thomas.  Thereupon  Lord 
Poulett  wrote  off  to  "My  dear  Tommy,"  asking  him  to  ride  for  him  (Lord  Poulett) 
at  Liverpool.  The  dream  came  off,  The  Lamb  winning  by  two  lengths.  The 
winner  was  almost  carried  to  the  weighing  inclosure,  and  Mr.  Thomas  was  well-nigh 
dragged  from  the  saddle,  so  great  was  the  enthusiasm  of  the  moment.  The  Lamb, 
bred  in  Ireland  in  1862,  was  by  Zouave  out  of  a  mare  by  Arthur,  the  last-named 
a  famous  Irish  sire.  Zouave  was  bred  and  owned  by  Mr.  Courtenay,  who  owned 
Mat  hew,  the  first  Irish  horse  to  win  the  National.  He  had  a  varied  career,  for 
he  was,  at  one  time,  not  thought  worth  ^"25  as  a  boy's  hunter.  Mr.  E.  Studd,  the 
owner  of  Salamander,  once  had  the  refusal  of  him  ;  but  contemptuously  declined  the 
deal  on  the  ground  that  the  horse  could  not  carry  a  pair  of  boots.  Yet  in  this  very 
race  he  beat  Mr.  Studd's  Despatch,  who  ran  second  to  him.  It  has  often  been  said 
that  The  Lamb  was  a  pony  ;  but,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  he  stood  a  full  15.2,  though  as 
a  four-year-old  he  was  no  more  than  15  hands.  It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  all 
connected  with  The  Lamb  were  unfortunate.  After  Lord  Poulett's  death,  difficulties 
arose  concerning  his  successor  to  the  title  ;  Ben  Land,  the  trainer,  died  by  his  own 
hand  ;  Mr.  Edwards,  who  rode  the  horse  when  he  won  the  first  time,  was  killed  at 
Liverpool,  as  already  mentioned  ;  The  Lamb  himself  broke  his  leg  at  Baden-Baden 
in  1872,  and  was  killed,  after  his  owner,  Baron  Oppenheim,  had  given  1,200  guineas 
for  him. 

The  winner  in  1872  was  Mr.  Brayley's  Casse  Ttte,  a  light,  washy  chestnut,  one 
of  the  worst,  some  people  said,  that  ever  won  the  National.  Nevertheless,  in  the 


H 


STEEPLECHASING. 


605 


hands  of  John  Page,  whose  father  used  to  find  the  horses  for  the  North  Warwick- 
shire Hunt  in  the  Birmingham  district,  she  won  easily  enough,  beating  Scarrington 
by  half  a  dozen  lengths.  Mr.  Brockton's  Primrose  broke  her  back  during  the 
race,  and  had  to  be  killed.  There  were  some  very  good  horses  among  the  starters  ; 
for  instance,  The  Lamb,  Scot  Grey,  Schiedam  (who  won  the  Grand  National  Hunt 
Steeplechase  in  1870),  Rhys-worth,  and  others.  The  two  following  years,  1873 
and  1874,  are  noteworthy  for  the  successes  of  the  late  Captain  Machell  as  owner 
and  Mr.  J.  M.  Richardson  as  jockey,  with  Disturbance  and  Reugny  respectively.  In 


His  Majesty  the  King's  "  Ambush  //." 

the  former  year  the  second  horse  was  Mr.  Chaplin's  Rhysworth,  ridden  by  Boxall, 
afterwards  whipper-in  and  huntsman  to  the  North  Staffordshire  Hounds.  It  was 
but  a  few  years  previously  that  the  owners  of  the  first  and  second  horses  were  con- 
federates, but  on  this  occasion  they  were  opposed  to  each  other.  Mr.  J.  Maunsell 
Richardson,  who  is  married  to  Victoria,  Countess  of  Yarborough,  very  frequently 
officiates  as  judge  at  important  horse  shows  ;  but  some  forty  years  ago,  as  a  Harrow 
boy,  he  played  against  Eton  at  Lords  in  1864  and  1865.  At  Cambridge  he  soon 
found  a  place  in  the  Eleven,  and  it  was  while  at  the  University  that  he  was  first 
vol..  in.  x 


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seen  between  the  flags.  This  was  at  Huntingdon,  about  1865,  when  he  won  easily, 
in  spite  of  a  broken  stirrup-leather.  In  the  course  of  his  career  he  won  the  two 
Grand  Nationals  above  mentioned ;  the  Croydon  United  Kingdom  Steeplechase 
(twice)  on  Disturbance  and  Fur  ley ;  two  Leamington  Grand  Annual  Steeplechases 
on  Furley  and  Schiedam,  and  many  other  races.  Mr.  Richardson  gave  up  riding 
in  1874,  so  when  Captain  Machell  won  the  National  in  1876  with  Regal,  Joseph 
Cannon  was  in  the  saddle. 

The  race  of  1877  was  something  of  a  surprise.  At  minor  and  provincial 
steeplechases  there  was  no  better-known  rider  than  Mr.  F.  G.  Hobson,  who 
was  quite  good  on  the  flat,  but  had  the  curious  habit  of  catching  hold  of  the 

back  of  his  saddle  with 
his  right  hand  at  every 
fence  he  jumped  ;  and 
his  quickness  in  taking 
hold  and  letting  go  was 
quite  remarkable.  In 
the  National,  however 
(1877),  he  elected  to  ride 
his  own  horse,  Ansterlitz, 
and  won  by  four  lengths. 
There  is  nothing  par- 
ticularly historical  about 
Shifnafs  year  (1878); 
but  in  1879  Mr.  Moore's 
old  Irish  horse,  1  he 
Liberator,  unplaced  in  1876  and  third  in  the  following  year,  was  successful  in  the 
hands  of  his  son,  Mr.  Garry  Moore.  The  Liberator  was  a  wonderfully  consistent 
performer,  and  was,  therefore,  always  a  favourite  with  race-goers.  He  was  bred 
in  Ireland,  by  Mr.  Stokes  of  Mount  Hawk  in  1869,  so  that  he  was  ten  years 
old  when  he  won  at  Liverpool.  He  is  not  supposed  to  have  run  until  he  was 
five  years  old,  and  that  was  at  Cork  Park.  In  less  than  a  year  afterwards 
he  changed  hands  at  600  guineas  ;  made  his  first  appearance  in  the  National  in 
1876,  when  he  fell  ;  and  at  Sewell's  Repository,  Dublin,  he  failed  to  bring  a  bid  for 
his  reserve  price -a  thousand  guineas.  Thereupon,  Mr.  Garrett  Moore  bought  a 
half  share  in  him  for  500  guineas.  He  did  not  run  in  1878,  but  won  in  1879,  was 


Sando-wn.  The  Grand  Military  Cold  Cup.  "  Marpcssa" 
and  Major  Onslow  on  the  right,  "  Ambush  II."  and 
Captain  the  Hon.  R.  Ward  on  the  left. 


STEEPLECHASING.  607 

second  in  the  following  year,  and  unplaced  in  1881  and  1882.  In  1881  (IVoodbrooK  s 
year),  Fred  Webb,  the  flat-race  jockey,  rode  Captain  Machell's  The  Scot,  which 
ran  in  the  name  of  Mr.  J.  B.  Leigh.  The  Scot,  it  may  be  remembered,  afterwards 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  King,  when  Prince  of  Wales,  whose  colours  he 
carried  in  the  Liverpool  of  1884,  John  Jones  being  his  jockey.  The  main 
incident  in  connection  with  1882  was  the  victory  of  Lord  Manners  on  his  own 
horse,  Seaman.  Lord  Manners  was  well  known  in  the  hunting  field,  and  hunted 
the  Quorn  Country  for  a  season,  but  had  little,  if  any,  experience  of  steeplechase- 
riding.  He  went  through  a  careful  course  of  practice  and  training ;  but  yet  it 
was  a  bold  undertaking  for  a  novice  to  pit  himself  against  the  most  experienced 
cross-country  riders  of  England  and  Ireland.  However,  Seaman  started  fourth 
in  demand,  his  price  being  10  to  i,  and,  challenging  Cyrus  in  the  last  hundred 
yards,  won  a  magnificent  race  by  a  head.  In  this  year  (1882)  the  race  was 
announced  as  being  worth  1,000  guineas,  with  100  to  the  second,  and  25  to  the 
third.  Zoedone,  third  to  Seaman  and  Cyrus  in  the  above  race,  had  passed  into 
the  hands  of  the  late  Count  Charles  Kinsky,  who  won  on  her  in  a  canter  by  ten 
lengths  in  1883  ;  and  the  following  year  will  be  remembered  from  the  fact  that 
while  the  King's  (then  Prince  of  Wales's)  Tlie  Scot  was  competing,  the  telegram 
announcing  the  sudden  death  of  the  Duke  of  Albany  arrived.  The  winner  was 
Mr.  Boyd's  Vohtptuary,  a  cast-off  from  the  stud  of  Lord  Rosebery ;  and  what 
made  his  success  all  the  more  meritorious,  was  that  the  horse  had  never  before 
jumped  a  country  in  public.  This  is  the  horse  ridden  by  Mr.  Leonard  Boyne  in 
the  drama  of  "The  Prodigal  Daughter"  at  Drury  Lane.  The  year  1885  may 
be  passed  over  with  the  remark  that  Roquefort,  a  difficult  horse  to  ride,  won 
comfortably  in  the  hands  of  that  fine  horseman,  Mr.  E.  P.  Wilson  ;  nor  is  there 
much  to  note  of  the  few  following  years.  Old  Liberator  made  his  last  appearance 
at  Aintree  in  1886,  when  he  fell  in  consequence  of  being  cannoned  against.  What 
would  have  been  the  result  if  Baron  Schroder's  Savoyard  had  not  fallen  at  the 
last  hurdles,  it  is  difficult  to  say  ;  both  he  and  Old  Joe  were  a  good  deal  distressed, 
but  the  downfall  of  the  former  left  Old  Joe  with  the  lead,  and  he  won  by  six 
lengths.  A  short  time  after  the  race  all  sorts  of  stories  were  in  circulation  concern- 
ing the  antecedents  of  Old  Joe.  He  was  said  to  have  been  leather  flapping; 
jumped  for  small  prizes  at  little  shows  ;  been  driven  in  a  tradesman's  cart ;  had 
followed  hounds,  and  played  many  other  parts.  The  fact  remains,  however,  that 
Old  Joe  is  enrolled  among  the  winners  of  the  Grand  National. 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 


The  year  1887  saw  Savoyard  beaten  by  Mr.  Jay's  Gamecock,  who  won  after 
having  been  twice  placed  second.  Both  horses,  together  with  Old  Joe,  tried  again 
in  1888,  but  the  winner  proved  to  be  Mr.  E.  Baird's  Playfair.  Magic  carried 
the  Royal  Colours,  and  it  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  the  horse  stumbled  and  fell 
at  the  same  place  which  had  proved  fatal  to  The  Scot.  A  fair  number  of  previous 
starters  were  comprised  in  the  twenty  making  up  the  field  in  1889.  Frigate,  who 
had  run  second  behind  Playfair,  won,  beating  Why  Not,  who  gained  the  victory  in 
1894.  Voluptuary,  Roquefort,  and  Gamecock,  all  three  Grand  National  winners, 
started  in  1890,  and  Frigate  would  have  made  the  fourth,  but  as  the  partnership 
had  not  been  registered,  she  was  a  non-starter.  The  race  was  carried  off  by 

Mr.  Masterman's  Ilex,  a  six- 
year-old,  the  first  non-aged 
horse  to  win  since  1885.  In 
1893  Mr.  Duffs  Clo ister  won 
in  the  record  time  of  9  mins. 
42!  sees,  for  the  four  miles 
and  eight  hundred  yards, 
under  I2st.  7lb.,  a  weight 

*  o 

only  carried  by  Manifesto 
besides  of  all  the  other 
winners.  The  year  1900  is 
memorable  in  the  history  of 
the  Grand  National,  as  the 
winner  in  that  year  was  the 
King's  Ambush  //.,  which 

won  amid  every  token  of  enthusiasm,  and  never  before  had  Aintree  witnessed  a  more 
brilliant  scene.  It  was  the  first  time  the  then  Prince  of  Wales  had  witnessed  the 
Grand  National  since  the  unhappy  day  mentioned  above,  when  the  telegram  arrived 
announcing  the  death  of  the  Duke  of  Albany.  Ambush  II.,  by  that  good  stout 
horse,  Ben  Battle,  ran  in  the  previous  year  (1899),  and  was  in  a  prominent  position 
when  the  final  struggle  began  ;  but  Manifesto  won  with  so  much  in  hand  that 
nothing  else  had  the  semblance  of  a  chance.  Grudon,  Shannon  Lass,  and  Drumcree 
complete  the  list  of  winners  to  1903.  Up  to  and  including  1903,  thirteen  horses 
have  won  the  Grand  National  at  the  first  time  of  asking,  viz.  Jerry  (1840),  Gay  lad, 
Discount,  Wanderer,  Halfcaste,  Salamander,  Austerlitz,  Empress,  Seaman,  Playfair, 


"  Grudon"  (Grand  National,  1901). 


STEEPLECHASING.  609 

Come  Away,  Drogheda,  and  Shannon  Lass  (1902).  Of  the  four  riders  who  can  alone 
claim  the  same  honour,  Captain  H.  Coventry  (1865),  Mr.  F.  G.  Hobson  (1877),  and 
Lord  Manners  (1882)  were  amateurs.  P.  Woodland  (1903)  is  at  present  the  only 
professional. 

T.  Olliver  made  no  less  than  nineteen  appearances,  out  of  which  he  won  three 
times,  was  as  often  second,  and  got  third  once.  Two  amateurs  run  him  hard  : 
"  Mr.  Thomas  "  with  three  wins  out  of  seventeen  attempts,  including  two  thirds  and 
a  fourth,  and  Mr.  E.  P.  Wilson  with  two  firsts  and  a  second  in  his  sixteen  races. 
But  G.  Stevens  more  than  redresses  the  balance  on  the  professional  side,  for  in  his 
fifteen  starts  he  won  the  record  number  of  five  victories  and  was  once  placed  third. 
The  only  other  riders  who  can  claim  three  wins  are  A.  Nightingall,  who  tried 
fourteen  times,  and  Mr.  T.  Beasley,  who  had  a  dozen  efforts.  Naturally  the  horses 
do  not  make  such  frequent  appearances  ;  but,  among  winners,  seven  starts  stand 
to  the  credit  of  Frigate,  Why  Not,  Liberator,  Gamecock,  and  Manifesto,  who  only 
twice  failed  to  get  into  the  first  three  during  his  career,  and  if  the  entry  he  has 
made  for  1904  be  followed  by  a  race,  this  double  winner  will  hold  the  record  number 
of  eight  starts  at  the  advanced  age  of  sixteen.  Peter  Simple,  another  who  won 
twice,  started  six  times  and  was  unplaced  in  four  races,  as  was  Regal,  who  won  in 
1876.  Of  the  seven  who  can  count  five  starts,  only  Abd-el-Kader  won  twice. 

Passing    for   the   moment   from   professional    to   what  may   with   truth    be  called 
amateur  steeplechasing,  it  is  fair  to  add  here  that  it  is  just  possible  we  might  have 
had  no  National   Hunt  Committee  or  any   National   Hunt   Steeplechase  had  it  not 
been  for  the  exertions  of  Mr.  Fothergill  Rowlands.     That  gentleman  for  a  few  years 
followed  his  profession  of  medicine  ;  but  he  was  away  hunting  as  often  as  possible, 
and,    being  a   fine  horseman,   took    to    riding    steeplechases.       More    than    that,    he 
exerted  himself  to  the  utmost   in    trying  to  revive  that  form  of  racing  which  some 
people  then,  as  now,  averred  had  enormously  declined.      In  the  late  fifties  it  occurred 
to   "  Fog "   Rowlands,   as  he   was    called,   that   farmers    might  be  induced    to  breed 
high-class  horses  if   a  steeplechase  were  established    confined  to    bond-fide  hunters, 
and    it   was   hoped    that  farmers  and  hunting   men   would   ride    as  they  did   in  the 
twenties  and  thirties.     The  plan  gradually  matured,  and  in   1859  Mr.  Rowlands  and 
his  friends  were  enabled  to  bring  off  an  experimental  race  at   Market   Harborough. 
The  projectors  sought  the  assistance  of  the  different  hunts,  but  two  only  responded— 
the  Vale  of  White  Horse  and  Old    Berkeley,  then  known  as  Lord  Dacre's.     The 
added   money,   ,£250,   was  guaranteed  by  Mr.   Rowlands  and  his  supporters,  all  of 


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A   HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


them  having  to  pay  something  towards  the  deficit.  In  1860,  however,  things  looked 
better ;  about  a  dozen  hunts  made  offerings,  and  with  a  jump  the  added  money 
went  up  to  ,£500,  the  race  being  won  by  Mr.  B.  J.  Angell's  Bridegroom.  In  1863 
a  new  departure  was  made,  by  the  founding  of  the  Grand  National  Hunt  Committee, 
under  whose  auspices  the  race  of  that  year  was  held,  and  though  it  was  to  be 
a  peripatetic  affair,  Market  Harborough  was  fixed  upon  for  the  fourth  time,  partly 
by  way  of  making  a  start,  and  especially  as  over  the  old  course  arrangements 
would  be  all  cut  and  dried  ;  but  five  horses  only  went  to  the  post.  A  considerable 
time  before  the  date  came  round  for  the  race  of  1864  to  be  run,  a  circular  was 
issued  by  the  Grand  National  Hunt  Committee  which  had  by  this  time  quite 

settled  to   harness,   and 

'  ftLJEW- 1  (AflT       /<QnHHHBiHi         the    race     of     1864     is 

memorable  from  the 
fact  of  its  being  the  first 
to  be  run  under  the 
sole  care  of  the  Com- 
mittee. There  were 
twenty-eight  starters, 
the  winner  being  Mr. 
T.  Behrens's  Game 
Chicken,  and  it  was 
hoped  that  this  would 
be  the  first  of  a  series  of 
brilliant  successes.  It 
was  not  to  be,  however; 

and  it  must  be  sorrowfully  confessed  that  the  Grand  National  Hunt  Steeplechase 
has  by  no  means  come  up  to  expectation.  The  race  is  remarkable  from  the  fact  that 
one  of  the  competitors,  Lord  George,  in  the  same  stable  as  Cooksboro\  was  ridden 
by  Mr.  Conney,  a  good  horseman,  though  deaf  and  dumb,  who  was  killed  in  May, 
1866,  while  riding  Mr.  Stoddart's  Whipper-in  in  the  Foxhunter's  Plate  at  Scarriff. 
Up  to  1875  the  Grand  National  Hunt  Steeplechase  had  been  run  over  a  natural 
course,  unless  Bristol  is  to  be  excepted,  but  in  the  above  year  it  took  place  at 
Sandown  Park,  as  it  did  in  1888,  1893,  and  1895.  For  the  first  time  in  its  history 
the  race  went  to  Scotland  in  1876,  at  the  Bogside  (Irvine)  Meeting;  and  in  1895 
it  joined  hands  with  the  Eglinton  Hunt  Meeting.  Liverpool  saw  the  Grand 


Kempton.     Making  the  pace  in  a  maiden  hurdle  rac 


STEEPLECHASING. 


611 


National  Hunt  Steeplechase  as  a  kind  of  appendix  to  the  National ;  but  the 
former  was  a  miserable  affair,  three  runners  only  ;  Derby  welcomed  the  Committee 
in  1879  (the  second  race  on  an  inclosed  course),  in  1882,  1887,  and  1892.  Hurst 
Park  was  selected  in  1891,  1896,  and  1899;  Gatwick,  for  the  first,  and,  up  to  the 
present,  the  only  time  in  1898;  while  Melton  was  visited  in  1864,  1883,  and  1901. 
The  other  inclosed  grounds  over  which  the  National  Hunt  Steeplechase  has  been 
run  are  Four  Oaks  Park,  near  Birmingham,  in  1881,  and  Leicester  in  1884. 
Newmarket  was  perhaps  the  earliest  steeplechase  ground  in  England  in  the  days 


" Shannon  Lass"  (Grand National,  1902). 

of  King  Charles  II.'s  wild-goose  chase;  and  the  late  Colonel  H.  McCalmont 
inaugurated  a  meeting  on  the  Links,  and  to  Newmarket  went  the  National  Hunt 
Steeplechase  in  1897.  It  is  likely  that  more  steeplechasing  will  be  seen  there  in 
future  than  has  ever  been  the  case  before;  but  the  meeting  of  1897  was  noteworthy 
from  the  fact  that  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  race  it  was  won  by  a 
foreign  owner,  with  a  foreign-bred  horse,  ridden  by  a  foreign  rider.  The  winner 
was  Vicomte  cle  Buisseret's  Nord  Quest,  a  stallion  by  Gamin,  out  of  La  I'a^nc, 
bred  in  France,  and  ridden  to  victory  by  Mons.  Morand.  The  Vicomte  was  a 


612  A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

well-known  Continental  sportsman,  who  had  often  won  races  on  the  flat  and  over 
a  country  in  France  and  Belgium. 

The  rules  under  which  steeplechases  are  run  have  undergone  a  great  process 
of  expansion.  The  original  code,  known  as  the  "  Melton  Rules,"  were  few  in 
number  and  of  great  simplicity.  They  were  added  to  when  the  Grand  National 
Hunt  Committee  was  established,  and  they  have  been  amplified  at  intervals  ever 
since,  two  revisions  having  taken  place  in  1877  and  1889.  From  time  immemorial 
steeplechasing  had  been  associated  with  hunters,  and  for  a  long  time  the  attempt 
was  made  to  give  hunters  a  chance,  so  that  in  due  course  we  found  that  "popular 
mystery,"  the  racecourse  hunter,  galloping  about.  At  last  the  farce  was  played  out, 
and  after  other  definitions,  the  racecourse  hunter  was  finally  abolished  altogether 
in  1890. 

When  the  Grand  National  Hunt  Committee  took  in  hand  the  rules  of  steeple- 
chasing,  there  was  nothing  said  about  fences,  partly  because  most  of  the  races 
had  been  run  over  a  more  or  less  natural  country,  and  many  men  who  were  in 
1903  no  more  than  middle  aged  can  remember  the  time  when  there  were  as 
many  ditches  (unguarded)  on  the  taking-off  side  of  a  fence  as  there  were  on  the 
landing  side.  But  at  places  like  Kingsbury,  Woodside,  Enfield,  Streatham,  and 
Ealing,  it  became  of  supreme  importance  that  horses  should  be,  as  far  as  possible, 
insured  against  falling.  To  this  end  fences  were  cut  clown  till  they  became  a 
farce  ;  while  a  ditch  on  the  taking-off  side  was  never  seen.  Steeplechasing  fell 
upon  evil  days  until,  at  last,  in  1882  Lord  Marcus  Beresford,  who  had  ridden  a 
good  deal  between  the  flags,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Grand  National  Hunt  Committee, 
moved  that  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  examine  into  and  report  upon  the  best 
means  of  restoring  steeplechasing.  This  was  done,  and  the  result  was  seen  in  the 
regulation  fences  obtaining  in  1903. 

As  will  have  been  gathered  from  the  fact  that  the  original  steeplechases  were 
of  the  point-to-point  order,  a  real  attempt  was  made  in  them  to  give  the  hunter 
a  chance ;  and  this  kind  of  race  was  revived  in  the  late  seventies.  For  some 
time,  however,  the  Grand  National  Hunt  Committee  took  no  cognizance  of  these 
races  ;  but  at  last  they  were  forced  to  do  so  ;  and  in  the  steeplechasing  volume 
of  the  Racing  Calendar  for  1886  horses  running  in  point-to-point  races  were 
excepted  from  the  penalties  attaching  to  those  taking  part  in  contests  not  under 
rules,  provided  that  certain  conditions  were  observed.  The  need  that  arose  for 
further  legislation  is  succinctly  recorded  in  the  Code  in  force  in  1903. 


STEEPLECHA  SING. 


613 


The  last  few  pages  on  Steeplechasing,  for  most  of  which  I  am  deeply  indebted 
to  my  friend  Mr.  W.  C.  A.  Blew,  had  scarcely  been  penned  when  news  reached  us 
of  the  death  of  Mr.  John  Purdon,  of  Cloneymore  in  County  Meath,  the  owner  of 
Ascetic,  the  most  successful  modern  sire  of  steeplechasers,  whose  stock  were  still 
counting  the  Grand  National  among  their  victories  some  six  years  after  the  good 
horse's  death.  He  was  by  Hermit  out  of  Lady  Alicia,  and  therefore  traced  back 
through  Newminster  to  Touchstone,  and  through  Testy  to  Venison.  Between  1 896 
and  1903  (to  April  24)  his  get  won  169  races,  worth  close  on  ,£25,000;  and 


"  Drumcree  "  (Grand  National,  1903). 

Drumcrees  victory  in  the  Grand  National  repeats  what  Cloister  did  ten  years  ago. 
Four  of  the  Ascetics  ran  in  the  last  great  race  at  Aintree  besides  the  winner,  who 
was  foaled  and  reared  in  Ireland,  his  breeder  being  Mr.  C.  Hope,  of  Westmeath  ; 
and  his  dam,  U'itc/iiug  Hour,  was  full  of  Stockivcl/  and  Touchstone  blood,  as  she 
showed  in  her  jumping  and  lasting  powers  across  country.  Owing  to  the  presence 
of  her  daughter,  Pride  of  Mabestoiun,  with  Drnincree  in  1903,  we  saw  the  first 
instance  of  a  full  brother  and  sister  racing  for  the  same  Grand  National.  Hackler, 
son  of  Petrarch,  gets  many  good  winners  on  the  flat  as  well  as  across  country,  and 
VOL.  in.  v 


614 


A   H1STORV  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Royal  Meath  is  the  best  son  of  Ascetic  now  at  the  Irish  stud.  Two  more  good 
Irish  sires  are  Atheling  (sent  to  the  United  States  a  short  time  ago)  and  his  near 
relation  Enthusiast. 

Irish  horses  have  left  an  indelible  mark  on  English  steeplechasing  records, 
and  of  the  five  horses  who  have  won  it  twice  (Peter  Simple,  Abd-el-Kader, 
The  Lamb,  The  Colonel,  and  Manifesto]  they  can  actually  claim  the  first  three. 
They  began  early  with  four  entries  for  the  Grand  National  of  1847,  including 
Mat  hew,  the  winner,  and  Brunette,  that  famous  mare  who  went  all  over  Ireland 
in  a  van.  Mathew  was  by  a  son  of  Whalebone,  who  proved  to  be  a  cornerstone 
of  merit.  Emblem  and  Emblematic  traced  to  the  Whalebone  source  through 

Teddington,       Orlando, 

Touchstone,  and  Camel. 
\ 

In     1849     Ireland    was 

first  and  second  with 
Peter  Simple  (the  first 
dual  winner)  and  The 
Knight  of  Gwynne  ;  and 
next  year  they  actually 
secured  "  one,  two, 
three,"  with  the  same 
horse  second,  Abd-el- 
Kader  first,  as  he  was 
next  year,  and  Lord 
Waterford's  Sir  John 
third.  After  The  Lamb 

in  1868,  and  the  repeated  victory  of  1871,  there  was  no  winner  from  the  Emerald 
Isle  till  Martha  was  third  to  The  Liberator  in  1879,-  Empress,  in  1880,  had  two 
compatriots  behind  her;  and  the  Irish  mare  Frigate  was  second  in  1884,  1885,  and 
1888,  and  winner  in  1889.  Cloister  was  bred  by  Lord  Fingall  early  in  1884.  and 
developed  into  a  very  powerful  animal,  with  a  splendid  back  and  limbs,  bay  with 
black  points.  The  blood  of  his  sire  Ascetic  was  returned  through  his  dam  Grace  II., 
who  was  a  granddaughter  of  Newminster  and  great-granddaughter  of  Venison.  His 
first  attempt  at  the  Grand  National,  in  1891,  led  to  defeat  by  Come  Away,  who 
gave  him  5lb.,  and  he  failed  next  year  to  give  the  huge  weight  of  26lb.  to  Father 
UFlynn.  In  1893  he  cantered  home  in  record  time  under  the  crusher  of  i2st.  7lb. 


Liverpool.     Grand  National  of  \  903.     "  Mathew  "  and 
"  Pawnbroker  "  leading  over  the  water. 


STEEPLECHASING. 


615 


forty  lengths  ahead  of  sEsop,  and  his  last  win  was  the  Great  Sefton  Steeplechase, 
under   ijst.   jib.,  from   nine  opponents.      He  retired  after  winning  nineteen  out  of 
thirty-five  races,  and  certainly  stands  at  the  top  of  the  steeplechasing  -class   with 
Manifesto,    Come  Away,    Congress,    Seaman,    The   Colonel,    Usna,   and   L'Africain. 
He  passed  his  last  days  at   Lower  Forty  Farm,  Wembley,  and,   by  the  orders  of 
his  owner,  Mr.  Charles  G.  Duff,  his  body  was  preserved  by  Rowland  Ward.     Two 
horses  entered  in  the  Grand  National  of  1903  were  almost  as  famous  as  Cloister. 
They  were  Mr.  J.  G.  Bulteel's  Manifesto  and  His  Majesty  the  King's  Ambush  II. 
Manifesto,  carrying   1 2st.  3lb.  (or  a  stone  more  than  the  winner),  was  fifteen  years 
old,   and   seemed  to    carry   his    years   as    easily  as   his  weight.     He    had    a  grand 
race    home    for    third 
place    with    Kirkland, 
beating  him  by  a  head. 
Ambush  II.  came  down 
at   the  last   fence,   but 
his    name    will     never 
be  forgotten,  for  after 
Manifesto 's  second  vic- 
tory,  he  put  a  Grand 
National  to  the  King's 
credit  in  the  same  year 
as    the    Royal    colours 
were    first     past     the 
post     in     the     Derby. 
Ambush  II.  was  foalecl  in  1894,  by  Ben  Battle,  the  grandsire  of  Manifesto,  out  of 
Miss  Plant   by    Umpire.      He   did   not   take  kindly   to   learning  jumping,   and   was 
first   owned   in   part  by  Mr.    Lushington   and    in   part   by   Mr.   William   Ashe,    who 
bred   him    in    Kildare.      But  he  was   bought   by   the   King   (then    Prince  erf  Wales) 
for  ^500,  and   was  trained   at    Eyrefield    Lodge,   Major  Eustace    Loder's   place   on 
the  edge   of   the   Curragh,   carrying   silk  for   the   first   time  in    1898   at  the    Meath 
Hunt   Races.     Anthony  rode  him   well  in  nearly  all  his  races. 

Ireland  has  certainly  done  her  duty  in  horsebreeding,  and  the  land  which 
produced  Sir  Hercules,  Birdcatcher,  The  Baron,  Harkaiuay,  and  so  many  others 
of  the  right  stamp,  may  well  do  even  more  in  the  future  than  she  has  done  in 
the  past  ;  for  it  Pretty  Polly  goes  on  as  she  gave  promise  when  these  lines  were 


"  Manifesto." 


616  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

written,  her  name  will  be  added  to  a  list  of  Irish  classic  winners  which  includes 
Galtee  More,  Ard Patrick,  and  Wildfoivler  in  half  a  dozen  years.  In  the  flat-racing 
season  of  1903  Irish  breeders  scored  ,£16,470  with  Ard  Patrick,  .£13,502  with 
Pretty  Polly,  ,£3,032  with  Lady  Drake,  ,£2,758  with  Oricnta,  ,£2,048  with  Cappa 
White,  ,£1,866  with  General  Cronje,  .£1,775  vi\\h.Hammerkop,  .£1.735  with  Valenza, 
and  many  more.  In  the  list  of  winning  sires-  for  1903,  St.  Frusquin  (by  St.  Simon] 
was  ahead  by  .£48  only,  so  far  as  English  racing  was  concerned  ;  but  was  ,£925 
behind  Gallinule  when  racing  in  Ireland  was  taken  into  consideration  as  well.  But 
present  gains  are  not  the  only  thing  to  put  to  Ireland's  credit.  While  they  breed 
from  the  right  blood,  without  regard  to  fashion,  and  without  high  fees,  they  will 
produce  better  stayers  than  we  do,  and  they  may  very  likely  provide  the  safeguard 
of  our  worn-out  stock  in  years  to  come,  when  we  are  still  further  off  than  we  are 
now  from  the  days,  and  the  ideals,  of  such  studs  as  that  at  Bishop  Burton,  where 
Altisidora,  Barefoot,  Memnon,  and  Rockingham,  and  the  yet  more  famous  Blacklock, 
were  the  favourites  of  the  stable  ;  where  Lottery,  Tramp,  and  Dick  Andreivs  stood 
as  sires. 


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CHAPTER   XXI. 

FAMOUS    RACING    STUDS    OF    THE    LAST    THIRTY    YEARS. 

"  Between  two  horses,  which  doth  bear  him  best, 
Between  two  girls,  which  hath  the  merriest  eye, 
I  have,  perhaps,  some  shallow  spirit  of  judgment." 

'""INHERE  has  been  a  considerable  change  in  racing  studs  and  training  stables, 
as  in  most  other  things  connected  with  the  Turf,  during  the  last  thirty  years. 
In  tracing  these  developments,  I  have  begun  with  one  of  the  old-fashioned  sort,  not 
only  for  the  sake  of  contrast,  but  to  emphasise  the  value  of  the  Musket  blood,  to 
which  increased  attention  has  been  given  of  late. 

Several  men  are  still  living  who  have  heard  old  Tom  Parr's  stories  of  how 
gentle  old  Fisherman,  with  George  Hall  up,  would  never  begin  to  go  until  he 
had  run  two  miles,  and  then  would  wear  the  heart  out  of  anything  on  four  legs  ; 
how  he  could  be  trained  on  a  turnpike  road  and  raced  every  day,  and  never  leave 
a  grain  in  the  manger,  though  he  ate  more  solid  corn  than  any  other  horse. 
Bred  by  Mr.  Fowler  in  1853,  this  stout  son  of  Heron  and  Mainbrace  carried  as 
a  two-year-old  the  puce  and  white  jacket  of  Mr.  Thomas  Parr,  who  bought  him 
from  Mr.  Halford.  When  three  years  old  he  started  in  34  races  and  won  23 
of  them,  including  the  Queen's  Vase  at  Ascot  and  the  Cumberland  Plate  at 
Carlisle,  against  Warlock,  the  future  St.  Leger  winner,  whose  chances  were  lost 
by  George  Fordham's  thinking  too  soon  that  the  race  was  over.  In  his  fourth 
year  he  won  22  races  out  of  35,  and  in  the  next  season  out  of  32  attempts  he 
scored  21  times,  including  the  Ascot  Cup,  which  he  won  again  when  he  was  six 
against  Saunterer  and  Defender,  and  actually  won  his  last  Queen's  Plate  (over 
three  miles)  on  the  same  afternoon.  He  was  bought  privately  in  1860  for  Mr. 
H.  Fisher,  of  Adelaide,  after  Stockwcll  had  been  captured  by  Mr.  Naylor  for 
4,500  guineas,  and  with  him  went  to  Australia  four  of  Lord  Londesborough's 
brood  mares  :  Gildcnnirc,  Juliet,  Marchioness,  and  Rose  de  Florence,  one  of  whom 


6i8 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


proved  the  greatest  matron  of  the  famous  Maribyrnong  stud,  which  realised 
80,000  guineas  when  it  was  dispersed.  Among  winning  descendants  who  claimed 
Fisherman's  blood  were  Navigator,  Martini  Henry,  and  Sylvia,  who  won  the 
Sydney  Cup  (2  miles)  under  gst.  ;lb.  in  3  mins.  28  sees.  Her  sire  is  the  Musket 
horse  Trenton,  now  in  England,  whose  dam,  Frailty,  is  of  Fisherman  blood. 
Mares  by  Trenton,  Patron,  Aurtim,  and  Abercorn  have  their  good  share  of  this, 
as  have  Brag  mares.  But  The  Victory,  who  won  the  Melbourne  Cup  of  1902, 
is  a  direct  descendant  in  tail  male,  for  he  is  by  The  Admiral  out  of  The  Charmer, 

and  Fisherman  was  ancestor  both  of 
sire  and  dam.  It  is  through  him, 
therefore,  that  this  die-hard  strain 
should  be  brought  back  ;  for  of  the 
other  Herod  lines  we  can  only  get 
The  Flying  Dutchman  and  Gladiator 
from  France  ;  Glencoe  through  a  son 
of  Hanover ;  and  Buccaneer  through 
the  Hungarian  Talpra  Magyar,  a  son 
of  Kincsem. 

I  wish  I  had  space  to  say  more 
of  Thomas  Parr,  whose  name  will 
always  be  connected  with  Fisherman, 
with  Rataplan,  with  Saucebox,  Mor- 
timer, Avalanche,  and  Weathergage, 
whom  Admiral  Rous  sold  after  he 
had  been  beaten  fourteen  times.  Mr. 
Parr's  transactions  were  not  always 
so  lucky.  Weathergage  won  the 

Goodwood  Stakes  and  the  Cesarewitch  in  the  same  year ;  but  Mr.  Parr  sold 
Fernhill  and  Isoline  (ancestress  of  Isonomy],  and  with  them  lost  his  chance  of  the 
Northamptonshire  Stakes,  the  Metropolitan,  and  the  Goodwood  Cup.  It  was 
perhaps  lucky  that  Mr.  Parr's  horses  were  mostly  hard-bitten  stayers  ;  for  he  would 
run  them  every  day  in  the  week  if  he  could  at  any  distance,  and  the  training  arrange- 
ments at  Letcombe  Regis  were  not  always  all  they  might  be,  in  spite  of  the  fidelity 
of  George  Hall,  whose  "  Noah's  Ark  jacket "  was  always  sure  to  be  cheered  lustily 
as  he  led  his  quiet  old  friend  back  to  the  stable.  It  was  a  favourite  expedition  with 


•rmission  of 
"  Country  Life." 


Mr.  Edmund  Tattersall. 


FAMOUS  RACING  STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY   YEARS. 


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the  young  Oxford  bloods  of  nearly  fifty  years  ago  to  pay  a  visit  to  Letcombe  Regis, 
but  they  rarely  got  a  glimpse  of  the  crack  they  came  to  see,  and  the  traditions  of 
"  old  Parr's  "  tea-dealing,  training,  and  riding  are  not  dead  yet  in  the  village  which 
is  scarcely  two  miles  from  my  father's  house  in  Wantage,  beneath  the  windy  pastures 
of  the  Vale  of  the  White  Horse.  At  Letcombe  Regis  are  the  stables  of  J.  Hornsby, 
where  Carabine  was  trained  in  1902,  when  he  won  the  Chester  Cup,  and  found,  next 
year,  that  the  climate  of  India  did  not  suit  him  so  well  as  the  Berkshire  Downs.  In 
July,  1903,  Decave,  too,  showed  that  the  Kendal  blood  in  his  dam  had  served  him 
well.  C.  Morton  trains  also  at  Letcombe,  and  won  ,£13,305  in  1903  with  twelve 
winners,  of  whom  Our  Lassie,  Sundridge,  His  Lordship,  Kilcheran,  and  Inishfree 


By  permission  of  Mr.  Calvert. 


The  Cambridgeshire  0/1896. 
i.  "  Winkfield's  Pride!"        2.  "  Yorker." 
3.  "  Laodamia."  4.  "  Chitchat.'" 


did  best.  He  began  the  season  of  1904  with  twenty-seven  two-year-olds  in  the 
stable.  Then  at  Ilsley  there  are  J.  East,  P.  Lowe  with  Over  Norton,  and  C.  Peck 
with  Week  End,  Sundorne,  and  Bate  he  lot's  Button.  At  Lambourne  is  H.  Bates, 
J.  Sergeant  with  Flamenco,  and  J.  Chandler  with  Lord  Falmouth's  Fiancee  and 
Quintessence.  A.  Clement  trains  for  an  American  owner  in  the  same  district.  There 
are  many  more  besides  these  on  the  Downs  which  have  been  consecrated  to  training 
by  the  White  Horse  carved  upon  their  crest;  and  nearer  Wantage,  itself  the  birth- 
place of  Alfred  the  Great,  are  the  stables  of  E.  Robson,  from  which  came  Hi^/icr 
Up,  Medina,  Miss  Archer,  and  Winnipeg.  From  him  R.  S.  Sievier  bought  Bobsie, 
who  turned  out  afterwards  to  be  a  brilliant  steeplechaser,  and  was  entered  for  the 
Grand  National  of  1904. 

It   was  to  Mr.  Naylor  that  Tom   Parr  sold  Isoline,  and  in  his  colours  that  she 


620  A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

won  the  Goodwood  Cup.  The  Grand  Prix  of  that  year  was  won  by  The  Ranger, 
belonging  to  Mr.  Savile,  whose  Ryshworth  was  second  to  Distiirbance  in  the  Grand 
National  of  1873,  his  best  performance  after  having  won  seven  of  his  fifteen  races 
as  a  two-year-old.  The  "yellow,  scarlet  cap,  gold  tassel  "  was  some  time  on  the 
Turf  before  it  was  well  known  as  a  winner;  but  in  1869  Cremorne,  Uhlan,  and 
Lilian  were  all  foaled  at  the  Rufford  Abbey  Stud  in  the  same  season.  Cremorne, 
who  was  by  Parmesan  out  of  Rigolboche,  was  a  bad  windsucker  and  difficult  to  train, 
but  he  was  all  right  at  Epsom,  and  won  the  Grand  Prix  by  two  lengths  at  Paris 
on  the  Sunday  in  Ascot  week,  while  in  the  Two  Thousand  he  was  only  beaten  by 
a  head.  His  trial  as  a  four-year-old  for  Ascot  is  given  by  Mr.  Sydenham  Dixon 
as  follows  : — 

The  last  two  miles  and  a  half  of  the  Beacon  Course. 
\ 

Cremorm,  4  yrs.,  gst.  4!!}.  .  ...          ...  i 

Kaiser,  3  yrs.,  yst.  ulb.    ...  ...  2 

Uhlan,  4  yrs.,  8st.  ...          ...          ...          ...          ...  3 

Lilian,  4  yrs.,  yst.  ylb.       ...  ...          ...  o 

Of  these,  Kaiser,  who  jumped  in  for  the  last  mile  and  a  quarter,  had  only  been 
beaten  a  short  head  for  the  Two  Thousand,  ran  a  dead  heat  for  second  in  the  Derby, 
and  subsequently  landed  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Stakes  at  Ascot.  The  first  part 
of  the  gallop  was  led  at  a  hot  pace  by  an  unnamed  colt  out  of  Harlequin  s  dam, 
and  Uhlan  made  assurance  doubly  sure  by  winning  the  Ascot  Stakes  easily  under 
7st.  1 2lb.  Mr.  Savile  naturally  took  every  bet  he  could  get.  Cremorne  made  hacks 
of  Flageolet,  Hannah,  Corisande,  and  the  rest ;  and  on  the  following  day  beat 
Vanderdecken  for  the  Alexandra  Plate,  practically  his  last  race,  for  he  only  cantered 
round  the  Goodwood  Cup  course  to  punish  a  bookmaker  who  "knew  too  much." 
His  stud  fee  was  a  hundred  guineas  ;  and  perhaps  his  best  colt  was  Cadogan,  as 
Kermesse  proved  his  best  filly  for  Lord  Rosebery.  She  won  the  Stanley  Stakes 
from  Isabel  an  hour  after  Iroquois  Derby,  beat  Dutch  Oven  by  half  a  length  at 
even  weights  for  the  Champagne  Stakes,  and  won  .£7,047  in  her  five  victories 
out  of  six  races  as  a  two-year-old.  Kaiser,  it  may  be  added,  in  spite  of  his 
persistent  string-halt,  won  the  Newmarket  Derby  by  four  lengths  against  Boiard 
and  Doncaster. 

The  vanquisher  of  Cremorne  in  the  Two  Thousand  Guineas  was  Prince  Charlie, 
who  was  almost  as  great  a  public  favourite  as  Victor  Wild,  Bendigo,  or  Sceptre 
herself,  and  was  certainly  one  of  the  fastest  horses  for  a  mile  who  ever  raced.  He 


FAMOUS   RACING   STUDS   OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY   YEARS. 


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was  bred  and  owned  by  Mr.  Jones,  of  Littleport,  by  Blair  Athol  out  of  Eastern 
Princess,  and  had  the  action  of  a  blood  pony  even  when  he  had  grown  to  his  full 
height  of  seventeen  hands.  He  was  never  tried  till  April,  1871,  as  a  two-year-old, 
when  his  speed  fairly  amazed  Joseph  Dawson  ;  but  could  only  be  given  a  fortnight's 
work  for  the  Middle  Park  Plate.  The  first  signs  of  roaring  were  shown  in  the 
January  of  his  three-year-old  season,  but  he  won  his  Two  Thousand  against 
Crcmorne,  though  not  with  the  same  ease  as  the  Criterion.  Epsom  was  about  the 
worst  course  that  could  well  be  imagined  for  "the  Prince  of  the  T.Y.C.,"  and 
the  only  time  he  won  a  race  of  more 
than  a  mile  in  his  whole  career  was 
in  the  Drawing  Room  Stakes  at 
Goodwood,  over  the  Craven  Course 
of  a  mile  and  a  quarter.  His  four- 
year-old  season,  in  1873,  was  an 
undefeated  record  of  ten  races.  M. 
Lefevre  constantly  tackled  him  with 
Blenheim,  when  he  was  five,  and 
beat  him  (though  it  is  true  there 
was  7lb.  difference)  in  the  Queen's 
Stand  Plate  at  Ascot,  the  only  defeat 
Prince  Charlie  ever  sustained  after 
his  second  in  the  St.  Leger.  He 
had  a  triumphant  reception  in  the 
town  after  his  last  race  on  the  Heath, 
his  famous  match  with  Peut-etre  over 
the  Rowley  Mile.  The  best  of  his 
get  are  Salvator  and  Lochiel,  now  in 
America  and  Australia ;  and  it  is  perhaps  just  as  well  there  is  so  little  of  his 
blood  in  England,  for  it  is  more  likely  to  transmit  his  roaring  than  his  speed. 
True  it  is  that  Ormonde  was  a  pronounced  roarer  when  he  beat  Minting  and 
Bendigo  for  the  Hardwicke  Stakes ;  true,  too,  that  an  Orme  has  bred  a  Flying 
Fox,  clear-winded  both  of  them.  But  these  are  the  exceptions.  The  Duke  of 
Westminster  was  right  to  sell  his  favourite. 

Ormonde s  name  takes  me  at  once  to  Kingsclere  and  John  Porter,  who  was  first 
introduced  to  the  mysteries  of  a  training  stable  by  Walters,  the  trainer  of  Alderman 

VOL.  III.  Z 


From  a  pencil  drawing  fry 
fane  E.  Cook. 


Henry  distance. 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


Copeland's  horses;  and  who  first  saw,  also  at  Hednesford,  those  famous  jockeys 
Charles  Marlow  and  George  Whitehouse,  the  first  and  second  for  the  Derby  of 
1849  on  The  Flying  Dutchman  and  Hotspur.  Hednesford  was  not  far  from  Rugeley, 
in  Staffordshire,  where  John  Porter  was  born  in  1838.  It  was  a  far  bigger  racing 
centre  in  those  days  than  it  is  now,  for  Mr.  Mostyn  sent  Queen  of  Trumps  there  with 
John  Blenkhorn,  to  be  trained  into  a  St.  Leger  winner  that  was  to  give  his  final 
quietus  to  Bob  Ridsdale.  It  was  in  the  stable  where  Palmer  the  poisoner  kept  his 
horses  that  young  Porter  got  his  first  year's  experience  under  Saunders,  and  left 

• '  there  to  go  to  "old  John  Day,"  who 

was  then  training  for  Mr.  Padwick  at 
Michel  Grove,  in  Sussex,  where  he 
helped  in  many  an  important  trial,  as 
a  lad  of  fifteen,  with  that  wonderful 
mare  Virago.  Some  question  about 
St.  Hubert  and  Oulston  led  to  William 
Goater,  Day's  head  lad,  removing 
Mr.  Padwick's  horses  to  Findon, 
where  young  Porter  was  persuaded 
by  the  late  Lord  Westmoreland  to 
stay  until  1863. 

He  could  scarcely  have  made  a 
better  beginning.  John  Barham  Day, 
born  in  1794,  died  in  1860,  and  was 
father  of  John,  born  1815  ;  William, 
born  1822  ;  and  Alfred,  born  in 
Tom  Cannon.  1830.  In  the  saddle  he  had  steered 
Crucifix,  Chorister,  Elis,  Oxygen, 

Pussy,  Ralph,  and  other  winners ;  and  what  he  had  done  at  Danebury,  his  son 
William  did  later  on  at  Woodyates,  which  was  rented  from  Lord  Shaftesbury. 
The  unpleasantness  about  Old  England  passed  away  by  1847,  and  William  Day 
counted  among  his  patrons  Mr.  James  Merry,  Lord  Alington,  Sir  Frederick 
Johnstone,  the  Earl  of  Durham,  Mr.  Frederick  Swindell,  Earl  Howe,  Lord 
Ribblesdale,  and  Lord  Rivers.  His  horses  were  very  successful  too,  though  he- 
always  objected  to  high  prices  for  yearlings,  and  in  handicaps  he  scored  three 
victories  each  in  the  Chester  Cup,  Cambridgeshire,  Royal  Hunt  Cup,  and 


From  a  pencil  drawing  by 
Jane  E.  Cook. 


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Somersetshire  Stakes  ;  two  each  in  the  Metropolitan,  Stewards'  Cup  at  Goodwood, 
Great  Eastern  Handicap,  Cesarewitch,  Goodwood  Stakes,  and  Northamptonshire 
Stakes  ;  besides  the  Portland  Plate,  Chesterfield  Cup,  Stewards'  Cup  at  Chester ; 
Doncaster  and  Lincoln  Handicaps ;  the  Newmarket,  Lincoln,  Goodwood,  Doncaster, 
and  Stockbridge  Nurseries.  To  this  list  must  be  added  the  New  Stakes  at  Ascot, 
the  Criterion  at  Newmarket,  the  Oaks,  the  Emperor's  Vase  at  Ascot,  the  Goodwood 
Cup  and  Derby,  the  Two  Thousand  (twice),  and  the  Queen's  Vase  at  Ascot.  He 
bought  St.  Giles  for  Lord  Ribblesdale  in  a  lot  of  five  colts  at  60  guineas  each  in 
a  paddock  at  Sledmere.  Promised 
Land  was  the  best  he  ever  owned  ; 
and  with  Dulcibella  and  Weather- 
bound he  won  the  Cesarewitch  and 
Cambridgeshire  in  the  same  year  for 
Mr.  Swindell.  Few  trainers  have 
been  so  successful  as  was  John  Day 
at  Danebury  in  1866  and  1867,  and 
even  Lord  George  Bentinck,  as  he 
stood  on  the  slopes  to  watch  Crucifix 
gallop,  never  saw  such  a  team  at  the 
same  time  on  those  famous  Downs 
as  the  horses  which  then  carried  the 
"  blue  and  white  hoops  "  of  the  Duke 
of  Beaufort,  and  the  "scarlet  and 
white  hoops  "  of  the  Marquis  of 
Hastings.  They  were  Athena,  Black 
Prince,  Ceylon,  Challenge,  Duke  of 
Beaufort,  Gomera,  Herald,  John 
Davis,  Lady  Hester,  Lord  Ronald,  Lecturer,  Lady  Elizabeth,  :-M'amcluke,  Miss 
Havelock,  Naivete1,  Red  Cap,  Rustic,  Sec  Saiv,  The  Earl,  Viridis,  and  Vauban  ; 
and  it  must  have  nearly  broken  John  Day's  heart  to  have  seen  them  all  dispersed 
within  a  twelvemonth.  In  1880  he  trained  Foxhall  for  Mr.  James  R.  Keene,  of 
New  York,  at  a  small  private  stable  in  Wiltshire,  and  again  won  the  same  two 
events,  when  Foxhall  carried  /st.  1 2lb.  in  the  Cesarewitch  and  Qst.  in  the 
Cambridgeshire,  and  was  steered  by  John  Watts. 

It  was  by  John   Day  at   Danebury  that    Venison  was   trained  for   Lord  George 


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Lord  Russell  of 
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A   HISTORY  OF  THE    ENGLISH  TURF. 


Bentinck  as  a  two-year-old  in  1835  ;  but  it  was  Mr.  Kent,  senior,  who  helped  to 
van  Elis  from  Goodwood  to  Doncaster  for  the  St.  Leger,  at  a  cost  that  could  not 
have  been  less  than  ^80,  and  may  have  been  ,£100.  In  the  autumn  of  1841,  John 
Kent  had  charge  at  Goodwood  of  all  Lord  George's  Danebury  horses,  and  it  is  an 
interesting  instance  of  the  longevity  of  trainers  that  in  January,  1904,  John  Kent  was 
able  to  communicate  to  the  newspapers  the  details  of  a  conversation  he  had  with 
Lord  George  Bentinck  concerning  a  witness  in  the  Running  Rein  case.  The  original 
John  Kent  seems  to  have  been  a  builder  at  Wantage,  always  a  racing  town,  in 
the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  moved  to  Newmarket,  where  he  built 

the  Rutland  Arms  Hotel  and 
the  Jockey  Club  Rooms.  His 
grandson  was  certainly  as  hard 
worked  as  any  trainer  before 
or  since  in  Lord  George  Ben- 
tinck's  service,  and  in  one  year 
he  actually  started  seventy-five 

v,-      Mil--. -••''Swpf*.    jP!N»P3C;jl    Corses  in  the  four  days  of  the 
••'•  -'  -    -  '     " ""    -^^^•^H^Bf     Goodwood  Meeting,  and  saddled 

every  one  with  his  own  hands. 
After  Lord  George's  death, 
Mr.  Gratwicke's  horses  came 
to  Kent's  stables  from  Michel 
Grove,  and  among  other  sup- 
porters were  the  fifth  Duke  of 

H.R.H.  Prince  Christian  of  Schleswig  Holstein.  r>-   u  i          iw  ..  T?    c    i  i 

Richmond,  and  Viscount  Lnfield, 

afterwards  Lord  Strafford.  The  death  of  the  sixth  Duke  of  Richmond  during  one  of 
the  most  fatal  years  the  English  Turf  has  suffered  for  a  long  while,  is  a  reminder  of 
how  much  the  Gordon- Lennox  family  have  done  for  racing,  not  only  by  the  influence 
of  the  Goodwood  Meeting,  but  in  many  other  ways.  As  Lord  March,  the  late  Duke 
himself  took  a  more  prominent  part  than  is  sometimes  remembered  in  the  racing,  for 
the  card  at  Goodwood,  on  the  last  day  of  1839,  shows  the  following  result  :— 

The  March  Stakes  of  10  sovs.  :  each  h.  ft.  heats.     Last  three-quarters  of  a  mile  of  Drawing  Room  Stakes 

Course  (29  subscribers).     Gentlemen  riders. 

Lord  March's  b.  f.  Guava,  4  yrs.,  lost  ilb.      ...  ...          ...         ...         (Owner)  411 

Duke  of  Richmond's  b.  f.  Reel,  3  yrs.,  gst.  81b.  ...  (Colonel  Bouverie)  130 

Mr.  Sidney  Herbert's  b.  g.  Arctic,  6  yrs.,  i2St.  81b.  ...          ...          ...          (Owner)  220 

Captain  Gardner's  b.  c.  Shuffler,  4  yrs.,  951.  1 2lb.  (Owner)  3  dr. 


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In  1842  Lord  March  rode  three  winners  in  succession,  being  of  the  same  age 
and  the  same  weight  as  John  Kent,  who  recalled  these  facts  when  his  old  master 
died.  The  Duke  was  at  his  death  the  senior  member  of  the  Jockey  Club,  a 
position  in  which  he  was  succeeded  by  the  late  Lord  Alington,  and  no  better  man 
of  business  ever  presided  over  the  deliberations  which  were  sometimes  held  at 
his  town  house  in  Belgrave  Square.  A  pillar  of  agriculture,  a  practical  states- 
man, and  as  genial  a  sportsman  as  ever  breathed,  the  Duke's  death  was  felt  as  a 
loss  wherever  the  honourable  record  of  his  public  and  private  life  was  known 
and  valued. 

Racing  at  Goodwood  in  its  first  anniversary  of  1802  (the  year  of  Lord  George 
Bentinck's  birth)  came  third  on  the  annual  programme,  which  was  opened  by  the 


By  permission  of J\[i:  Calvcrt. 


The  Cesarcwitch  of  \  896. 
i."St.Brh;'        i.  "  Chitchat."        3.  "  Laodamia." 


Craven  at  Newmarket ;  and  the  first  event  in  its  hundred  years'  record  is  the 
Hunters'  Plate  of  ,£50,  for  horses  carrying  i2st.,  ridden  by  gentlemen  only,  won 
by  Mr.  Newbery's  brown  gelding  Pantagenel.  Since  1804  there  have  always  been 
more  than  one  day  in  the  meeting.  The  grand  stand  was  opened  in  1830,  when 
the  hero  of  Waterloo  was  entertained  by  his  A.D.C.,  the  fourth  Duke  of  Richmond. 
Jealous  for  the  reputation  of  Ascot,  King  George  started  a  second  meeting  there, 
which  did  not  succeed,  though  there  seems  no  good  reason  why  it  should  not  do 
so  if  properly  managed  at  the  right  time.  But  in  spite  of  Sandown,  Kempton,  Hurst 
Park,  Gatwick,  Lingfiekl,  and  many  other  modern  attractions,  Goodwood  has  held 
its  own,  though  the  railway  journey  is  long,  and  the  course  is  a  long  drive  uphill 
from  the  station  ;  for  there  is  a  characteristic  charm  about  the  beauty  of  the  spot 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


which  is  unsurpassed  in  the  three  kingdoms,  and  has  appealed  to  the  public  as  well 
as  to  owners  with  unfailing  power.  Prince  Soltykoff,  another  of  the  losses  of  the 
disastrous  year  of  1903,  was  probably  the  last  owner  alive  who  had  raced  at 
Goodwood  as  long  ago  as  1871.  Just  ten  years  before  that  date,  a  field  of  forty-five 
horses  started  for  Croagh  Patricks  Stewards'  Cup,  and  the  favourite  won,  which 
certainly  goes  far  to  show  that,  after  Newmarket,  Goodwood  must  be  one  of  the 
best  courses  in  the  country,  in  spite  of  not  having  a  straight  mile.  The  Cup  Course 
is  a  model  of  what  such  things  should  be,  and  the  going  is  of  the  very  best ;  for 
on  the  excellent  foundation  laid  sixty  years  ago  by  Lord  George,  a  perfect  system 
of  top-dressing  has  produced  grass  that  is  closer  and  finer  than  is  to  be  seen  at 

Newmarket.  Anything 
more  glorious  than  the 
view  it  would  be  diffi- 
cult to  imagine,  for  the 
course  lies  seven  hun- 
dred feet  above  the  sea, 
on  a  plateau  about  six 

miles   north-west  of 

Chichester,  and  miles 
of  wooded  uplands  and 
swelling  hills  can  be 
seen  as  far  as  the  sight 
can  travel.  Ancient 
beech  trees  shadow  half 
the  lawn,  and  behind 

them  is  the  famous  "  Birdless  Grove."  To  the  south  the  English  Channel  lies 
beyond  a  great  expanse  of  open  country,  with  the  Isle  of  Wight  in  the  blue  distance. 
Though  Goodwood,  Brighton,  and  Lewes  make  up  a  pleasant  fortnight,  the  man 
who  races  from  London  is  apt  to  grumble  at  the  difficulties  of  getting  to  and  fro. 
But  there  are  luckily  still  left  enough  supporters  of  the  Turf  who  love  the  sport 
for  its  own  sake,  amid  beautiful  surroundings,  and  who  are  not  entirely  absorbed 
in  making  money  over  some  one  else's  animals  at  a  meeting  near  enough  to  enable 
them  to  be  back  for  dinner  in  Pall  Mall.  In  the  modern  roll  of  the  Goodwood  Cup 
winners  occur  such  names  as  The  Bard,  St.  Simon,  Kincsem,  Hampton,  Doncastcr, 
Flageolet,  Favonius,  and  Isonomy,  who  was  one  of  the  best  horses  John  Porter  ever 


Finish  of  the  Derby  for  1900.     "  Diamond Jubilee"  wins. 


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had.  In  1895  His  Majesty  scored  with  Florizel  II.  But  the  race  is  no  longer 
what  it  was,  though  worth  .£2,000,  and  has  now  been  won  three  times  in  succession 
by  Mr.  Arthur  James,  with  Fortunatus,  Perseus,  and  (in  1903)  Rabelais.  It  is  difficult 
to  look  back  at  the  meetings  for  fifty  years  before  Rabelais,  and  preserve  a  completely 
satisfied  opinion  as  to  the  present  state  of  breeding. 

John  Porter,  to  whom  I  must  now  at  once  return,  has  had  better  seasons  than 
that  of  1903,  which  saw  the  formation  of  "  Kingsclere  Racing  Stables  (Limited), 
registered  October  i5th,  with  capital  .£30,012,"  and  the  Dukes  of  Portland  and 
Westminster  as  chief  supporters.  In 
1863,  just  forty  years  before,  George 
Manning,  Sir  Joseph  Hawley's  private 
trainer,  died  ;  and  at  twenty-five  years 
old  John  Porter  succeeded  him  in 
command  of  the  stables  at  Catsgore, 
near  Cannon  Heath,  already  made 
famous  by  FitzRoland,  Beadsman, 
and  Musjid.  Sir  Joseph's  previous 
winners,  Tcddington,  Aphrodite,  The 
Ban,  Fernhill,  and  Vatican,  were 
trained  by  Alec  Taylor  at  Fyfield, 
near  Marlborough,  before  the  Manton 
Stables  had  been  built.  It  was  chiefly 
owing  to  Lord  Westmoreland's  warm 
recommendation  that  "  the  lucky 
baronet "  choose  a  trainer  so  young 
looking  as  Porter,  who  showed  his 
skill  at  once  with  Cohimba  and 
Washington  at  Doncaster  in  1863,  and  St.  Alexis  (731.  4lb.)  in  the  Great  Eastern 
Handicap  at  Newmarket.  A  friendship  began  which  was  consolidated  by  Sir 
Joseph's  kindness  when  Porter  was  ill  with  typhoid  fever  at  Doncaster,  and  which 
only  ended  when  the  cherry  jacket  was  no  longer  carried  by  Templeman,  Marson, 
Alfred  Day,  Wells,  or  Huxtable,  the  jockeys  who  chiefly  rode  for  Sir  Joseph. 
In  1858  his  Beadsman  beat  Lord  Derby's  Toxophilite,  and  the  Prime  Minister's 
defeat  was  watched  with  so  much  interest  that  M.  de  Montalembert,  then  visiting 
the  late  Lord  Dunraven,  left  a  description  of  the  scene  which  is  as  forceful  as  it 


From  a  pencil  drawing  bv 
Jane  E.  Cook. 


Mr.  John  Porter. 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


is  accurate.  Beadsman  sired  Bhie  Goivn,  Rosicrncian,  and  Green  Sleeves,  and  the 
winter  of  1867-8  was  one  of  the  most  anxious  Porter  had  yet  passed.  The  Derby 
that  followed  proved  as  memorable  as  any  of  the  four  Sir  Joseph  won,  and  the 
doubling  of  the  population  of  the  United  Kingdom  since  that  date  has  not  sufficed 
to  bring  a  bigger  crowd  than  when  Blue  Gown  won  in  1868. 

Other  owners  began  by  this  time  to  associate  themselves  with  Porter's  work. 
One  of  them  was  Sir  Frederick  Johnstone,  who  purchased  Xi  from  old  John  Osborne 
conjointly  with  Sir  Joseph  Hawley.  As  a  trustworthy  trial  horse  this  proved  a 

difficult  one  to  beat,  and  it  was  on  Xi 
that  Wells  carried  the  colours  for  the 
first  time  after  Blue  Gown  had  been 
disqualified  for  the  Champagne  Stakes. 
About  1 869,  too,  the  notorious  Walter, 
from  the  Swan  Inn,  Kingsclere,  was 
publishing  his  "  Racing  Circular,"  and 
starting  his  "  Discretionary  Invest- 
ment "  bubble  which  was  decisively 
pricked  by  Dr.  Shorthouse  in  the 
same  paper  which  published,  entirely 
without  its  editor's  sympathy  or  know- 
ledge, an  article  severely  reflecting 
on  Sir  Joseph  Hawley 's  conduct  and 
character.  When  the  apology  was 
read  in  Court,  Mr.  Straight  began 
with  the  words — "  High  Toryism, 
High  Churchism,  High  Farming,  and 
Old  Port  for  Ever,"  which  is  still 
the  motto  of  that  excellent  publication,  "The  Sporting  Times;"  and  General  Peel 
nearly  fell  off  his  chair  with  laughing.  But  the  doctor  was  imprisoned  in 
Holloway  for  an  article  which  he  never  wrote,  refusing  to  give  up  its  author's  name. 
All  these  matters  drew  a  great  deal  of  public  attention  of  course  to  Kingsclere, 
where  in  1876  Mr.  F.  Gretton  had  a  yearling  by  Sterling  out  of  Iso/a  Bella 
by  Stock-well,  which  Porter  bought  at  the  Yardley  sale  for  360  guineas.  This 
turned  out  to  be  the  great  honomy,  who  transmitted  his  quality  and  stoutness  to 
hinglass  and  Common.  Any  sort  of  ground  seemed  to  suit  him,  and  he  was  very 


l$v  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


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little  raced  as  a  two-year-old,   according  to  the  doctrines    Porter  has  preached  and 

practised  nearly  all  his  life.      He  won  in  bets  and  stakes  upwards  of  £i  10, ooo  for 

his  owner,  including  the  Cambridgeshire  (3  yrs.,  731.    lib.),  the  Gold  Vase  and  the 

Gold  Cup  at  Ascot,  the  Goodwood  Cup,  the  Great  Ebor  Handicap,  the  Newmarket 

Derby,   the  Manchester  Cup  (giving   The  Abbot  42lb.),  and  another   Gold   Cup  at 

Ascot  to   close  his  wonderful  career.      Mr.  John  Gretton  and   Lord  Stamford  then 

sent  their  horses  to   Kingsclere,   and  it  should   be  noted  that   Lord  Alington  had 

sent  Beaudesert  (who  had  a  bowed  tendon)  soon  afterwards.      Lord  Stamford  began 

well   with  Geheimniss,   which  he  bought  from   Tom    Cannon   in    1881    for  .£2,000. 

She  was    one    of  the    fastest    fillies   at   six    furlongs    ever    known,  won    the    Oaks, 

and  was  second    for  the 

Leger.     About  this  time 

the     Kingsclere    owners 

were  Lord  Alington,  Sir 

Frederick  Johnstone,  the 

Uuke    of    Westminster, 

Lord       Stamford,       and 

Mr.    John    Gretton,   and 

Porter's    resources    were       ••••1 

taxed     to     the     utmost. 

Luckily,       besides       6V. 

Blaisc      and       Shotover, 

there  was  a  trustworthy 

trial  horse  in  Whipper-in, 

and    Shotover  s   victories 

in    the   Two    Thousand   and    Derby    were   the   beginning  of  a   splendid   succession 

which   Porter  was  able  to  achieve  for  the  late   Duke  of  Westminster. 

The  Derby  trial  of  St.  Blaise  was  no  doubt  considered  interesting  enough  for 
His  Majesty,  then  Prince  of  Wales,  to  see  on  his  first  visit  to  Kingsclere,  because  on 
the  1 2th  of  April  he  had  been  tried  over  a  mile  with  the  following  result,  as  given  in 
John  Porter's  "Kingsclere,"  edited  by  Byron  Webber:  — 


Newmarket.     Craven  Meeting,  1902. 


Whipper-in,  4  yrs.,  751.  i3lb. 
St.  £/aise,  3  yrs.,  8st.  I3lb. 
Incendiary,  6  yrs.,  8st.  I3lb. 


VOL.  III. 


Won  by  a  length  and  a  half,  six  lengths  between  second  and  third. 

A  A 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


The  Prince  was  quietly  met  with  a  fly  from  Porter's  house  at  Overtoil  Station,  by 
the  9  a.m.  train  from  Waterloo,  and  was  received  on  the  Downs  by  Lord  Alington 
and  Sir  Frederick  Johnstone.  The  trainer  started  the  field  of  five,  in  which  "all 
went  in,"  irrespective  of  exclusive  ownership,  in  order  to  ensure  as  thorough  an 
investigation  as  possible.  It  resulted  as  follows,  over  a  mile  and  a  half: — 


St.  Blaise,  3  yrs.,  8st.  61b. 
Incendiary,  6  yrs.,  8st.  2lb. 
Shotover,  4  yrs.,  8st.  i2lb. 
Geheimniss,  4  yrs.,  gst.  5lb. 


i 
2 

3 
4 


Energy,  3  yrs.,  8st.  s\l) 5 

Won  by  two  lengths,  four  lengths  between  second  and  third,  a  head  between  fourth  and  fifth. 

Lord  Alington  died  in   February,    1904.      He  was  the   Hon.  Gerald  Sturt  until 
1876,  and  began  racing  as  soon  as  he  came  of  age  twenty  years  before.      Harry  Hill, 

Lord  George  Bentinck's 
chief  commissioner,  said 
that  Mr.  Sturt,  before  he 
was  twenty-five,  could 
get  more  valuable  turf 
news  for  nothing  than 


Lord 


George 


Finish  of  the  Derby  for  1901. 


ever 

attained  with  all  his 
reckless  outlay.  The 
best  Lord  Alington 
owned  with  Sir  Frede- 
rick Johnstone  were 
St.  Blaise,  Common, 
Throstle,  and  Matchbox, 
and  his  worst  dis- 
appointment was  no  doubt  when  Allbrook  was  beaten  by  Fordham's  splendid 
riding  on  Sabinus  in  the  Cambridgeshire.  At  his  death  Lord  Alington  was  Senior 
member  of  the  Jockey  Club,  and  one  of  the  oldest  supporters  of  the  Turf  then  living 
who  had  won  such  victories ;  and  until  very  near  the  end  he  took  the  deepest 
interest  in  racing  and  in  breeding.  The  break-up  of  "the  old  firm"  was  half- 
suspected  when  Sir  Frederick  Johnstone's  horses  were  found  to  be  entered  in  his 
own  name  for  the  great  three-year-old  races  of  1905  ;  but  few  realised  that,  when 
Lord  Alington  watched  his  Flor  Fina  run  for  the  All-aged  Stakes  at  Ascot,  it  would 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS    OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY   YEARS. 


631 


be  his  last  visit  to  a  racecourse.      His  speech  on  breeding  and  high  fees  will  never 

be  forgotten  in  the  House  of  Commons.      "After  you  have  paid  these  fees,"  he  said, 

"the  mare  will  come  smilingly  up  to  you  the  following  year  no  more  in  foal  than 

I  am  now,"  and  he  passed  his  hand  over  his  long  spare  figure,  to  the  great  amusement 

of  his  hearers.      He  brought  off  his  best  betting  coups  with  William  Day,  his  classic 

races  with  John  Porter;  and  perhaps  the  fastest  animal  "the  old  firm"  ever  owned 

was  Friar 's  Balsam,  a  smashing  two-year-old  son  of  Imperatrice,  the  pretty  sister 

of  Imperieuse. .  St.  Blaise  may  have  largely  owed  his  Derby  to  C.  Wood's  fine  riding, 

but  he  was  certainly  not  sold  to  Mr. 

A.  Belmont,  of  New  York,  because  he 

was  "one  of  the  worst  that  ever  won;" 

and,   as   may  be   seen   from   the   trial 

above  recorded,  he  was  a  good  bit  in 

front  of  the  winners  of  the  previous 

Derby  and   Oaks,   carrying  less  than 

weight  for  age,  which  certainly  seems 

to  indicate  that  he  was  good   enough 

to  be  victorious  himself  in  nine  years 

out  of  ten.     Not  very  long  after  this 

Mr.  Brodrick  Cloete  joined  the  stable, 

and  soon  made  his  mark  with  Cherry, 

by    Sterling   out  of  Cherry  Duchess, 

who  won  the  Kempton  Grand  Prize, 

the   Epsom   Grand  Prize,  and  walked 

over  for  the  Knowsley  Dinner  Stakes 

at  Epsom.     Another  of  Mr.  Cloete's 

was  the  famous  colt  by  Sterling  out  of 

Casuistry,  so  happily  named  Paradox,  who  was  bought  for  450  guineas  by  Captain 

Bowling  when  he  and  Porter  were  attending  the  sale  of  Yardley  yearlings  in  1883. 

He  was   difficult   to   train  ;   but  his  first  trial  over  six  furlongs  against  the  Rebecca 

colt,    Whipper-in,    Reprieve,    and    Siren,   so    impressed    the    Duke  of   Westminster 

that  he  became   His  Grace's  property  at  6,000  guineas.      It  was  perhaps  a  sinister 

omen  that  he  ran  a  dead  heat  for  third   in   the   Middle   Park   Plate,  which  Melton 

won,  but  he  never  made  up  the  ground  he  lost  at  the  start ;  and  his  next  race,  the 

Dewhurst  Plate,  he  won  in  a  canter,  and  Mr.  Cloete's  confidence  in  buving  him  from 


From  a  drawing  by 
Jane  £.  Cook. 


Mr.  Matthew  Dawson. 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


the  Duke,  who  was  dissatisfied  with  his  purchase,  seemed  likely  to  be  well  rewarded, 
in  spite  of  the  difficulties  in  training  him  continuing.  On  April  30,  1885,  he  won 
a  high,  and  what  most  judges  considered  a  conclusive,  trial,  giving  ailb.  and  a 
beating  to  Farewell,  who  subsequently  conquered  a  big  field  for  the  One  Thousand  ; 
and  it  was  therefore  argued  with  some  justice  that  when  Paradox,  on  whom  3  to  i 
was  laid,  was  raced  to  a  head  by  Craft  on  in  the  Two  Thousand,  it  could  not  have 
been  his  true  running ;  and  there  is  little  doubt  that  the  jockey  was  wrong  to  wait 
with  him.  Much  the  same  thing,  but  with  that  little,  all-important  difference  just 


From  the  painting  bv  Emil  Adam. 
By  permission  of  Hanfstaengl. 


"  Minting:' 


the  wrong  way,  happened  in  the  Derby,  which  was  really  won  by  Archer's  possessing 
the  knowledge  that  Paradox  had  to  be  sent  along  from  start  to  finish,  and  using  it 
brilliantly.  Webb,  skilled  artist  as  he  was,  thought  that  his  colt,  after  beating  Royal 
Hampton  and  Xaintrailles,  was  coming  in  alone;  but  Archer,  knowing  Paradox 
would  not  race  when  left  out  by  himself,  brought  Melton  up  with  a  sudden  and 
desperate  rush,  which  literally  snatched  victory  out  of  the  fire  at  the  last  moment. 
It  had  been  a  dead  heat  between  Harvester  and  5V.  Gaticn  the  year  before. 
Many  imagined  the  same  thing  might  have  occurred  again  ;  but  the  judge  gave  it  to 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY   YEARS  633 

Melton  by  a  head.  It  must  have  been  some  slight  consolation  to  his  owner  that 
Paradox  won  the  Grand  Prix  at  Paris.  Another  terrific  race  Mr.  Cloete  had  in 
1891  for  the  Park  Hill  Stakes  at  Doncaster,  over  the  old  St.  Leger  course,  with 
Cereza,  a  regular  Newminster  filly,  who  did  not  stand,  or  require,  much  training,  and 
was  therefore  kept  out  of  the  Oaks  in  order  to  win  the  Coronation  Stakes  at  Ascot. 
At  Doncaster  she  met  Haute  Sadne  and  Mimi,  and  this  time  the  short  head  went 
the  right  way.  The  struggle  was  so  close  that  Cereza 's  jockey  did  not  know  which 
had  won,  for  there  was  only  a  short  head  between  all  three  mares,  and  the  excellence 
of  the  performance  may  be  judged  from  the  fact  that  the  betting  was  100  to  30 
against  Cereza,  2  to  i  against  Haute  Sadne,  and  5  to  4  against  Mimi,  who  had  won 
the  Thousand  Guineas,  the  Newmarket  Stakes,  and  the  Oaks  in  that  season. 
Mr.  Cloete  moved  his  horses  from  Porter's  to  Marsh's,  and  then  started  training 
them  himself  at  his  own  stud  farm,  where  gallops  have  been  laid  out  on  the  beautiful 
meadows  at  Hare  Park,  near  Newmarket. 

But  Porter  must  soon  have  been  consoled  for  the  defeat  of  Paradox,  if  a  trainer 
who  was  doing  so  well  for  so  long  ever  really  needed  consolation  ;  for  in  that 
very  same  year  of  1885,  a  two-year-old  by  Bend  Or  out  of  Lily  Agnes  was 
being  tried  in  October  over  the  Kingsclere  Downs,  and  from  the  first  day  the 
Duke  of  Westminster's  bay  colt  showed  his  fine,  free,  tireless  action,  every  good 
judge  saw  he  was  a  smasher.  Even  the  best  of  them,  however,  hardly  realised 
at  once  that  Ormonde  was  to  have  an  unbeaten  career  of  so  brilliant  a  lustre 
that,  in  the  opinion  of  very  many,  he  was  the  best  horse  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
Take  him  all  round,  this  lineal  descendant  of  Stockwell  was  certainly  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  horses  ever  bred  in  England,  and  his  first  rough  gallop,  against 
Kendal,  when  both  were  two-year-olds,  was  the  first  time  he  was  stripped,  the 
only  time  he  was  tried,  and  the  only  time  he  was  ever  headed  at  the  finish.  In 
the  Post  Sweepstakes  (Bretby  Stakes  Course)  he  did  not  start  the  favourite,  and 
beat  Modwena  (11  to  10  on)  by  a  length.  A  strong  favourite  for  the  Criterion 
Stakes  (6  to  4  on,  freely),  he  beat  Oberon  (by  Galopin  out  of  Wheel  of  Fortune) 
and  Mephisto  easily.  He  met  a  fairly  good  field  again  in  the  Dewhurst  Plate, 
but  started  at  1 1  to  4  on,  and  beat  Miss  Jmmny,  who  was  not  much  more  than 
moderate,  though  she  won  the  Oaks.  He  cantered  home,  and  went  into  winter 
quarters;  and  the  spring  of  1886,  that  memorable  year,  dawned  happily  for  every 
friend  of  Kingsclere.  There  was  great  discussion  over  a  particularly  fine  crop  of 
three-year-olds.  The  Bard  was  unbeaten,  with  the  Brocklesby  Stakes  at  Lincoln 


634 


•  HBIHK'VB^^^^H 


i 


FAMOUS  RACING  STUDS   OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY   YEARS. 


635 


to  his  credit.  Saraband  had  won  his  race  very  easily  at  Kempton.  Matthew 
Uawson  declared  Minting  (by  Lord  Lyoii)  to  be  "one  of  the  very  best  animals 
he  had  ever  known,"  an  opinion  which  carried  so  much  weight  that  when  he  met 
Ormonde  for  the  first  time  in  the  Two  Thousand,  he  started  favourite  at  even 
money ;  Saraband,  3  to  i  ;  Ormonde,  7  to  2.  Ormonde  made  his  own  running, 
and  won  so  easily  that  Mr.  Vyner  very  discreetly  reserved  Minting  for  the 
Grand  Prix.  For  the  Derby  it  was  much  the  same  story,  except  that  that 
gallant  little  horse  The  Bard  came  round  Tattenham  Corner  almost  on  terms, 
but  could  not  stride  with  Ormonde  when  they  swung  into  the  straight.  At  Ascot 
he  won  the  St.  James's  Palace  Stakes,  and  beat  Melton  in  the  Hardwicke  next 
day.  The  Yorkshire- 
men  were  so  delighted 
with  his  looks  that  they 
laid  7  to  i  on  him  for 
the  Leger,  and  he  did 
all  they  asked  and  more. 
He  actually  started  with 
25  to  i  on  him  for  the 
Great  Foal  Stakes  at  the 
Newmarket  First  Octo- 
ber, and  was  without  an 
opponent  for  the  New- 
market St.  Leger.  His 
price  for  the  Champion 
Stakes  was  "  100  to  i 

on,"  and  again  for  the  Free  Handicap,  where  he  gave  2st.  to  Mephisto,  and  won 
in  a  canter  by  eight  lengths.  After  walking  over  for  a  Private  Sweepstakes  on 
the  last  day  of  the  Houghton,  he  went  home  for  the  winter  with  ,£24,560  to  his 
credit,  without  having  been  really  extended  at  all,  except  for  those  few  strides  by 
The  Bard.  Then  arose  the  sad  tale  that  he  had  begun  to  "make  a  noise."  It 
was  too  true.  Still,  he  beat  Kilwarlin  by  six  lengths  for  the  Rous  Memorial  at 
Ascot,  with  4  to  i  on.  The  odds  shortened,  however,  to  5  to  4  on,  when  he  had 
to  meet  Minting  for  the  Hardwicke  Stakes  at  even  weights,  gst.  lolb.  each.  He 
won  by.  a  neck,  and  Tom  Cannon  let  it  be  understood  that  the  gap  might  have 
been  larger  if  necessary.  His  last  race  was  the  Imperial  Gold  Cup  at  the 


From  the  painting  by  Captain  Adrian  Jones. 


'•  Sainfoin? 


6i.6  A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Newmarket  July  Meeting,  over  the  last  six  furlongs  of  the  Bunbury  Mile,  and 
he  had  to  be  driven  to  shake  off  Wkitefriar.  He  only  just  left  the  Turf  in  time 
to  save  his  shield  untarnished,  and  was  sold  into  South  America,  leaving,  in  Orme, 
a  son  well  worthy  of  so  great  a  sire. 

The  cheers  over  that  sensational  struggle  for  the  Hardwicke  Stakes  will  not 
easily  be  forgotten,  for  there  was  behind  them  just  that  touch  of  sadness  for  both 
owner  and  trainer  which  they  alone  were  able  fully  to  appreciate  at  the  time. 
Perhaps  Porter  was  the  only  man  who  realised  the  full  risks  that  splendid  horse 
was  running.  The  period  was  a  memorable  one  in  several  ways.  In  1886  the 
King,  then  Prince  of  Wales,  had  joined  the  Kingsclere  stables.  In  1887  the 
Jubilee  of  Her  Majesty  Queen  Victoria  was  celebrated.  It  was  at  one  time 
suggested  that  Ormonde  should  carry  the  Duke  of  Westminster  in  the  procession. 
Eventually  it  was  decided  to  bring  him  quietly  up  to  London  to  a  garden-party 
at  Grosvenor  House.  He  was  unboxed  at  Waterloo,  walked  deliberately  across 
Westminster  Bridge,  and  by  special  permission  across  the  Parks.  A  cabman  with 
an  eye  for  horseflesh  was  the  only  ordinary  Londoner  who  knew  what  was  passing 
through  the  capital,  and  he  would  not  believe  the  short  reply  his  question  received— 
"  Ormonde."  That  gentlemanly  thoroughbred  enjoyed  his  Mayfair  garden-party 
as  if  he  had  been  used  to  such  functions  all  his  life,  and  travelled  just  as  contentedly 
back  to  Kingsclere  when  the  last  orchid  had  been  handed  him  to  nibble  by  the 
ladies. 

Ormonde  was  selected  as  a  type  by  Major-General  Sir  John  Hills,  in  his 
interesting  book,  "  The  Points  of  a  Racehorse,"  to  illustrate  the  quite  unique  and 
extraordinary  length  of  his  humerus,  which  is  nearly  as  long  as  the  shoulder-blade, 
and  also  the  remarkable  uprightness  of  its  slope.  With  his  grand  quarters  and 
loins,  short  back,  excellent  low  stifle,  straight  hind  legs  with  powerful  gaskins, 
and  deep  barrel,  Ormonde  at  his  best  showed  every  point  of  racing  excellence 
remarkably  displayed  in  spite  of  having  a  plain  head  and  a  rather  short  neck. 
His  splendid  framework  he  no  doubt  inherited  as  much  from  Bend  Or  as  from 
Lily  Agnes,  and  he  handed  it  on  to  Orme,  his  famous  son  from  Angelica,  who 
is  a  pattern  of  good  looks  with  scarce  a  blemish  on  him,  truly  and  perfectly  built 
for  a  combination  of  strength  and  speed,  with  wonderfully  developed  style,  no 
lumber  in  front,  splendid  slope  to  the  shoulders,  and  excellent  loins  and  quarters. 
Ormes  son,  Flying  Fox,  though  not  built  on  such  powerful  lines  as  those  of  his 
sire  and  grandsire,  shows  even  finer  quality,  and  all  his  good  points  harmonise 


637 


I 

I 


* 


«. 


VOL.    III. 


I!    1! 


638 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


together  in  a  perfect  unison.  To  the  grand  stifle,  well-marked  and  very  straight 
hind  leg,  well-let-down,  long,  and  well-placed  humerus,  good  shoulder,  short  back, 
deep  brisket,  well-put-on  neck,  handsome  head,  and  fine,  steady-looking  eye,  the 
only  possible  improvement  would  be  a  very  slight  addition  to  the  length  of 
quarter.  The  first  of  his  get  are  entered  for  the  Derby  of  1904  by  his  sporting 
French  purchaser,  M.  Blanc.  It  is  rare  indeed  that  good  blood  has  shown  its 
value  in  so  direct  a  line  of  magnificent  successors. 

Sainfoin  (by  Springfield  out  of  Sanda)  was  bought  as  a  Hampton  Court  yearling 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


"  La  Flhhe,"  with  filly  by  "Morion." 


by  Porter  for  himself  and  Sir  Robert  Jardine  at  550  guineas.  After  he  had  only 
run  once  as  a  two-year-old  and  once  as  a  three-year-old  (winning  both  races),  Sir 
James  Miller  offered  .£6,000  and  half  the  Derby  Stakes  if  he  won.  At  Epsom  he 
did  win,  beating  Lc  Nord  by  three-quarters  of  a  length,  Surefoot  and  Orwell  being 
behind  them.  S^^refoot  he  beat  again  in  the  Hardwicke  Stakes  at  Ascot,  which 
were  won  by  that  fine  horse  Amphion.  Baron  Hirsch  joined  Porter's  stable  in  1889, 
and  two  years  afterwards  came  Common's  year.  The  big  son  of  Isonomy  and  This'le 
never  ran  as  a  two-year-old,  for  he  wanted  all  the  time  he  could  get  to  be  trained 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST   THIRTY   YEARS.  639 

When  he  appeared  at  Newmarket  for  the  Two  Thousand,  local  critics  thought  him 
well  named  ;  but  they  soon  altered  their  opinion  when  he  had  beaten  Gouverneur, 
Peter  Flower,  and  Orvieto  in  a  common  canter.  At  Epsom  he  showed  he  could 
go  as  well  on  soft  ground  as  on  hard,  and  thoroughly  justified  the  odds  of  1 1  to  10 
laid  on  him.  Immediately  after  he  had  secured  the  triple  crown  by  winning  the 
St.  Leger,  he  was  sold  to  Sir  Blundell  Maple  for  ,£15,000,  and  went  to  the  stud  after 
as  short  a  career  on  the  Turf  as  was  possible  for  so  commanding  a  success.  But  there 
were  many  who  regretted  that  so  fine  an  animal  was  not  given  the  chance  of  becoming 
the  great  Cup  horse  he  might  undoubtedly  have  proved  himself,  for  he  was  one 
of  the  very  best  that  ever  trod  the  turf,  of  so  powerful  a  make  that,  as  in  the  case 
of  Ormonde,  a  hasty  glance  at  him  at  the  stud  produces  an  impression  of  coarseness, 
which  is  really  unfounded.  His  loins  and  quarters  are  wonderful,  with  good  hind 
legs,  a  grand  stifle,  and  excellent  shoulders  and  humerus.  Kingsclere  had  four 
good  two-year-olds  while  Common  was  in  training.  These  were  La  Fleche,  Orme, 
Goldfinch,  and  Windgall.  The  daughter  of  St.  Simon  and  Quiver  cost  Baron  Hirsch 
5,500  guineas,  at  that  time  the  record  price  for  a  yearling,  and  one  which  the 
King,  then  Prince  of  Wales,  strongly  advised  her  purchaser  to  give.  Like  her 
full  sister,  Memoir,  La  Fleche  was  beautifully  and  truly  made  throughout,  with 
very  fine  stifle,  straight  hincl  leg,  and  good  shoulders.  She  eventually  won  .£31,153 
in  stakes  alone  ;  was  unbeaten  as  a  two-year-old ;  cantered  away  with  the  One 
Thousand  ;  was  beaten  by  a  cleverly  ridden  outsider  for  the  Derby ;  won  the  Oaks 
by  a  head,  in  spite  of  having  a  very  hard  race  in  her;  beat  Orvieto  (4  yrs., 
gst.  rolb.)  by  three  lengths  (gst.  Sib.)  in  the  Lancashire  Plate  at  Manchester;  and 
turned  the  tables  decisively  on  Sir  Hiigo  at  Doncaster  by  winning  the  Leger  in 
a  canter.  Her  final  success  in  1892  was  the  Cambridgeshire,  under  8st.  iolb.,  against 
Pensioner  with  6st.  4lb.  That  year  the  Prince  of  Wales  and  Baron  Hirsch  left 
Porter's  stables  with  mutual  regret  on  both  sides.  Ormes  career  was  by  no  means 
over  while  his  brilliant  stable-companion  was  rolling  up  her  victories.  He  had  been 
only  once  beaten  out  of  six  attempts  as  a  two-year-old,  and  his  three-year-old  season 
was  rendered  sensational  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  England  by  the 
mysterious  incident  popularly  known  as  "  The  Poisoning  of  Orme."  The  theory 
of  a  diseased  tooth  was  at  one  time  widely  believed  ;  but  in  the  book  he  published 
in  1896,  John  Porter  asserted  that  he  had  "not  the  least  doubt  whatever"  that  the 
horse  had  been  poisoned.  Mr.  Williams,  the  well-known  veterinary  professor,  was 
of  opinion,  when  called  in  at  the  time,  that  the  poison  was  mercurial.  Besides  the 


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A   HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


usual  symptoms  of  salivation,  the  unlucky  animal's  hair  came  off  in  patches  in  about 
a  fortnight,  and  for  some  ten  days  his  life  was  in  danger.  But  he  was  never  left 
alone  a  moment,  and  his  fine  constitution,  aided  by  unremitting  care,  pulled  him 
through  at  last.  The  inevitable  inquiry  was  placed  in  the  capable  hands  of  Sir 
George  Lewis,  and  ,£1,000  reward  was  offered  for  the  apprehension  of  the  guilty 
person.  No  evidence  has  ever  been  forthcoming  sufficient  to  convict  any  one.  But 
by  July,  1892,  the  horse  himself  put  all  doubts  to  rest  as  to  his  recovery  by  winning 
the  Eclipse  Stakes  at  Sandown  against  Orvieto,  St.  Damien,  Certosa,  Gouverneur, 
Llanthony,  and  Rouge  Dragon.  With  odds  of  5  to  4  betted  on  him,  and  ridden 
by  George  Barrett,  he  won  by  a  neck,  and  loudly  did  the  huge  crowd  cheer 

him  ;   indeed,  the  world- 
wide interest  in  his  reap- 
pearance    overshadowed 
almost  every  other  con- 
test of  the  year  until  La 
Fleche   and    others    beat 
him    in    the    St.    Leger 
after  he  had  been  ridden 
to  a  standstill.      But  the 
greatest   race  of  his  life 
was  yet  to   come,   when 
he  met  her  again  in  his 
second     entry     for     the 
Eclipse      next      season. 
This    time     Mornington 
Cannon  rode  him  (lost.  2lb.),  while  George  Barrett  was  on  the  mare  (gst.  i3lb.). 
He  won   by  half  a  length,   the  mare  being  third  ;    and  he  beat  La  Fleche  again 
(giving  her  /lb.)  in  the  Gordon  Stakes  at  Goodwood.      In  spite  of  his  illness,  he 
retired  from  the  Turf  with  a  winning  list  of  ,£32,726. 

The  St.  Leger  of  1894  was  as  great  a  surprise  as  that  of  Dutch  Oven  or  Caller  Ou. 
Throstle  (by  Petrarch  out  of  Thistle)  started  at  50  to  i  in  a  field  of  eight,  and  Lord 
Alington  and  Sir  Frederick  Johnstone  took  forty  ponies  between  them  in  order  that 
she  might  not  run  unbacked.  She  beat  Ladas  by  three-quarters  of  a  length,  and 
Matchbox  was  third.  In  1895  Kingsclere  had  rather  too  many  seconds  for  Porter's 
liking;  but  the  season  of  1899  more  than  made  up  for  it.  That  was  Flying  Fox s 


By  permission  of"  Cvitniry  Life." 


"  Throstle." 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY   YEARS.  641 

year  indeed.  As  a  two-year-old  he  won  the  New  Stakes  at  Ascot  and  the  Criterion 
Stakes  at  Newmarket.  As  a  three-year-old  he  won  the  Two  Thousand,  Derby, 
St.  Leger,  Eclipse  Stakes,  Princess  of  Wales's  Stakes,  and  Jockey  Club  Stakes.  No 
wonder  he  was  sold  to  M.  Blanc  for  the  highest  price  ever  given  for  a  thoroughbred. 
In  years  later  than  those  already  mentioned,  Porter  won  the  Oaks  with  La  Roche 
(1900)  ;  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Stakes  at  Ascot  with  Manners  (1899)  and  Simon  Dale 
(1900);  the  Coronation  Stakes  with  Lowood  (1898);  the  Hardwicke  Stakes  with 
Shaddock  (1896)  and  Collar  (1898);  the  Great  Yorkshire  Stakes  with  Manners 
(1899);  the  Great  Foal  Stakes  at  Newmarket  with  Labrador  (1896)  and  Batt 
(1902);  the  Gold  Cup  at  Ascot,  the  Alexandra  Plate,  and  the  Doncaster  Cup,  all 
with  that  stout  horse  William  the  Third  (1902);  the  Chesterfield  Cup  and  the 
Doncaster  Cup  with  Calveley  ( 1 899) ;  and  the  Gold  Vase  with  Ice  Maiden  (1902). 
Writing  in  the  "  Badminton  Magazine  "  for  September,  1903,  Porter  was  able  to  publish 
a  winning  total  of  ,£691,672  since  he  had  come  to  Kingsclere,  without  counting 
Beadsman,  Musjid,  or  FitzRoland,  whom  George  Manning  had  trained  there  before 
him.  The  record  is  a  fine  one,  and  it  may  be  hoped  that  it  will  continue  on  its  high 
level  now  that  the  stable  has  become  a  limited  company. 

The  horses  trained  by  Porter  for  the  King  when  Prince  of  \Vales  were  Calistos, 
Counterpane,  Falcon,  Loyalist,  Lady  Peggy,  Peter  At  hoi,  Montgomerie,  Huntingtower, 
Shamrock  II.,  Ester  hazy,  Derelict,  Pierrette,  Nandine,  Melesine,  Marguerite,  Mrs. 
Doddy,  and  Golden  Maze,  none  of  whom  brought  much  luck  to  the  Royal  colours. 
Counterpane  (who,  like  Lady  Peggy,  was  by  Hermit]  won  the  King's  first  race  for 
him  at  Sandown,  but  fell  dead  on  the  post  in  her  next  attempt  at  the  finish  for  the 
Stockbridge  Cup.  But  an  ample  recompense  for  all  this  was  obtained  by  the 
purchase  (made  on  Porter's  advice)  of  Perdita  II.,  a  daughter  of  Hampton  and 
Hermione  by  Young  Alelbourne.  Her  foal  of  1891  was  Florizel  II.;  two  years 
later  she  threw  Persimmon ;  and  then  in  1 897  came  Diamond  Jiibilee,  with  whose 
victorious  career  the  famous  and  palatial  racing  establishment  presided  over  by 
Richard  Marsh  at  Newmarket  is  chiefly  connected. 

At  the  beginning  of  1902  Marsh  had  sixty-seven  horses  in  training  at  Egerton 
House,  a  total  five  in  excess  of  John  Porter's  large  establishment  at  the  same 
period.  Born  in  1852,  at  Stnethe,  in  Kent,  Richard  Marsh  rode  Temple  to  victory 
in  the  New  Stakes  at  Ascot  in  1869.  He  was  successful  in  the  jumping  line  as 
well,  both  at  Croydon  and  Auteuil.  He  began  training  in  the  Newmarket  district 
in  quite  a  modest  way  at  Six  Mile  Bottom,  for  Mr.  Hector  Baltazzi.  In  the 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH   TURF. 


seventies  he  was  at  Lordship  Farm,  where  he  gathered  experience  for  some  sixteen 
years,  when  Joseph  Cannon  took  on  the  place.  But  when  Lord  Ellesmere  built 
Egerton  House  in  1892,  Marsh  really  had  his  opportunity.  The  large  and 
roomy  stables  over  which  he  presides  are  most  conveniently  situated  just  beyond 
the  July  course  on  the  Cambridge  Road,  within  two  miles  of  the  Newmarket  Post 
Office,  and  certainly  form  one  of  the  smartest  establishments  of  the  kind  hitherto 
constructed.  There  is  accommodation  for  about  eighty  horses  in  the  boxes  and 
stalls  that  surround  its  two  huge  courtyards,  and  just  outside  them  is  a  large  square 


*' 

* 


From  a  photograph  taken  at  Sandringham. 
Reproduced  by  permission  of  His  Majesty  the  King. 


'  Perdita  II. ' 


paddock  for  walking  exercise.  With  its  avenues  of  Scotch  firs  and  light,  sandy 
soil,  there  is  no  touch  of  dampness  or  malaria  in  the  place,  which  is  very  little 
affected  by  fog.  Better  buildings  it  would  be  scarcely  possible  to  devise,  and  it 
would  be  difficult  to  imagine  the  sentiments  of  old  Tom  Parr  of  Wantage,  or 
the  Yorkshire  trainers  of  the  early  nineteenth  century,  if  they  could  behold  the 
developments  of  modern  racing  in  this  particular  direction.  They  might  prefer 
Fisherman,  and  his  kind,  to  all  the  luxuries  for  man  and  beast  which  we  seem 
to  have  agreed  to  consider  more  essential  than  producing  the  old  stamp  of  stayer  ; 


FAMOUS  RACING  STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY   YEARS. 


643 


but  they  would  certainly  feel  somewhat  abashed  at  the  greatly  increased  amount 
of  varied  business,  and  extremely  heavy  responsibility,  which  the  modern  trainer 
has  to  face  in  addition  to  the  simpler  duties  of  his  predecessor.  In  moving  his  horses 
from  Kingsclere,  the  Prince  of  Wales  was  no  doubt  influenced  by  the  fact  that 
Newmarket  is  now  not  only  within  an  easy  run  from  London,  but  also  comparatively 
close  to  Sandringham.  His  horses  were  accompanied  by  those  of  Baron  Hirsch  and 
Lord  Marcus  Beresford,  to  which  were  added  several  belonging  to  the  Duke  of 
Devonshire  and  Mr.  Brodrick  Cloete,  who  only  left  Egerton  House  in  order  to 
try  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  forms  of  amusement,  and  train  on  their  own  estates 
the  horses  they  had  bred  themselves,  an  ideal  occupation  for  any  one  who  has 
the  opportunity  to  enjoy 
it.  Lord  Wolverton, 
Mr.  J.  W.  Larnach  (who 
owned  the  Derby  winner 
fedda/i),  Mr.  Leopold  cle 
Rothschild,  Lord  Hind- 
lip,  Lord  W.  Beresford, 
Lord  Dudley,  Lord  War- 
wick, Lord  Hastings,  the 
Duke  of  Portland,  Mr. 
Arthur  James,  and  many 
more,  have  at  one  time 
or  another  had  their 
animals  under  Marsh's 
charge;  but  it  was  "the 
Prince's  luck  "  that  made  the  reputation  of  the  stable,  as  may  be  gathered  from 
the  fact  that  in  six  years  Marsh  scored  the  following  successes  for  the  Royal 
colours,  all  with  the  three  famous  sons  of  Perdita  II. ,  who  died  in  1899:  with 
Florizel  II.,  the  Manchester  Cup,  the  Gold  Vase  at  Ascot,  the  Goodwood  Cup,  and 
other  races  ;  with  Persimmon,  the  Derby,  St.  Leger,  Ascot  Cup,  Eclipse  Stakes, 
and  Jockey  Club  Stakes  ;  and  with  Diamond  J^lbilee,  the  Two  Thousand,  Derby, 
St.  Leger,  Eclipse  Stakes,  and  Newmarket  Stakes.  To  these  should  be  added 
the  One  Thousand  Guineas  with  Thais,  who  was  by  St.  Serf  out  of  Poetry,  and 
was  very  difficult  to  train.  She  died  before  the  end  of  1898,  after  having  been 
sent  to  Isinglass.  If  Thais  had  beaten  Canterbury  Pilgrim  at  Epsom  as  she  did 


"  Jeddah  "  (1895),  by  "  Janissary •;•• 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


at  Ascot,  the  Prince  of  Wales  would  have  won  Oaks  and  Derby  in  the  same  year. 
Florizcl  II.  was  even  less  promising  as  a  two-year-old,  but  in  his  fourth  year  his 
only  defeat  was  almost  as  creditable  as  his  six  successes,  for  he  carried  gst.  into 
fourth  place  for  the  Cesarewitch ;  and  judging  from  Volodyovski,  Mackintosh, 
Floriform,  and  Doricles,  he  may  be  said  to  have  begun  brilliantly  at  the  stud. 

The  first  time  Persimmon  had  his  clothes  off  in  a  trial  he  gave  35lb.  and  a 
beating  to  Rags,  winner  of  the  Sudbroke  Selling  Plate  at  Lincoln  in  1895,  to 
whom  all  the  Egerton  House  two-year-olds  failed  to  give  i4lb.  He  could  not 
be  got  fit  for  the  Two  Thousand,  and  looked  a  rather  slovenly,  sprawling  colt 

until  he  began  to  take  a  turn  for 
the  better,  when  he  improved  with 
great  rapidity.  But  he  seemed  so 
to  resent  locomotion  by  steam  that 
it  appeared  probable  they  would 
never  get  him  by  train  to  Epsom 
at  all.  At  last  Marsh  called  out 
in  despair:  "  I'll  give  a  sovereign 
apiece  to  those  who  help  get  him 
in."  Half  Newmarket  was  at  him 
in  a  moment,  lifted  him  fairly  off 
his  legs,  and  swept  him  into  the 
box,  where  he  began  to  eat  his 
corn  with  a  supercilious  air  of 
wonder  that  so  much  fuss  was 
being  made.  Marsh  had  to  explain 
that  he  did  not  carry  the  Derby  stakes  in  his  pocket,  and  all  of  the  assistants 
could  not  get  their  sovereign  then  ;  but  no  doubt  they  made  it  later  on,  when  the 
great  colt  beat  St.  Frusquin  by  a  neck,  and  there  was  a  scene  of  tremendous 
enthusiasm,  culminating,  when  the  Prince  took  his  leading-rein  from  Marsh  at  the 
weighing-in  enclosure,  in  such  cheers  as  have  rarely  been  heard  even  on  the 
Epsom  Downs.  The  two  rivals  were  so  closely  matched  that  the  3lb.  Persimmon 
had  to  give  St.  Frusquin  in  the  Princess  of  Wales's  Stakes  would  almost  exactly 
account  for  his  half-length  defeat.  Of  the  cardinal  points  in  the  excellence  of  a 
thoroughbred  as  described  by  Sir  John  Hills,  the  most  important  are  the  perpen- 
dicularity of  the  slope  from  the  point  of  the  shoulder  to  the  point  of  the  elbow, 


His  Majesty's  "Mead?  by  "Persimmon." 


•^ 

s 


I 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY   YEARS. 


645 


and  the  proportionate  length  of  the  humerus  to  the  scapula.  On  these  points 
depends  the  free  and  extended  action  of  the  fore  legs,  just  as  that  of  the  hind 
legs  depends  on  a  long  femur  ending  in  a  low  and  well-developed  stifle-bone  and 
joint.  In  all  horses  the  humerus  is  shorter  than  the  scapula.  It  is  longer  in  the 
greyhound  and  the  cheetah,  arid  actually  sixty  per  cent,  longer  in  the  lynx,  which 
is  "  built  for  speed."  Victor  Wild  exhibits  a  happy  combination  of  these  points, 
with  that  power  and  character  in  loins  and  quarters  which  is  Sir  John  Hills'  third 
essential.  Ormonde,  Ormc,  Velasquez,  and  Isinglass  are  examples  of  a  specially 
well-placed  humerus,  as  far  removed  from  the  horizontal  as  possible.  In  Ormonde 
the  humerus  was  longer  than  in  any  horse  yet  examined,  for  it  was  nearly  as  long  as 
his  shoulder-blade.  In 
Persimmon  its  length  and 
perpendicularity  are  also 
especially  well  marked. 
Though  he  looks  high  on 
the  leg,  he  is  not  so  in 
reality.  He  is  remark- 
able for  the  great  depth 
from  withers  to  brisket, 
and  his  straight  hind 
legs  are  perfectly  made. 
His  elbow  is  low,  quite 
free  from  the  body,  not 
in  any  way  tied  in,  and 
with  a  large  joint,  and 

he  is  not  too  broad  between  the  legs  in  front.  His  light  head  and  neck  are  well 
put  on.  There  is  no  lumber  in  front,  his  loins  and  quarters  are  good,  and  the 
triangular  wedge  between  girth  and  brisket  is  well  marked.  It  would  be  difficult 
to  find  a  more  perfect  model  for  the  practical  exposition  of  excellent  racing  points 
than  the  various  pictures  of  him  reproduced  in  these  volumes,  and  the  same  style 
of  formation  is  beautifully  carried  out  in  his  daughter  Sceptre,  a  style  which  improves 
with  age,  as  was  shown  by  Clorane  and  Victor  Wild. 

Both    1896  and    1897  were  great  years  for  Marsh,  and  he  was  given  another  in 
1900  by  Diamond  Jubilee,  a  smaller  edition  of  Persimmon,  and  a  lighter  colour,  who 
brought  Egerton  House  to  the  top  of  the  winning  stables  in    1900  with   .£43,321. 
VOL.  in.  c  c 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


'  Florizel  II:' 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


more  than  half  of  which  was  won  by  His  Majesty's  colt,  the  remainder  being  due 
to  The  Gorgon,  Dieudonne",  Strong  Bow,  and  Strike-a-light,  among  the  twenty- 
horses  who  produced  thirty-one  victories.  There  was  only  less  excitement  than 
in  Persimmons  year,  when  Diamond  Jubilee  added  another  Derby  to  the  Royal 
record,  because  the  war  was  trying  most  people's  nerves  a  little  high  ;  and  that 
he  must  have  been  well  wound  up  for  the  St.  Leger  is  clear  from  the  fact  that  he 
did  record  time  when  winning  easily. 

Any  trainer  in  these  days  who  can  score  the  Derby  three  times  in  five  years 


"  Diamond  Jubilee  "  (1897)  by  "St.  Simon.'" 

has  made  himself  a  name  that  is  not  easily  forgotten  ;  but  when  we  add  to  this 
the  fact  that  from  1893  to  1900,  Marsh  trained  the  winners  of  327  races  worth 
,£215,408,  it  becomes  evident  that  consistent  industry  has  been  at  work  on  good 
material  ever  since  Egerton  House  was  built  ;  and  a  Royal  yearling  in  Marsh's 
boxes  as  these  lines  are  written,  called  La  Paix  (by  Persimmon  out  of  Laodamki), 
gives  every  promise  of  this  success  being  continued  in  the  future.  At  the  stud 
which  is  attached  to  the  racing  stables  stand  Ayrshire  and  St.  Serf,  for  the 
Duke  of  Portland  finds  that  St.  Simon,  Carbine,  and  Donovm  are  enough  for 


FAMOUS  FACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY    YEARS. 


647 


Welbeck  and  the  fine  collection  of  brood   mares  and  foals  he  has  there.     Ayrshire, 

who  is  evidently  well  suited  by  the   Newmarket  air,  made  .£36,915   by  his  eleven 

wins  on  the  Turf,  and  since  1893  his  stock  have  won  ,£96,537.     Ayrshire's  hind  legs, 

though  fairly  straight  when  young,  are  becoming  sickle-shaped  as  he  grows  older, 

but  they  are  well  let  down,  and  his  muscular  loins  and  quarters,  good  stifle,  and 

long,   well-placed  humerus   are   more    than    enough  to  account  for    his    excellence. 

Sf.    Serf,  a  more    commanding-looking    horse  than  his  stud-comrade,   is  taller    but 

not  so  deep-girthed.     His  hind  legs  are  also  not  quite  straight  enough;  his  humerus 

is    not    so  well  placed  as  Ayrshire's, 

and    he    has  a  little  lumber  in  front, 

but  his  speed  came  from  his  excellent 

stifle  and  fine  loins  and  quarters.     He 

is  a  son  of  St.  Simon  out  of  Feronia, 

foaled    in    1887,   and  won  ,£5,809  as 

a  three-year-old.      From    1895  to  the 

end  of  October,  1903,  his  stock  won 

,£69,462  in  181  races  and  a  dead  heat, 

the  best  of  them  being  Thais,  Mabon, 

Happy    Slave,    Calveley,    Merle,    and 

Serpentine. 

It  has  been  lucky  for  the  Uuke  of 
Portland  that  St.  Simon,  Ayrshire, 
Donovan,  and  the  rest  should  have 
done  so  splendidly  at  the  stud  just 
at  a  time  when  the  "white,  black 
sleeves  and  cap  "  seemed  almost 
unable  to  get  a  winner  past  the  post 

on  the  Turf,  after  a  series  of  successes  from  1887  to  1894  which  have  only 
been  excelled  by  Lord  Falmouth's  wonderful  victories.  I  have  already  spoken  of 
St.  Simon  in  my  first  volume  (pp.  xxii.  and  5)  and  elsewhere,  but  it  is  only  fair 
to  add  that,  under  other  circumstances,  the  names  of  Scot  Free,  St.  Gatien, 
Harvester,  and  The  Lambkin  would  most  probably  not  have  appeared  on  the 
honourable  rolls  of  the  Two  Thousand,  the  Derby,  and  the  St.  Leger,  for  none 
of  them  would  have  given  the  bay  son  of  Galopin  and  St.  Angela  much 
trouble  had  he  been  able  to  compete  for  these  races  ;  he  did,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 


From  a  pencil  drawing  fy 
Jane  E.  Cook. 


The  Sixth  Duke  of 
Portland. 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


give  2olb.  and  a  bad  beating  to  the  St.  Leger  winner  in  a  rough  gallop  before 
the  race,  and  many  think  his  form  was  never  equalled  by  any  other  horse  of 
his  century.  S(.  Simon  always  objected  to  being  tied  up  during  his  toilet,  and 
C.  Fordham  told  Mr.  Sydenham  Dixon  that  Job  himself  would  not  have  had 
the  patience  to  look  after  him.  Unbeaten  in  his  Turf  career,  like  Ormonde,  he 
was  beaten,  like  Ormonde,  in  his  first  trial.  His  constitution  and  his  appetite 
were  perfect  the  whole  time  he  was  in  training,  and  his  spirits  were  always  very 
high.  The  financial  results  of  his  victories,  of  course,  by  no  means  represent 
his  form,  for  his  best  nominations  were  void,  and  not  only  did  all  courses  seem 
alike  to  him,  but  he  did  not  ever  seem  to  find  it  necessary  to  extend  himself. 

Even  as  he  looks  at 
tne  stutl  to-day,  in  the 
picture  reproduced  in 
these  pages,  he  shows 
a  wonderful  combination 
of  points  in  one  animal  : 
a  good  stifle,  powerfully 
muscular  hind  legs,  quar- 
ters, and  loins,  a  short 
back,  a  grand  slope  of 
the  shoulder,  a  good 
humerus,  with  a  free 
elbow  and  a  long  fore- 
hand. Of  his  prowess 
as  a  sire  I  have  already 

written  at  length.  He  has  sired  more  high-class  animals,  collectively,  than  even 
Stockwell  did.  Still,  if  we  take  the  ,£59,302  which  his  produce  won  in  1896,  it 
cannot  compare  with  the  ,£61,047  which  was  won  by  37  representatives  of  the 
older  sire  in  1866  in  139  races,  which  did  not  contain  such  valuable  prizes  as 
were  to  be  won  thirty  years  later.  The  biggest  winner  was  Lord  Lyon  with 
.£20,350,  and  next  to  him  came  that  exceptionally  good  mare  Achievement  with 
.£10,662  to  her  credit,  besides  Breadalbane  (brother  to  Blair  Athol],  The  Duke, 
Lord  Ronald,  Regalia,  Rustic,  and  Savernake.  It  must  be  remembered,  too,  that 
in  that  most  remarkable  season  Stockwell  sired  first  and  second  for  the  Two 
Thousand ;  the  winner  of  the  One  Thousand  ;  first,  second,  and  third  in  the 


"  William  the  Third'"  (1898)  by  "  St.  Simon.'' 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY    YEARS. 


649 


Derby  ;  and  first  and  second  in  the  St.  Leger  ;  while  Lord  Lyon  only  won  by  a 
head  both  at  Epsom  and  Doncaster.  Against  this,  however,  St.  Simon  can  put 
a  list  containing  such  flyers  on  the  Turf,  such  good  sires,  and  such  good  matrons, 
as  Adieu,  Childwick,  Raconteur,  St.  Serf,  St.  Fmsqirin,  St.  Maclou,  Tarporley, 
Florizel  II.,  Diamond  Jubilee,  and  Persimmon,  William  the  Third,  Roquebrune,  La 
Roche,  Bill  of  Portland,  Pietcrmaritzbtirg,  Pekin,  Raebiirn,  St.  Florian,  Simontault, 
Amiable,  Mrs.  Butlerwick,  Semolina,  Saintly,  Memoir,  La  Fleche,  Signorina,  and 
St.  Windeline,  a  filly  whose  strength  and  vitality  I  had  the  best  personal  opportunities 
of  verifying  in  the  paddock  at  Epsom  on  the  day  of  Sceptres  Oaks.  It  is  difficult 
to  say  that  such  successes  as  are  implied  in  this  list  were  entirely  the  result  of  blood, 
in  spite  of  the  three  full 
brothers  who  were  sons 
of  Perdita  II.,  the  two 
full  brothers  whose  dam 
was  Plaisanterie,  and  the 
two  full  sisters  who  were 
daughters  of  Quiver. 
For  Isinglass  and  Isling- 
ton were  full  brothers  ; 
so  were  Orvieto,  Laveno, 
and  Ortolo ;  and  the 
difference  in  their  per- 
formances can  only  be 
explained  by  a  differ- 
ence in  framework,  and 

not  by  their  breeding.  This  seems  to  indicate  that  very  few  sires  have  the  power 
of  reproducing  their  excellence,  not  only  in  many  of  their  own  offspring,  but  in 
the  descendants  of  that  offspring  too,  as  was  the  case  with  Bend  Or,  Ormonde, 
Orme,  and  Flying  Fox,  and  as  is  seen  in  St.  Simon,  Persimmon,  and  Sceptre,  and 
in  several  other  cases  of  the  St.  Simon  blood.  Even  the  best  of  these  stallions 
again  can  scarcely  ever  repeat  a  sequence  of  sons  from  the  same  mare  like  those 
descended  from  Perdita  II.  Among  modern  mares  that  can  be  compared  with 
Perdita  II.,  Quiver  has  been  already  mentioned.  There  are  also  Morganettc,  dam 
of  Galtee  More,  Blair  fin  rV,  and  Ard  Patrick ;  Vista,  dam  of  Bona  Vista,  Sir 
Visto,  and  Velasquez;  Mr.  Cartwright's  Princess  of  Wales,  who  bred  Albert  Victor, 


'  Seabreeae? 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Louise  Victoria,  Victoria  Alexandra,  George  Frederick,  and  Maud  Victoria,  own 
brothers  and  sisters  in  consecutive  seasons  ;  Napoli,  dam  of  Orvieto,  Laveno,  and 
Rappalo ;  Atalanta,  dam  of  Melanion,  Ayrshire,  and  Troon ;  and  Mowerina,  dam 
of  Donovan,  Raebtirn,  Modwena,  and  Semolina.  If  to  these  we  add  those  famous 
matrons  Jannette,  Shot  over,  Illuminata,  Lily  Agnes,  and  Angelica,  we  shall  probably 
arrive  at  the  conclusion  that  for  breeding  purposes  neither  a  winner,  alone,  nor  a 
representative  of  the  best  blood,  alone,  will  ensure  success.  We  have  to  look  for 
correct  framework,  and  also  for  that  power  of  transmitting  it,  which  St.  Simon  and 


From  the  painting  bv  Emil  Adam. 
By  permission  of  Messrs,  hunfslaengl. 


'Donovan} 


Bend  Or  have  been  proved  to  possess,  and  which  many  a  less  "fashionable"  sire 
in  the  future  may  be  found  to  possess  as  well,  provided  his  own  "points  "  are  good, 
without  reference  to  his  immediate  ancestors. 

I  have  already  alluded  to  Mr.  W.  Allison's  development  of  Mr.  Bruce-Lowe's 
"  Figure  System  "  ;  and  it  will,  therefore,  be  only  fair  to  add  the  latest  proof  he 
adduced  on  December  16,  1903,  of  its  value  as  a  guide  in  breeding  winners.  He 
shows  that  in  the  season  of  1903,  counting  place-money  for  the  Two  Thousand,  One 
Thousand,  Derby,  Oaks,  Princess  of  Wales  and  Jockey  Club  Stakes,  Eclipse  Stakes, 


FA  AW  US  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY  YEARS. 

and    St.  Leger  Stakes,  besides   all   races   in   Ireland  worth   ,£90    and  upwards,    the 
winnings  of  his  "  families  "  come  out  as  follows  :— 


1.  No.  4,  with  160  races  (4  d.  heats)  worth  ,£62,560. 

2.  No.  2,  with  220  races  (3  d.  heats)  worth  ^57,443- 

3.  No.  5,  with  103  races  (i  d.  heat)  worth  ,£41,019. 

4.  No.  i,  with  149  races  worth ^40,37 7. 


6.  No.  14,  with  77  races  worth  ,£37,416. 

7.  No.  3,  with  140  races  worth  .£34,832. 

8.  No.  8,  with  107  races  (2  d.  heats)  worth  .£33,049. 

9.  No.  7,  with  80  races  worth  .£22,838. 


5    No.  16,  with  88  races  (i  d.  heat)  worth  ^39,936.      10.  No.  9,  with  78  races  worth  ,£21,881. 

If  we  consider  the  number  of  races  only,  this  means  that  1,202  out  of  the  2,023 
races  of  1903,  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  were  won  by  animals  belonging  to  the 


From  //;<•  fiaiii/ins,'  l>y  Kuril  Adam. 
By  fcniiissiii/i  of  Hanfstaengl. 


"  Memoir?' 


families  Mr.  Allison  numbers  i,  2,  3,  4,  5,  7,  8,  9,  14,  and  16,  which  is  certainly 
a  remarkable  result.  If  we  take  the  value  of  the  stakes,  we  find  also  that  the  total 
amount  given  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland  for  first  prizes  alone  was  ,£534,927, 
of  which  these  same  families  scored  ,£391,331,  a  sum  which  includes  the  place-money 
for  the  eight  great  English  races  and  Irish  races  worth  ,£90  and  upwards.  Taking 
the  families  in  the  order  shown  by  the  table  printed  above,  No.  4  family  owes  its 
pre-eminence  in  1903  to  Rock  Sand's  ,£22.633,  f°r  m  tne  number  of  races  won 
it  only  comes  second.  Mr.  Allison  traces  its  success  to  the  Layton  Barb  Mare.  I 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


prefer  to  see  in  it  the  result  of  much  more  modern  blood,  and  much  less  complicated 
methods  of  selecting  sires  and  dams  than  Mr.  Allison  apparently  prescribes.  Nor 
do  I  understand  how  he  can  reconcile  the  total  disappearance  of  his  sixth  family  from 
the  first  twenty  in  such  a  table  as  that  just  printed,  while  the  families  he  numbers  21, 
22,  and  23  do  make  their  appearance  in  this  same  first  twenty.  It  is  true  that  the 
families  who  have  won  a  hundred  or  more  races,  if  placed  in  order  of  merit  would 
read  as  No.  2,  No.  4,  No.  i,  No.  3,  No.  8,  No.  5,  and  No.  12  ;  but,  in  spite  of  this, 
if  we  take  the  value  of  the  prizes  won,  how  are  we  to  explain  the  facts  that  the  family 
he  placed  sixteenth  can  be  actually  fifth  on  the  table  quoted  owing  to  its  possession 
of  Sceptre,  the  best  mare  of  modern  times  ;  and  that  the  family  he  placed  fourteenth 

can  in  the  same  table 
have  reached  the  sixth 
place  owing  to  possess- 
ing such  two-year-old 
fliers  as  Pretty  Polly 
and  St.Amant  ?  If  we 
consider  the  number 
~~/ 1  of  mares  by  which  each 

family  is  represented 
in  the  current  number 
of  the  General  Stud 
Book,  the  problem 
becomes  even  more 
difficult  ;  for  though  it 
is  true  that  some  mares 

have  more  foals  than  others,  it  is  clear  that  his  No.  2  family,  with  nearly  200  more 
mares  to  represent  it  than  No.  i,  will  by  that  very  fact  of  numerical  superiority 
enjoy  a  greater  chance  than  the  No.  i  family  ;  and  indeed  it  is  two  places  higher 
than  his  No.  i  family  in  the  table  which  we  are  now  considering.  I  think  that  the 
views  taken  of  this  theory,  called  the  "  Figure  System,"  are  of  such  importance  in  our 
future  systems  of  breeding,  that  I  have  added  these  more  modern  considerations 
of  its  value  to  those  arguments  based  on  earlier  results  which  were  given  in 
Vol.  I.  p.  154,  and  Vol.  II.  p.  435.  The  conclusion  in  my  own  mind  is  an 
unbounded  admiration  for  Mr.  Allison's  skilful  and  interesting  treatment  of  the  facts 
he  had  before  him,  but  an  unshaken  belief  that  the  statistics  he  produced  are 


"Merman"  (1892,  Australia). 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY    YEARS. 


653 


valuable  as  history  alone,  and  should  be  considered  in  relation  to  the  past  rather 
than  the  future  ;  as  a  record  of  certain  relationships  and  descents,  rather  than  as 
a  guide  to  fresh  alliances.  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  the  shifting  in  the  original 
order  of  his  families  already  shown  in  the  table  given  for  1903,  will  tend  to  increase 
as  the  years  go  on,  until  it  is  seen  that  the  brilliant  exposition  he  published  in  "  The 
British  Thoroughbred  Horse"  is  indeed  a  monumental  record  of  the  facts  of  racing 
up  to  1901,  and  as  such  will  always  have  its  value,  but  that  it  is  not  the  breeder's 
gospel  of  salvation  which  Mr.  Bruce-Lowe  thought  he  had  discovered. 

If  we  take  the  male  lines,  for  the  sake  of  contrast,  it  may  be  of  interest  to  see 
how  the  blood  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  the  Byerly  Turk,  and  the  Darley 
Arabian,  whom  I  have 
described  in  previous 
chapters,  came  out  in 
their  descendants  at 
the  Ascot  Meeting  of 
1903  through  Matchem, 
Herod,  and  Eclipse.  In 
these  days  Matchem 
blood  generally  means 
Melbourne  mares  in 
this  country,  though 
Kingston  has  freshened 
it  in  America,  and,  on 
this  side,  with  King's 
Courier,  who  now  stands 

at  Stetchworth  ;  and  there  are  other  young  sons  of  Kingston  now  in  England,  like 
Lancashire,  Bobrinski,  and  Surbiton,  to  be  reckoned  with  ;  Atistralian  Star  may 
also  benefit  it  in  the  future  ;  nor  must  Chaleureux  be  forgotten.  Among  Ascot 
winners  it  was  represented  only  by  Kroonstad,  who  traces  through  Kilwai'lin  to 
Melbourne.  Herod  is  far  stronger  abroad  than  here,  since  the  exportation  of  Glencoe, 
Gladiator,  The  Flying  Dutchman,  Fisherman,  and  Buccaneer,  and  was  represented 
at  Ascot  by  two  winners  only,  Bass  Rock  (son  of  Grey  Leg,  and  so  through  Ion 
and  Highflyer},  and  by  the  French  Arizona  (son  of  Upas,  and  so  through  The 
Flying  Dutchman  to  Woodpecker}.  Another  direct  descendant  of  "  the  Dutchman  " 
is  the  French  Pastisson,  who  stands  at  Cobham.  Dinna  Forget,  who  stands  in 
VOL.  in.  n  i> 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


"  Trenton? 


654 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Ireland,  has  Ion  at  the  top  of  his  pedigree  and  The  Flying  Dutchman  at  the  bottom. 
Dog  Rose  at  the  Weston  Rhyn  stud  is  another  Herod  horse.  This  means  that 
Matchem  and  Herod  between  them  only  won  ^4,547  out  of  .£38,006,  and  all  the 
rest  of  the  money  at  Ascot  was  carried  off  by  Eclipse  and  The  Darley  Arabian,  St. 
Simon  and  four  of  his  sons  claiming  no  less  than  10  of  the  28  Ascot  winners. 

It  is  perhaps  strange  that  Matchem,  Herod,  and  Eclipse,  of  all  the  stallions  in 
Weatherby's  first  Stud  Book,  are  now  the  only  ones  represented  in  tailmale  on  the 
modern  English  Turf.  And  among  these  three  it  is  noteworthy  that,  of  the  .£492, 125 
won  by  the  produce  of  sires  in  the  United  Kingdom  in  1903,  no  less  than  .£442,010 
was  scored  by  winners  tracing  back  to  Eclipse  alone.  Matchem  s  descendants  in 

'the  list  of  winning  stal- 

r 

lions  were  Bartizan,  The 
Deemster,  Freemason, 
Kilwarlin,  Kingston, 
Marco,  Morion,  Sir 
Visto,  Winkfield,  and 
Wolf's  Crag,  to  whom 
traced  the  winners  of 
.£33,041.  Herod's  line 
was  represented  in  the 
same  list  by  Curio, 
Despair,  Grey  Leg,  Le 
Sancy,  Loved  One,  Mac 
Mahon,  Ocean  Wave, 
Omnium  II.,  St.  George, 

whose  descendants  won  £17,759.  Even  ;  more  significant  than  any  of  these 
facts  is  the  predominance  of  two  families  in  the  Eclipse  line  itself;  for  the  Irish 
sire  Birdcatcher  is  represented  by  57  winners  of  £  181,671,  and  Blacklock  had 
33  winners  of  ,£158,607.  Next  to  them  comes  the  Touchstone  family  with  34  winners 
of  £92,982. 

All  this  is  surely  a  clear  indication  of  such  perpetual  in-breeding  to  "fashionable 
stock  "  that  unfortunate  results  can  scarcely  be  avoided  if  the  same  process  is  too 
long  continued.  It  seems  obvious  that  Matchem  and  Herod  blood  must  be  brought 
back,  and  must  be  more  freely  used,  if  we  are  to  have  any  regard  for  consequences 
beyond  the  immediate  present. 


'Australian  Star1'  (1896,  Australia). 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY  YEARS. 


655 


Besides  St.  Simon,  whose  prowess  as  a  sire  suggested  these  reflections,  the 
Duke  of  Portland  has  Donovan  and  Carbine  standing  at  Welbeck.  Donovan,  the 
most  redoubtable  racehorse  of  his  day,  provides  an  excellent  example  of  the  true 
position  and  form  a  stifle-joint  should  have — low  and  clearly  in  view,  muscular  and 
well  developed.  By  Galopin  out  of  Mowerina,  he  won  ,£55,154  in  only  two  years' 
racing,  scoring  eighteen  victories  (the  Derby  and  St.  Leger  among  them)  out  of 
twenty-one  attempts,  a  record  which  is  only  beaten  by  Colonel  McCalmont's 
Isinglass,  who  made  ,£57,185,  of  which  ,£34,018  was  scored  when  he  was  four  years 
and  upwards.  Donovan  had  a  fine  two-year-old  career,  and  began  his  next  season  by 
beating  Pioneer,  Minthe,  and  Enthusiast  (in  that  order)  for  the  Prince  of  Wales's 
Stakes  at  Leicester 
in  April,  which  were 
worth  .£12,000.  He 
started  for  the  Two 
Thousand  of  1889  with 
odds  of  85  to  20  on 
him.  "It  was  a  slow 
muddling  race,"  writes 
Mr.  Sydenham  Dixon, 
"  and  Tom  Cannon 
accomplished  one  of 
the  most  brilliant  feats 
of  all  his  memorable 
career  in  the  saddle, 
and  completely  outrode 
Barrett."  So  Mr.  D.  Baird's  Enthusiast  won,  and  Donovan  lost  the  triple  crown. 
No  mistake  was  made  about  making  the  running  on  the  next  occasion.  John  Watts 
was  put  up  on  Turcophone  to  make  the  pace  as  hot  as  possible  in  the  Newmarket 
Stakes,  and  did  it  so  well  that  Donovan  won  by  two  lengths,  and  the  pacemaker 
secured  the  ,£1,000  for  the  second,  Enthusiast  being  unplaced.  After  that  Donovans 
number  went  up  for  the  Derby,  the  Prince  of  Wales's  Stakes  at  Ascot,  the  St.  Leger, 
the  Lancashire  Plate,  and  the  Royal  Stakes  at  Newmarket,  and  no  horse  has  ever 
won  as  much  money  in  the  time  as  he  did  in  1889.  At  the  stud  he  grew  into  one 
of  the  handsomest  stallions  in  England,  and  in  the  prime  of  life  has  sired  such  sons 
as  Velasquez,  Matchmaker,  Veronese,  and  Tom  Cringle,  the  first  two  of  whom  are 


Hy  permission  of  Mr.  Cakert. 


"  Clwyd?  b.  c.  by  "  Beauclerc" 
o>itof"Strathbrock? 


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A   HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 


doing  well  on  their  own  account  already.  In  William-  the  Third,  the  Duke  of 
Portland  seemed  likely  in  1 904  to  possess  a  legitimate  successor  to  St.  Simon  ;  and 
a  son  of  the  old  stallion,  bred  by  the  owner  of  them  both,  is  a  very  natural  favourite 
at  Welbeck.  William  the  Third  started  his  stud  career  at  the  high  fee  of 
200  guineas  ;  and  his  reputation,  as  one  of  the  best  stayers  of  recent  years,  has 
evidently  done  no  harm  to  his  prospects  as  a  sire. 

The  Duke  brought  Carbine,  in  June,  1895,  from  Australia,  at  the  price  of 
.£13,000,  and  his  arrival  at  what  was  probably  at  that  date  the  most  valuable 
stud  in  the  world  was  celebrated  by  a  regular  reception  for  those  who  were 
interested  in  thoroughbred  stock  on  the  very  day  when  the  late  Colonel  McCalmont 

was  elected  for  the  New- 
market Division.  To 
the  cheers  for  his  victory 
at  lunch  was  added 
"one  more  cheer  for 
Isinglass"  before  the 
guests  passed  out,  in 
the  most  appropriate 
frame  of  mind,  to  in- 
spect the  Welbeck  stud. 
Raeburn,  the  only  horse 
who  ever  finished  in 


"  Kilcock  "  (1892)  by  "  Kiltaarlin" 


front    of  Isinglass,    was 


standing 
stallions, 


among 


the 

t_7 

with     Havoc, 

Cliild  of  the  Mist,  Donovan,  St.  Simon,  and  Carbine.  The  last-named,  a  son  of 
Musket  out  of  Mersey,  is  stoutly  made,  with  an  excellent  and  muscular  stifle,  powerful 
loins  and  quarters,  a  straight  hind  leg,  but  only  fair  shoulders,  and  the  humerus 
is  a  trifle  short.  He  was  only  once  unplaced  in  all  his  forty-three  races  in  Australia, 
and  won  thirty-three  of  them,  at  all  distances  from  five  furlongs  to  three  miles,  his 
crowning  triumph  being  the  Melbourne  Cup  of  two  miles,  carrying  lost.  5lb.  as 
a  five-year-old.  Behind  the  saddle  it  would  be  difficult  to  find  a  fault,  but  his 
shoulders  are  certainly  not  all  that  his  victories  would  lead  one  to  expect.  However, 
his  lethargic  disposition  is  exactly  the  right  one  for  mating  with  those  Galopin  and 
St.  Simon  mares,  who  sometimes  possess  an  excess  of  the  quality  in  which  he  is 


FAMOUS  RACING  STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY    YEARS. 


657 


slightly  deficient,  so  his  sojourn  on  the  limestone  pastures  of  a  new  country  is  likely 
to  prove  of  the  greatest  benefit  to  his  get.  The  best  racer  Australia  has  produced 
since  Carbine  is  that  wonderful  mare  Wakeful,  a  daughter  of  Trenton,  who  is  the  son 
of  Musket  and  Frailty,  and  is  handsomer  and  finer  built  than  Carbine.  In  only  just 
failing  to  give  the  three-year-old  Lord  Cardigan  48lb.  in  the  Melbourne  Cup, 
Wakeful  established  her  claim  to  a  place  in  that  select  company  of  mares  which 
includes  Kincscm,  La  Fleck",  La  Camargo,  Sceptre,  and  the  lately  dead  Wheel  of 
Fortune,  who  was  at  Welbeck  when  Carbine  first  arrived  with  three  other  Oaks 
winners  to  keep  her  company,  in  Memoir,  Mrs.  Biitterwick,  and  Amiable,  a  quartette 
of  stars  unequalled  in  any  other  racing  stable  of  the  day.  But  like  La  Fleche,  Lady 
Elizabeth,  Marie  Stuart,  Jannette,  and  many  another  flier,  Wheel  of  Fortune  never 


By  permission  of  Mr.  Cafaert. 


The  Great  Jubilee  Stakes,  1897. 
"  Clwyd"  beats  " Kilcock"  and  "  Victor  Wild." 


reaped  such  glory  at  the  stud  as  she  did  upon  the  Turf.  Though  Jannette  was 
one  of  the  finest  mares  of  her  day  for  size  and  quality,  Wheel  of  Fortune  was 
the  best  Lord  Falmouth  ever  owned,  and  up  to  1881  Archer  always  spoke  of  her 
and  Bend  Or  as  the  best  animals  he  had  ridden.  Signorina  was  perhaps  one  of 
the  prettiest  mares  of  modern  times  ;  but  she  was  too  fidgety  to  be  photographed 
well,  and  I  have  never  seen  a  picture  that  really  did  her  justice. 

Few  who  heard  Charles  Greenwood  that  day  in  1895  expressing  the  feelings 
of  every  visitor  to  Welbeck,  could  have  realised  that  by  1903  he  would  be  no 
longer  with  us.  A  true  friend,  a  trusted  colleague  on  the  newspaper  we  both 
served,  an  unrivalled  "reader"  of  a  race,  Charles  Greenwood's  loss  was  felt  in 
many  more  offices  than  that  of  the  "Daily  Telegraph,"  where  "Hotspur"  had 


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been  as  much  a  comrade  as  a  contributor ;  and  the  world  of  Racing  paid  his 
memory  a  just  and  general  tribute  when  the  news  of  his  unexpected  death  reached 
this  country  from  abroad.  After  the  death  of  Francis  Lawley,  Charles  Greenwood 
had  stood  with  John  Corlett  and  Sydenham  Dixon  in  the  front  rank  of  the  best 
sporting  writers  of  his  day. 

Carbine  is  not  the  only  Australian  sire  in  England.  Mr.  W.  Allison  has  some 
of  the  finest  now  alive  at  the  Cobham  stud,  which  he  manages  with  so  much  skill 
and  experience.  Among  them  are  Merman,  a  "  cast-iron "  horse  with  wonderful 
bone,  who  was  bred  (by  Grand  Flaneur]  in  New  South  Wales  in  1892.  After 
racing  successfully  in  Australia,  he  was  bought  by  Mr.  Allison  for  Mrs.  Langtry  in 

1896,  and  finished  his 
career  for  her  magnifi- 
cently with  the  Ascot 
Gold  Cup  in  his  eighth 
year.  Aurum  is  another 
Australian  importation. 
He  was  probably  the 
best  horse  of  his  age  in 
Australia,  and  is  a  son  of 
Trenton,  the  fourth  sire 
from  the  same  good  lime- 
stone pastures  which,  as 
I  must  once  more  repeat, 
are  surely  destined  to 
supply  a  reinvigorated 

stock  to  keep  up  the  excellence  of  the  old  blood  in  this  country.  Four  years  older 
than  Carbine,  Trenton  is  better  looking,  and  a  more  commanding  horse  in  every 
way,  and  he  was  at  the  head  of  the  winning  Australian  stallions  of  1901-2,  with 
that  splendid  mare  Wakeful  as  his  best  daughter.  Mr.  Spencer  Gollan,  whose 
success  with  Australian  Star  will  not  easily  be  forgotten,  is  doing  similarly  good 
work  for  this  country,  and  his  Sternchaser,  imported  from  New  Zealand,  is  in 
charge  of  Mr.  WTorthington  at  the  Grange  stud,  Ivinghoe,  with  several  mares  also 
from  the  Antipodes. 

In  speaking  of  Richard  Marsh's  stable  at  Newmarket,  I  mentioned  Persimmon 
(1893),  Diamond  Jubilee  (1897),  and  Florizel  II.  (1891)  among  its  greatest  racing 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


"A'etutal." 


FAMOUS  FACING  STUDS    OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY  YEARS. 


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triumphs.  The  first  two  are  now  the  sires  at  the  King's  stud  at  Sandringham,  of 
which  I  have  reproduced  several  pictures  by  His  Majesty's  kind  permission.  That 
the  same  member  of  the  Jockey  Club  should  have  stood  at  the  head  of  the  winning 
owners  in  1899,  and  also  possessed  the  winning  stallion  of  1902  (Persimmon),  who 
was  close  to  the  top  in  1903  as  well,  is  in  the  nature  of  a  record  of  which  even 
the  King  of  the  English  Turf  may  well  be  proud  ;  and  the  triumphs  of  Sceptre 
and  Zinfandel,  both  by  the  King's  horse,  have  not  been  ended  as  I  write  these 
lines.  There  are,  indeed,  many  who  think  that  Lord  Howard  de  Walden's 


"  Galtee  More"  (1894)  by  "/feudal." 

Zmfandel  was  the  best  of  his  year,  and  will  go  on  proving  his  right  to  that  honour 
as  he  grows  older.  The  portrait  of  him  I  reproduce  was  given  me  by  his 
owner.  The  mares  at  the  Royal  stud  comprise  such  fine-bred  ones  as  Medora 
and  Amphora,  bought  at  the  McCalmont  sale,  Vane  (sister  to  Flying  Fox), 
Laodamia,  whose  yearling  La  Paix  (by  Persimmon)  seems  her  best  get,  and 
Nunsuch,  who  is  by  Nunthorpe  out  of  La  Morlaye  by  Doncaster.  Florizel  II. 
was  sent  to  stand  at  the  Heath  stud,  Newmarket,  Lord  Marcus  Beresford's 
establishment  just  behind  Richard  Marsh's  stables,  in  1896,  and  in  his  first 


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season  got  the  Derby  winner,  Volodyovski,  out  of  La  Reine,  who  was  by  Rosi- 
crucian,  and  the  St.  Leger  winner  in  Doricles,  not  to  mention  other  successes 
like  Mackintosh,  Floriform,  Champagne,  and  Uncle  Sol.  Victor  Wild  stands  here 
too,  who  was  beloved  by  the  public  as  much  for  his  stoutness  and  courage  as 
because  he  broke  nearly  all  the  starting-price  bookmakers  who  wrote  his  name 
down.  A  big,  blaze-faced  chestnut,  the  white  on  him  showed  like  a  flag  of  victory 
in  many  a  hard-fought  race,  won  by  his  splendid  back  and  quarters.  He  was 


From  the  painting  by  Emil  Adam,  in  the 
possession  of  Lord  Rosebery. 


"  Velasquez:'' 


bred  (by  Mr.  A.  Mostyn  Owen)  in  1890  by  Albert  Victor  out  of  Wild  huntress, 
and  was  bought  after  his  first  victory  as  a  two-year-old  by  Mr.  T.  Worton,  who 
owns  him  still.  As  a  four-year-old  he  won  the  Royal  Hunt  Cup,  and  in  his  next 
season  he  beat  the  four-year-old  Grey  Leg  in  a  canter  for  the  Jubilee  Stakes  at 
Kempton  Park  ;  Clorane  beat  him  by  a  head,  when  he  carried  gst.  6lb.,  in  his 
next  attempt  on  the  Royal  Hunt  Cup.  His  great  race  for  the  Kempton  Park 
Jubilee  Stakes,  which  he  won  for  the  second  time,  in  1896,  will  never  be  forgotten, 
for  he  was  giving  2st.  gib.  to  Kilcock,  the  second  horse.  His  third  effort  resulted 


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in  getting  third  to  Clwyd  and  Kilcock,  who  finished  in  that  order,  and  his  racing 
career  closed  splendidly  with  his  victory  for  the  Coronation  Cup  at  Kempton 
under  gst.  i3lb. 

At  Newmarket  also  is  Sir  Ernest  Cassel's  stud  at  Moulton  Paddocks,  formerly 
presided  over  by  F.  W.  Day,  but  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Francis  Lambton.  The 
silver  grey  and  light  blue  cap  won  their  first  race  on  the  Turf  in  1895,  and  by 
1901  they  had  reached  .£9,711,  among  the  best  "winners  being  Handicapper,  Bona 
Rota,  Sermon,  Sonatura,  Solitaire,  Sang  Bleu,  and  Fleur  d'  Ete.  The  chief  stallion 


I'mm  the  painting  by  Captain  Adrian  Jones. 


"  Amphion" 


at  Sir  Ernest's  stud  is  Love  Wisely,  a  strong,  compact  young  sire  with  perfect 
hocks,  who  was  got  by  Wisdom  out  of  Lovelorn  by  Philammon,  and  is  full  of 
Birdcatcher  blood.  The  late  Mr.  Bass  never  owned  a  better  racer,  and  Love 
Wisely  would  have  been  more  famous  had  he  not  been  foaled  in  the  same  year 
as  Persimmon  and  St.  Frusquin,  but  in  winning  the  Ascot  Gold  Cup  as  a 
three-year-old,  he  did  what  only  St.  Simon  and  Marcion  have  done  in  the  last 
thirty  years,  and  he  beat  Flonzel  If.,  Laodamia,  Sir  Visto,  and  Victor  Wild. 

I  ended  my  last  chapter  by  speaking  of  the  value  of  Irish  horses.      It  would  be 

VOL.   III.  E  E 


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A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


difficult  to  quote  two  better  modern  instances  than  Galtee  More  and  Ard  Patrick. 
It  was  in  1894  that  Mr.  J.  Gubbins  first  sent  his  horses  to  Beckhampton,  the 
famous  training  stables  of  Mr.  S,  Darling,  near  Calne,  in  Wiltshire.  Chiefly  owing 
to  the  good  material  received  from  this  source,  Darling  took  second  place  in  the 
list  of  winning  trainers  in  1897,  when  Galtee  More  won  the  Guineas,  Derby,  Leger, 
and  four  other  races,  worth  .£22,637  m  a^-  ^n  ^98  Captain  Greer's  Wildfowler 
won  the  St.  Leger  from  the  same  stables.  In  1900  Darling  turned  out  seventeen 
winners,  and  in  the  following  season  he  did  particularly  well  for  Mr.  Foxhall  Keene, 
owner  of  Disguise  II.,  winning  the  Oaks  with  Cap  and  Sells,  while  Sinopi  and 
Olympiart  put  other  good  races  to  the  credit  of  the  establishment.  In  1902  he 

did  well  with  Port  Blair, 
but  of  course  his  greatest 
triumph  was  with  Ard 
Patrick,  whose  races 
with  Sceptre  at  Epsom 
and  elsewhere  will  never 
be  forgotten  by  any 
one  who  saw  them.  It 
was  a  proof  of  Darling's 
skill  that  Ard  Patrick, 
after  being  practically 
crippled  by  the  bad 
going  at  Ascot  in  1902, 
was  got  perfectly  sound 
again  in  1903,  and  won 

his  great  race  with  Sceptre  and  Rock  Sand  at  Sandown.  Count  Lehndorff  bought 
him  for  the  German  Government  ;  and  soon  afterwards,  so  pleased  was  that 
acutest  of  critics  with  the  blood,  that  he  bought  Galtee  More  as  well  from  the 
Russians ;  so  the  same  foreign  country  now  enjoys  the  services  of  two  of  our 
best  sires.  In  1903  Darling  was  second  on  the  winning  list  with  £19,182,  having 
horses  under  his  care  from  Mr.  Gubbins,  Lord  Ilchester,  Mr.  L.  Robinson,  Captain 
Greer,  and  Mr.  G.  Faber. 

Of  Lord  Rosebery  it  used  to  be  said  that  he  had  made  up  his  mind  to  win 
the  Derby,  marry  an  heiress,  and  become  Prime  Minister.  If  these  wishes  were 
expressed  in  his  Eton  days,  the  order  of  their  importance  is  probably  rightly  given 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life," 


Melton." 


FAMOUS   RACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY  YEARS. 


663 


here.  But  whether  they  be  mere  fables  or  no,  they  certainly  became  an  accurate 
description  of  the  facts  ;  and  the  first  of  them  has  occurred  twice  over  already.  Lord 
Rosebery  was  once  heard  to  say,  in  connection,  I  think,  with  his  second  Derby 
victory,  that  the  objections  which  some  people  had  formed  against  his  racing  had 
lain  dormant  during  the  long  period  of  his  comparative  failure  on  the  Turf,  but 
were  roused  to  fury  by  his  success.  When  it  came,  that  success  was  certainly 
unquestionable,  and  much  of  it  was  owing  to  Matthew  Dawson's  training.  Between 
1894  and  1898  inclusive,  he  owned  Ladas,  Sir  Visto,  and  Velasquez,  and  won 
over  ,£76,000  in  stakes.  The  stallions  are  now  at  the  Durdans,  and  at  the 
Crafton  stud  near  Mentmore,  where  Seabreeze,  that  famous  winner  of  Oaks  and 
St.  Leger,  is  among 
the  brood  mares,  and 
Ladas  looks  one  of  the 
handsomest  and  most 
spirited  of  living  stal- 
lions. The  Durdans, 
where  the  collection 
of  sporting  pictures 


Hy  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


"  Bend  Or"  at  Eaton. 


that  has  illustrated  so 
many  of  my  pages  is 
one  of  the  best  in  the 
world,  was  once  owned 
by  Sir  Gilbert  Heath- 
cote,  who  won  the 
Derby  with  Amato, 

and  it  is  here  that  Lord  Rosebery 's  yearlings  are  kept,  in  the  very  atmosphere  of 
Epsom  racecourse,  where  that  famous  matron,  Il/uminata,  passed  the  last  days 
of  her  twenty-sixth  year  close  by  them. 

When  Lord  Rosebery  was  asked  to  stand  for  the  Chancellorship  of  Oxford 
University  after  Lord  Salisbury's  death,  some  opponents  revived  the  obsolete 
romance  that  he  had  been  sent  down  from  Christchurch.  The  truth  is  that  his 
first  Ladas  was  doing  well  on  the  Turf  as  a  two-year-old  while  his  young  owner 
was  a  member  of  the  Bullingdon  with  Lord  Randolph  Churchill,  Sir  A.  W.  -Neeld, 
Sir  George  Chetwynd,  Lord  Ilchester,  Sir  W.  Milner,  and  other  good  sportsmen. 
Dean  Liddell  was  naturally  cognisant  of  the  fact  of  Ladas  existence  and  ownership. 


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A    HISTORY  Of  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


and  thoroughly  understood  the  advice  given  to  Lord  Rosebery  that  if  he  wished 
to  continue  racing  it  would  be  difficult  to  withdraw  the  horse.  After  Lord  Rosebery 
had  taken  his  own  name  off  the  books  of  the  House,  he  remained  a  welcome  guest 
for  ever  afterwards. 

That  first  Ladas  did  not  prove  the  flyer  he  was  expected  to  be,  later  on, 
and  it  was  not  till  he  owned  Kennesse  that  Lord  Rosebery  got  a  really  good  one, 
though  he  won  the  Gimcrack  Stakes  in  1873  with  Padoroshna.  He  has  trained 
with  James  Dover  at  East  Ilsley,  where  Achievement  and  Lord  Lyon  did  their 

gallops  ;  with  Robert  Peck  at  Russley ; 
with  Robert  I'Anson  at  Epsom,  who 
trained  both  sire  and  dam  of  the 
second  Ladas;  with  Joseph  Cannon  at 
Newmarket ;  with  Matthew  Dawson  ; 
with  the  younger  Walters  ;  and  with 
Charles  Wood  at  Jevington.  In  1904 
Blackwell  and  Percy  Peck  were  each 
training  a  selection  of  Lord  Rose- 
mrngp  j  bery's  racers.  1  know  of  no  one  else 

(Pr^xr  alive   now   who    has    run    two   of   his 

>*9  ^^mEi 

own  Derby  winners  in  the  same  race  ; 
and  with  His  Majesty,  the  Duke  of 
Portland,  Mr.  Gubbins,  and  Sir  James 
Miller,  he  was  one  of  the  five  men 
alive  in  March,  1904,  who  had  won 
the  Derby  twice. 

One  of  Ladas  best  sons,  Epsom 
Lad,  is,  by  the  kindness  of  Mr.  James 
Buchanan,  reproduced  in  an  engraving  for  this  volume  near  that  of  his  sire.  It 
is  in  the  good  company  of  IsingLiss,  Sf.  Frusquin,  Flying  Fox,  and  Ard  Patrick  that 
Epsom  Lad,  a  son  of  Disorder  by  Bend  Or,  stands  among  the  few  horses  who 
have  won  both  the  Princess  of  Wales's  Stakes  and  the  Eclipse  Stakes,  but  his 
win  in  the  latter  will  always  be  remembered  because  his  jockey's  saddle  slipped, 
and  Gomez  had  to  hold  it  on  with  one  hand  behind  him  while  he  finished  with  the 
other.  How  close  the  finish  was  may  be  seen  in  the  instantaneous  photograph 
preserved  on  p.  xvii.  of  the  preface  to  my  first  volume.  It  was  a  clever  piece  of 


From  a  pencil  drawing  by 
Jane  E.  Cook. 


The  First  Duke  of 
Westminster. 


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665 


balancing,  but  Mr.  Charles  Greenwood  told  me  that  it  was  no  more  wonderful  than 

the  way  Malerba  rode  La  Uruguay  a  round  Tattenham  Corner  on  a  piece  of  cloth 

which  was  alone   used  to    hold  the  stirrups,   and   finished  second  to   Knight  of  the 

Thistle.     Epsom  Lad  showed   that   day  that   hard  ground  had   no  terrors  for   him, 

and  in  spite  of  his   often  looking  lame,  his  action  on   the  turf  was  always  perfect. 

Epsom  Lad  was  trained  by  the  South  American  Alvarez,  and  at  Kempton  he  beat 

a  brilliant    field   containing    Volodyavski,  Doriclts,    William   the    Third,  Santoi,  and 

Merry  Gal.      As   a   yearling  Epsom   Lad  was   as   nearly  perfect  as  could  be,   and 

when  he  was  entire  he  beat  Diamond 

Jubilee.       But    though    he    did    great 

things  later  on,  and  was  quite  the  best 

gelding  of  recent  years,  he  changed  a 

good  deal  for  the  worse  both  in  looks 

and  temper  after  he  had  been  added 

to  the  list.     As  one  reason  for  racing 

is  the  improvement  of  the  breed  of 

horses,    I    have    noted    with    interest 

that   a   new   rule   forbidding  geldings 

from  being  qualified  to  be  entered  for 

the  Derby  has  been  passed  while  this 

book    was  progressing   from    its   first 

volume  to  its  last.     The  decision  of 

the     Jockey     Club    in     the     case    of 

Marsden,    in    February,    1904,    makes 

it   clear  that  the    Derby   is   in   future 

to   be  limited  to  "entire  colts  at  the 

time  of  starting."    This  is  as  it  should 

be.      In   Black   Sand  (another  bargain   luckily  picked   up    in    1900)    Mr.   Buchanan 

also  owned  a  winner  of  the  Cesarewitch  in  the  second  best  time  then  known,  and 

of  the  Jockey  Club  Cup,   in  which   he  gave   William  the    Third   3lb.     His   deep 

sloping  shoulders,  strong  coupling,   short  back,  and   muscular   thighs  are  one  result 

of  his  breeding,   for  this  grandson  of  Hermit  has  Nc-wminster  blood  through  Lord 

Clifden  and   Wenlock   in   his  dam   Sanda  (the  dam  of  Sainfoin},  while  in  the  third 

remove  Galnpin  and  S/ockwell  are  among  the   sires,  and  Seclusion  (dam  of  Hermit}, 

Ftronia  (dam  of  St.   Serf  and  grand-dam  of  Ayrshire),  Mineral  (dam  of  Kisber), 


From  a  pencil  drawing  by 
Jane  E.  Cook. 


Fred  Archer. 


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and  Lady  Evelyn,  an  Oaks  winner  and  the  daughter  of  an  Oaks  winner,  among 
the  dams.  He  stands  now  at  Marsh  Green  Farm,  near  Wycombe,  but  will  shortly 
be  sent  to  Mr.  Buchanan's  new  stud  farm  at  Lavington,  in  Sussex. 

Another  example  of  good  breeding  is  Amphion,  who  traces  to  Blacklock  in  male 
line,  and  is  full  of  Tvuchstone  blood.  General  T.  E.  Byrne,  who  bought  him  as 
a  yearling,  won  ,£22,980  in  stakes,  among  which  were  the  Kempton  Park  Jubilee 
Stakes  (under  7st.  lib. \  the  Hardwicke  Stakes  (against  Sainfoin,  Nunthorpr,  and 

Surefoof),  and  the  Lancashire  Plate 
at  Manchester,  in  which  he  carried 
lost.  2lb.  to  victory  against  Memoir, 
Orion,  Martagon,  Orvieto,  St.  Serf, 
and  others.  Up  to  the  end  of  1902 
his  get  had  won  .£45,155  in  eight 
seasons,  and  he  stands  at  the  Compton 
Stud,  founded  in  1884  by  Major  \Y. 
H.  Fife.  Two  good  descendants  of 
Galopin  are  under  the  care  of  Mr. 
Oliver  Hudson  at  Mr.  J.  B.  Joel's 
Northaw  House  Stud,  in  Sir  Geoffrey 
and  Bill  of  Portland,  sons  of  St. 
Angela  and  St.  Simon  respectively. 
The  latter  was  brought  back  from 
Australia,  where  he  had  done  well 
with  mares  of  Fisherman  and  Musket 
blood,  and  with  the  daughters  of 
Trenton  he  should  prove  equally 
successful  in  England. 

Another  sire  who  was  brought  back  to  England,  after  having  proved  his  worth 
abroad,  was  Melton,  who  stands  at  Mr.  Musker's  Westerham  Hill  Stud,  cared  for 
by  Mr.  T.  Handley,  the  training  of  the  racing  stock  being  confided  to  A.  J.  Gilbert 
at  Green  Lodge,  Newmarket.  Mat  Dawson  always  believed  in  Melton's  possibilities 
as  a  sire,  and  with  reason,  for  he  combines  Beeswing  through  Newminster,  with  Alice 
Hawthorn  through  Thormanby,  and  Cobweb  through  Bay  Middlcton,  with  Stockivell, 
Touchstone,  and  Venison  thrown  in.  He  won  the  Derby  and  the  St.  Leger,  with 
close  on  ,£20,000  in  stake-money,  before  Lord  Hastings  sold  him  to  Italy  for 


The  late  Duke  of  Westminster  leading 

in  "  Flying  Fox  "  after  the  Eclipse 

Stakes.     (M.  Cannon  up.) 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE   LAST  THIRTY   YEARS. 


667 


,£12,000,  where  his  stock  won  all  the  best  races.  In  spite  of  that,  Mr.  Musker 
can  count  up  about  ,£35,000  from  his  stock  under  Jockey  Club  Rules  since  he 
returned  to  England,  and  he  has  had  the  rare  distinction  of  living  with  a  son 
of  two  winners  of  the  Derby,  for  Orion,  until  recently  his  stud-companion,  is  by 
Btnd  Or  out  of  Shotover  by  Hermit,  a  pedigree  that  rings  out  like  a  battle-cry. 
Than  Hermit's  Derby,  which  he  won  after  breaking  a  blood-vessel  only  ten  days 
before,  few  more  sensational  races  have  ever  been  seen,  and  his  stud  career  was 
almost  as  wonderful,  for  before  he  died  in  1890  his  get  had  won  ^340,000;  so 
that  even  Mr.  Henry  Chaplin,  his  owner,  might  well  be  excused  for  saying  he 
was  "the  best  friend  I  ever  had."  St.  Blaise,  besides  Skotover,  proved  the 
value  of  his  blood  in  the 
Derby,  and  his  list  of 
descendants  shows  such 
names  as  Tristan,  The- 
bais,  Alicante,  Lonely, 
Peter,  Timothy,  Queen 
Adelaide,  and  many 
another  good  one. 

In  earlier  pages  I 
have  spoken  of  the 
prowess  of  Whitehall  and 
the  North.  A  pleasing- 
feature  of  the  season  of 
1903  was  the  bold  front 
shown  by  Yorkshire  and 
other  trainers,  the  charges  of  William  I'Anson  and  M.  D.  Peacock,  in  particular, 
having  done  well  for  Malton  and  Middleham  respectively.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
the  return  of  prosperity  to  those  training  centres  is  no  mere  flash  in  the  pan,  and 
that  next  season  will  see  an  even  stronger  reflection  of  the  palmy  days  of  Scott  and 
Robert.  Peacock  won  27  races  and  I'Anson  24.  W.  Elsey  captured  no  fewer  than 
57  races  for  Lincolnshire,  and  Armstrong  carried  off  38  events  for  Cumberland. 
With  a  total  of  58,  W.  Waugh,  of  Newmarket,  only  beat  Elsey  by  one  ;  but  Elsey 
had  36  winning  horses,  while  Waugh  scored  with  28.  McCall,  of  Westbarns  and 
Gullane,  was  easily  head  of  the  Scotchmen  with  35  victories. 

I  suppose  it  would  be  difficult  to  find  any  stud  that  has  so  long  a  history  or  so 


From  the  painting  by  Harrington  Jlirii  in  the 
possess!  at:  of  Leopold  de  Kothschild,  Esq. 


"Alicanie." 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


great  a  record  of  success  as  that  at  Eaton,  which  I  first  mentioned  in  tracing  the 
history  of  the  Dukes  of  Westminster  and  the  Grosvenor  family  in  the  eighteenth 
century.  Its  sires,  from  Pottos  to  Bend  Or,  have  been  as  famous  as  they  were 
efficient,  and  their  noble  company  contains  stars  like  Touchstone,  Rhadamanthus, 
Doncaster,  and  Ormonde.  The  Grosvenor  colours  have  won  the  Derby  seven 
times,  the  Oaks  nine  times,  and  five  St.  Legers.  The  record  prices  connected 
with  the  stables  are  no  reflection  of  their  owners'  methods,  for  none  could  race 
more  heartily  for  the  love  of  the  sport  alone  ;  but  they  are  strong  indications  of 
the  value  of  its  stock.  Ormonde  brought  ,£30,000  as  a  sire.  Flying  Fox  was 

bought  by  M.  Edmond 

-^- 

Blanc  for  jf  39,375,  and 

there  was  a  regular 
groan  of  disappoint- 
ment at  Kingsclere 
when  this  fine  de- 
scendant of  Stockivell 
passed  into  foreign 
hands.  As  the  hammer 
went  down,  Mr.  Tat- 
tersall  could  remember, 
as  one  of  his  earliest 


From  the  painting  in  the  possession 
\of Leopold  lie  Kolhschild,  Esq. 


'  Mr.  Avon's"  "  Sir  Bevys^'  with 

George  Ford/iam,  winner  of 

the  Derby  0/1879. 


recollections  of  racing, 
the  remarkable  sale  at 
Middle  Park,  Eltham. 
in  July,  1872,  when 
Blair  A  (hoi,  son  of  Stockwell  and  Blink  Bonny,  and  sire  of  Prince  Charlie,  was 
preserved  for  this  country  at  what  was  then  the  record  price  of  12,500  guineas, 
by  the  Cobham  Stud  Company.  The  first  Duke's  horses  in  training  sold,  at 
his  death,  for  ,£73,962,  all  nineteen  of  them  descended  from  Doncaster ;  and  his 
twelve  Eaton-bred  yearlings  fetched  the  amazing  figure  of  .£45,465,  the  highest 
single  price  being  the  record  of  10,000  guineas  for  the  yearling  Sceptre,  who 
thoroughly  justified  Mr.  Sievier's  confidence  in  her  powers.  The  sale  at  which 
Sceptre  passed  out  of  the  Eaton  stud  has  perhaps  only  been  equalled  in  interest 
by  that  of  Lord  Falmouth  when  Mr.  Phillips  bought  Galliard  for  3,000  guineas, 
after  the  Mereworth-bred  son  of  Prince  Bathyany's  beloved  Galopin  had  won  close 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY  YEARS. 


669 


on  ,£11,000  in  six  out  of  eight  races,  in  spite  of  being  beaten  by  St.  Blaise  for 
the  Derby.  He  died  in  Germany  in  1903.  Bend  Or  is  dead  as  well,  the  last 
survivor  of  the  memorable  Derby  victory  of  1880,  when  Fred  Archer  rode  the 
winner,  Robert  Peck  trained  him,  and  the  first  Duke  of  Westminster  owned  him. 
Before  three  and  twenty  years  had  gone  they  all  had  passed  away.  The  splendid 
old  stallion  was  being  exercised  as  usual  in  the  Park  at  Eaton,  when  he  stopped 
in  his  walk  and  quietly  put  his  head  on  his  attendant's  shoulder,  as  if  to  say 
Good-bye,  and  then  laid  down  and  died  like  the  gentleman  he  was,  as  sound  as  a 
bell  to  the  end.  Within  a  month  after  his  death  his  get  had  won  close  upon 
^170,000  in  the  United  Kingdom,  and  his  mares,  the  most  successful  matrons  in 
the  Stud  Book,  had  even 
more  than  that  to  the 
credit  of  their  winning 
offspring.  His  head,  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  I 
ever  saw,  was  sent  to 
the  British  Museum  of 
Natural  History. 

The  only  son  of  the 
invincible  Ormonde  (save 
Orme]  left  in  this  country 
in  1904  was  Glemvood,  a 
dark  bay  stallion  at  Mr. 
Mclntyre's  Theakston 
Hall  Stud,  not  far  from 
the  historic  soil  of  Middleham,  High  Moor,  and  Wensleydale.  Here  he  stands 
with  Tarporley,  by  Si.  Simon ;  Queens  Birthday,  grandson  of  Spectdum,  but  of  the 
true  Weatlierbit  and  Rosicrucian  type ;  Best  Man,  a  second  edition  of  Melton, 
though  described  as  "by  Ormonde  or  Melton;"  and  Chvyd ;  together  with  over 
forty  brood  mares. 

Almost  as  famous  as  the  golden  straw  of  the  Duke  of  Westminster,  or  Lord 
Falmouth's  magpie  jacket,  has  been  the  blue  and  yellow  of  the  house  of  Rothschild 
on  the  English  Turf,  and  the  rise  and  progress  of  that  famous  family  yield  nothing 
in  the  romance  of  fortune  to  the  traditions  of  the  Grosvenors.  The  Rothschild 
family  began  their  successes  on  the  Turf  by  winning  a  Hunter's  Stakes  worth  ,£65 

VOL.   III.  F  F 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


Mr.  L.  de  Rothschild's 
"Si.  Frusquin" 


6;o 


A    HISTORY   OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


at  the  Gorhambury  Meeting  with  a  chestnut  gelding  named  Consul.  Protest  over- 
ruled. The  meeting  does  not  sound  important  now  ;  but  Lord  Verulam  had  laid 
out  the  course,  and  among  those  present  were  the  Dukes  of  Rutland  and  Dorset, 
the  Marquises  of  Exeter  and  Anglesea,  and  the  Earls  of  Chesterfield,  Jersey,  and 
Uxbridge.  Many  a  good  horse  has  carried  the  "  dark  blue,  yellow  cap  "  since  Consul 
won.  But  the  statue  of  King  Tom,  now  at  Mentmore,  which  I  reproduce  on  page 
490,  preserves  the  memory  of  one  of  the  stoutest  of  them  all.  He  was  second 
in  the  Derby  of  1854,  as  King  Alfred  was  in  1868,  and  Baron  Rothschild  also 
ran  second  and  third  to  Fille  de  I' Air  in  the  Oaks  of  1864,  and  third  in  1865 
to  Regalia,  with  Zephyr,  the  dam  of  Favonius.  But  his  delight  when  Tormentor 

won  the  Oaks  in  1866, 
chiefly  roused  by  the 
success  of  a  daughter  of 
King  Tom,  was  trebled 
when  Hippia,  another 
daughter,  secured  the 
same  trophy  for  him- 
self, and  beat  Colonel 
Pearson's  brilliant  mare 
Achievement,  who  was 
evidently  not  herself, 
for  she  ran  a  dead 
heat  for  second  with 
so  moderate  a  filly  as 
Romping  Girl.  In  1871 

the  Palace  Stables  at  Newmarket,  presided  over  by  Hayhoe,  had  a  wonderful  year, 
for  "  Baron  Meyer  "  won  the  Thousand  Guineas,  the  Oaks,  and  the  Leger  right  off 
the  reel  with  Hannah  by  King  Tom,  who  had  also  sired  Kingcraft,  the  Derby  winner 
of  the  year  before  ;  Favonius  and  Tom  French  secured  the  Derby  ;  Corisande  and 
Maidment  won  the  Cesarewitch.  No  wonder  "  Follow  the  Baron  "  is  a  watchword 
of  the  Turf  that  will  live  as  long  in  history  as  the  "superb  groan  "  of  Lord  George 
Bentinck,  or  the  "blue  ribbon"  of  Disraeli.  Among  other  notable  victories  were 
the  Royal  Hunt  Cup  with  Jasper  in  1867,  the  Ascot  Stakes  with  Hippolyta  and 
Tomato  in  1864  and  1865,  five  victories  in  the  Woodcote  Stakes  at  Epsom,  the 
Goodwood  Cup  with  Favonius  in  1872,  and  the  Alexandra  Plate  at  Ascot  with 


"Derides"  (1898)  by  "  Florizel  If." 


FAMOUS  RACING   STUDS   OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY   YEARS.  671 

Restitution  in  1869.  The  fact  that  Baron  Lionel  kept  his  horses  with  his  brother, 
Baron  Meyer,  who  was  a  tremendous  power  upon  the  British  Turf,  led  to  some  slight 
confusion  now  and  then,  and  Baron  Lionel  raced  under  the  assumed  name  of  "  Mr. 
Acton."  His  best  colt  was  Sir  Bevys  by  Favonius  out  of  Lady  Langden,  who  won 
the  Derby  of  1879.  It  was  in  some  ways  worthy  of  so  notable  a  centenary,  that  this 
year  should  have  given  George  Fordham,  one  of  the  finest  jockeys  who  ever  rode  in 
it,  his  only  Derby  win  ;  though  not  until  Palmbearer,  who  started  at  100  to  i,  looked 
like  fighting  for  the  first  place  with  Visconti,  who  was  afterwards  sold  for  70  guineas. 

In  1880  the  famous  "dark  blue  and  yellow  "  passed  worthily  into  the  hands  of 
Mr.  Leopold  de  Rothschild,  who  has  stoutly  upheld  the  honour  and  the  popularity 
of  his  house  ever  since — a  popularity  which  is  firmly  based  on  the  fact  that  they  have 
invariably  "run  straight."  The  scene  that  followed  the  victory  of  Favonius  was 
quite  as  boisterously  enthusiastic,  in  the  opinion  of  those  who  saw  all  three,  as  that 
which  greeted  the  more  modern  victories  of  the  Prince  of  Wales  or  Lord  Rosebery  ; 
indeed,  the  delighted  crowd  seemed  bent  on  carrying  home  portions  of  the  anatomy 
either  of  the  Baron  or  of  his  thoroughbred  as  cheerful  souvenirs  of  the  great  occasion. 
It  is  a  touch  of  that  irony  of  fate  which  sometimes  lights  on  even  the  most  fortunate 
that  the  only  year  in  which  the  triumph  of  another  horse  was  more  eagerly  looked  for 
than  that  of  "  Mr.  Leopold's"  nomination,  was  the  year  in  which,  with  St.  Frusquin, 
he  came  nearest  to  winning  the  blue  ribbon  that  has  not  yet  rewarded  his  sportsman- 
like persistence.  That  St.  Frusquin  was  practically  the  same  horse  as  Persimmon 
is  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  beat  him,  another  Derby  winner,  and  a  Two 
Thousand  winner,  when  he  wound  up  his  career  in  the  Princess  of  Wales 's  Stakes, 
and  was  in  receipt  of  3lb.  from  the  Royal  colt.  Certainly  no  gamer  horse  than  he 
—and  I  should  like  to  add  William  the  Third—  have  been  saddled  of  late  years  ; 
and  his  breakdown  before  Persimmons  St.  Leger  was  perhaps  compensated  for  his 
owner  by  the  victory  of  Doricles  later  on.  In  1898  Mr.  Leopold  de  Rothschild 
headed  the  list  of  winning  owners  with  ,£30,267,  and  among  his  other  successful 
horses  were  Fosco,  Goletta  (Princess  of  Wales's  Stakes),  St.  Gris,  Jaquemart, 
Tridtnt,  Sacripant,  and  Pom  Pom.  In  St.  Amant  he  owned  a  two-year-old  of  the 
greatest  promise  in  1903,  with  whom  every  one  looked  forward  to  seeing  him  at 
last  win  the  Derby.  Few  names  are  more  respected  in  the  racing  world  than  that 
of  the  Rothschilds. 


CHAPTER    XXII. 
"  'SCEPTRE'  WINS  !  " 

"  Now  to  conclude  and  end  my  song,  it  is  the  sportsman's  list, 
And  when  you  come  your  gold  to  sport  don't  let  Beeswing  be  missed. 
May  fortune  smile  upon  her  now  and  on  her  steps  attend, 
So  now,  my  jolly  sportsman,  my  song  is  at  an  end." 

T  STARTED  this  book  with  the  consideration  that  1900  was  a  good  year  from 
which  to  take  a  glance  back  at  ancient  Turf  history  with  a  view  of  determining 
in  some  measure  the  manner  of  our  progress  towards  the  future.  No  one  could 
have  imagined,  at  the  time  my  first  volume  was  planned,  that  so  great  a  gap  would 
have  been  created  between  the  year  1904  and  all  its  predecessors.  The  recent 
deaths  of  so  many  staunch  supporters  of  the  English  Turf,  among  whom  Lord 
Alington  was  in  his  day  one  of  the  most  prominent,  have  indeed  made  a  history 
of  racing  up  to  this  time  appropriate,  in  a  far  sadder  sense  than  I  had  ever 
contemplated.  Even  in  1903  alone  England  lost  in  Lord  Salisbury  a  Prime 
Minister  whose  views  on  sport  were  as  tolerant,  as  broad  minded,  and  as  honourable 
as  they  were  in  every  other  department  of  his  distinguished  public  career ;  and  we 
also  had  to  mourn  the  loss  of  John  Dawson,  the  trainer  of  Galopin  and  Petrarch ; 
of  Harrison,  the  jockey  of  Victor  Wild ;  of  Sir  John  Blundell  Maple,  who  owned 
one  of  the  largest  thoroughbred  studs  in  existence;  of  Mr.  H.  Nugent,  one  of 
our  foremost  gentleman-riders ;  of  the  sixth  Duke  of  Richmond  and  Gordon, 
senior  member  of  the  Jockey  Club ;  of  Prince  Soltykoff,  who  came  to  England 
for  a  few  months'  visit,  and  raced  there  for  five  and  forty  years ;  of  Lord 
Colville  of  Culross,  member  of  the  Jockey  Club  and  the  Royal  Yacht  Squadron  ; 
of  Mr.  Forrest  Tod,  owner  of  Csardas ;  of  W.  J.  Innes,  whose  charity  and 
uprightness  were  as  well  known  on  the  Turf  as  in  the  smaller  world  of  Elect 
Street  ;  ot  the  Hon.  Cecil  Howard,  the  capable  manager  of  several  racing 
studs  ;  and  of  William  Wilson  (brother  of  the  famous  E.  P.  Wilson),  who 


:  SCEPTRE '    WINS  ! ' 


67 


73 


trained  Roquefort  and  Volupttiary  for  the  Grand  National.  In  the  spring  of  1904 
the  world  of  steeplechasing  lost  one  of  its  best  amateur  riders  in  Captain  the 
Hon.  R.  Ward.  Earlier  in  that  year  died  Mr.  William  C.  Whitney  in  New  York, 
a  generous  supporter  of  the  Turf,  both  in  England  and  in  his  native  country, 
where  his  name  will  ever  be  connected  with  such  first-rate  sires  as  Hamburg  and 
Meddler.  He  secured  a  high  place  in  the  records  of  English  Racing,  not  only  as 
having  twice  won  the  Cambridgeshire,  with  Watershed and  Ballantrae,  but  as  having 
leased  from  Lady  Meux,  after  the  death  of  Lord  William  Beresford,  Volodyovski, 

the  winner  of  the  Derby  of  1901,  who  only  lost  the  Leger  owing  to  his  jockey. 

That   Derby  was  memorable  in  several  ways.     There  was  a  big  field,  and  it  was 
the  first  time  the  Start- 
ing-gate   was    used    at 

i 

Epsom.  The  white  flag- 
went  up  at  3.22,  and 
they  got  away  at  3.38. 
Among  the  horses 
beaten  by  the  favourite 
were  Florifonu,  Handi- 
capper.  Revenue,  Ian, 
]]'i Ilia  in  the  Third, 
Doriclcs,  l}ietennaritz- 
bnrg,  Royal  Rongc, 
Olympian,  Tantalus, 
Orchid,  St.  Mac/on, 
Lord  Hobs,  Cottager, 

Veles,  ]'eronesc,  Wargrave,  and  Osbock.  The  time  was  2.40+  sees.,  a  record  for 
the  race.  Of  Mr.  Whitney's  American  horses,  by  far  the  best  and  most  beautiful 
was  Elizabeth  M.,  daughter  of  the  English-bred  Watercress. 

The  death  of  H.R. H.  the  Duke  of  Cambridge  in  March,  1904,  broke  one  of 
the  last  links  between  the  modern  Turf  and  the  generation  which  had  seen  Lord 
George  Bentinck's  races. 

In  1902  died  Mr.  Edward  Weatherby,  who  had  not  long  previously  completed 
a  protracted  tenure  of  his  hereditary  office  of  keeper  of  the  Match  Book  and 
Secretary  to  the  Jockey  Club,  which  made  him  an  honorary  member  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  son  ;  Joseph  Enoch,  the  well-known  trainer  ;  Mr.  W.  H.  Langley, 


"  Cap  and  Bells  //."  (1898)  by  "Domino." 


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A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


who  as  "  Pavo "  had  been  widely  read  and  respected  in  the  sporting  world;  and 
Earl  Fitzwilliam,  who  was  racing  in  1837  with  Mulatto,  and  ran  Ignoramus  fifth  in 
Imperieuses  St.  Leger.  His  annual  Post  Match  with  Lord  Falmouth  at  Doncaster 
was  quite  a  popular  institution,  and  the  rivalry  grew  all  the  keener  after  Lord 
Falmouth 's  second  son  had  married  Lord  Fitzwilliam 's  third  daughter.  The  last 
race  he  won  was  the  New  Nursery  at  the  Houghton  Meeting  with  Spring  Jack,  who 
was  by  Springfield  from  Lord  Falmouth's  Dutch  Oven.  In  the  same  year  we  lost 
John  Watts,  who  steered  Foxhall  in  the  Cambridgeshire  ;  won  the  Derby  on  Merry 


"  Volodyovski"  (1898)  by  "  Florizel  //." 

Hampton,  Sainfoin,  Ladas,  and  Persimmon  ;  the  Oaks  on  Bonny  Jean,  Miss  Jitmmy, 
L  Abbesse  de  Jouarre,  Memoir,  and  Mrs.  Butterwick  ;  and  the  St.  Leger  with  Ossian, 
The  Lambkin,  Memoir,  La  Fleche,  and  Persimmon.  The  day  following  Watts' 
death,  Lord  Gerard  breathed  his  last.  He  had  been  elected  to  the  Jockey  Club 
in  1876,  but  sold  Pilgrimage  before  her  victories  in  the  Guineas,  and  owned 
Sweetbread,  Crafton,  S/.  Medard,  and  Macaroon,  among  others.  Mr.  R.  H.  Fry 
died  at  the  end  of  the  year,  one  of  the  best-known  and  most  respected  bookmakers 
in  England,  who  paid  out  ,£40,000  over  Alicante  s  Cambridgeshire,  and  ,£45,000 


"'SCEPTRE'    WINS!" 


675 


to  one  man  when  Comedy  was  successful.  Himself  the  very,  embodiment  of  fair 
dealing,  he  had  enormous  sums  standing  as  bad  debts  in  his  books,  and  his  charity 
was  unending,  not  only  in  Dulwich,  but  for  the  hospital  in  Reel  Lion  Square,  which 
he  had  practically  created.  But  two  other  names,  even  more  famous  than  those 
already  given,  were  on  the  same  year's  fatal  roll — those  of  Captain  Machell  and 
of  Colonel  Harry  McCalmont.  These  cannot  be  passed  over  with  so  slight  a 
mention. 

Captain  James  Octavius  Machell  was  born  in  1838  at  Beverley,  in  Yorkshire, 
and  the  love  for  horseflesh  he  absorbed  with  his  native  air  is  reflected  in  the 
fact  that  he  retired  from  the  29th  Regiment  in  1863,  either  because  he  could 
not  get  leave  to  see  the 
St.  Leger,  or  because 
it  was  ordered  to  India, 
and  he  thought  he 
could  "do  better  at 
home."  At  the  First 
Spring  Meeting  of  1864 
he  had  already  made 
his  mark  by  winning 
the  Prince  of  Wa'les's 
Handicap  Stakes  of 
,£1,140  (and  a  bet  of 
,£5,000  to  ;£ioo)  with 
his  Irish  colt  Bacchus. 
One  of  his  first  appear- 
ances at  Newmarket  was  when  he  beat  Captain  Chad  wick  in  a  hundred  yards 
foot-race  over  the  Severals  at  Newmarket.  Sir  John  Astley  was  an  appro- 
priate spectator  of  a  contest  that  recalled  the  old  days  as  vividly  as  did 
"  The  Mate's "  own  match  with  Mr.  Alexander.  I  have  reproduced  Sir  John's 
portrait  from  Millais'  painting,  by  the  courtesy  of  his  son  ;  but  I  have  been 
glad  to  add  to  it  the  characteristic  figure  of  "The  Mate"  on  Drumhead, 
6  yrs.,  i6st.  6lb.,  when  he  beat  Mr.  Alexander  on  Briglia,  i6st.,  for  500 
sovereigns,  over  a  mile  and  a  half  at  Newmarket  in  July,  1879.  It  is  a  figure 
which  will  not  only  recall  a  beloved  friend  to  many,  but  which  is  typical  of  an 
old  and  breezily  sportsmanlike  regime  that  seems  to  be  passing  away  ;  just  as 


"EKzabethM?  (1898,  U.S.A.}. 


6;6 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 


"  Mr.  Manton,"  the  Dowager  Duchess  of  Montrose,  used  to  remind  us  of  the 
racing  ladies  of  the  past,  and  all  they  have  meant  in  the  annals  of  the  English 
Turf.  Throughout  those  annals  it  would  be  difficult  to  find  a  stronger  or  more 
characteristic  figure  than  that  of  Captain  Machell,  who  seemed  to  have  grafted 
his  own  strong,  individual  peculiarities  on  to  the  eccentric,  manly  soul  of  Admiral 
Rous  himself.  Not  only  bodily  activity  (he  could  once  jump,  standing,  from  the 
floor  to  firm  footing-on  a  high  mantelpiece),  but  persistent  courage,  both  physical  and 
moral,  were  his  strong  points,  at  his  best.  One  proof  of  that  was  the  picture  of 

Crackenthorpe,  the  Westmoreland 
home  of  his  family,  which  hung  in 
his  study  at  Newmarket,  inscribed 
"Rebuilt  by  Hugh  Machell  (1689), 
sold  by  Lancelot  Machell  (1786), 
repurchased  by  James  O.  Machell 
(1877)  ;"  and  if  he  was  proud  of  the 
old  cognisance  of  "  three  greyhounds 
courant,"  he  was  even  prouder  of  the 
ancestor  who  had  been  chaplain  to 
the  Merry  Monarch ;  and  he  loved 
every  inch  of  ground  in  Newmarket. 
As  his  lifelong  friend,  Lord  Calthorpe, 
used  to  say,  he  could  never  pass  even 
a  herd  of  ponies  without  stopping  to 
appraise  the  best,  and  the  number  of 
friends  whose  horses  he  trained  and 
managed  at  Bedford  Cottage  has 
rarely  been  equalled  in  the  long 
tale  of  Newmarket's  racing  stables.  The  Marquis  of  Hastings  refused  to  take 
Mr.  Tattersall's  advice,  and  so  it  was  Mr.  Chaplin  who  bought  Hermit  at 
the  Middle  Park  Sale  of  yearlings.  The  Captain  had  become  associated  with 
Mr.  Chaplin  in  1865,  and  it  was  because  Lord  Calthorpe  told  Mr.  Chaplin  that 
it  would  be  "not  fair  to  Jem  Machell,"  that  Hermit  was  not  scratched  for  the 
Derby  after  the  blood-vessel  broke  in  his  head.  It  is  strange  that  Custance, 
having  been  given  up,  at  Captain  Hawksley's  earnest  entreaties,  to  Mr.  Pryor, 
found  that  his  new  mount,  The  Rake,  had  broken  a  blood-vessel  as  well.  But 


By  pennission  of 
"  Country  Life." 


The  Duchess  of  Montrose 
("  Mr.  Manton  "). 


'  SCEPTRE'    WINS!" 


677 


that    was    on    the    lungs.       Captain    Machell    did    not    win    very    largely    over    the 

race,  though  he  repeatedly  begged    Lord    Hastings  to  hedge  the  enormous  sums 

that    reckless   nobleman   stood    to    lose,   and  Hermit, ^\f\\om    he    always    considered 

delicate  and  difficult  to  train,  was  his   favourite  up  to   that  time  ;    but  he  thought 

Blinkhoolie   his    best    stayer,    and    Sir    Joseph    Hawley    considered    Vespasian   the 

fastest  he  had  ever  seen.      He  trained  for  the  late   Lord   Lonsdale,  the  late  Lord 

Aylesford,  the  late  Duke  of  Beaufort,  Sir  Charles  Legard,  General  Owen  Williams, 

Mr.   J.    B.    Leigh,    Sir  John  Willoughby,    Mr.   Warren  de    la    Rue,  Lord    Rodney, 

Mr.    C.    F.    Blake,    the    Duchess    of 

Montrose  (Mr.  Manton),  and  others. 

Timothy  had  been  often  beaten  in  the 

scarlet  jacket ;  but  when  the  Captain 

bought  him  for  Mr.    McCalmont,   he 

almost  immediately  landed  the  Gold 

Cup    and    the    Alexandra    Plate    at 

Ascot.      The    Duchess   of   Montrose 

naturally     felt     this    was     bad     luck, 

and    she    was    heard    to    murmur,    as 

she  approached    the  weighing-room  : 

— "  Two  important  races,  and  I 
haven't  won  a  penny !  They  may 
go  scot-free  here,  but  One  Above 
will  surely  punish  them !  "  \Vhen 
he  had  had  control  of  Colonel 
McCalmont's  horses,  Captain  Machell 
could  boast  of  having  secured  all  the 
classic  races  in  his  time,  among  them 
the  Two  and  One  Thousand  victories  of  Pilgrimage,  Harvesters  dead  heat  with 
St.  Gatien,  Kilwarliris  St.  Leger,  Seabreeze's  St.  Leger  and  Oaks,  besides  four 
Grand  Nationals  with  Disturbance,  Reugny,  Regal,  and  Seaman,  and  scores  of 
handicaps. 

From  1864  to  his  death  Captain  Machell  won  540  races  worth  _£iio,oio  in  his 
own  name ;  but  it  was  of  course  with  Isinglass  that  his  greatest  successes  were 
associated ;  and  as  the  wonderful  record  of  this  splendid  horse  has  never  been 

beaten,  it  may  well  be  tabulated  here.     He  ran   twelve  times,  and  only  once  failed, 

VOL.   III.  G  G 


liv  permission  of  Sir 
'  F.  Astley  Carbctl. 


Sir  John  Aslley  <w  •'•Drumhead  " 
(6yrs.,  i6st.  616.) 


678  A    HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

when    he    was   asked    to    give    iclb.    to    Raeburn   in    the    Lancashire    Plate.      His 
eleven  victories  were — 

£     i  £ 

1892.  T\vo-Year-Old  Plate  '          196  j   1894.  Princess  of  Wales's  Stakes 10,911 

.,      New  Stakes,  Ascot ...       2,006  j       „      Eclipse  Stakes          ...       9,285 


„  Middle  Park  Plate ...  2,375 

1893.  Two  Thousand  Guineas       ...  ...  4,250 

„  Newmarket  Stakes  ...          ...  ...  3,795 

,,  Derby  5,515 

„  St.  Leger       ...  5,300 


„      Jockey  Club  Stakes...          11,302 

1895.  Gold  Cup,  Ascot      ...       2,520 

Total     ...  ,£57,455 


It  was  indeed  hard  luck  on  Mr.  C.  D.  Rose  that  his  Ravensbury  should  have 
been  born  in  the  same  year,  apparently  for  the  sole  purpose  of  running  second 
invariably  to  the  bay  colt  by  Isonomy  out  of  Deadlock,  a  mare  who  was  bought  by 
Captain  Machell  for  nineteen  sovereigns  from  the  late  Lord  Alington,  sold  once  more 
by  him,  until  the  value  of  her  colt,  Gervas,  was  discovered,  and  most  luckily  got 
back  again  out  of  a  farmer's  light  cart  in  exchange  for  a  colt  by  Marvellous.  She 
was  sold  to  Mr.  McCalmont  with  Islington  at  foot  for  ,£500,  and  her  next  foal 
was  Isinglass.  Lord  Alington 's  only  consolation  must  have  been  that  it  was  by 
Captain  Machell's  advice  that  Fusee  had  been  sent  to  Hermit,  with  the  result  of 
St.  Blaise. 

It  took  a  long  time  for  Newmarket,  and  the  rest  of  the  world,  to  appreciate 
how  good  Isinglass  was,  because,  like  many  another  of  the  very  best,  he  was  very 
lazy  by  temperament,  and  not  only  objected  to  home  gallops,  but  even  to  making 
his  own  running  in  a  race.  Even  for  the  Princess  of  Wales's  Stakes  he  actually 
went  to  the  post  a  less  fancied  chance  than  Ravensbury,  and  9  to  i  could  be  got 
about  him,  says  Mr.  Sydenham  Dixon.  Some  time  afterwards  Colonel  McCalmont 
said  to  Mr.  John  Corlett : — "You  were  the  first  man  I  ever  heard  say  he  would 
win  the  Derby.  Come  over  to  the  coach,  and  we  will  celebrate  it."  And  away  they 
went. 

The  racing  world  has  rarely  felt  so  sudden  and  so  deep  a  shock  as  when  the 
news  came  that  Harry  McCalmont  had  died  with  appalling  suddenness,  by  heart 
failure,  just  as  he  was  leaving  the  hall  of  his  house  in  St.  James's  Square,  at  the 
early  age  of  forty-one.  Born  on  the  day  when  Kettledrum  won  the  Derby,  he 
seemed  destined  early  to  success  in  sport,  and  the  large  fortune  he  inherited  enabled 
him  to  give  his  instincts  full  play.  He  stroked  the  Eton  eight  at  Henley  in  1880, 
and  rowed  in  the  Kingston  crew  for  the  Grand  Challenge.  Like  many  another 
lover  of  horses  he  was  an  enthusiastic  yachtsman,  and  his  "Giralda"  was  sold  to 


' ' '  SCEPTRE '    WINS  !  " 


679 


Spain  on  the  outbreak  of  the  Cuban  War.  After  leaving  the  Guards  in  1887, 
he  was  appointed  to  the  6th  (Militia)  Battalion  ot  the  Royal  Warwickshire,  the 
first  to  volunteer,  at  the  end  of  1899,  for  active  service  in  South  Africa,  where 
he  commanded  them,  and  was  invalided  home  from  Bloemfontein  with  a  military 
C.B.  and  the  medal  with 
two  clasps.  During  his 
absence  at  the  front  he 
was  re-elected  Member  of 
Parliament  for  the  New- 
market Division,  and  in 
his  last  session  he  moved 
the  Address  in  answer 
to  the  King's  Speech. 
Some  years  before,  he 
had  bought  the  Cheveley 
estate  from  the  Duke  of 
Rutland,  and  rebuilt  the 
whole  mansion  on  the 
original  Jacobean  lines 
with  its  old  stone-flagged 
terrace;  while  just  beyond 
'the  Ditch"  he  organised 
upon  the  Links  Farm 
a  steeplechase  course, 
stands,  and  paddock  com- 
plete. Little  more  than  a 
fortnight  before  his  death 
his  St.  Macloii  had  won 
the  Manchester  Novem- 
ber Handicap,  after  hav- 
ing beaten  Sceptre  by  a 
head  in  the  Lincolnshire  Handicap  under  7st.  i2lb.,  thus  scoring  a  remarkably 
meritorious  Double  Event  which  is  not  likely  to  be  frequently  repeated.  This 
fine  horse,  by  St.  Simon  out  of  Mimi  by  Barcaldine,  was  sent  to  the  stud  in  his 
sixth  year.  Twice  he  beat  the  Derby  winner  of  his  year,  once  the  St.  Leger 


From  the  painting  by  Millais  in  the  possession 
of  Sir  F.  As/ley  Corbett. 


Sir  John  Astley 
("The  Mate"}. 


68o 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


winner,  and  once  the  St.  Leger  and  Oaks  winner  of  1902.  Colonel  McCalmont's 
light  blue  and  scarlet  quartered  jacket,  white  cap,  was  first  registered  in  1888,  and 
he  began  well  by  winning  at  Ascot  with  Timothy,  bought  from  "  Mr.  Manton  " 
for  4,000  guineas.  Four  years  afterwards  Isinglass  appeared  in  a  Maiden  Plate 
at  the  Newmarket  Second  Spring  Meeting,  "a  smart  plater,"  as  he  was  then 
modestly  called  by  James  Jewitt,  with  whom  Colonel  McCalmont  trained  until  his 
retirement  from  ill  health  brought  in  Captain  Beatty.  The  excitement  when  Isinglass 
won  the  Eclipse  Stakes  of  1894  will  not  easily  be  forgotten,  nor  will  so  valuable 
a  field  of  seven  as  that  which  contained  him,  Ladas,  Ravensbury,  Raeburn,  and 
Throstle  often  be  seen  again.  After  that,  1902  was  Colonel  McCalmont's  next 

best  season,  and  in  the 
i 

last  year  of  his  life  the 

victories  of  Rising  Glass, 
St.  Maclon,  and  others 
brought  his  stakes  up 
to  ^18,114,  which  was 
better  than  Sir  Blundell 
Maple,  and  only  beaten 
by  Sceptres  owner.  No 
doubt  St.  Maclou  and 
William  the  Third  wre 
the  best  four-year-olds 
of  their  day  in  training. 
Isinglass,  too,  did  equally 
well  for  him  at  the  stud, 
for  it  was  only  by  St.  Simon  and  Persimmon  that  his  figures  of  ,£27,826  were 
beaten  in  the  list  of  winning  sires  in  1902,  and  that  good  stallion's  record  at 
Cheveley  Stud  contained  such  winners  as  Vain  Duchess,  Veles,  Star  Shoot,  Sweet 
Sounds,  Glass  Jiig,  Rising  Glass,  Glasalt,  The  Scribe,  and  John  o  Gaunt.  Lord 
Howard  de  Walden  made  a  capital  beginning  to  a  promising  racing  career  by 
securing  some  wise  purchases  from  the  McCalmont  stud  and  training  them  with 
Captain  Beatty. 

Very  little  less  than  a  year  after  Harry  McCalmont  passed  away,  died  Prince 
Soltykoff,  a  man  known  far  longer  at  Newmarket,  who  never  achieved  anything 
like  his  younger  rival's  successes,  but  who  never  failed  for  want  of  trying.  Born 


By  permission  of"  Country  Life." 


^  Ravensbury^ 


"'SCEPTRE'    WINS!" 


68 1 


in  1828,  he  was  descended  from  a  Russian  Field  Marshal,  who  got  the  title  by 
beating  no  less  a  man  than  Frederick  the  Great.  After  himself  taking  part  in 
the  campaign  before  Silistria,  he  came  to  Newmarket,  and  soon  showed  that  he 
had  not  won  thirteen  out  of  fifteen  races  in  one  meeting  at  Moscow  for  nothing. 
About  his  earliest  success  must  have  been  the  Queen's  Vase  at  Plymouth,  and 
three  years  afterwards  he  was  elected  to  the  Jockey  Club,  as  its  first  Russian 
member,  and  celebrated  the  occasion  by  winning  the  Portland  Plate  of  1867. 
His  best  horses  were  Tibthorpe,  Sheen,  Balfe,  Ttmrio  (Grand  Prix),  Lucetta 
(Cambridgeshire),  and  Gold  (Ascot  Cup).  Though  he  ran  second  for  both  One 
Thousand  and  Oaks,  with  Argo  Navis,  to  Miss  fummy,  his  nearest  thing  to  a 
classic  victory  was  when 
his  Sun  Rose  was  hung- 
up in  the  starting-gate 
for  the  One  Thousand 
of  1903,  and  was  only 
beaten  by  a  length  and 
a  half,  protest  disallowed, 
because  (ran  the  official 
answer)  it  was  made 
too  late.  Apparently  it 
reached  the  stewards  six- 
teen minutes  (instead  of 
a  quarter  of  an  hour) 
after  the  race.  Much  as 
every  one  regretted  this, 
few  realised  it  would  be  the  Prince's  last  chance.  His  hospitalities  at  Kremlin 
Lodge,  whence  he  used  often  to  walk  across  in  his  slippers  to  Lag-range  House 
to  see  the  thoroughbreds,  will  be  much  missed  at  Newmarket,  which  has  had 
so  many  losses  to  bear  of  late.  It  was  old  Torn  Jennings  who  trained  Sheen 
for  him  for  the  Cesarewitch,  which  he  won  under  gst.  sib.,  the  highest  weight 
ever  carried  successfully  in  this  race. 

1  he  case  of  Sun  fiose  brought  Prince  Soltykoff's  name  into  prominence  in 
connection  with  the  discussion  as  to  the  advisability  of  the  starting-gate.  Into  that 
discussion  I  do  not  propose  to  go  very  far,  because  the  gate  itself  will  probably 
disappear  before  the  arguments  about  it  have  ceased.  It  was  tried  in  the  United 


"  Goletta  "  (1894)  by  "  Galopin" 


682 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


States,  where  it  had  the  best  possible  chances  of  success,  and  has  already  been 
replaced  by  an  electric  bell.  Almost  every  other  country  seemed  to  possess  a  better 
pattern  than  that  hitherto  used  in  England,  where  the  anxiety  of  the  authorities 
to  prevent  the  undoubted  tediousness  often  occasioned  by  the  old  starting  with  the 
Hag  seemed  to  blind  them  to  the  fact  that  in  introducing  a  machine  for  the  starter 
they  had  not  changed  the  thoroughbred  horse  into  a  piece  of  machinery  as  well. 
Trainers  were  firmly  admonished  to  teach  their  youngsters  to  face  the  gate.  Many 
of  them  succeeded  so  well  that  breeders  began, to  complain  that  good  animals  were 
being  beaten  by  inferior  two-year-olds,  who  had  learned  the  knack  of  getting  off 
at  once.  But  when  these  same  clever  quadrupeds  got  their  trainers  into  trouble 

in  their  next  season,  it 
became  clear  that  it  was 
rather  the  fault  of  the 
horse  than  the  man,  and 
that  many  animals  would 
not  face  the  gate  at  all. 

,  vi.  •       The  Rule  of  Racing  ran 

f  tfl  A  / 

1  that     'horses    must    be 


"  Caiman"  (1896,  U.S.A.) 


started  from  a  walk." 
The  machine  introduced 
the  alteration  that  they 
"  must  be  started  from  a 
stand,"  from  a  stationary 
pivot  into  a  racing  gal- 
loping stride  within  a 

second,  a  feat  which  very  few  indeed  were  able  to  accomplish  so  successfully  as 
Simdridge  usually  did.  The  result  of  this  inability  is  a  loss  of  three-quarters 
of  a  length  in  the  first  few  strides,  and  four  or  five  lengths  in  a  hundred  yards, 
an  almost  impossible  handicap  on  courses  like  Epsom  and  Brighton.  I  should 
not  like  to  say  that  the  alteration  was  due  to  no  successor  to  Mr.  McGeorge 
and  his  authoritative  flag  having  been  forthcoming,  though  he  was  certainly  a 
man  whom  no  one  could  have  excelled  as  a  starter.  Very  few  animals  indeed 
will  stand,  like  Rock  Sand  as  a  three-year-old,  with  their  nose  on  the  webbing- 
waiting  contentedly  for  the  lever.  If  the  gate  has  to  be  used  at  all,  it  must  be 
improved,  for  such  a  fiasco  as  that  of  the  Wokingham  Stakes  at  Ascot  is  not 


"  '  SCEPTRE '    WINS  !  " 


683 


pleasant  to  look  back  upon.  The  starter  must  have  a  high  and  a  much  longer 
platform,  parallel  for  thirty  yards  with  the  course.  He  should  be  able  to  give  the 
signal  without  any  movement  on  his  part  being  noticeable  at  all,  at  any  place  on  that 
platform.  He  should  be  connected  by  electric  wire  with  an  advance  flag,  and  by 
telephone  with  the  stewards  or  the  judge's  box.  The  horses  should  enter  the  rails 
thirty  or  forty  yards  before  the  starting-post,  and  walk  up  to  it  under  the  direction  of 
the  starter,  who  could  send  them  off  whenever  he  pleased,  as  soon  as  he  saw  them 
well  in  line,  before  they  got  close  up  to  the  gate.  Unless  this  is  done — which  is 
improbable — the  starting-gate  must  disappear. 

Not  the  least  of  the  many  losses  which  Newmarket  has  had  to  bear  of  late 
was  that  involved  by 
the  death  of  Sir  J. 
Blundell  Maple,  a  few 
weeks  after  he  had  been 
elected  to  the  Jockey 
Club.  He  first  raced 
in  1 88 1  as  "Mr.  Child- 
wick,"  with  Humphreys 
at  Lambourne,  who  pre- 
pared one  really  good 
horse  for  him  in  Sara- 
band. In  1887,  after 
purchasing  the  place,  he 
installed  Percy  Peck  as 
his  trainer  at  Falmouth 

House,  the  handsome  villa  poor  Fred  Archer  used  for  so  short  a  time.  The 
lavish  way  he  raced  may  be  gathered  from  the  fact  that  in  1903,  his  last  season, 
W.  Waugh,  then  his  private  trainer  at  Newmarket,  had  forty-five  animals  ready, 
and  twenty-six  of  them  won  fifty-one  races  worth  _£  13,810  ios.,  the  best  being 
Nabot,  Lord  Bobs,  Divorce  Court,  Queens  Holiday,  Kitty  wick,  Vidame,  Childwickbury, 
Girton  Girl,  Simony,  and  Neiosboy,  one  of  the  fastest  two-year-olds  of  the  season. 
By  1890  the  "white  and  gold  stripes,  claret  cap"  were  registered  in  the  name 
of  Mr.  Blundell  Maple,  and  he  transferred  his  nont  de  guerre  of  "Childwick"  to 
Sir  Tatton  Sykes's  yearling,  which  he  purchased  at  what  was  then  the  record 
price  of  6,000  guineas.  After  a  fine  career  on  the  Turf  and  at  the  stud,  Childunck 


"  Chelandry"  (1894)  by  "  Goldfinch? 


684 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


was  sold  to  France,  where  he  sired  La  Camargo,  the  only  mare  across  the  Channel, 
except  Kincsem,  who  can  be  compared  with  Sceptre.  Sir  Blundell  bought  Royal 
Hampton  from  Mr.  William  Blenkiron's  famous  Middle  Park  Stud,  who  has  been  the 
sire  of  such  good  ones  as  Court  Ball,  Kirkconnel,  Marriott,  Omladina,  Forfarshire, 
Prince  Hampton,  Royal  Lancer,  Girt  on  Girl,  and  Queen's  Holiday.  He  was  by 
Hampton,  son  of  Lord  Clifden  and  sire  of  the  three  Derby  winners,  Ayrshire, 
Ladas,  and  Merry  Hampton.  But  of  course  the  most  famous  of  the  stallions  at 
the  great  Childwick  Stud  Farm,  near  St.  Albans,  one  of  the  biggest  racing 
establishments  in  the  world,  was  Common,  who  has  not  yet  done  all  at  the  stud 
that  his  Turf  record  and  his  splendid  conformation  might  have  led  his  purchaser 

to  expect,  but  is  already 
the  sire  of  Osbech,  Nun 
Nicer,  Barn  Dance, 
Claret,  Cottager,  Compli- 
ment, Aliwal,  The  Bis/top, 
Simony,  Newsboy,  and 
others.  Among  other 
good  horses  owned  and 
raced  by  Sir  Blundell 
were  Saraband,  Siffleuse 
(One  Thousand),  Bal- 
moral, Priestess,  Minting 
Queen,  Kirkconnel  (Two 
Thousand),  Simons  Bay, 
The  Owl,  A  r deer,  Cossack, 
that  splendid-looking  animal  Lord  Bobs,  and  Mackintosh,  one  of  the  best  of 
Florizel  II. 's  wonderful  first  year's  produce.  His  magnificent  stud  farm  under 
the  control  of  Alec  Waugh,  was  but  one  evidence  of  Sir  Blundell's  whole-souled 
devotion  to  the  thoroughbred,  and  to  the  best  interests  of  the  English  Turf 
and  of  his  country.  After  nineteen  years,  he  headed  the  winning  owners  in  1901, 
with  forty-four  horses  in  training,  and  ^21,370  as  the  result  of  his  fifty-three 
victories,  which  brought  his  record  up  to  ,£154,000  in  420  races  at  that  date. 
His  conscientiousness  may  be  judged  from  the  reply  he  sent  to  an  offer  from  Vienna 
of  ^"21,000  within  a  week  after  he  had  purchased  Isonomys  son  for  ,£15,000: 
"Thanks  for  offer.  The  English  Turf  requires  Commons  services.  Money  will  not 


Mr.  Hugh  Owen  at  the  starting-gate 


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685 


tempt  me."  Between  1881  and  1902  inclusive,  the  Duke  of  Portland  won  ,£244,153 
in  266  races,  with  half  shares  deducted  in  such  cases  as  Amiable,  La  Roche, 
St.  Aldegonde,  and  others.  From  1883  to  1902  inclusive,  Sir  J.  Blundell  Maple 
won  no  less  than  487  races,  a  record  which  the  house  of  Rothschild  is  alone 
likely  to  surpass;  but  he  only  scored  ,£171,808  in  stake-money.  As  member 
for  the  Dulwich  Division  of  Camberwell,  Sir  Blundell  drew  attention  in  Parliament 
to  the  mismanagement  of  the  horse  supply  sent  out  to  the  South  African  War, 
and  every  word  he  said  was  more  than  vindicated  by  the  revelations  that  were 
published  later  concerning  the  Re- 
mount Department.  His  stud  farm 
contained  no  less  than  seven  stallions, 
sixty-nine  brood  mares,  and  twenty- 
eight  foals  when  I  saw  it  two  months 
before  his  death.  It  is  sad  to  think 
that  so  concentrated  an  opportunity 
for  the  permanent  benefit  for  horse- 
breeding  should  not  have  been  in 
some  way  preserved  intact  for  the 
nation  their  owner  served  so  well. 
He  was  as  sincerely  mourned  in  the 
Newmarket  and  St.  Albans  districts 
as  in  those  parts  of  London  where 
his  commercial  prosperity  and  fine 
business  instincts  meant  so  much  to 
the  enormous  number  who  depended 
on  the  great  firm  of  which  he  was 
the  head. 

In  drawing  attention  to  the  question  of  remounts.  Sir  Blundell  Maple  did  very 
real  service ;  for  those  who  object  to  the  Turf  on  principle  have  had  a  very  powerful 
weapon  put  into  their  hands  by  the  utter  failure  of  this  country  to  produce  enough 
horses  for  a  sudden  crisis.  Supporters  of  English  racing  had  hitherto  loudly  asserted 
that  it  was  racing  alone  which  kept  up  the  English  breed  of  horses.  They  had 
pointed  to  the  facts  that  in  1813  there  were  barely  800  horses  running  on  the  flat, 
whereas  we  began  the  twentieth  century  with  over  4,000  in  1901.  Yet  the  country 
does  not  seem  to  have  benefited  by  this,  if  the  remount  statistics  are  to  be  believed  ; 

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and  the  Turf  would  not  seem  to  have  been  richer  to  any  impartial  observer  who 
noticed  that  out  of  the  enormous  number  of  English  thoroughbreds  foaled  in  1900, 
only  seven  were  good  enough  to  go  to  the  post  for  the  Derby  of  1903,  six  of  whom 
were  beaten  by  a  Frenchman.  France,  in  fact,  certainly  seems  to  have  produced 
more  stayers  than  we  do  at  the  present  time,  if  the  records  of  Ascot  may  be  taken 
as  a  sound  indication.  One  reason  for  this  is  that  in  France  and  in  other  foreign 
countries  breeding  for  remounts  is  taken  to  be  the  first  important  matter  ;  racing 
comes  only  second.  We  have  not  gained,  I  believe,  by  reversing  the  process.  Not 
a  penny  is  contributed  by  the  State  or  by  the  public  purse  to  the  Derby,  St.  Leger, 
Two  Thousand!  One  Thousand,  Oaks,  Eclipse  Stakes,  or  Jockey  Club  Stakes.  In  the 

corresponding  races  in 
France,  on  the  other 
hand,  the  total  prize- 
money  of  ,£43,700  is 
almost  entirely  solid 
cash,  which  the  winning 
owners  can  put  into 
their  pockets  without 

^.^          ~    , .— .  having  previously  dis- 

bursed it.  That  part 
of  this  prize  -  money 
comes  to  the  French 
Government  through 
the  percentage  it  exacts 
on  the  "  Totalisator " 

betting  machines  has  no  bearing  on  the  argument.  All  public  money  distributed  by 
a  Government  can  eventually  be  traced  to  individual  sources.  But  a  Prime  Minister 
does  not  call  upon  every  member  of  his  Government  to  put  down  so  much  out  of  his 
pocket  towards  the  official  salaries.  In  France,  the  ten  per  cent,  share  of  the  total 
"pari  mutuel "  receipts  which  goes  to  the  State  Breeding  Studs,  amounted  in  1903 
to  nearly  ,£100,000,  and  charitable  institutions  benefited  by  double  that  sum,  a 
result  which  immediately  induced  the  Kaiser  to  initiate  similar  arrangements  on  the 
German  Turf,  with  the  single  aim  of  encouraging  German  breeding.  It  should  be 
remembered,  too,  that  racing  Expenses  have  steadily  increased  in  England  of  late, 
not  merely  from  the  spectator's  point  of  view,  but  more  especially  from  that  of  the 


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687 


owner.  Mr.  Frank  Gardner,  for  example,  who  had  a  very  fair  share  of  luck, 
sold  off  the  whole  of  the  large  racing  stud  he  kept  at  Foxhall  in  Wiltshire, 
as  he  found  the  balance  was  invariably  on  the  wrong  side.  In  France,  however, 
his  expenses  were  not  much  more  than  a  third  of  what  they  had  been,  and  the 
prizes  to  be  won  were  more  substantial.  Newmarket  establishments  such  as  those 
lately  left  vacant  by  Sir  J.  Blundell  Maple,  Prince  Soltykoff,  Mr.  W.  C.  Whitney,  or 
Mr.  J.  R.  Keene,  cannot  be  run  on  much  less  than  ,£7,000  a  year,  and  there  are  not 
so  many  men  nowadays  who  care  to  risk  that  amount  on  so  uncertain  a  pursuit. 
The  fact  that  English  owners  no  longer  bet  as  they  used  to  do  should — it  may 
be  imagined — enable  them  easily  to  contribute  what  they  are  asked  by  the  racing 
authorities,  and  the  few 
"bad  debts"  now  pub- 
lished by  Weatherby 
are  certainly  in  brilliant 
contrast  to  the  old  days. 
But  the  disappearance 
of  such  gigantic  wagers 
as  those  common  in  the 
days  of  Lord  George 
Bentinck,  of  Mr.  Gully, 
of  Lord  Glasgow,  or 
Mr.  Merry,  is  not — un- 
fortunately— only  trace- 
able (if  traceable  at  all) 
in  the  vastly  increased 

stakes  now  run  for  each  year  on  the  English  Turf.  It  is  more  than  balanced  by 
what  is  really  a  far  greater  evil,  and  an  evil  which  antagonists  of  the  Turf  have 
fastened  upon  with  far  too  little  prospect,  as  yet,  of  receiving  a  just  answer. 

People  who  could  afford  to  bet  do  not  do  so  now,  because  they  are  among  the 
few  who  can  afford  the  large  expenses  of  a  racing  stable.  But  betting  as  a  means  of 
running  a  small  stud  by  men  who  could  not  otherwise  afford  what  is  a  luxury  in  these 
expensive  days — betting  among  labourers,  clerks,  and  working  men  who  cannot 
afford  to  risk  a  penny  of  their  wages,  who  never  saw  the  horse  they  back,  and  who 
are  the  prey  of  fraudulent  starting-price  bookmakers — this  kind  of  betting  has 
become  little  short  of  an  abominable  curse.  I  am  heartily  in  sympathy  with  Admiral 


"  Royal  Lancer"  (1899)  by  "  Royal  Hampton." 


688 


A    HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Rous  in  his  rejection  of  the  "  Totalisator "  from  Newmarket  Heath.  But  it  is 
certainly  time  for  those  who  know,  and  those  who  have  the  power,  to  take  final 
action.  The  philanthropist  who  knows  little  of  his  subject  has  done  more  harm 
than  good  by  proposing  impracticable  remedies  for  a  very  real  ill.  His  one  excuse 
is  that  the  Jockey  Club  seems  hitherto  disinclined  to  act ;  yet  they  are  a  picked 
body  of  men  of  influence  and  wealth,  who  could  initiate  any  legislation  they  pleased 
and  carry  any  motion  they  supported.  At  present  they  do  not  even  insist  that 

all  bookmakers  of  whose  presence 
they  are  cognisant  should  be  pro- 
perly licensed,  a  measure  which 
every  honest  bookmaker  in  England 
would  welcome.  The  parrot-cry 
that  a  manly  recognition  of  the 
consequences  of  evil  is  in  reality  an 
encouragement  of  that  evil,  should, 
it  may  well  be  thought,  have  been 
silenced  by  the  unutterable  harm 
done  to  the  British  army  by  the 
repeal  of  Acts  which  regulated  its 
health  in  the  most  important  direc- 
tions. The  Jockey  Club  can  well 
afford,  not  only  to  disregard  the  cry 
that  they  would  encourage  betting 
by  regulating  its  processes  and  pro- 
tecting the  ignorant,  but  also  to 
neglect  their  usual  caution  in  the 
matter  of  betting  which  was  one 

result  of  the  settling  of  Crockford's  account  over  the  Derby  of  1844.  Times 
are  very  different  now,  and  the  Club  will  do  well,  for  their  own  sakes,  to  take  up 
the  question  in  no  uncertain  spirit,  to  demonstrate  that  the  English  Turf  can 
cleanse  itself  of  stains  which  it  does  not  monopolise,  and  which  are  not  inherent 
in  the  gallant  sport  of  racing.  The  Duke  of  Portland  was  right,  early  in  1904,  to 
speak  out  a  plain  warning  against  the  perils  of  the  modern  system,  that  miserable 
system  of  starting-price  betting  by  which  tens  of  thousands  gamble  upon  horses 
they  have  never  seen,  never  will  see,  and  never  want  to  see.  The  money  lost 


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689 


in  it  does  not  go  into  the  pockets  of  people  who  support  the  Turf  in  any  shape 
or  form,  and  the  abolition  of  the  uncleanly  parasites  who  flourish  on  it  can  only 
benefit  the  health  of  the  institution  they  dishonour.  To  sweep  them  and  their 
nauseous  abuses  from  the  face  of  the  land  would  be  a  very  different  thing  from 
trying  the  impossible  task  of  preventing  betting  altogether,  an  amusement  which 
may  be  just  as  cleanly  and  just  as  honourable  as  any  other  form  of  pastime  in 
which  pecuniary  considerations  are  unavoidably  present.  The  Duke  of  Portland 
has  said  that  if  the  Turf  were  a  hotbed  of  roguery  he  would  have  nothing  to 
do  with  it.  And  he  does  not  think  it  advisable,  "or  even  possible,  to  try  to  put 
a  stop  to  betting  by  the  law  of  the  land.  .  .  .  The  percentage  of  honourable  men 
connected  with  the  Turf 
is  as  high  as  in  any 
other  profession." 

We  heard  of  no 
faddist  crusade  against 
the  banking  business 
because  the  catastrophe 
at  Glasgow  revealed  a 
tissue  of  dishonesty  and 
fraud,  to  which  the  Turf 
can  offer  no  parallel, 
either  in  the  actual  com- 
mission of  crime  or  in 
the  widespread  disaster 
which  followed  it.  Those 

who  sell  us  the  necessaries  of  life  are  not,  all  of  them,  above  making  their  fortunes 
out  of  a  subtle  adulteration  of  various  goods  which  in  one  form  or  another  the 
public  is  bound  to  buy.  The  manipulation  of  mines,  and  companies,  in  the  City 
of  London  is  not  invariably  conducted  on  lines  which  are  above  the  reproach  of 
the  financial  purist.  The  Turf  is  not  alone,  in  fact,  in  possessing  scoundrels 
among  those  who  follow  it,  nor  is  it  by  any  means  the  most  fruitful  soil  on 
which  scoundrelism  can  flourish.  To  say  that  racing  produces  betting,  and  should 
therefore  be  discouraged,  is  to  commit  the  critic  to  a  crusade  against  far  more 
institutions  than  the  Turf.  I  am  not  sure  that  in  logical  fairness  he  ought  not  to 
proceed  to  deplore  the  existence  of  Westminster  Bridge  and  the  British  Museum, 


Hon.  L.  \\~illoughby  {Newmarket,  1902). 


690  A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

inasmuch  as  both  those  blameless  and  valuable  buildings  were  either  erected  or 
enriched  by  the  produce  of  the  Lotteries  that  were  finally  suppressed  in  1823. 
This  does  not  mean  that  betting  is  a  good  thing,  or  even  that  the  betting  connected 
with  racing  is  to  be  encouraged.  The  ideal  Turfite  would  be  the  man — who 
still  exists — who  races  entirely  on  his  own  income.  Those  who  deal  with  things 
as  they  find  them,  and  prefer  practical  proposals  based  on  knowledge  to  the 
impossible  Utopias  of  uninformed  faddists,  will  surely  never  shirk  the  duty,  which 
is  their  privilege,  of  cleansing  the  Turf  of  rascaldom  as  far  as  possible,  of  making 
the  transgressor's  path  difficult,  of  regulating  betting  by  every  means  which  may 
protect  the  citizen  from  fraud  in  his  free  exercise  of  doing  what  he  pleases  with 
his  money. 

Few    better   animals   with    which    to  finish    any   record   of  the    Turf  could    be 

conceived  than  Sceptre.  From  her  very  first  public 
appearance  in  the  sale  ring  she  was  recognised  as  a 
sensational  filly,  and  she  lived  up  to  her  reputation 
from  the  time  when  Mr.  R.  S.  Sievier  took  ,£20,000 
with  him  to  Newmarket,  looked  over  the  Eaton 
yearlings  in  company  with  his  late  trainer,  Charles 
Morton,  and  Mr.  Peard,  the  Irish  veterinary  surgeon, 
and  then  deposited  the  banknotes  with  Mr.  Somerville 
Tattersall  at  the  Rutland  Arms.  He  made  other  pur- 
chases at  that  momentous  sale,  but  he  was  waiting  all 

Mr.  Somerville  Tattersall.  i         •         r         i        /-u     i        r>        •  r^-> 

the  time  tor  the  nlly  by  Persimmon  out  or  Ornament, 

who  was  led  in  last  but  one.  He  started  at  5,000  guineas,  bought  her  at  10,000, 
and  was  prepared  to  go  on.  With  Duke  of  Westminster,  his  other  purchase,  she  was 
tried  as  a  young  two-year-old,  and  they  both  (in  receipt  of  a  stone)  beat  the  five- 
year-old  Leonid,  as  Mr.  Sievier  related  in  his  interesting  article  in  the  "  Badminton 
Magazine."  Robust  and  full  of  courage,  all  nerves  and  excitement,  yet  revelling 
in  her  work,  she  went  out  and  won  the  Wood  cote  Stakes  against  Czardas,  Port  Blair, 
and  seven  others  in  the  record  time  of  70?  sec.  for  the  six  furlongs.  She  then 
won  the  July  Stakes  at  Newmarket,  but  was  by  no  means  herself  when  Game  Chick 
and  Csardas  beat  her  at  Doncaster  for  the  Champagne  Stakes.  Duke  of  Westminster 
was  then  sold  for  ,£22,000,  and  Sceptre  promptly  beat  him  in  the  Two  Thousand 
as  soon  as  they  met  again.  The  horses  were  moved  from  Wantage  to  Shrewton 
in  the  spring  of  1902.  Only  a  fortnight  before  the  Lincoln  Handicap  some  mistake 


"'SCEPTXE'    WINS/" 


691 


seems  to  have  been  made  in  her  owner's  absence,  and  it  was  only  by  tempting  her 
with  a  preliminary  carrot  or  an  apple  that  she  would  eat  about  5lb.  4oz.  of  oats  in 
a  day.  By  the  time  of  the  St.  Leger  she  was  doing  2ilb.  without  an  effort.  But 
that  spring  must  have  been  a  trial.  St.  Maclon  beat  her  at  Lincoln  by  a  head. 
After  this  Mr.  Sievier  trained  her  entirely  himself,  gave  her  a  sound  rest  and  only 
increased  her  work  as  her  appetite  returned  ;  but  both  were  still  slightly  erratic. 
She  was  sweating  in  the  paddock  before  the  Two  Thousand,  but  she  soon  cooled 
down  to  business,  and  easily  beat  Ard  Patrick,  who  finished  behind  Pistol,  in 
the  record  time  of  i  min.  39  sec.,  with  Randall  on  her  back,  who  had  only  just 
turned  professional.  That  afternoon  Mr.  Charles  Greenwood  telegraphed  to  London 
that  she  might  well 
beat  Formosa  s  record. 
There  were  not  many 
who  had  supported  her 
for  the  Two  Thousand 
so  strongly  as  had  Mr. 
Arthur  Portman.  But 
every  one  was  to  receive 
a  good  many  shocks 
before  her  three-year- 
old  career  was  over. 
She  twisted  a  plate 
just  before  the  start 
for  the  One  Thousand, 
and  Mr.  Sievier  had  to 

wrench  it  off  himself.  Then  she  got  away  badly,  being  always  better  when  she 
has  warmed  to  her  work  ;  but  she  beat  St.  Windeline  easily  in  i  min.  405  sec., 
another  record. 

Then  began  one  of  the  most  interesting  discussions  as  to  the  Derby  I  have  ever 
known.  Mr.  Sievier  has  put  it  on  record  that  he  stood  to  win  .£33,000  on  her  for 
the  big  race.  He  himself  provided  almost  as  much  conversation  as  did  his  wonderful 
filly,  and  while  the  old  hands  compared  what  was  at  first  called  the  Coronation  Derby 
with  the  race  in  the  year  of  Queen  Victoria's  coronation,  with  memories  of  Lord 
George  Bentinck,  Lord  Albemarle,  Sir  Gilbert  Heathcote,  and  Lord  Chesterfield, 
who  accounted  for  "the  classics"  between  them,  younger  men  remembered  that 


"  Winifreda  "  (1897)  by  "  St.  Simon:' 


692  A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 

W.  Ridsdale  had  won  with  St.  Giles,  and  his  brother  with  Bloomsbury ;  that  Gully 
had  scored  with  Pyrrhus  the  First  and  Andijdw,  while  his  son-in-law  owned  Cossack  ; 
that  Mr.  Snewing  won  in  1862  with  Caractacus -;  that  William  Chifney  won  with 
Priam;  and  the  late  William  I'Anson  with  Blink  Bonny  and  Blair  Athol.  If 
Gully  had  been  a  member  of  Parliament,  John  Robinson  was  in  October,  1901, 
High  Sheriff  of  Nottinghamshire,  and  owner  of  Worksop  Manor,  one  of  the  most 
historic  estates  in  one  of  the  noblest  districts  of  England.  Mr.  Robinson's  success 
as  a  bookmaker  was  not  so  strongly  reflected  in  the  fortunes  of  the  horses  he 
owned  himself  as  was  the  case  with  Gully,  Ridsdale,  Harry  Hill,  Fred  Swindell, 
Hargreaves,  Saxon,  Barber,  or  John  Jackson.  But  it  is  no  exaggeration  to  estimate 
the  position  won  by  Mr.  Robinson  as  considerably  higher  than  that  of  any  of  his 
rivals,  not  only  as  a  sportsman  with  the  Rufford  Hounds,  or  as  a  breeder  with 
Breadknife,  but  as  High  Sheriff  of  the  most  aristocratic  county  in  England.  The 
owner  of  the  favourite  of  1902  could  boast,  it  was  recalled,  almost  as  varied  a 
career  as  any  of  these.  He  had  been  some  time  in  Australia  ;  he  was  not  unknown 
behind  the  footlights  in  South  Africa,  and  had  been  one  of  the  first  to  volunteer  for 
the  front  when  war  broke  out.  His  enemies  remembered  he  had  written  a  book. 
His  friends  knew  he  had  gambled  "on  everything  under  the  sun,"  had  backed 
horses,  and  had  laid  against  them.  Those  who  knew  nothing  of  him  could  at  least 
appreciate  his  confidence  both  in  himself  and  in  the  mare.  And  then  the  con- 
noisseurs of  horse-flesh  had  their  word.  But  those  who  argued  that  Eleanor  (1801), 
Blink  Bonny  (1857),  and  Shotover  (1882)  were  the  only  mares  to  win  the  blue 
ribbon,  were  told  that  this  only  proved  it  was  time  for  an  Eaton-bred  one  to 
win  it  again,  and  were  informed  that  the  doctrine  of  averages  was  in  favour  of 
Sceptre,  for  no  filly  had  even  started  since  La  Fleche  was  so  strangely  beaten  by 
Sir  Hugo  in  1892  ;  and  that  since  Shotover s  year  only  four  of  the  238  animals 
had  been  mares. 

The  great  day  came  at  last.  I  never  saw  a  prettier  sight  than  Sceptre  cantering 
and  walking  all  round  the  course  from  the  paddock  past  Tattenham  Corner  to  her 
position  right  on  the  outside  at  the  start.  I  have  seldom  seen  a  race  that  made  me 
sadder  than  the  finish.  Ard  Patrick,  looking  as  strong  as  a  lion,  and,  trained  to 
the  hour,  won  with  comparative  ease.  Just  as  easily,  a  little  later  on,  did  Sceptre  win 
the  Oaks.  I  was  being  carried  to  the  hospital  as  they  started,  and  the  news  that 
she  had  decisively  beaten  St.  Windeline  was  the  first  thing  that  brought  back  any 
interest  in  life.  She  was  taken  to  Paris  for  the  Grand  Prix,  which  she  not  unnaturally 


"'SCEPTRE'    WINS!" 


693 


lost,  as,  in  Mr.  Sievier's  opinion,  she  travelled  about  200  yards  further  than  the 
winners,  far  on  the  outside.  In  the  Coronation  Stakes  at  Ascot  she  was  many 
lengths  behind  when  the  horses  came  into  full  view,  swept  very  wide  round  the  turn, 
and  rushed  up  the  hill  in  a  terrific  but  unavailing  effort  to  catch  the  leaders.  The 
next  day  she  easily  won  the  St.  James's  Palace  Stakes  from  Flying  Lemttr  and 
Rising  Glass,  under  Hardy,  the  apprentice  who  had  ridden  her  at  Lincoln.  Work 
seemed  to  suit  her  temper  and  her  appetite ;  so  she  went  to  Goodwood,  and  was 
beaten  in  the  Sussex  Stakes  by  Royal  Lancer ;  and  after  going  a  mile  and  a  half 
gallop  the  next  day,  and  a  sharp  mile  the  one  after,  she  proceeded  to  win  the 
Nassau  Stakes  in  a  canter  (a  mile  and  a  half  under  951.  8lb.  in  2  min.  40  sec.), 
and  Hardy  became 
her  recognised  pilot. 

Her  preparation 
for  the  St.  Leger 
was  full  of  rumours. 
Some  said  she  could 
not  stay.  Others 
said  she  was  not 
being  trained  rightly. 
Meanwhile,  Mr.  Sie- 
vier  was  taking  her 
over  two  miles  (at 
8st.  islb.),  led  the 
first  five  furlongs  by 
Silverhampton  (6st.  6lb.),  the  next  five  by  Doochary  (7st.),  and  the  last  six  by 
Lavengro  (8st.),  and  watching  her  beat  the  lot.  He  had  also  publicly  issued  a 
challenge  to  the  world  that  "Sceptre  shall  run  any  horse,  at  weight  for  age  and 
sex,  for  ,£10,000,  over  from  ij  to  i|  miles."  This  was  not  taken  up.  She  won 
the  St.  Leger  with  the  greatest  ease.  Ard  Patrick,  her  most  dangerous  rival,  had 
gone  slightly  wrong,  and  as  it  seems  fated  that  Irish-bred  horses  shall  be  unlucky 
in  the  great  Doncaster  race,  she  had  no  difficulty  in  disposing  of  St.  Brendan. 
She  looked  fine  drawn,  and  was  evidently  very  fit,  and  very  light-hearted,  and 
came  home  in  a  canter  with  her  ears  pricked,  while  the  Tykes  cheered  as  loudly 
as  when  her  sire  Persimmon  had  been  steered  by  Watts  to  victory  over  the  same 
course.  Cheers  and  Cupbearer  were  both  knocked  out  by  Fowling  Piece,  whose 

VOL.   III.  I   I 


"  O 'Donovan  /-fossa"  (1897,)  by  "  Donovan." 


694 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


jockey  was  suspended  for  the  rest  of  the  meeting.  Sceptre  then  lost  the  Park  Hill 
Stakes  in  the  effort  to  give  Elba  i2lb.  forty-eight  hours  after  the  Leger ;  and 
those  who  had  persistently  betted  against  her  for  the  big  event  considered  they  had 
been  justified;  but  the  filly's  staying  powers  were  full  proved.  Time  3  min.  12  sec. 
on  a  wet  day,  trained  by  an  amateur  confident  enough  to  have  refused  two 
offers  of  38,000  and  40,000  guineas  for  her,  and  ridden  by  an  apprentice  only 
just  emancipated  from  the  allowance  stage,  from  the  outside,  without  a  single 
advantage,  in  weather  almost  as  tempestuous  as  Robert  the  Devil's  year,  she  won 
with  fully  a  stone  in  hand,  in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Charles  Greenwood,  who  had 
foretold  her  victory,  and  who  had  always  considered  that  her  occasional  failures 

only  accentuated  the  bril- 
liancy of  her  triumphs. 
These  were  indeed  worth 
considering,  for  she  had 
won  ,£25,650  in  stakes, 
and  her  victory  in  all 
the  five  classic  events 
except  the  Derby  put  her 
ahead  of  Formosa,  who 
won  the  One  Thousand, 
Oaks,  and  St.  Leger,  but 
ran  a  dead  heat  with 
Moslem  for  the  Two 
Thousand  (1868) ;  ahead 
of  Shotover,  who  won 

Two  Thousand  and  Derby  (1882);  ahead  of  Eleanor  and  Blink  Bonny,  who  won 
Derby  and  Oaks  in  1801  and  1857.  No  filly  has  ever  won  both  Derby  and  Leger. 
Sceptre  was  the  twenty-second  to  win  both  One  Thousand  and  Oaks,  and  she 
followed  Formosa  (1868),  Hannah  (1871),  Apology  (1874),  and  La  Flcche  (1892),  in 
winning  One  Thousand,  Oaks,  and  St.  Leger.  Impfrieuse  and  Achievement  won  the 
One  Thousand  and  the  Leger,  in  addition  to  the  quartette  already  named  who  added 
the  Oaks.  But  Achievement,  one  of  the  best  mares  that  ever  raced,  undoubtedly 
ought  to  have  defeated  Hippia  in  the  Oaks.  Sceptre  is  the  only  filly  who  has  won 
the  Two  Thousand  outright,  and  added  the  St.  Leger  to  it ;  and  the  only  other 
two  who  have  won  Two  Thousand,  One  Thousand,  and  Oaks  are  Crucifix  and 


"  La  Roche  "  (1897)  bv  "  St.  Simon." 


"'SCEPTRE'    WINS!' 


695 


Formosa.  The  winner  of  the  One  Thousand  has  never  won  the  Derby  ;  but  the 
winners  of  the  Oaks  who  also  put  the  St.  Leger  to  their  credit,  before  Sceptre, 
were  Queen  of  Trumps  (1835),  Formosa  (1868),  Hannah  (1871),  Marie  Stuart 
(1873),  Apology  (1874),  Jannette  (1878),  Seabreeze  (1888),  Memoir  (1890),  and 
La  Fleche  (1892). 

Sceptre  passed  a  healthy  and  comfortable  winter,  in  Mr.  Sievier's  ownership,  for 
the  reserve  price  of  24,000  guineas  was   not  reached  when  she  was  put  up  for  sale 
at  the  Houghton  Meeting,  and  at  Doncaster  Sir  Tatton  Sykes  had  offered  £25,000 
in  vain,  after  the  St.    Leger.      In  the  spring  of  1903  she  was   privately  purchased 
by  Mr.  W.  Bass  of  the  Tenth  Hussars,  nephew  of  Lord    Burton,  and  son  of  the 
late  Hamar  Bass,  M.P., 
owner   of  Love    Wisely, 
winner    of     the    Ascot 
Cup    in    the     "yellow, 
green  sleeves  and  cap," 
and  later  on  the  property 
of    Sir    Ernest    Cassel. 
The  famous  mare  went 

on  with  her  sensational         '  • 

career  as  gaily  as  ever 
in  1903.  Ascot  was 
memorable  for  the  suc- 
cess of  Mr.  Leopold  de 
Rothschild's  St.  Amant, 
Bass  Rock,  and  Kunstler; 
of  Fiancde,  owned  by  Lord  Falmouth,  whose  Quintessence  seemed  likely  to  recall 
the  ancient  triumphs  of  Mereworth ;  of  the  King's  three-year-old  Mead  in  the 
Prince  of  Wales's  Stakes ;  of  the  onslaught  by  the  Frenchmen  in  the  Gold  Cup. 
In  this  race  every  one  regretted  that  the  Duke  of  Portland's  game  favourite, 
William  the  Third,  was  unable  to  appear,  and  that  Sceptre,  who  would  no  doubt 
have  carried  Mr.  Sievier's  colours,  was  not  permitted  by  her  new  owner  to  oppose 
the  ioreigners.  M.  de  Bremond  won  for  the  second  time  when  Maximum  got 
home  without  much  trouble.  In  the  Alexandra  Plate  M.  E.  de  St.  Alary 's  Arizona 
again  lowered  the  English  colours,  making  all  the  running  from  beginning  to  end 
of  the  two  miles  and  three-quarters,  and  finishing  fresher  than  anything  else. 


"  Strongbow  "  (1897)  by  "  Morion  '' 
out  of  "  La  Fleche:' 


696 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Sceptre  had,  of  course,  no  difficulty  in  the  Hardwicke  Stakes,  which  was  in  the 
nature  of  a  training  gallop  in  her  careful  preparation  for  the  Eclipse  Stakes  later 
on.  Zinfandel,  by  Persimmon,  gave  a  taste  of  real  quality  by  making  very  light  of 
8st.  4lb.  in  the  Gold  Vase,  which  set  people  wondering  what  would  have  happened 
in  the  Derby  if  Colonel  McCalmont's  death  had  not  voided  his  nomination.  At 
Goodwood  Rabelais  won  Mr.  Arthur  James  his  third  Cup  in  successive  years,  from 
a  poor  field,  and  one  result  of  the  Steward's  Cup  race  was  a  sporting  match  for 
.£500  a  side,  later  on,  between  Mr.  Bottomley's  Le  Blizon  and  Mr.  J.  B.  Joel's 
Sundridge,  who  conceded  2st.  all  but  2lb.  in  the  later  event,  and  was  beaten. 

But  it  was  the  "  Ten  Thousand  Pounders  "  which  provided  the  sensation  of  the 

season.  Ard  Patrick 
(with  Morny  Cannon 
up)  proved  himself 
worthy  to  rank  with 
Isinglass,  St.  Friis- 
quin,  Flying  Fox,  and 
Epsom  Lad  as  a  good 
winner  of  the  Princess 
of  Wales's  Stakes  (a 
mile  and  a  half),  and 
showed  himself  to  be 
in  splendid  condition, 
though  the  opposition 
was  not  very  strong. 
July  17,  1903,  the  day 

of  the  Eclipse  Stakes  at  Sandown  Park,  will  always  be  remembered  as  one  of  the 
most  exciting  in  the  history  of  the  Turf.  In  a  terribly  wet  year,  it  gave  us  rare 
summer  weather.  Esher  has  certainly  never  been  so  crowded  since  Bendigds  day, 
when  it  rained  hard ;  and  the  King  was  in  his  private  stand.  Ard  Patrick  and 
Sceptre,  those  old  rivals,  were  to  meet  again,  and  her  inexplicable  defeat  in  her 
second  Lincoln  Handicap  was  quite  forgotten  by  her  many  friends.  The  two  crack 
four-year-olds  were  to  oppose  Rock  Sand,  the  eventual  winner  of  the  Triple  Crown 
of  1903,  who  was  made  first  favourite  at  n  to  8,  with  Sceptre  at  2  to  i,  and 
Ard  Patrick  at  4  to  i.  Duke  of  Westminster  and  Oriole  (by  Ladas  out  of  Orle) 
also  started.  Maher  had  had  so  bad  an  accident  on  July  10,  in  a  motor  car,  that 


"King's  Courier"'  (1897,  U.S.A.}  by  "  Kingston:'1 


"'SCEPTRE'    WINS!"  697 

he  was  unable  to  ride   again   till   the  York   meeting  in  August,  and   Blackwell  had 

to  put  up  J.  H.  Martin  on  Sir  James  Miller's  colt.     The  meeting  of  Ard Patrick, 

Sceptre,   and  Rock    Sand  was  certainly  the  finest    race    seen    since    Voltigeur  and 

The  Flying  Dutchman  fought  for    supremacy ;    and    between    the  three  cracks  at 

Sandown  there  were   no  less   than  seven  classic  races,  rising  to  eight  later  in  the 

year.     Of  these  the  winner  had  only  one,  but  that  was  the  Derby.     This  struggle, 

and   that  for  the  Jockey  Club   Stakes  the  same  season,    remind   me  that,   besides 

St.  Frusquin  s  victory  in  the   Princess  of  Wales's  Stakes  already  mentioned,   there 

are  other  famous   fields    that   deserve  comparison  with  them.       In  the   Ascot   Cup 

of  1874,  Boiard,  the  French  Grand  Prix  winner,  beat  the  winners  of  the  Derby, 

Oaks,     St.     Leger,     and 

Two   Thousand,   besides 

Flageolet,       who       alone 

smashed     up     Cremorne 

and    Favonius    so    badly 

in    the    Goodwood    Cup 

that    they   never    started 

again.        Lecturer      beat 

three    Oaks    winners    in 

the    Ascot    Cup.      Bees- 

wing   had    Charles  XII. 

and    Attila    behind    her 

in    the    Doncaster    Cup 

I n  the  Champion  Stakes  „  ^^  .„  (i^  by  „ ^^  Birtkday? 

at    Newmarket,  Jannette 

beat    two    St.    Leger    winners,    one   of  whom    had    won    the    Derby.       St.    Gatien 

squandered    Melton     when    they    met.       At     Kempton    Park    Epsom    Lad    ("the 

Friponnier  of  his  day ")  beat  a  Derby  winner   and  a  St.    Leger  winner.       In    the 

Jockey  Club  Stakes  Persimmon  anticipated  his  daughter's  performance  by  coming 

home  in  front  of  a  Derby  winner  and  a  Two  Thousand  winner. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  Rock  Sand  would  have  ranked  as  an  undoubtedly  first- 
rate  Derby  winner  but  for  this  race  for  the  Eclipse;  and  with  the  exception  of 
course  of  Zinfandel,  he  may  be  something  more  than  "a  long  way  the  best  of 
a  very  bad  year ;  "  but  in  any  case  the  fact  that  he  was  well  beaten  by  first  and 
second  at  Sandown  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  home  shows  the  very  exceptional 


698 


A   HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


quality  of  the  cracks  of  1902.  As  was  said  at  the  time,  if  Gladiateur  and  Blair 
Athol  had  been  able  to  meet,  one  must  have  won ;  but  the  other  would  not  have 
lost  his  title  to  being  an  exceptional  animal.  Ard  Patrick  proved  himself  a 
wonder.  The  fame  of  Sceptre  grew  no  less  because  a  stallion  of  her  own  age 
beat  her  on  the  post.  Inch  by  inch  the  Irishman  wore  down  her  lead,  and  a 
hundred  yards  from  home  he  was  level.  Sceptre  was  beaten  by  a  neck.  Those 
who  still  upheld  her  superiority  were  as  vehemently  answered  by  those  who  still 
refused  to  believe  that  Rock  Sand,  with  his  favourite  jockey,  was  inferior  to  either 
her  or  the  Irishman.  The  result  of  the  St.  Leger  confirmed  these  latter  in  their 
opinion  ;  and  in  the  Jockey  Club  Stakes  the  mare  had  to  meet  him  on  worse 

terms  than  at  Sandown. 
Maher,  too,  was  to 
be  on  his  back  again, 
and  Ard  Patrick,  who 
had  felt  the  "leg"  he 
got  at  Ascot  a  year 
before,  was  not  to  meet 
them  again,  and  went 
to  Germany.  Darling 
knew  how  good  he 
was  ;  and  he  was  there- 
fore among  those  who 
refused  to  support  Rock 
Sand  when  he  came  out 
at  Newmarket  against 

the  famous  mare,  Cappa  White,  William  Rufus,  and  Cheers.  The  last  three, 
it  was  recognised,  could  only  be  racing  for  the  ,£1,000  allotted  to  the  third 
place.  But  there  was  tension  in  the  air.  Mr.  Sievier  never  stopped  backing  the 
mare,  and  a  prominent  bookmaker,  who  favoured  Sir  James  Miller's  colt,  was 
never  tired  of  giving  him  the  odds.  The  rain  came  down  as  they  started,  and 
Sceptre  won  by  four  lengths.  Every  one  cheered  till  they  could  cheer  no  more. 
Mr.  Sievier  was  completely  overcome.  Lady  Noreen  Bass  and  Mr.  Arthur 
Chetwynd  were  within  the  barriers  while  the  mare,  with  her  head  up  and  the  eyes 
of  a  queen,  waited  outside  the  weighing-room  door.  It  was  a  magnificent  and 
never-to-be-forgotten  moment.  Alec  Taylor  and  his  training  establishment  at 


" Handicapper"  (1898)  by  "Matchmaker? 


"'  SCEPTRE'    WINS!"  699 

Manton  were  not  the  least  happy  in  that  delighted  throng.  Taylor  finished  third 
on  the  list  of  winning  trainers  for  1903  with  ,£18,731.  With  Rock  Sand  alone 
winning  over  ,£18,000,  G.  Blackwell  had  not  much  trouble  in  putting  Newmarket 
at  the  head  of  the  Trainers'  List  of  1903  for  the  fifth  time  in  seven  years,  making 
the  fine  total  of  ,£34,146  for  the  season,  in  which  Cinquefoil,  Rondeau,  Pharisee, 
Cossack,  Chanter,  Flotsam,  Oriole,  and  Extradition  all  assisted,  under  the  colours 
of  Sir  James  Miller,  Sir  D.  Cooper,  and  Lord  Rosebery. 

If  Sceptre  had  not  won  the  Jockey  Club  Stakes,  she  would  probably  have  gone 
for  the  Cesarewitch  at  gst.  7lb.  But  a  memorable  alternative  was  given  to  the 
public  in  the  Duke  of  York  Stakes  at  Kempton  in  October,  which  came  off  nine 
days  afterwards,  and  she  carried  gst.  4lb.,  with  fourteen  in  the  field  against  her, 
on  one  of  the  rare  fine  days  that  season.  She  seemed  sore  after  her  racing  plates 
had  been  put  on,  and  a  rumour  spread  like  smoke  among  the  crowd.  But  as 


By  permission  of  the  "Illustrated  Finish  of '" Sceptre's  "  St.  Leger  (1902). 

Sporting  and  Dramatic  .Vews." 

soon  as  her  exercise  shoes  were  put  on  she  seemed  all  right  again.  However, 
that  meant  increased  weight,  and  increased  suction  on  the  heavy  ground.  The 
odds  were  13  to  8  on  her  at  the  start.  Soarazvay  made  running  to  the  bend,  then 
Happy  Slave  took  it  up.  Sceptre  never  came  out  of  the  ruck  till  a  quarter  of 
a  mile  from  home.  Then  Madden  sent  her  along,  and  in  a  furlong's  length  she 
was  within  four  lengths  of  Happy  Slave,  whose  jockey  stuck  to  the  rails.  Madden 
had  to  challenge  on  the  outside  with  barely  a  hundred  yards  to  cover,  and  he 
found  himself  obliged  to  use  his  whip.  The  mare  responded  in  the  most  gallant 
style,  and  just  won  on  the  post,  conceding  4olb.  to  Happy  Slave,  26lb.  to  Glass 
lug;  the  third,  and  2 lib.  to  the  Oaks  winner,  O^^r  Lassie,  who  was  fifth.  Mr. 
Sievier,  such  is  the  irony  that  sometimes  touches  the  fate  of  every  racing  man, 
had  trained  Happy  Slave.  After  that,  she  won  the  Champion  Stakes,  while 
Quintessence  secured  the  Newmarket  Oaks,  and  the  Cheveley  Park  Stakes  were 


7oo 


A    HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


taken  by  Pretty  Polly,  who  ran  and  won,  like  Crucifix,  nine  times  as  a  two-year-old, 
winning  .£13,496  in  stakes  for  Major  Eustace  Loder,  as  compared  with  the  ,£4,587 
allotted  to  Lord  George  Bentinck's  over-worked  heroine.  The  way  Pretty  Polly 
has  squandered  all  opposition  indicates  a  great  career  for  her  in  the  future  if  she 
shapes  into  a  strong  three-year-old,  which  all  the  Gallinules  have  not  the  habit 
of  doing.  At  present  she  stands  ahead  of  St.  Amant,  Santry,  and  Henry  the  First, 
the  best  colts  of  her  year,  if  handicapping  may  be  taken  as  a  guide  ;  but  she  is  not 
entered  for  the  Two  Thousand  or  Derby. 

Many  good  judges  consider  Sceptre  to  be  the  best-shaped  animal  of  her  year 
or    any  other  year.      Her  perfect   head,    with    its   bloodlike,    "  mealy "   muzzle  ;    her 

shapely,  muscular  neck, 
beautifully  fitted  into 
deep  shoulders  ;  the 
humerus  both  perpen- 
dicular and  long  ;  her 
forearm  and  gaskins 
phenomenally  strong  ; 
her  short  back,  wonder- 
ful stifle,  good  loins  and 
quarters,  straight  hind 
legs,  and  deep  brisket 
—these  all  go  to  make 
up  a  whole  that  it  would 
be  difficult  to  equal  and 
almost  impossible  to  excel.  If  we  take  the  number  of  their  victories  as  a  criterion, 
no  mare  has  beaten  Beeswings  52  wins  out  of  63  starts,  and  no  mare  but  her 
has  lasted  eight  seasons  on  the  Turf.  Alice  Hawthorn  won  50  and  a  dead  heat 
out  of  68  starts  in  seven  seasons.  Caller  Ou  had  to  work  even  harder,  for  she 
started  86  times  in  six  seasons  for  her  44  victories.  Lilian,  who  won  the  Queen's 
Plate  by  twelve  lengths  at  the  Craven  Meeting  of  1873,  ran  106  races,  nearly  all 
from  two  to  three  miles,  and  won  46  of  them  in  six  seasons.  Good  judges  place 
Achievement,  Stcckwell's  daughter,  at  the  top  of  the  tree,  ahead  of  Beeswing  and 
of  Sceptre,  with  La  Flcche  and  Hannah  following  her.  But  it  is  difficult  to  forget 
Marie  Stuart,  Wheel  of  Fortune,  Cwcifix,  Formosa,  Virago,  Lily  Agnes,  Fleur 
de  Lys,  Apology,  and  Lady  Elizabeth,  probably  the  best  two-year-old  ever  bred. 


"  Maximum  II."  (Ascot  Cold  Cup,  1903). 


SCEPTRE'    WINS/" 


701 


And  if  we  are  to  consider  breeding  as  well  as  racing  records,  we  must  give 
Newminster  to  Beeswing ;  Thormanby  to  Alice  Hawthorn ;  Ormonde  to  Lily 
Agnes.  It  will  be  right,  too,  to  remember  that  Morganette  must  be  credited  both 
with  Ard  Patrick  and  with  Galtee  More,  and  therefore  joins  that  select  band 
of  matrons  which  contains  Penelope,  clam  of  Whalebone  and  Whisker;  Flyer, 
dam  of  Rhadamanthus  and  Daedalus;  H or  alia,  clam  of  Archduke  and  Paris; 
Arethusa,  dam  of  Williamsons  Ditto  and  Pan;  Emma,  dam  of  Mundig  and 
Cotherstone ;  and  Perdita  II.,  dam  of  Persimmon  and  Diamond  Jubilee.  Nor 


By  permission  if  "  Country  Life." 


"  Bendigo? 


should  the  claims  of  that  remarkable  mare,  Princess  of  Wales,  be  forgotten  in 
this  connection  ;  for  in  five  consecutive  years  she  bred  five  own  brothers  and 
sisters,  all  winners — Albert  Victor,  Louise  Victoria,  Victoria  Alexandra,  George 
Frederick,  and  Maud  Victoria.  Taking  breeding  and  racing  together,  perhaps 
Cobweb,  Crucifix,  Beeswing,  Mendicant,  Alice  Hawthorn,  and  Blink  Bonny  may  be 
said  to  have  been  the  best  of  the  nineteenth  century ;  and  no  consideration  of 
modern  mares  would  be  complete  without  a  glance  across  the  Channel  at  such 
flyers  as  Fillc  de  I' Air,  Plaisanterie,  Kincsem,  and  M.  Abeille's  La  Camargo. 


VOL.   III. 


K  K 


702 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


It  will,  I  believe,  be  of  interest  to  those  who  followed  the  development  of  the 
Arab  type  into  the  English  thoroughbred — which  I  traced  in  my  first  volume  from 
the  Elgin  marbles,  through  Leonardo's  and  Durer's  drawings  to  Mambrino — if 
they  will  for  a  moment  consider  the  conformation  of  Sceptre  or  Rock  Sand,  and 
compare  it  with  the  mare  and  foal  I  reproduce  on  page  708  of  this  volume 
from  a  Thessalian  gold  drachma  (93^  grains)  struck  at  Larissa  between  B.C.  400 
and  B.C.  344.  Another  gold  coin  of  the  same  date  and  place  shows  a  galloping 
horse  with  a  rein  that  trails  across  his  neck.  Both  these  formed  part  of  the 
famous  Montagu  collection.  By  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Newton- Robinson  I  can  trace 

the  type  through  the 
^T&irj^J'L&S^  Graeco- Roman  times  in 
a  ring  and  a  cameo  of 
that  period  ;  and  finally, 
Mr.  J.  P.  Heseltine  has 
permitted  me  to  repro- 
duce a  famous  brown 
sard  bought  from  the 
Marlborough  collection, 
with  an  exquisite  carving 
of  a  Roman  racehorse. 
The  fine  muzzle,  broad 
hoof,  loaded  shoulder, 
and  round  barrel,  will 
be  found  to  have  per- 
sisted from  the  earliest 
times  we  know  the  Arab  until  now ;  and  to  make  it  more  clear  that  the 
pure  Arab  blood,  when  unmixed,  has  retained  all  its  old  characteristics,  I  have 
also  reproduced  upon  page  705  the  favourite  horse  Warren  Hastings  used 

o 

to  ride,  from  Stubbs'  painting  on  porcelain  in  possession  of  Sir  Walter  Gilbey ; 
Azrek,  a  typical  animal  from  Mr.  Wilfrid  Blunts  Arab  Stud  at  Crabbet  Park  ; 
and  Mr.  Charles  Purse's  spirited  sketch  for  his  equestrian  portrait  of  Field 
Marshal  Lord  Roberts.  This  well-known  Arab,  Vonolel,  was  bought,  Lord 
Roberts  tells  me,  in  Bombay,  at  Abdul  Rahman's  stable  in  March,  1877,  when 
it  had  just  been  landed  from  Arabia.  Vonolel  was  of  pure  Nejed  breed, 
and  must  have  been  about  twenty-seven  years  old  when  he  died  in  Dublin 


Photo  by  Clarence  Hailey,  Newmarket. 


Lord  Howard  de  Waldai's 
"  Zinfaiidel." 


703 


704  A    HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH   TURF. 

in    1899,    after    having    taken    part    in    the    Diamond    Jubilee    Procession    of    two 
years  before. 

It  is   interesting  to  recall   that  the  central   figure   of  that   Procession,    our  late 
revered  sovereign  Queen  Victoria,  though  never  a  patroness  of  the  Jockey  Club, 
saw  her  husband's  name  in  the  Calendar  of  1 848  as  breeder  of  a  colt  by  Sir  Hercules 
from   an  Elis  mare,   and    approved    the    accession    of  her  eldest    son  to   the   Turf 
Parliament  in  1864.      Her  personal  acquaintance  with  Racing  was  much  older  than 
either  of  these  events.     When  only  eleven,   she  was  present  with  her  mother  at 
the  Worcester  Meeting  when  Mr.  Ormsby  Gore's  Hesperus  won  the  Gold  Cup  on 
the  very  day  when  William   IV.  won  the  Goodwood  Cup  with  Fleur  de  Lys,  and 
sailed  into  second  and  third  places  as  well.      In   1831  she  saw,  from  the  Stewards' 
Stand  at  Epsom,  Lord  Jersey's  Riddlesworth  and  the  King's  Mustachio  colt  beaten 
by  the  outsider  Spaniel.      In  1834,  dressed  in  "a  muslin  pelisse  lined  with  primrose- 
coloured  silk,  a  white  chip  bonnet,  ornamented  with  a  small  bouquet  of  roses,  and 
a  wreath  of  the  same  flowers  round  her  forehead,"  she  saw  Mr.   W.   Day's  Isabel 
win  the  ^"70  cup  given  by  the  Duchess  of   Kent,   the  length  of  each  heat  being 
two  miles  and  a  distance.     The  next  season  the  Princess  Victoria  not  only  attended 
the  East   Sussex  Hunt  Races  on  the   Lewes  course,  but  presented  the  prize  with 
a  neat  little  speech  to  Mr.  Ellman.      It  was  more  than  sixty  years  before  her  son's 
Persimmon   got    home    on    Doncaster    Town    Moor,   that    Queen   of  Triimps   most 
appropriately  won  the  St.  Leger  under  the  eyes  of  the  Princess  Victoria  on  the  only 
occasion  when  she  saw  the  great  race  of  the  North.     She  was  always  fond  of  Ascot, 
and  her  last  visit  was  associated  with  an  even  more  famous  heroine  of  the  Turf, 
for  Charlton  exhibited  Blink  Bonny  to  her  and    Lord  Palmerston  after  the  mare 
had  walked  over  for  a  sweepstakes. 

After  the  death  of  Prince  Albert,  the  Queen  never  went  racing  again.  But 
her  name  will  always  be  associated  with  the  Royal  Stud  at  Hampton  Court,  which 
was  started  again  by  Charles  Greville  after  it  had  been  sold  on  the  death  of 
William  IV.  ;  for  from  those  historic  paddocks  came  Sainfoin,  Memoir,  La  Flee  he, 
Julius,  Julius  C&sar,  Springfield,  Diophantus,  and  many  more,  until  all  were  sold 
again  at  Tattersall's  in  July,  1894.  Springfield,  it  should  be  remembered,  was  one 
of  the  very  best  sprinters  we  have  ever  had.  He  only  failed  twice  ;  in  the  Criterion 
and  in  the  Dewhurst  Stakes  which  Kisber  won.  He  beat  Silvio  in  the  Champion 
Stakes  Across  the  Flat,  and  in  the  July  Cup  at  Newmarket  he  fairly  made  hacks 
of  Ecossais,  of  Trappist,  who  won  the  Wokingham  Stakes  under  gst.  tolb.,  and  of 


705 


From  the  original  fainting  on  porcelain  by  Sliibbs  (1791). 
in  the  fn>ssessiini  it/Sir  II  'niter  Ctilfrey.  ' 


Warren  Hastings  ami  his  Arab. 


A    HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 


Lollypop,  whose  third  for  the  Stewards'  Cup  with  lost,  is  the  best  on  record  for 
that  race.  As  Princess  of  Wales,  our  present  beloved  Queen  started  the  modern 
fashion  of  ladies  going  to  Newmarket  by  her  visit  in  the  summer  of  1881  to 
the  Earl  and  Countess  Cadogan  at  Rutland  Cottage,  whence  she  drove  across 

the  Heath,  in  one  of  the  Cadogan 
carriages  and  four,  to  the  July 
Meeting  behind  the  Ditch. 

The  effect  that  English  breeds 
and  English  climate  have  had  upon 
the  Arab  type  suggests  one  of  the 
most  interesting  problems  raised  by 
such  a  history  as  that  contained  in 
the  present  volumes.  In  my  own 
opinion  the  English  thoroughbred, 
of  the  modern  type  of  Ormonde, 
Ard  Patrick,  and  Sceptre,  can  best 
be  kept  up  to  their  high  standard 
by  means  of  continued  and  careful 
reimportation  of  English  stock  from 
those  newer  countries  to  which 

famous    stallions    have    from    time   to    time    been    imported.      Examples    of  strains, 
more  or  less  weak  in  England,  which  have  already   been    fortified    by   reimported 
stock  of  the  same  blood  from  other  pastures,  may  be  found  in  the 
West  Australian  line,  with  Kings  Courier  from  the  United  States 
of  America,  and  Australian  Star  from  Australia  ;  the  Ithuricl  line 
(of  which  we  have  only  Ragimunde,  Son  of  a  Gun,  Toisoii  a" Or,  and 
Tomahawk]  with  Aurum,   Carbine,   Gold  Medallist,    Mousquetaire, 
Sternchaser,   and    Trenton,   not  to   mention  future  possibilities  like 
Bistonian,  Fowling  Piece,  Pistol,  or    Wargrave ;   the   Whisker  line 
with  Abercorn,  Ilchester,  Kirkham,  Stoccado,  Merman,  and  Patron; 
the    Faugh-a-Ballagh    line    with    Berzak    and    Don    Alonzo ;    the 
Stockwell  line,   through   The  Marquis,  with  Newhaven  II.,  and   the  Pantaloon   line 
through  Nabot.     The  line  of  Diomed  is  extinct  here  ;   though  the  imported  horses, 
Americus  and  Pactohis,  may  revive  it. 

I   have  noticed  the  proved  difficulty  of  obtaining  cavalry   remounts  from  those 


Mr.  Wilfrid  Blunfs  Arab  "  Azrek." 


A  Roman  racer. 

l'"rom  a  Gra'co-Roinan 
»<v«  of  the  first  cen- 
titrv  A.L). ,  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  C. 
Xeli'ton-Robinson. 


•    JH* 
•        • 


From  the  original  sketch  for  his  portrait  fry  C.   W.  Fursc, 
fry  permission  of  the  artist. 


Lord  Roberts  and  his  Arab  " 


;o8 


A    HISTORY   OF  THE  ENGLISH  TURF. 


Tliessalian  racehorse. 


mission  of  the  Autotvfe  Co. 


sources  which  the  Turf  provides  in  its  English  thorough- 
bred sires  ;  and  it  is  clearly  just  as  useless  to  expect  pure 
Arab  blood  to  do  any  more  good  in  producing  racers. 
At  a  given  period  it  produced  the  English  thoroughbred 
by  processes  I  have  traced  ;  but  it  is  only  from  the  strains 
of  Herod,  Matchem,  and  Eclipse  that  we  can  breed  the 
racer  of  the  modern  Turf;  and  those  old  strains  should 
as  far  as  possible  have  been  previously  reinvigorated  by 
the  limestone  pastures  of  Australasia.  The  function  of 

.  A        i         •  •        •  •     •  i 

the  pure  Arab  sire  now  is,  in  my  opinion,  to  do  as  much 
for  our  Remount  Department  as  he  has  already  done  for  our  Racecourse.  Crossed 

with  such  hardy,  typical, 
indigenous  breeds  as 
the  Devonshire,  Welsh, 
New  Eorest,  or  High- 
land pony-mare,  the 
Arab  sire  will  produce 
the  small  handy,  tireless, 
beautifully  built  animal 
for  the  Mounted  In- 
fantry of  future  war- 
fare. English  breeds 
and  English  climate  will 
do  again  what  they  have 
done  before  ;  and  the 
Army  will  be  able  to  call  upon  small,  stout  horses  from  14.1  to  15  hands,  after 

the  pattern  of  Gimcrack,  Highlander,  and  the  "good 
little  'uns  "  of  the  eighteenth  century,  for  mounted  men  ; 
while  nothing  better  to  serve  the  guns  can  be  imagined 
than  a  cross  between  an  approved  thoroughbred  and  a 
good  Shire. 

Scarcely  less  interesting  to  me  than  the  breeding  of 
horses    has    been    the    development    of  the    human  type 

durj  those    centuries   Qf    English     Racing    I    have    tried 

T          -.!_  •    ^  1_  *    1_  i  r 

In    the    picture    which    sets    the    owner    of 


'•  Pretty  Polly"  (1901),  with  Lane  up. 


Thessalian  mare  and  foal. 


From  a  gold  coin  of  Larissa,  B.C.  400, 

in  the  Montagu   Collection.     By  per-  i  i 

mission  of  the  Autotype  Co.  MJ      SKCtCn. 


"'SCEPTjRE'    WINS!" 


709 


Dioined  beside  the  owner  of  Rock  Sand — Sir  Charles  Bunbury  beside  Sir  James 
Miller — I  have  endeavoured  to  indicate,  as  it  were  in  an  allegory,  the  progression 
of  society  on  the  English  Turf  from  early  clays  until  now,  from  the  first  Derby 
until  that  of  1903. 

In  the  collection  of  paintings  which  forms  the  most  valuable  feature  of  these 
volumes,  it  will  be  noticed  that  the  portraits  of  men  and  women,  before  about  1880, 
are  usually  far  more  faithful  records  of  individual  character  than  those  of  the  horses. 


From  the  print  after  Dighton 
in  possession  of  H.R.H. 
I'rincc  Christian. 


.Sir  Charles  Bunbury, 
i'iniier  of  the  first  Derby. 


Sir  James  Miller,  winner 
of  the  Derby  cf  1903. 


Here  and  there,  of  course,  a  really  good  artist  devoted  his  attention  to  the  Turf, 
and  in  the  canvases  of  Ben  Marshall,  Barenger,  Stubbs,  Herring,  and  a  few  others, 
we  may  perhaps  see  a  real  portrait  of  the  animal  represented,  painted  almost  as 
well  as  those  pictures  in  which  Reynolds,  Romney,  or  Gainsborough  have  im- 
mortalised the  men  and  women  of  their  day.  But  the  comparison  between  past 
and  present  in  the  animal  is  rendered  entirely  impossible,  from  a  scientific  point 
of  view,  owing  to  the  complete  absence  of  sufficient  scientifically  accurate  material  ; 
and  it  is  only  since  the  days  of  instantaneous  photography  that  the  biologist  has  been 

VOL.   III.  L  L 


A    HISTORY  OF  THE  ENGLISH   TURF. 


able  to  consider  the  extremely  valuable  facts  supplied  by  the  life-history  of  a  breed 
in  which  more  accurate  details  about  pedigree  and  performance  have  been  preserved, 
over  a  longer  period  of  time,  than  is  the  case  with  any  other  animal  known  to  man. 
These  details,  however,  are  lamentably  inadequate  from  the  anatomical  point  of 
view.  Even  concerning  Eclipse,  the  most  valuable  individual  animal  who  ever 
lived,  considerable  doubt  exists  as  to  various  essential  details.  Very  few  skeletons 
of  famous  horses  have  been  so  carefully  preserved  as  to  provide  adequate  proofs 
of  their  authenticity  or  accurate  measurements  of  their  framework.  It  may  be 
hoped  that  the  growing  interest  taken  by  owners  and  breeders  in  the  biological 
side  of  their  intensely  fascinating  pursuit  will  now  lead,  not  only  to  the  preservation 

of  the  skeletons  of  such  typical  animals 
as  Ormonde,  St.  Simon,  Flying  Fox,  and 
others,  but  also  to  the  accurate  repro- 
duction of  their  living  framework  by  the 
means  of  plaster  casts.  The  Hungarian 
Government  has  already  proved  the 
possibility  and  the  value  of  such  a 
process  in  various  breeds  of  live  stock. 
The  Director  of  the  British  Museum 
of  Natural  History  is  perfectly  willing 
to  give  every  facility  to  owners  and 
breeders  in  taking  a  course  which  will 
be  as  useful  to  them  as  it  will  be  valu- 


A Roman  racehorse. 


Much  enlarged  from  an  Augustan  cat  ved  sardonyx  in  the 
possession  of  J.  P.  Hcseltine,  Esq.  By  permission  of 
the  Autotype  Co. 


able  to  the  wider  interests  of  scientific 

research.  That  Museum  should  contain  reduced  models  to  scale  of  all  our  typical 
thoroughbreds  now  living,  and  skeletons  of  the  best  of  them.  It  only  remains  for 
owners  like  the  Dukes  of  Westminster,  Devonshire,  or  Portland  to  give  a  lead  in 
doing  a  public  service  which  will  be  of  inestimable  benefit  to  ourselves  and  to 
posterity.  The  work  done  by  the  modern  photographer  is,  of  course,  highly  valuable 
in  this  connection.  When  it  is  employed,  and  collected,  in  such  a  book  as  that 
of  Major-General  Sir  John  Hills,  it  provides  exactly  the  data  on  which  scientific 
inquiry  can  proceed  until  better  facts  are  forthcoming.  His  measurements  of  the 
humerus  in  proportion  to  the  scapula,  and  his  notes  on  the  formation  of  the  legs 
and  the  position  of  the  stifle,  are  just  the  right  kind  of  anatomical  details  which  are 
required.  Mr.  Muybridge's  system  of  instantaneous  photography,  and  Professor 


"  ' SCEPTRE'    WINS!" 


711 


Marey's  work  on  similar  lines,  tend  in  the  same  beneficial  direction.  The  statue 
of  King  Tom  (p.  490),  and  the  painting  of  the  Arab  Vonolel,  are  examples  of 
what  modern  art  can  effect  when  the  artist  who  is  great  in  other  directions  turns 
the  full  power  of  his  genius  towards  the  presentation  of  that  most  beautiful  of 
all  animals,  the  horse.  I  am  encouraged  to  think  that  the  day  is  now  not  far 
distant  when  we  shall  see  a  Derby  winner,  painted  during  his  lifetime  by  a 
President  of  the  Royal  Academy,  on  the  walls  of  Burlington  House,  and  preserved, 
after  his  death,  within  the  British  Museum  of  Natural  History.  So  long  a 


n 


Sir  James  Millers  "Rock  Sand"  (Derby,  1903  . 

pedigree  and  so  good  a  performance  deserve  no  less  a  recognition  from  the  nation 
they  have  adorned. 

Nothing  inculcates  the  virtue  of  modesty,  and  an  appreciation  of  the  gifts  of 
others,  so  strongly  as  the  kind  of  work  which  has  engaged  my  idle  moments  for 
so  long.  Those  who  point  out  my  mistakes  will  only  increase  my  admiration  for 
the  many  who  know  more  of  Turf  History  than  I  do,  and  the  many  who  have 
so  generously  placed  their  knowledge  and  their  treasures  at  my  disposal  in  time 
for  me  to  make  full  use  of  both.  Those  who  wonder  that  anv  inaccuracies  should 


7' 2  A   HISTORY   OF  THE   ENGLISH  TURF. 

remain,  I  can  easily  forgive.  To  attempt  a  History  of  Racing  on  the  English 
Turf  is  a  task  that  involves  dealing  with  facts  known  to  many  inveterate  partisans 
in  as  many  different  lights.  If  any  single  man  could  have  been  qualified  to  write 
it  as  it  should  have  been  written,  that  man  perhaps  was  Francis  Lawley.  Even 
then  the  critical  connoisseur  might  have  been  unhappy  without  a  dash  of  "  The 
Druid's "  cleanly  and  humorous  enthusiasm,  a  seasoning  of  Charles  Greenwood's 
judicial  accuracy,  some  of  the  character-drawing  of  a  Thackeray,  some  of  the 
genealogical  knowledge  of  a  Joseph  Osborne,  some  of  the  antiquarian  research 
of  J.  P.  Hore,  a  few  of  the  anecdotes  of  Edward  Spencer,  a  little  of  the  practical 
experience  of  Morny  Cannon,  some  of  the  traditional  lore  of  a  Weatherby  or  a 
Tattersall.  Such  a  galaxy  of  talent  exists  no  longer  within  a  single  brain  ;  and 
the  present  writer  is  but  too  well  aware  of  his  own  deficiencies  in  the  task  of 
attempting  such  a  survey  of  Racing  as  is  contained  in  these  pages.  It  is  a  labour 
that  must  inevitably  obscure  what  is  beloved  by  some  in  order  to  record  what 
should  be  remembered  by  all.  And  now  that  I  have  "caught  the  judge's  eye," 
I  may  confess  that  I  carried  more  weight  than  I  ever  imagined  at  the  start. 
Between  one  Oaks  day  and  the  next  I  was  prevented  writing  anything  by  the 
untimely  ingratitude  of  one  of  the  mares  whose  relations  I  was  busy  chronicling. 
At  the  best,  I  had  to  make  my  living  by  journalism  while  I  gave  my  leisure  to 
the  book  that  is  now  done.  But  I  am  content  to  have  attempted  it,  and — such 
as  it  is — I  leave  it  with  regret. 

March  i,  1904. 


A  Roman  racer. 

From  a  GrKco-Roman  gem  of  the  first  century  A.D., 
in  the  possession  of  Mr.  C.  Newton-Robinson. 


FINIS. 


APPENDIX. 


A.— The  Pedigree  of  FLYING  CHILDERS,  as  given  by  Captain  Roger  D.  Upton 

in  "  Newmarket  and  Arabia"  (1873). 

FLYING   OR   DEVONSHIRE   CHILDERS,  1715. 
[A  horse  entirely  of  Eastern  descent,  and  principally  of  Arabian  blood.] 
Darley  Arabian.     A  horse  of  the  family  called   "  Managhi " 


en 

a: 
w 
0 


U 


'  Spanker 


/  Careless 


Betty  Leedes 


D'Arcy's  Yellow  Turk 


I  Morocco  Barb  (Lord  Fairfax's) 

Daughter  of   (  ,       .     , - 

(an  Arabian 

I  Bald  Peg  I 
a  Barb  Mare  la  Barb  Mare 


Sister  to  Leedes 


Leedes  Arabian 


Daughter  of 


Spanker 


D'Arcy's  Yellow  Turk 


Daughter  of 


Morocco  Barb  (Lord  Fairfax's) 


Bald  Peg 


an  Arabian 


Barb  Mare 
(Spanker'sDam) 
,  daughter  of 


a  Barb  Mare 
Morocco  Barb  (Lord  Fairfax's) 


Bald  Peg: 


an  Arabian 
a  Barb  Mare 


APPENDIX. 


B.— The  Pedigree  of  Mr.  William  Fenwick's  MATCHEM,  bred  by  Mr.  John  Holme  in  1748  ; 

died  at  Bywell,  Northumberland,  in  1781. 


MATCHEM 
(Bay  1748) 


Cade 


Arabian 


Roxana 


Daughter  of 


,  Partner 


Daughter  of 


Bald  Galloway 


(St.  Vi 


Victor  Barb 


Daughter  of 


Ancaster  Turk 


fA 

Sister  to  Chanter 

I  Daughter  of 


J'gg 


Byerly  Turk 
Daughter  of 


(Imported 

\  Why  Not  by  the  Fenwick  Barb 
(Royal  Mare 

(Imported) 

\  Leedes  A  rabian  (Imported) 
(.Daughter  of  Spanker 

(Imported) 

[Spanker  by  the  D'Arcy  Yellow  Turk- 
Daughter  of  Lord  Fairfax's  Morocco 
Barb— Old  Bald  Peg  by  an  Arabian 
Horse  out  of  a  Barb  mare 


fCurwen's  Bay  Barb        (Imported) 


Sister  to  Mixbury 


•'Spot  by  the  Selaby  Turk 

^Daughter  of  -j  Daughter  of  the  Whitelegged  Lowther  Barb- 

I          The  Old  Vintner  mare 


Makeless 


fOglethorpe  Arabian      (Imported) 


,  Daughter  of 


I 


Brimmer 
Daughter  of 


j  The  D'Arcy  Yellow  Turk 
I  Royal  Mare 

( Place's  White  Turk 
{Dodsworth — Layton  Barb  mare 


APPENDIX. 

C.— The  Pedigree  of  Sir  John  Moore's   HEROD,  bred  by  the  Duke  of  Cumberland  in  1758  ; 

died  at  NetherhaU,  Bury,  in  1780. 


HEROD 

(Bay,  1758) 


Tartar 


.  Partner 


Meliora 


Cypron 


Blaze 


Jigg 


/ByerlyTurk  (Imported) 

(Spanker,  by  the  D'Arcy  Yellow  Turk— The  old  Morocco  mare,  by  Lord 
Fairfax's  Morocco  Barb— Old  Bald   Peg,  by  an  Arabian,  out  of  a 
\Daughter  ofi 


Barb  Mare 


Sister  to 
Mixbury 


Fox 


Curwen's 


f  !  Spot,  by  the  Sclaby  Turk 
Daughter  of  of  whitelegged  Lowther  Barb 


(Hautboy,  by  D'Arcy  White  Turk-  Royal  Mare 
Llumsy        \M]&s  D'Arcy's  Pet  Mare,  out  of  a  Sedbury  Royal 


Mare 


(The  Leedes  Arabian  . 

Bay  Peg     lY    Bald    Peg,    by  the    Leedes    Arabian— Spanker's    Dam,    by    1-airtax 
(         Morocco  Barb— Old  Bald  Peg,  by  an  Arabian,  out  of  a  Barb  Mare 


Snail 


(Bred  by  Sir  E.  Blackett) 


Milkmaid 


Flying 
Childers 


Shield's         /Bred  b    Mr-  Cunven,  of  VVorkington) 
Galloway 


f6Z-  dmported) 

Arabian    )  v     " 


Betty 


Leedes 


f  Grey  J 

Confederate]    Grantham  \ 
Filly 


Careless,  by  Spanker  (D'Arcy  Yellow  Turk)— a  Barb  Mare 
Sister  to  Leedes,  by  the  Leedes  Arabian— daughter  to  Spanker  (D  Arcy 
Yellow  Turk) — The  old  Morocco  Mare 

Brownlow  Turk  (Imported) 


Selina 


/Bethell's     \(Impor;(d] 
Arabian  '  v 


Daughter  of 


ffThe  Rutland  Black  Barb  (imported) 
Daughter  of|Bright>g  Roan>  bred  by  Mr.  Leedes,  of  North  Mitford 

(Imported) 

(The  Harpur  Arabian  (Imported) 
<  Champion  |  Daughter  of  Hautboy.     Her  Dam  Almanzor  and  Terror's  Dam 

' 

,  f  Darley  Arabian 
\  Daughter  of|Merlin  (Bustlerj  by  the  Helmsley  Turk) 


APPENDIX. 


D. — The   Pedigree  of  Colonel  O'Kelly's  ECLIPSE,  who  was  never  beaten.       Bred  by  the   Duke  of  Cumberland 

in   1764,  died  at  Cannons,  Surrey,  in   1787. 


'Squirt 


ECLIPSE  (Chest 
nut — 1764). 


Marske 


Daughter  of 


'Regulus 


Spiletta 


Bartlett's  Childers 


Sister  to  Old 
Country  Wench 


Blacklegs 


Daughter  of 


The  Godolphin 
Arabian 


Grey  Robinson 


Smith's  Son  of 
Snake 


Darley  Arabian 
Betty  Leedes 

Snake 

^  Grey  Wilkes 

(  Mutton's  Bay  Barb 

j 

(  Daughter  of 
Bay  Bolton 


.Mother  Western 


J 


Daughter  of 


{Imported) 
Bald  Galloway 


Sister  to  Old 
Country  Wench 


Snake 


{Imported} 

Careless    by    Spanker    (D'Arcy    Yellow    Turk— old 
Morocco   Mare,  her  dam  Old  Bald  Peg  by  an 
J          Arabian  out  of  a  Barb  Mare)— a  Barb  Mare 
j  Sister  to  Leedes  by  the  Leedes  Arabian— daughter  of 
Spanker    (D'Arcy    Yellow    Turk)  —  daughter   of 
the  Morocco  Barb  Mare— Spanker's  Dam 
I  The  Lister  Turk     (Imported] 

\  Daughter  of  Hautboy  (D'Arcy  White   Turk— Royal 
(          Mare.)     No  record  of  Snake's  granddam 
i  Hautboy  (D'Arcy  White  Turk— Royal  Mare) 
j  Miss    D'Arcy 's    Pet    Mare— daughter  of   a   Sedbury 

Royal  Mare.     No'  record  of  Pet  Mare's  sire 
(Imported) 

I  Coneyskins  by  the  Lister  Turk,  a  grey  bred  by  D.  of 

Rutland  in  1712 

(  The  Old  Clubfoot  Mare  by  Hautboy,  her  dam  unknown 
Grey  Hautboy  by  Hautboy,  his  dam  unknown 
Daughter     of     Makeless     (Oglethorpe     Arabian)— 
daughter   of   Brimmer    (D'Arcy  Yellow  Turk- 
Royal  Mare)— daughter  of  "Diamond  (Helmsley 
Turk) 

Fox  Cub  by  Clumsy  (Hautboy— Miss  D'Arcy's  Pet 
Mare)— daughter  of  Leedes  Arabian— daughter 
of  Spanker 

Daughter  of  Coneyskins  (Lister  Turk)  out  of  daughter 
of  Hutton's  Grey  Barb  and  daughter  of  Mutton's 
Royal  Colt  (Helmsley  Turk— Royal  Mare)— 
daughter  of  Byerly  Turk 


|  The  St.  Victor  Barb.     (Imported) 

j  Daughter  of  Why  Not  (son  of  Fenwick  Barb.)     Her 

(          dam  a  Royal  Mare 

Snake   by   the    Lister   Turk — daughter  of  Hautboy 

(D'Arcy  White  Turk— Royal  Mare) 
Grey   Wilkes   by    Hautboy    (D'Arcy  White  Turk- 
Royal     Mare)  —  Miss     D'Arcy's     Pet     Mare- 
daughter  of  a  Sedbury  Royal  Mare 
I  The  Lister  Turk 

j  Daughter  of  Hautboy   (D'Arcy  White  Turk— Royal 
(          Mare) 

I  The  Ancaster  Turk.     (Imported) 
\  A  granddaughter  of  the  Pulleine  Arabian,  her  dam  a 
daughter  of  Brimmer  by  the  D'Arcv  Yellow  Turk 

horse  bought  by  Lord   D'Arcy  from  the  stud  of  Lord 


Squirrel's  Dam 

/  Old  Montagu, 

Montagu  of  Cowdray  ;  his  breeding  is  unknown 

(  Hautboy  by  the  D'Arcy  White  Turk,  his  dam  a  Royal 

j  Daughter  of  Brimmer  by  the  D'Arcy  Yellow  Turk,  his 

dam  a  Royal  Mare 
N.B.— It  is  also  held  that  the  Old  Montagu  Mare  was  by  Woodcock,  who  was  by  Bustler,  by  the  Helmsley  Turk. 


j  Old  Montagu 
(     Mare 


APPENDIX. 

E. — A  Table  Shewing  Descent  in  the  Female  Line  from  an  Original  Mare. 

[From  the  First  Volume  of  the  "  General  Stud    Book."] 

ist  dam — Burton  Barb  mare 

2nd  ,,        Mare  by  Dicky  Pierson 

3rd  „        Old  Thornton  by  Brimmer 

4th  „        Chestnut  Thornton  by  Makeless 

5th  „        Lusty  Thornton  by  Crofts's  Bay  Barb 

6th  „        Brown  Woodcock  by  Woodcock 

7th  „        Mare  by  Partner 

8th  „        Miss  Makeless  by  Y.  Greyhound  (son  of  Brown  Farewell). 


9th  dam — Miss  Cade  by  Cade 
loth     „        Mare  by  Cullen  Arabian 
nth     „        Mare  by  Old  England 
izth     „       Manilla  by  Goldfinder  (gr.-g.-grandam  of 

BLACKLOCK) 


1 3th  dam— Miss  Judy  by  Alfred 

I4th     ,,        Mare  by  Stamford 

1 5th     ,,        Electress  by  Election  (grandam  of 

TEDDINGTON) 
1 6th     „       Splitvote  by  St.  Luke 
1 7th     „       Bribery  by  The  Libel  (dam  of 
ST.  ALBANS) 


1 3th  dam — Hornet  by  Drone 
I4th     „        Rival  by  Sir  Peter 
1 5th     „       Thalestris  by  Alexander 
1 6th     „        Peri  by  Wanderer  (dam  of 
SIR  HERCULES) 


9th  dam — Mare  by  Traveller 
loth     „        Lass  of  the  Mill  by  Oroonoko 
nth     „       Atalanta  by  Matchem 
1 2th     „       Flora  by  King  Fergus 
1 3th     „       Mare  by  Hyacinthus 
i4th     „       Treasure  by  Camillus 
i5th     „       Leda  by  Filho  da  Puta 
1 6th     „        Martha  Lynn  by  Mulatto  (dam  of 
VOLTIGEUR) 


VOL.   Ill 


APPENDIX. 


F.—  The  Pedigree  of  BLACK  LOCK. 


/Hambletonian 
(B.— 1792) 


/ 


BLACKLOCK 
(Bay— 1814) 


Whitelock 
(Bay- 
1803) 


King  Fergus 
(Ch.-i77S) 


Daughter  of 
B.— 1782) 


Rosalind 

,    (Ch.— 1788) 


Phenomenon 


Atalanta 

;ch.-i769) 


/PotSos 

(Ch.— 1773) 


/Coriander 


Daughter  of 
(Cnestnut     [ 
—1799) 


\  Lavender 
(B.-I774) 


Wildgoose 


Highflyer 
(B.-i774) 


Coheiress 
;Ch.— 1786) 


/Eclipse 

(Ch.-i764) 


Creeping  Polly 
(Ch.— 1756) 


/      =     . 

(B.-I774) 

Monimia 
V     (Gr.— 177!) 


'Herod 

(B.-I7S8) 


I  Frenzy 


(Ch.-i774) 


I  Matchem 
(B.-i748) 

Lass  of  the 
Mill 

I  ( — 1756) 


E<5rPvfe 
(Ch.-i764) 


Sportsmistress 
( 1765) 


/Herod 

f     (B.-I7S8) 


Daughter  of 
V    ( 1765) 


(Herod 
(B.-i7S8) 
Rachel 
( 1763) 


/PotSos 

(Ch.-i773) 


1  Manilla 

V     (Br.-i777) 


/Marske  by  Squirt  (Bartlet's  Childers  by  Darley  A.-sister  to  Old  Country  Wench 
by  Snake)— daughter  of  Blacklegs  (Hutton's  Bay  Barb),  etc 

I  P  ,',ta  by  Re8ulus  (Godolphin  Arabian— Grey  Robinson  by  Bald  Galloway)— 
Mother  Western  (Smith's  son  of  Snake— Old  Montague  mare) 

/  Black   and  All   Black   (also  called    Othello)  by  Crab  (Acaster  Turk- sister  lo 

Soreheel  by  Basto)— Miss  Slamerkin  by  True  Blue   etc 

Fanny  by  Tartar  (Partner  by  Jigg-Meliora  by  Fox,  son  of  Clumsy)- daughter 
(          of  Starling  (Bay  Bolton  by  Grey  Hautboy— daughter  of  Brownlow  T.} 

(  Her°ud  bj  Tar',ar  (a£ov,e)-9yPron  by  Blaze  (Childers-daughter  of  Grey  Grantham 
I          by  Brownlow  Turk)— Selima  by  Bethell's  Arabian 

Rachel  by  Blank  (Godolphin— Little  Hartley  mare  by  Bartlet's  Childers)-daughter 
(         of  Kegulus  (Godolphin)— daughter  of  Soreheels  (Basto  by  Byerly  T. ) 
/Matchem  by  Cade  (Godolphin— Roxana  by  Bald  Galloway,  son  of  St   Victor's 

Barb)— daughter  of  Partner  (above)— daughter  of  Matchless 

Daughter  of  Alcides  (Babraham  by  Godolphin-Large  Hartley  marej-dawjhter 
(         oJ  Lrab  (above)- Snap's  dam  by  Fox  (above)— Gipsy  by  Bay  Bolton,  etc! 
Tartar  by  Partner  (above)— Meliora  by  Fox  (Clumsy  by  Hautboy— Miss  D'Arcv's 

Pet  mare)— Milkmaid  by  Sir  W.  Blacket's  Snail,  etc 

Cypron  by  Blaze  (Childers-Confederate  filly  by  Grey  Grantham)-Selima  by 
Bethell's  A. — daughter  of  Champion  (Harpur  A.),  etc. 

pse    by    Marske   (above)-Spiletta    by    Regulus   (above)-Mother   Western 

above)— the  Old  Montague  mare — daughter  of  Hautboy   etc 
Daughter  of  Engineer  (Sampson  by  Blaze-daughter  of  Greyhound)-Lass  of  the 

Mill  by  Traveller  (Partner— daughter  of  Almanzor  by  Darley  A.),  etc. 
/Cade  by  Godolphin-Roxana  by  Bald  Galloway  (St.  Victor's  Barb)-daughter 
I         of  W  hy  Not  by  Fenwick  Barb— sister  to  Chanter  by  Acaster  Turk 
Daughter  of  Partner  (Jigg— sister  to  Mixbury  by  Curwen's  Bay  Barb,  daughter  of 

Spot)— daughter  of  Makeless  (Oglethorpe  Arabian)— daughter  of  Brimmer 
Oroonoko  by  Crab  (above)-Miss  Slamerkin  by  Y.  True  Blue  (above)— dauehter 
T       of..L°rfI  °^ord's  Dun  Arabian— D'Arcy's  Black-legged  Royal  mare 
Lass  of  the  Mill  by  1  raveller  (above)-Miss   Makeless  (above)-Miss  Does  dam 
by  Woodcock  (Merlin— Son  of  Brimmer)— Croft's  Bay  Barb 

!- Marske  by  Squirt  (Bartlet's  Childers  by  Darley  Arabian)-daughter  of  Blacklees 
(Hutton's  Bay  Barb— daughter  of  Coneyskins,  son  of  Lister  Turk 
Spiletta  by  Regulus  (above)-Mother  Western  by  Smith's  son  of  Snake  (Lister 
lurk)— the  Old  Montague  mare— daughter  of  Hautboy 

.'Sportsman   by  Cade  (Godolphin-Roxana,  as  above)— Silvertail   by  Whitenose 
I/-   i  ,        T      ,~ dau8hter  of  Heneage's  Jigg)— daughter  of  Rattle,  etc. 
j  Golden    Locks   by  Oroonoko  (abo-re)— daughter   of  Crab  (above)-daughter  of 
Partner  (above)— Thwait's  Dun  mare  by  the  Acaster  Turk— Royal  mare 

Tartar  by  Partner  (above)-Meliora  by  Fox  (above)-Milkmaid  by  Snail  (above) 

—Shields  Galloway  (breeding  unknown) 
Cypron  by  Blaze  (above)-Selima  by  Bethell's  Arabian-daughter  of  Champion 

(Harpur  Arabian— daughter  of  Hautboy)— daughter  of  Darley  Arabian 
Snap  by  Snip  (Childers-daughter  of  Basto,  sister  to  Soreheels)— sister  to  Slip  bv 

Fox  (Clumsy— Bay  Peg  by  Leedes  A.— Gipsy  by  Bay  Bolton    etc 
Miss  Roan  (Sweet  William's  dam)  by  Cade  (above)-Madam  by  Bloody  Buttocks 

(a  grey  Arabian),  rest  of  parentage  unknown 

Tartar  by  Partner  (above)-Meliora  by  Fox  (above)-Milkmaid  by  Snail  (above) 

—Shields  Galloway  (breeding  unknown) 
Cypron  by  Blaze  (above)-Selima  by  Bethell's  Arabian-daughter  of  Champion 

(Harpur  Arabian-daughter  of  Hautboy)-daughter  of  Darley  Arabian 
Blank    by  the  Godolphin   Arabian-Little    Hartley  mare   by  Bartlet's  Childers 

(IJarley  A.)— Hying  Whig  by  \\ilhams'  Woodstock  Arab 
Daughter  of  Regulus  (above)-daughter  of  Soreheels  (Basto-daughter  of  Curwen's 

Bay  Barb,  sister  to  Mixbury)— daughter  of  Makeless  (Oglethorpe  Arabian) 
Eclipse  by  Marske  (Squirt  by  Bartlet's  Childeis)-Spiletta  by  Regulus  (Godolphin) 

—Mother  Western  by  Smith's  son  of  Snake  (Lister  Turk) 
Sportsmistress  by  Sportsman  (Cade)— Silvertail  by  Whitenose— Golden  Locks  by 

Oroonoko  (above)— daughter  of  Crab— daughter  of  Partner,  etc. 
Goldfinder  by  Snap  (above)-daughter  of  Blank  (above)-daughter  of  Regulus 

(above)-Lpnsdale  Bay  Arabian-Bonny  Lass  by  Bay  Bolton  (above) 
Daughter  of  Old  England  (Godolphin-Little  Hartley  mare  by  Bartlet's  Childers) 

—daughter  of  the  Cullen  Arabian— daughter  of  Cade— Miss  Makeless 


APPENDIX. 


G.— The  Pedigree  of  CARBINE. 


/Musket  (Bay 
—  1867) 


CARBINE 

(Hay- 1 885) 


/  Knowsley 


/Longbow 
(B.— 1849) 


/Toxophilite 
(B.-I855) 


Legerdemain 
(B.— 1846) 


West  Austra- 
lian (B.— 
1850) 


Daughter  of      / 
(B.-I857) 


Brown  Bess 
\     (Br.— 1844) 


/Stockwell 
(Ch.— 1849) 


Mersey 
(Chestnut 
-1874) 


Daughter  of 
\     (B.— 1853) 


f  Newminster 
(B.— 1848) 


C  lenience 
(B.— 1865) 


Eulogy 
(B.-I843) 


Ithuriel 
(Br.— 1841) 


Miss  Bowe 
(B.— 1834) 


Pantaloon 

(Ch.— 1824) 


Decoy 

(B.-l83o) 


Melbourne 
(Br.— 1834) 


Mowerina 
(B.-i843) 


tamel 
Bl.— 1822) 
laughter  of 
(B.— 1829) 


The  Baron 
(Ch.— 1842) 


Pocahontas 
(B.-i837) 


Orlando 
(B.— 1841) 


Brown  Bess 
(Br.— 1844) 


Touchstone 
(Br.— 1831) 


Beeswing 
(B.-i833) 


Euclid 

(Ch.— 1836) 


Martha  Lynn 
(Br.— 1837) 


Touchstone  by  Camel  (Whalebone) — Banter  by  Master  Henry  (Orville)  -  Boadicea 

by  Alexander  (Eclipse) — Brunette  by  Amaranthus,  etc. 
Verbena  by  Velocipede  (Blacklock) — Rosalba   by  Milo  (Sir  Peter) — The  Wren 

by  Woodpecker  (Herod)— daughter  of  Alexander — daughter  of  Highflyer 

!  Catton  by  Golumpus  (Gohanna) — Lucy  Grey  by  Timothy  (Delpini  by  Highflyer) 

— Lucy  by  Florizel  (Herod) — Frenzy  by  Eclipse  (Marske),  etc. 
Wagtail's  dam   by  Orville  (Beningbro') — Miss  Grimstone   by  Weasel  (Herod — 
daughter  of  Eclipse)— daughter  of  Ancaster  Starling,  etc. 

Castrel  by  Buzzard  (Woodpecker) — daughter  of  Alexander  (Eclipse)— daughter  of 

Highflyer — daughter  of  Alfred  by  Matchem — daughter  of  Engineer,  etc. 
'  Idalia  by  Peruvian  (Sir  Peter) — Musidora  by  Meteor  (Eclipse) — Maid  of  All  Work 
by  Highflyer — sister  to  Tandem  by  Syphon — daughter  of  Regulus 

,Filho-da-Puta    by   Haphazard    (Sir    Peter)— Mrs.    Barnet   by   Waxy   (PotSos)— 

daughter  of  Woodpecker  (Herod) — Heinel  by  Squirrel — dau.  of  Babraham. 
Finesse  by  Peruvian  (Sir  Peter) — Violante  by  John  Bull  (Fortitude— Xantippe) — 
sister  to  Skyscraper  by  Highflyer — Everlasting  (Eclipse),  etc. 

Humphry  Clinker  by  Comus  (Sorcerer) — Clinkerina  by  Clinker — Pewet  by 
Tandem — Termagant  by  Tantrum — Cantatrice  by  Sampson,  etc. 

Daughter  of  Cervantes  (Don  Quixote  by  Eclipse) — daughter  of  Golumpus  (Go- 
hanna)— daughter  of  Paynator — sister  to  Zodiac  by  St.  George,  etc. 

Touchstone  by  Camel  (Whalebone) — Banter  by  Master  Henry  (Orville) — Boadicea 

by  Alexander  (Eclipse) — Brunette  by  Amaranthus,  etc. 
Emma  by  Whisker  (Waxy)— Gibside  Fairy  by  Hermes  (Mercury  by  Eclipse)  — 

Vicissitude  by  Pipator  (Imperator) — Beatrice  by  Sir  Peter. 

Whalebone  by  Waxy  (PotSos — Maria  by  Herod) — Penelope  by  Trumpator  (Con- 
ductor)—Prunella  by  Highflyer — Promise  by  Snap,  etc. 

Daughter  of  Selim  (Buzzard— daughter  of  Alexander)— Maiden  by  Sir  Peter 

daughter  of  Phenomenon — Matron  by  Florizel — Maiden  by  Matchem,  etc. 

/  Brutandorf  by  Blacklock  (Whitelock)— Mandane  by  PotSos  (Eclipse) — Y.  Camilla 

by  Woodpecker  (Herod — Misfortune  by  Dux) — Camilla,  etc. 

Mrs.  Cruickshank  by  Welbeck  (Catton) — Tramp's  dam  by  Gohanna — Fraxinella 
by  Trentham  (Sweepstakes)— sister  to  Goldfinch,  etc. 

Birdcatcher  by  Sir  Hercules  (Whalebone) — Guiccioli  by  Bob  Booty — Flight  by 
Irish  Escape — Y.  Heroine  by  Bagot — Heroine  by  Hero,  etc. 

Echidna  by  Economist  (Whisker)— Miss  Pratt  by  Blatklock — Gadabout  by  Orville 
— Minstrel  by  Sir  Peter — Matron  by  Florizel,  etc. 

j'Glencoe  by  Sultan  (Selim) — Trampoline  by  Tramp — Web  by  Waxy — Penelope 
|          by  Trumpator — Prunella  by  Highflyer— Promise  by  Snap,  etc. 
Marpessa   by   Muley   (Orville) — Clare   by   Marmion — Harpalice  by   Gohanna — 
(          Amazon  by  Driver — Fractious  by  Mercury,  etc. 

Touchstone  by  Camel  (Whalebone) — Banter  by  Master  Henry  (Orville) — Boadicea 

by  Alexander  (Eclipse) — Brunette  by  Amaranthus,  etc. 
Vulture  by  Langar  (Selim) — Kite  by  Bustard  (Castrel) — Olympia  by  Sir  Oliver 

(Sir  Peter) — Harmony  by  Herod— Rutilia  by  Blank,  etc. 

Camel  by  Whalebone  (Waxy) — daughter  of  Selim — Maiden  by  Sir  Peter— daughter 
of  Phenomenon— Matron  by  Floiizel — Maiden  by  Matchem,  etc. 

Daughter  of  Brutandorf  (Blacklock — Mandane) — Mrs.  Cruickshank  by  Welbeck 
(Catton) — Tramp's  dam  by  Gohanna — Fraxinella  by  Trentham,  etc. 

Camel  by  Whalebone  (Waxy)— daughter  of  Selim — Maiden  by  Sir  Peter— daughter 
of  Phenomenon — Matron  by  Florizel — Maiden  by  Matchem,  etc. 

Banter  by  Master  Henry  (Orville)— Boadicea  by  Alexander — Brunette  by  Ama- 
ranthus— Mayfly  by  Matchem  — daughter  of  Ancaster  Starling,  etc. 

Dr.  Syntax  by  Paynator  (Trumpator) — daughter  of  Beningbro' — Jenny  Mole  by 
Carbuncle  (Babraham  Blank) — daughter  of  Prince  T'Quassa,  etc. 

Daughter  of  Ardrossan  (John  Bull) — Lady  Eliza  by  Whitworth  (Agonistes  by  Sir 
Peter — daughter  of  Jupiter  by  Eclipse) — daughter  of  Spadille,  etc. 

Emilius  by  Orville  (Beningbro' — Evelina) — Emily  by  Stamford  (Sir  Peter 

Horatia  by  Eclipse)— daughter  of  Whisky  (Saltram— Calash),  etc. 

Maria  by  Whisker  (Waxy — Penelope  by  Trumpator) — Gibside  Fairy  by  Hermes 
(Mercury) — Vicissitude  by  Pipator  (Imperator),  etc. 

I  Mulatto  by  Catton  (Golumpus— Lucy  Grey  by  Timothy) — Desdemona  by  Orville 
(Beningbro') — Fanny  by  Sir  Peter— daughter  of  Drained,  etc. 
Leda  by  Filho-da-Puta  (Haphazard— Mrs.  Barnet  by  Waxy)— Treasure  by  Camillus 
(Hambletonian) — daughter  of  Hyacinthus  (Coriander),  etc. 


APPENDIX 


H. — Three  French  Pedigrees 


(  Trumpeter 

i  Plutus 
!  Flageolet 
(  La  Favorite 

(  Planet  mare 
(  Monarque 

(  Constance 

Beauminet 

(  Stockwell 

i  Knowsley 

/  Orlando  mare 

Beauty 
(  Bargain 

(  Barnton 
(  Kernel 

/Chalet 
The  Frisky  Matron 

k  Parmesan 
/  Cremorne 
(  Rigolboche 

(  Sweetmeat 
(  Gruyere 
(  Rataplan 
(  Gardham  mare 

i 

t  The  Marquis 
(  Mayfair 
(  May  Queen 

(  Stockwell 
(Cinizelli 
(  Trumpeter 
(  May  Bell 

MAXIMUM  II.  (1899)  ( 

(  Bay  Middleton 
Flying  Dutchman         } 

(  Sultan 
(  Cobweb 

\  Barbelle 

(  Sandbeck 

(Darioletta 

Dollar 

(  Slane 
Payment                     •? 
I  Receipt 

I  Royal  Oak 
(  Orville  mare 
(  Rowton 
(Sam  mare 

\  Urgence 

k  The  Emperor 
1  Monarque 
(  Poetess 

(  Reveller  mare 
(  Royal  Oak 

Promise 

.    ..                   k  Gladiator 
Mademoiselle  de           1 

(Ada 
(  Partisan 
(  Pauline 

Chantilly                     UlaidofMona 

(  Tory  Boy 

(Kite 

(Salon  (i860 
,-  Barcaldine  (1878)         < 
(  Ballyree  (1872) 

)  West  Australian  (1850) 
(  Birdcatcher  mare  (1850) 
1  Belladrum  (1866) 
)  Bon  Accord  (1867) 

Winkfield  (1885) 
.Winkfield's  Pride 

(  Beadsman  (1855) 
lChaplet(iS72) 
(  Mad.  Eglentine  (1857) 

(  Weatherbit  (1842) 
(  Mendicant  (1843) 
(Cowl  (1842) 
(  Diversion  (1838) 

(1893) 
Alimony  (1889) 

{Sterling  (1868) 
Isola  Bella  (1868) 

(  Hermit  (1864) 
Alibech  (1883) 
(Daughter  of  (1874) 

(Oxford  (1857! 
jWhisperCtSs?! 
(Stockwell  (1849) 
(Isoline(i86o) 
(  Newminster  (1848) 
(  Seclusion  (1857) 
(Musket  (1867) 
(Teddington  mare  (1855) 

QUO  VADIS  (1900)  ( 
Petrarch  (1873) 

,  at  •>      (  Newminster  (1848) 
ILord  Clifden  (1860)     J 
(The  Slave  (1832) 
j  Orlando  (1841) 
Laura  (r86o)                 J 

(  Torment  (1850) 

(  Touchstone  (1831) 
(  Beeswing  (1833) 
(  Melbourne  (1834) 
1  Volley  (1845) 
(Touchstone  1,1831) 
)  Vulture  (1833) 
(Alarm  (1842) 
(Glencoe  mare  (1837) 

\  Filomena  (1888) 
Hawthorndale  (1867) 

k  Rataplan  (1850) 
.  Kettledrum  (1858)        < 
(Hybla(i846) 

1  Lady  Alice  Hawthorn  i  Newminster  (,848) 
"     ('8s9)                        1  Lady  Hawthorn  (1854) 

(The  Baron  (1842) 
(  Pocahontas  (1837) 
(The  Provost  (1836) 
(Otuina  (1837) 

(Touchstone  (1831) 
(Bees  wing  (1833) 
i  Windhound  (1850) 
(Alice  Hawthorn  (1838) 

' 

{  Flying  Dutchman(i846' 
Payment  (1848) 

i  Bay  Middleton  (1833) 
>  Barbelle  (1836) 
(Slane  (1833) 
(  Receipt  (1836) 

Upas  (1883) 

k  Skirmisher  (1854) 
Rosemary  (1870)          < 
(  Vertumna  (1859) 

(  Voltigeur  (  1847) 
(  Gardham  mare  (1843) 
(Stockwell  (1849) 
t  Garland  (1835) 

/Omnium  II.  (1892) 

{Chattanooga  (1862) 
Araucaria  (1862) 

(  Orlando  (1841) 
(  Ayacanora  (1854) 
(  Ambrose  (1849) 
(  Pocahontas  (.1837) 

Bluette  (1886) 

(  Hermit  (1864) 
Blue  Serge  (1876)        ) 
(  Blue  Sleeves  (1869) 

(  Newminster  (1848) 
(Seclusion  (1857) 
(  Beadsman  (1855) 
(Mrs.  Quickly  (1857) 

ARIZONA  (1899)    / 

I.--TJ       ,,     ^  (  Lord  Ronald  (1862) 
Master  Kildare(i875)  ) 

(  Silk  (!869) 

(  Stockwell  (1849) 
1  Edith  (1857-) 
(Plum  Pudding  (rSj?) 
(Judy  Go  (1854) 

Melton  (1882) 

,  (Scottish  Chief  (1861) 
Violet  Melrose(i875)  J 

(  Lord  of  the  Isles  (1842) 
"(  Miss  Ann  (1843) 

\Attractive  (1888) 
Mirobolante  (1874) 

(Violet  (1864) 

(  Sweetmeat  (1842) 
Macaroni  (1860)           < 
(Jocose  (1843) 

)'  The  Cure  (1841) 

(  Thormanby  (1857) 
1  Woodbine  Ci86o) 
(Gladiator  (1833) 
(  Lollypop  (.1836) 
(  Pantaloon  (1824) 
(Banter  (1823) 
(  Physician  (1829) 
(Morsel  (1836) 

Tasmania  (1854) 

^  !\1  *lbourne-(  1834  ' 

V  Picaroon  mare  (1846) 

APPENDIX. 


J.— The  Pedigree  of  BEESWING. 


/Paynator 

(Br.-i79i) 


/Dr.  Syntax 
(Br.— 1811) 


Trumpator 
(Bl.— 1782) 


Daughter  of 


BEESWING 
(Bay-i833) 


'Beningbrough 
(B.— 1791) 


Dam  of 


\ 


Jenny  Mole 

( ) 


/John  Bull 
(Ch.-i789) 


Ardrossan 
(B.— 1809)  \ 


Daughter  of 
(Cfa.-i8i7) 


Miss  Whip 
(—  1793) 


Lady  Eliza 


V 


''Whitworth 
(B.— 1805) 


Daughter  of 

X.Y.Z.'s  Dam 
S     (B.-I793) 


Conductor  by  Matchem  (Cade — daughter  of  Partner) — daughter  of  Snap 

—daughter  of  The  Cullen  A. — Lady  Thigh  by  Partner  (Jigg — sister 

to  Mixbury),  etc. 
Brunette  by  Squirrel  — Dove  by  Matchless — daughter  of  Ancaster  Starling 

—  daughter  of  Grasshopper — daughter  of  Sir  M.  Newton's  Bay  A.— 

daughter  of  Pert,  etc. 

!Marc  Antony  by  Spectator — Rachel  by  Blank  (The  Godolphin) — daughter 
of  Regulus — daughter  of  Soreheels — daughter  of  Makeless — D'Arcy's 
Royal  mare 
Signora  by  Snap  (Snip  by  Childers) — Miss  Windsor  by  The  Godol- 
phin— sister  to  Volunteer  by  Y.  Belgrade — daughter  of  Bartlet's 
Childers,  etc. 

King  Fergus   by  Eclipse  (Marske — Spiletta) — Polly  by    Black   and   All 

Black — Fanny   by   Tartar — daughter   of  Old   Starling — daughter   of 

Childers,  etc. 
Daughter   of    Herod — Pyrrha    by    Matchem — Duchess    by   Whitenose — 

Miss  Slamerkin  by  Y.  True  Blue — daughter  of  Lord  Oxford's  Dun 

Arabian,  etc. 

/Carbuncle  by  Babraham  Blank  (The  Godolphin) — daughter  of  Cade  (The 

Godolphin) — daughter   of   Fox    (Clumsy — Bay  Peg) — sister   to    Bay 

Bolton,  etc. 
\  Daughter  of  Prince  T'Quassa   (Snip — Dairy  Maid) — Bloody  Buttocks — 

daughter  of  Regulus  (The  Godolphin) — daughter  of  Partner  (Jigg — 

sister  to  Mixbury),  etc. 

/Fortitude  by  Herod  (Tartar — Cypron) — daughter  of  Snap — Milksop  by 

Cade — Miss    Partner   by  Partner — daughter  of   Makeless — daughter 

of  Brimmer,  etc. 
\  Xantippe  (sister  to  Don  Quixote)  by  Eclipse  (Marske) — Grecian  Princess 

by    Williams's    Forester — daughter    of    Coalition    colt — daughter   of 
\        Bustard,  etc. 
/Volunteer  by  Eclipse — daughter  of  Tartar — daughter  of  Mogul — daughter 

of  Sweepstakes — sister  to  Sloven  by  Bay  Bolton — daughter  of  Curwen 

Bay  Barb,  etc. 
\  Wimbledon  by  Evergreen  (Herod — Angelica) — sister  to  Calash  by  Herod 

— Teresa   by   Matchem — daughter   of   Regulus — sister    to    Ancaster 
\         Starling. 

/Agonistes    by   Sir    Peter    (Highflyer   by  Herod) — The  Wren   by  Wood- 
pecker (Herod) — Papillon  by  Snap — Miss  Cleveland  by  Regulus — 

Midge,  etc. 
',  Daughter  of  Jupiter  (Eclipse) — daughter  of  Highflyer  (Herod) — daughter 

of  Matchem — sister  to  Pioneer  by  Old  England — Little  Partner  by 

Traveller,  etc. 

Spadille  by  Highflyer  (Herod) — Flora  by  Squirrel  (Traveller) — Angelica 

by    Snap — daughter    of    Regulus — Bartlet's    Childers — Honeywood 

Arabian,  etc. 
Sylvia   by   Y.    Marske — Ferret   by   brother    to    Silvio    (Cade) — Regulus 

— Lord    Morton's    A. — Mixbury — Mulso     Bay    T. — Bay    Bolton — 

Coneyskins,  etc. 


APPENDIX. 


K.— The  Pedigree  of  STOCKWELL. 


/Sir  Hercules 
(Bl.— 1826) 


Birdcatcher 
(Ch.— 1833)  \ 


STOCKWELL 

(Chestnut  -- 
1849) 


The  Baron 
(Chestnut 
—1842) 


Guiccioli 
(Ch.— 1826)  { 


/Economist 
(B.  — 1826) 


Echidna 
\    (Br.-i837)  \ 


Miss  1'ratt 
(B.— 1825) 


/Glencoe 

(Ch.— 1833)  ( 


Sultan 

(B.— 1816) 


Pocahontas 

(Bay- 
\      1837) 


Trampoline 
(B.-i825) 


Muley 

(B.— 1810) 


Marpessa 
,     (U.— 1830) 


Clare 

(13.— 1824) 


Whalebone 
(Br.— 1807) 


Peri 
(B.— 1822) 


Bob  Booty 
(Ch.-i8o4) 


Flight 

(Ch.— 1808) 


Whisker 


Floranthe 


Blacklock 
(B.— 1817) 


Gadabout 
(Br.— 1812) 


Selim 

(Ch.— 1802) 


Bacchante 
(B.— 1809) 


Tramp 
(B.— 1810) 


Web 

(B.— 1808) 


•Orville 

(B.-1799) 


Eleanor 
I     (B.-I/98) 


Marmion 
(B.— 1806) 


Harpalice 

(B.— iS 


!'Waxy   by   PotSos   (Eclipse — Sportsmistress    by   Sportsman) — Maria    by    Herod 
(Tartar — Cypron) — Lisette  by  Snap  (Snip  by  Childers),  etc.    ' 
Penelope  by  Trumpator  (Conductor— Brunette  by  Squirrel) — Prunella  by  High- 
flyer (Herod — Rachel) — Promise  by  Snap — Julia  by  Blank,  etc. 

Wanderer    by   Gohanna   (Mercury — sister    to   Challenger) — Catherine   (sister   to 

Colibri)  by  Woodpecker  (Herod — Miss  Ramsden) — Camilla,  etc. 
Thalestris  by  Alexander  (Eclipse— Grecian  Princess)— Rival  by  Sir  Peter  (High- 
flyer)—Hornet  by  Drone  (Herod) — Manilla  by  Goldfinder,  etc. 
! Chanticleer    by   Woodpecker    (Herod — Miss    Ramsden)— daughter    of    Eclipse 
(Marske) — Rosebud  by  Snap  (Snip)— Miss  Belsea  by  Regulus,  etc. 
lerne  by  Bagot  (Herod— Marotte  by  Matchem) — daughter  of  Camahoe  (Bustard 
by  Crab — daughter  of  Regulus) — Patty  by  Tim  (Squirt) — Miss  Patch,  etc. 

Irish  Escape  by  Commodore  (Tug  by  Herod — Smallhopes) — daughter  of  High- 
flyer (Herod— Rachel) — Shift  by  Sweetbriar  (Syphon)— Black  Susan,  etc. 
Y.  Heroine  by  Bagot  (above) — Heroine  by  Hero  (Cade),  sister  to  Regulus  by 

The  Godolphin— Grey  Robinson  by  The  Bald  Galloway,  etc. 
Waxy    by    PotSos   (Eclipse — Sportsmistress   by    Sportsman) — Maria    by    Herod 

(Tartar — Cypron)— Lisette  by  Snap  (Snip  by  Childers),  etc. 

Penelope  by  Trumpator  (Conductor — Brunette  by  Squirrel) — Prunella  by  High- 
flyer (Hercd — Rachel) — Promise  by  Snap — Julia  by  Blank,  etc. 
(Octavian  by  Stripling  (Phenomenon — Laura  by  Eclipse) — daughter  of  Oberon 
(Highflyer — Queen  Mab  by  Eclipse) — sister  to  Sharper  by  Ranthos,  etc. 
Caprice  by  Anvil  (Herod — daughter  of  Feather — Crazy  by  Lath) — Madcap  by 
Eclipse — daughter  of  Blank  (Godolphin  A.) — daughter  of  Blaze,  etc. 

Whitelock   by  Hambletonian   (King   Fergus   by   Eclipse — Polly) — Rosaline   by 

Phenomenon  (Herod— Frenzy)— Atalanta  by  Matchem  (Cade),  etc. 
Daughter  of  Coriander  (PotSos— Lavender  by  Herod)— Wild  Goose  by  Highflyer 

(Herod — Rachel) — Coheiress  by  PotSos  (above) — Manilla,  etc. 
Orville  by  Beniiigbro'  (King  Fergus— daughter  of  Herod) — Evelina  by  Highflyer 

(Herod— Rachel  by  Blank)— Termagant  by  Tantrum  (Cripple),  etc. 
Minstrel  by  Sir  Peter  (Highflyer— Papillon  by  Snap)— Matron  by  Florize  (Herod) 

— Maiden  by  Matchem  (Cade) — daughter  of  Squirt  (Syphon),  etc. 

(Buzzard  by  Woodpecker  (Herod — Miss  Ramsden) — Misfortune  by  Dux  (Matchem 
—Duchess)— Curiosity  by  Snap  (Snip)— daughter  of  Regulus,  etc. 
Daughter  of  Alexander  (Eclipse — Grecian  Princess)— daughter  of  Highflyer  (Herod 
—  Rachel  by  Blank)— dau.  of  Alfred  (brother  to  Conductor  by  Matchem),  etc. 

Williamson's  Ditto  by  Sir  Peter  (Highflyer — Papillon) — Arethusa  by  Dungannon 

(Eclipse— Aspasia)— daughter  of  Prophet  (Regulus),  etc. 

Sister  to  Calomel  by  Mercury  (Eclipse— Old  Tartar  mare)— daughter  of  Herod- 
Folly  by  Marske  (Squirt — daughter  of  Blacklegs) — Vixen  by  Regulus,  etc. 
1'Dick  Andrews   by  Joe   Andrews   (Eclipse- Amaranda) — daughter  of  Highflyer 
(Herod— Rachel) — dau.  of  Cardinal  Puff— dau.  of  Taller — dau.  of  Snip,  etc. 
Daughter  of  Gohanna  (Mercury— sister  to  Challenger  by  Herod)  — Fraxinella  by 
Trentham  (Sweepstakes) — daughter  of  Woodpecker  (above) — Everlasting,  etc. 

|  Waxy   by   PotSos   (Eclipse — Sportsmistress    by   Sportsman) — Maria    by    Herod 

(Tartar — Cypron) — Lisette  by  Snap  (Snip) — Miss  Windsor,  etc. 
I  Penelope  by  Trumpator  (Conductor— Brunette)— Prunella  by  Highflyer  (Herod  — 
'          Rachel) — Promise  by  Snap — Julia  by  Blank,  etc. 
Beningbro'   by   King   Fergus   (Eclipse — Polly) — daughter    of    Herod   (Tartar — 

Cypron) — Pyrrha  by  Matchem  (Cade — daughter  of  Partner) — Duchess,  etc. 
Evelina    by   Highflyer    (Herod — Rachel    by    Blank)— Termagant    by   Tantrum 
(Clippie  by  The  Godolphin) — daughter  of  Regulus  (The  Godolphin),  etc. 

Whisky  by  Saltram  (Eclipse — Virago  by  Regulus) — Calash  by  Herod  (Tartar — 

Cypron)— Teresa  by  Matchem  (Cade— daughter  of  Partner),  etc. 
Y.   Giantess  (Sorcerer's  clam)   by   Diomed   (Florizel — daughter   of  Spectator) — 

Giantess  by  Matchem  (Cade— daughter  of  Partner)— Molly-Long-Legs,  etc. 
i'  Whisky  by  Saltram    (Eclipse— Virago)— Calash   by  Herod   (Tartar— Cypron)— 

Teresa  by  Matchem  (Cade — daughter  of  Partner),  etc. 

IY.  Noisette  by  Diomed  (Florizel — daughter  of  Spectator) — Noisette  by  Squirrel 
{         (Traveller — Grey  Bloody  Buttocks)— Carina  by  Marske  (Squirt),  etc. 
I'Gohanna  by  Mercury  (Eclipse — Old  Tartar  mare) — sister  to  Challenger  by  Herod 

(Tartar — Cypron)— Maiden  by  Matchem  (Cade),  etc. 

Amazon    by  Driver   (Trentham — Coquette)— Fractious   by  Mercury   (Eclipse) — 
daughter  of  Woodpecker  (Herod)— Everlasting  by  Eclipse — Ilyama,  etc. 


APPENDIX. 


L— The  Pedigree  of  BEND    OR. 


BEND  OR  (Chest 
nut— 1877)  \ 


The  Baron 
(Ch.— 1842) 


/Stockwell 
(Ch.-i849)  , 


Pocahontas 
v    (B.-I837) 


Doncaster 
(Chestnut 
-1870) 


Marigold 
(Ch.— 1860) 


/Teddington 
(Ch.— 1848) 


Sister  to 
Singapore 
(B.— 1852) 


'\Vinclhound 
(B.— 1850) 


Rouge  Rose 

Chestnut 
\      -1865) 


Thormanby 
(Ch.-i857) 


Alice  Hawthorn 
(B.— 1838) 


Birdcatcher 
(Ch.— 1833) 


Echidna 
(B.— 1838) 


Glencoe 
(Ch.-i833) 


Marpessa 
(B.— 1830} 


/Orlando 
(B.— 1841) 

'  Miss 

Twickenham 
(     (Ch.— 1838) 

Ratan 

(Ch.— 1841) 


Daughter  of 
(Br.-i844) 


I  Pantaloon 
(13.— 1824) 


Phrvne 

(Br.— 1840) 

Muley 
Moloch 
(B.-I830) 


'Redshank 
(B.-i833) 


Ellen  Home 
L    (Ch.-iS44) 


Delhi 


Rebecca 
(B.- 


Sandbeck 
(B.— 1818) 


Johanna 
(Ch.— 1813) 


Plenipo- 
tentiary 
(Ch.— 1831) 


Pawn  Junior 
(Br.  — 1817) 


.'Sir  Hercules  by  Whalebone  (Waxy— Penelope)— Peri  by  Wanderer— Thalestris 

by  Alexander — Rival  by  Sir  Peter — Hornet  by  Drone 

Guiccioli  by  Bob  Booty  (Chanticleer — lerne) — Flight  l>y  Irish  Escape— Young 
Heroine  by  Bagot  (Herod) — Heroine  by  Hero— sister  to  Regulus 

Economist  by  Whisker  (Waxy—  Penelope)— Floranthe  by  Octavian— Caprice  by 
Anvil — Madcap  by  Eclipse — daughter  of  Blank — daughter  of  Blaze 

Miss  Pratt  by  Blacklock — Gadabout  by  Orville — Minstrel  by  Sir  Peter — Matron 
by  Florizel — Maiden  by  Matchem,  etc. 

! Sultan  by  Selim  (Buzzard— daughter  of  Alexander)— Bacchante  by  Williamson's 
Ditto  (Sir  Peter) — sister  to  Calomel  by  Mercury — daughter  of  Herod. 
Trampoline  by  Tramp— Web  by  Waxy— Penelope  by  Trumpator— Prunella  by 
Highflyer — Promise  by  Snap — Julia  by  Blank,  etc. 

Muley  by  Orville  (above) — Eleanor  by  Whisky — Young  Giantess  by  Diomed  — 
Giantess  by  Matchem — Molly  Long  Legs  by  Babraham,  etc. 

Clare  by  Marmion  (Whisky — Young  Noisette)— Harpalice  (Gohanna) — Amazon 
by  Driver— Fractious  by  Mercury — daughter  of  Woodpecker,  etc. 

I  Touchstone   by   Camel    (Whalebone    by   Waxy) — Banter   by    Master   Henry— 
Boadicea  by  Alexander  (Eclipse) — Brunette  by  Amaranlhus,  etc. 
Vulture   by  Langar — Kite   by   I  ustard — Olympia   by  Sir  Oliver  (Sir   Peter) — 
Scotilla  by  Anvil— Scota  by  Eclipse — Harmony  by  Herod — Rutilia,  etc. 
IRockingham  by  Humphrey  Clinker  (Comus — Clinkerina)  — Medora  by  Swords- 
man (Buffer  by  Prizefighter) —daughter  of  Trumpator —Peppermint,  etc. 
Electress  by  Election  (Gohanna— Chestnut  Skim)— daughter  of  Stamford — Miss 
Judy  by  Alfred — Manilla  by  Goldfinder — daughter  of  Old  England 

Buzzard  by  Blacklock  (above) — Miss  Newton  by  Delpini — Tipple  Cyder  by 
King  Fergus  (Eclipse) — Sylvia  by  Young  Marske  (Marske) 

Daughter  of  Picton  (Smolensko — daughter  of  Dick  Andrew*) — daughter  of  Selim 
(above) — daughter  of  Pipator — Queen  Mab  by  Eclipse— clau.  of  Old  Tartar 

Melbourne  by  Humphry  Clinker — daughter  of  Cervantes  (Don  Quixote) — daughter 
of  Golumpus — daughter  of  Paynator — sister  to  Zodiac  by  St.  George,  etc. 

Lizbeth  by  Phantom  (Walton — Julia  by  Whisky)— Elizabeth  by  Rainbow — 
Belvoirina  by  Stamford — sister  to  Silver  by  Mercury — daughter  of  Herod 

Castrel  by  Buzzard  (Woodpecker — Misfortune  by  Dux) — daughter  of  Alexander 
— daughter  of  Highflyer — dau.  of  Alfred  (brother  to  Conductor)  by  Matchem 

Idalia  by  Peruvian — Musidora  by  Meteor — Maid  of  All  Work  by  Highflyer — 
sister  to  Tandem  by  Syphon — daughter  of  Regulus — daughter  of  Snip 

Touchstone  by  Camel  (Whalebone  by  Waxy) — Banter  by  Master  Henry  — 
Boadicea  by  Alexander — Brunette  by  Amaranthus —Mayfly,  etc. 

Decoy  by  Filho-da-Puta  (Haphazard — Mrs.  Barnet  by  Waxy) — Finesse  by 
Peruvian — Violante  by  John  Bull — sister  to  Skyscraper,  etc. 

Muley  by  Orville — Eleanor  by  Whisky — Young  Giantess  by  Matchem — Giantess 

by  Matchem — Molly  Long  Legs  by  Babraham,  etc. 
Nancy  by  Dick  Andrews — Spitfire  by  Beningbro' — daughter  of  Young  Sir  Peter 

— daughter  of  Engineer — dau.  ol  Wilson's  A. — dau.  of  Hutton's  Spot,  etc. 

Lottery  by  Tramp  (above) — Mandane  by  PotSos  (Eclipse) — Young  Camilla  by 
Woodpecker — Camilla  by  Trentham — daughter  of  The  Godolphin. 

Daughter  of  Cervantes  (Don  Quixote — Evelina) — Anticipation  by  Beningbro' — 
Expectation  (sister  to  Telemachus)  by  Herod — daughter  of  Skim 

I  Gallon  by  Golumpus — Lucy  Grey  by  Timothy — Lucy  by  Klorizel — Frenzy  by 
J          Eclipse — daughter  of  Engineer — daughter  of  Blank — Lass  of  ihe  Mill,  etc. 
jOrvillina  (sister   to   Orville)    by    Beningbro'  (above) — Evelina   by    Highflyer  — 
\         Termagant  by  Tantrum — Cantatrice  by  Sampson — daughter  of  Regulus 

Selim  by  Buzzard — daughter  of  Alexander — daughter  of  Highflyer — daughler  of 
Alfred— dau.  of  Engineer — Bay  Malton's  dam  by  Cade — Lass  of  the  Mill,  etc. 

Comical's  dam  by  Skyscraper — daughter  of  Dragon — Fidget's  dam  by  Matchem 
— sister  to  Sweetbriar  by  Syphon — dau.  of  Shakespeare — dau.  of  Cade,  etc. 

Emilius  by  Orville — Emily  by  Stamford — daughter  of  Whisky — Grey  Dorimant  by 
Dorimant — Dizzy  by  Blank —  Dizzy  by  Driver — daughler  of  Smiling  Tom,  etc. 

Harriet  by  Pericles — daughter  of  Selim — Pipylina  by  Sir  Peter — Rally  by  Trum- 
pator— Fancy  by  Florizel — daughler  of  Spectator — si.-ter  to  Horatius,  etc. 

Waxy  by  PotSos— Maria  by  Ilerod  (above) — Lisette  by  Snap  (Snip) — Miss 
Windsor  by  The  Godolphin — sister  to  Volunteer  by  Young  Belgrade,  etc. 

Pawn  (sister  to  Penelope)  by  Trumpator — Prunella  by  Highflyer — Promise  by 
Snap  —Julia  by  Blank — Spectator's  dam  by  Partner,  elc. 


APPENDIX. 


M.— The  Pedigree  of  ISINGLASS. 


Oxford 
(Ch.-i8S7) 


Sterling 

(B.-I868)    \ 


Whisper 
(B.-i857) 


Isonomy  (Bay 
-1875) 


Stock  well 
(Ch.— 1849) 


Isola  Bella 
(B.— 1868) 


ISINGLASS 
(Bay— 1890)        I 


/  Wen  lock 

(B.— 1869)     ' 


Deadlock 
(Chestnut 

\     —1878) 


Isoline 

(B.— 1860) 


Lord  Clifden 
(B.— 1860) 


'Chevalier 
d'Industrie 
(B.-iS54) 


Malpractice 
^     (B.  — 1864) 


\ 


Dutchman's 
Daughter 
( B.-i854) 


|  Pocahontas 
(     (B.-I837) 

Ethelbert 
(Ch.-  1850) 


Mineral 
(Ch.-i863) 


/'Sir  Hercules  by  Whalebone  (Waxy — Penelope  by  Trumpator) — Peri  by  Wanderer 
Birdcatcher  (Gohanna) — Thalestris  by  Alexander  (Eclipse) — Rival,  etc. 

(Ch. — 1833)    j  Guiccioli  by  Bob  Booty  (Chanticleer  by  Woodpecker — lerne  by  Bagot) — Flight 
[         by  Irish  Escape  (Commodore — daughter  of  Highflyer),  etc. 

I-  Plenipotentiary  by  Emilius  (Orville) — Harriet  by  Pericles  (Evander) — daughter  of 
Selim — Pipylina  by  Sir  Peter — Rally  by  Trumpator,  etc. 

(B. — 1844)     I  My    Dear   by   Bay    Middleton  (Sultan — Cobweb   by  Phantom) — Miss   Letty  by 
Priam  (Emilius)— daughter  of  Orville — daughter  of  Buzzard,  etc. 

Touchstone  by  Camel  (Whalebone — daughter  of  Selim) — Banter  by  Master  Henry 
Flatcatcher  (Orville) — Boadicea  by  Alexander  (Eclipse) — Brunette,  etc. 

(B. — 1841)        Decoy    by    Filho-da-Puta    (Haphazard — Mrs.     Barnet    by   Waxy) — Finesse    by 
Peruvian  (Sir  Peter — daughter  of  Bondrow) — Violante,  etc. 

I  Melbourne  by  Humphry  Clinker  (Comus) — daughter  of  Cervantes  (Don  Quixote) 
Silence  — daughter  of  Golumpus  (Gohanna)  daughter  of  Paynator,  etc. 

(B. — 1848)      j  Secret  by  Hornsea  (Velocipede  by  Blacklock) — Solace  by  Longwaist — Dulcamara 
(         by  Waxy — Witchery  by  Sorcerer — Cobbe'a,  etc. 

Birdcatcher  by  Sir  Hercules  (Whalebone — Peri  by  Wanderer) — Guiccioli  by  Bob 
The  Baron  Booty  (Chanticleer) — Flight  by  Irish  Escape,  etc. 

(Ch. — 1842)      Echidna  by  Economist  (Whisker — Floranthe  by  Octavian) — Miss  Pratt  by  Black- 
lock— Gadabout  by  Orville — Minstrel  by  Sir  Peter,  etc. 

Glencoe  by  Sultan  (Selim — Bacchante  by  Williamson's  Ditto) — Trampoline  by 
Tramp — Web  by  Waxy — Penelope  by  Trumpator,  etc. 

Marpessa  by  Muley  (Orville — Eleanor  by  Whisky) — Clare  by  Marmion  (Whisky) 
— Harpalice  by  Gohanna — Amazon  by  Driver,  etc. 

1'Faugh-a-Ballagh   by   Sir    Hercules   (Whalebone — Peri   by  Wanderer) — Guiccioli 
by  Bob  Booty — Flight  by  Irish  Escape  (Commodore),  etc. 
Espoir  by  Liverpool  (Tramp — Otis  by  Bustard) — Esperance  by  Lapdog  (Whale- 
bone)— Gussette  by  Merlin — Coquette  by  Dick  Andrews,  etc. 

IThe  Prime  Warden  by  Cadland  (Andrew  by  Orville) — Zarina  by  Morisco  (Muley) 
— Ina  by  Smolensko  (Sorcerer) — Morgiana,  etc. 
Miss  Whinney  by  Sir  Hercules  (Whalebone — Peri  by  Wanderer) — Euphrosyne  by 
Comus  (Sorcerer) — sister  to  Anna  Bella  by  Shuttle,  etc. 

('Touchstone  by  Camel  (W;halebone — daughter  of  Selim) — Banter  by  Master  Henry 
•Xewminster  (Orville) — Boadicea  by  Alexander  (Eclipse) — Brunette,  etc. 

(B. — 1848)      j  Beeswing    by    Dr.    Syntax    (Paynator — daughter   of    Beningbro") — daughter    of 
'          Ardrossan  (John  Bull) — Lady  Eliza  by  \Vhitworth  (Agonistes),  etc. 

(Melbourne  by  Humphry  Clinker  (Comus)— daughter  of  Cervantes  (Don  Quixote) 

— daughter  of  Golumpus  (Gohanna) — daughter  of  Paynator,  etc. 
j  Volley  by  Voltaire  (Blacklock — daughter  of  Phantom) — Martha  Lynn  by  Mulatto 
'          (Cation) — Leda  by  Filho-da-Puta — Treasure  by  Camillus,  etc. 

I  The  Baron  by  Birdcatcher  (Sir  Hercules — Guiccioli  by  Bob  Booty) — Echidna  by 

Economist  (Whisker — Floranthe  by  Octavian),  etc. 

j  Pocahontas   by  Glencoe  (Sultan — Trampoline   by  Tramp) — Marpessa   by  Muley 
\         (Orville— Eleanor  by  Whisky) — Clare  by  Marmion  (Whisky),  etc. 

Biidcatcher  by  Sir  Hercules  (Whalebone — Peri  by  Wanderer)—  Guiccioli  by  Bob 
Manganese  Booty — Flight  by  Irish  Escape  (Commodore),  etc. 

\     (Ch.  — 1853)      Moonbeam  by  Tomboy  (Jerry  by  Smolensko — Beeswing's  dam  by  Ardrossan)  — 
Lunatic  by  Prime  Minister  (Sancho) — Maniac,  etc. 

Touchstone  by  Camel  (Whalebone — daughter  of  Selim) — Banter  by  Master  Henry 

(Orville) — Boadicea  by  Alexander  (Eclipse)— Brunette,  etc. 
Vulture  by  Langar  (Selim — daughter  of  Walton)  — Kite  by  Bustard — -Olympia  by 

Sir  Oliver— Scotilla  by  Anvil  (Herod) — Scota,  etc. 
I  Priam  by  Emilius  (Orville — Emily  by  Stamford) — Cress  da  by  Whisky  (Saltram) 

— Y.  Giantess  by  Diomed — Giantess  by  Matchem,  etc. 

jArachne  by  Filho-da-Puta  (Haphazard — Mrs.  Barnet  by  Waxy) — Treasure  by 
Camillus  (Hambletonian) — daughter  of  Hyacinthus,  etc. 

I  Bay  Middleton    by  Sultan  (Selim — Bacchante  by  Williamson's  Ditto) — Cobweb 

by  Phantom  (Walton) — Filagree  by  Soothsayer  (Sorcerer),  etc. 
I  Barbelle    by    Sandbeck    (Catton — Orvillina,    sister    to    Orville) — Darioletta    by 
\         Amadis  (Don  Quixote) — Selinia  by  Selim — daughter  of  Pol8o.s,  etc. 

('  Rubini  by  St.  Patrick  (Walton-  daughter  of  Dick  Andrews) — Slight  by  Selim — 
daughter  of  PotSos — Editha  by  Herod—  Elfrida  by  Snap,  etc. 
Sweetbriar  by  Sultan — Antiope  by  Whalebone— Amazon  by  Driver  (Trentham) — 
Fractious  by  Mercury  (Eclipse) — Woodpecker,  etc. 


The  Slave 
I     (B.— 1862) 


Rataplan 
(Ch.— 1850) 


'Orlando 
(B.— 1841) 


Industry 
(B.-i835) 


The  Flying 
Dutchman 
(B.— 1846) 


\ 


VOL.  in. 


M   M 


APPENDIX. 


N.— The  Pedigree  of  PERSIMMON. 

•Voltigeur  (Br.— 1847) 


Galopin 
(Br.— 1872) 


^Vedette  I 

(Br.— 1854)          Mrs.  Ridgway 
(Ro.— 1849) 


Flying  Duchess 
\     (B.-i853) 


St.  Simon 


(Brown-  -i  88  r; 

/King  Tom 

(B.-i857) 

I 

St.  Angela          / 

(B.—  1865)     \ 

Adeline 

\     (B.—  1851) 

PERSIMMON 

(Bay—  1893) 

'  Lord  Clifden 

(B.—  1860) 

/  Hampton 

(B.-i872)     , 

Lady  Langden 

1      (Br.—  1868) 

\Perdita  II. 

(Bay—  1  88  1  ) 

/Y.  Melbourne 

(B.—  1855) 

Hermione 

(B.-i875) 

1  La  Belle  Helene 

\     (Br.—  1866) 

The  Flying  Dutchman 
(Br.— 1846) 

Merope  (B.  — 1841) 
(Harkaway  (Ch. — 1834) 
IPocahontas  (B.— 1837) 

Ion  (B.— 1835) 

Little  Fairy  (B.— 1832) 

Newminster  (B. — 1848) 

The  Slave  (B.— 1852) 

Kettledrum 
(Ch.— 1858) 

Haricot  (Br.— 1847) 
Melbourne  (Br. — 1834) 
Clarissa  (B.— 1846) 
St.  Albans  (Ch.— 1857) 

Teterrima  (Br. — 1859) 


(Voltaire  by  Blacklock. 
( Martha  Lynn  by  Mulatto. 

j  Birdcatcher  by  Sir  Hercules. 
(Nan  Darrel  by  Inheritor. 

|  Bay  Middleton  by  Sultan. 
1  Barbelle  by  Sandbeck. 

( Voltaire  by  Blacklock. 

I  Velocipede's  dam  by  Juniper. 

i  Economist  by  Whisker. 

( Fanny  Dawson  by  Nabocklish. 

j  Glencoe  by  Sultan. 
I  Marpessa  by  Muley. 

j  Cain  by  Paulowitz. 
( Margaret  by  Edmund. 

(  Hornsea  by  Velocipede. 
( Lacerta  by  Zodiac. 

( Touchstone  by  Camel. 
( Beeswing  by  Dr.  Syntax. 

j  Melbourne  by  Humphry  Clinker. 
(Volley  (sister  to  Voltigeur)  by  Voltaire. 

j  Rataplan  by  The  Baron. 
(  Hybla  by  The  Provost. 

I  Lanercost  by  Liverpool. 
( Queen  Mary  by  Gladiator. 

j  Humphry  Clinker  by  Comus. 
( Daughter  of  Cervantes. 

l  Pantaloon  by  Castrel. 
|  Daughter  of  Glencoe. 

I  Stockwell  by  The  Baron. 
( Bribery  by  The  Libel. 

(Voltigeur  by  Voltaire. 

I  Ellen  Middleton  (dam  of  Wild  Dayrell)  by 

(     Bay  Middleton. 


APPENDIX. 


O.— A   contemporary  ballad  on  a  meeting  held  on    Gatherley   Moor   in    the  first 

quarter  of  the  Seventeenth  Century. 


;  You  heard  how  Gatherly   Race  was  run, 
What  horses  lost,  what  horses  won, 
And  all  things  else  that  there  was  done 

That  day. 

Now  for  a  new  race  I  shall  you  tell 
Was  neither  run  for  bowl  or  bell, 
But  for  a  great  wager  as  it  befell, 

Men  say. 

Three  gentlemen  of  good  report 

This  race  did  make,  to  make  some  sport 

To  which  great  company  did   resort 

With  speed. 

To  start  them  then   they  did  require 
A  gallant  youth,   a  brave  esquire, 
Who  yielded  soon   to  their  desire 

Indeed. 

They  started  well,  as   I  heard  tell, 

With  'Now  !     St.  George,  God  speed  you  well ! ' 

Let  every  man  look  to  himsel 

For  me. 

From   Levern  Hill  to   Popleton  Ash 
These  horses  run   with  spur  and  lash 
Through  mire  and  sand  and  dirt,   dish  dash 

All  three. 


Bay   Corbet  first  the  start  he  got, 
A  horse  well  known,   all   firey  hot, 
But  he  full  soon  his  fire  had  shot, 

What  ho! 

For  he  was  out  of  growth  so  sore 
He  could  not  run   as  heretofore 
Nor  ne'er  will  run   so  any  more 

I   trow. 

Grey  Ellerton  then  got  the  lead 
A  gallant  beast  of  mickle  speed 
For  he  did  win  the  race  indeed. 

Even  so. 

Grey  Appleton   the  hindmost  came 
And  yet  the  horse  was  not  to  blame 
The  rider  needs  must  have  the  shame 

For  that. 

For  tho'  he  chanced  to  come  behind 

Yet  did  he  run   his  rider  blind ; 

He  was  a  horseman   of  the  right   kind 

That's  flat. 

For  when  the  race  was  past  and  done 
He  knew  not  who   had  lost  nor  won 
For  he  saw  neither  moon   nor  sun 

As  then. 


And  thus  the  race  is  at  an  end 
And  so  farewell  to  foe  and  friend 
God  send  us  joy  unto  our  end. 

Amen." 


APPENDIX. 

p. . The  Original  Articles  for  the  Twelve  Stone  Plate  at  Newmarket  instituted  by 

King  Charles   II.  in   1665. 

"  Articles  ordered  by  His  Majestic  to  be  observed  by  all  persons  that  put  in  horses  to  run  for  the  Plate, 
the  new  Round  heate  at  Newmarkett,  set  out  the  26th  day  of  October  in  the  1 7'"  yeare  of  our  Sove- 
raign  Lord  King  Charles  II.  Which  Plate  to  be  rid  for  yearly  the  seconde  Thursday  in  October 
for  ever. 

"  Imprint's — That  every  horse,  mare  or  gelding  that  rideth  for  this  prize  shalbe  led  out  between  eleven 
and  twelve  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  shalbe  ready  to  start  by  one  of  the  same  day. 

«  Jtem — Eury  horse  that  rideth  shalbe  bridled,  saddled,  and  shod,  and  his  rider  shall  weigh  twelve  stone 
fourteen  pounds  to  the  stone  ;  and  eury  rider  that  wanteth  above  one  pound  and  a  halfe  after  he 
hath  rid  the  heat,  shall  win  no  plate  or  prize. 

"Item — Eury  horse  that  rides  the  new  Round  Course  three  times  over  (set  out  the  i6th  day  of  October 
in  the  17th  year  of  King  Charles  II.)  on  the  outside  of  the  Ditch  from  Newmarket,  shall  leave  all 
the  posts  and  flags  the  first  and  last  heats  on  the  right  hand,  and  the  second  on  the  left  hand, 
starting  and  ending  at  the  weighing  post,  by  Cambridge  Gap,  called  Thomond's  Post. 

"  Item — Whatsoever  horse  rideth  willingly,  or  for  advantage,  within  any  of  the  said  flags,  shall  win  no  plate 
or  prize,  but  lose  his  stakes,  and  ride  no  more  ;  but  if  he  be  thrust  by  any  horse  against  his  will, 
then  he  shall  lose  only  the  heate  ;  prouided  he  keeps  all  the  rest  of  the  flags,  and  come  within 
distance. 

"  Item — It  is  allowed  for  any  horse  to  be  relieved  at  the  discrec'on  of  the  owner  at  the  end  of  each  heat, 
and  eury  horse  shall  haue  half  an  hour's  time  to  rub  between  each  heat. 

"  Item — Whosoever  doth  stop  or  stay  any  of  the  horses  that  rideth  for  this  plate  or  prize,  if  he  be  either 
owner,  servant,  party,  or  bettor,  and  it  appears  to  be  willingly  done,  he  shall  win  no  plate,  prize, 
or  bets. 

"  Item — Euery  rider  that  layeth  hold  on,  or  striketh  any  of  the  riders,  shall  win  no  plate  or  prize. 

"  Item — If  any  horse,  mare,  or  gelding,  shall  fall  by  any  mischance,  so  that  the  rider  be  dismounted,  and 

if  he  does  his  best  afterwards  to  get  within  distance,  and  ride  fair  (which  shall  be  determined  by 

the  Judges  of  the  Field)  he  shall  only  lose  the  heat. 

"  Item — Any  of  the  Judges  may  weigh  any  of  the  riders  at  the  end  of  any  of  the  heats  ;  and  if  he  be  found 
to  have  fraudulently  cast  away  any  of  his  weight,  and  want  any  more  than  his  pound  and  a  halfe,  he 
shall  lose  the  plate,  prize,  and  stakes. 

"  Item— If  any  difference  shalbe  about  riding  for  this  plate,  which  is  not  expressed  in  these  articles,  it 
shalbe  referred  to  the  noblemen  and  gentlemen  which  are  then  present,  and  being  contributors  to 
the  said  plate  ;  but  more  especially  the  Judges,  the  Judge  being  to  be  chosen  every  time  the  plate 
or  prize  is  run  for,  by  the  major  part  of  the  contributors  that  are  there  present. 

"  Item — Eury  horse  that  winneth  three  heats  shall  win  the  plate  or  prize,  without  running  the  course. 

"  Item — Eury  horse  that  runneth  for  the  plate  or  prize  shall  put  in  three  pounds,  except  it  be  a  contri- 
butor's horse,  and  then  he  shall  put  in  forty  shillings. 

"  Item — Whosoever  winneth  the  plate  or  prize  shall  give  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Course  twenty  shillings,  to  be 
distributed  to  the  poor  on  both  sides  of  Newmarket,  and  twenty  shillings  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Race  ; 
for  which  he  is  to  keep  the  course  plain  and  free  from  cart  roots. 


APPENDIX 

jtcm The  Clerk  of  the  Race  is  to  receive  the  stakes  before  any  horse  starts,  and  is  to  deliver  it  to  the 

tenant  for  the  time  being,  who  is  to  give  sufficient  security,  not  only  for  his  rent,  but  likewise  to  add 
such  stakes  to  the  ensuing  plate  or  prize  the  next  year. 

Item— Eury  Horse,  Mare,  or  Gelding,  that  rideth  for  this  plate  or  prize,  shall  likewise  deposit  twenty- 
shillings  for  every  heat,  which  the  winning  horse  shall  haue  ;  and  the  last  horse  of  every  heat  shall 
pay  the  second  horse's  stakes  and  his  own,  which  stakes  are  likewise  to  be  deposited  into  the  Clerk 
of  the  Race's  hands  before  the  horses  start,  to  pay  the  winning  horse  his  stakes  every  heat,  and 
likewise  twenty  shillings  to  the  second  horse,  to  save  his  stakes  ;  but  if  there  runneth  but  two 
horses,  then  no  stakes  to  be  run  for  but  what  is  to  add  to  the  next  year's  plate. 

£tcm— No  horse  that  winneth  not  one  of  the  three  Heats  shalbe  permitted  to  come  in  and  run  the 
course. 

Item—  The  plate  or  prize  is  to  be  run  for  the  second  Thursday  in  October,  every  rider  carrying  twelve 

stone  weight  at  fourteen  pounds  to  the  stone  besides  bridle  and  saddle  ;  and  if  any  gentleman  that 

rides  shall  carry  weight  in  his  saddle   he  shall  haue  liberty,  provided  he  allows  two  pounds  to  the 

rest  for  the  weight  of  their  saddles. 

i  Jtcm — The  Clerk  of  the  Race  is  to  summons  the  riders  to  start  again  at  the  end  of  half  an  hour  by  the 

signal  of  drum,  trumpet,  or  any  other  way,  setting  up  an  hourglass  for  that  purpose. 
'  Item— No  man  is  admitted  to  ride  for  this  prize  that  is  either  a  serving  man  or  groom. 

— That  horses  that  after  the  running  of  the  three  heats  shall  run  the  four  mile  course,  shall  lead 
away  and  start  within  an  hour  and  halfe  or  else  to  win  no  plate  or  prize." 


Q. — Winning  Owners. 


1899. 

1900. 

1901. 

1902. 

1903. 

X  umber  of 
winners. 

Number  of 
races  won. 

Sir  J.  Miller        

£ 

1,181 

£ 

c  703 

£ 

5,661 

£, 

I  I,O56 

£ 

24,  763 

$ 

Mr.  L.  de  Rothschild    .  . 

4  642  A 

11,406 

3,6^0^ 

18,836^ 

Mr.  J.  Gubbins  

1,838 

I,  c6l 

6,517 

13,699 

18,567 

6 

Major  E.  Loder  ... 

4.  4  3O 

9,320 

C,I38 

15,738 

12 

Sir  J.  Blundell  Maple    

6.  1  34 

Q  2§7t 

21,370 

!7,QI2i 

15,167^ 

28 

c8 

Mr.  W.  Bass       

H.^QCi 

8 

Mr.  T-  Musker    ... 

•3  723 

1  6  687 

5,252! 

4  773i 

I  3  Q^Q 

Sir  F,.  Cassel 

3.7O3 

7.OC7 

9,711 

6,  549^ 

13,674^ 

1  1 

2C 

Mr.  J.  B.  Joel     

2   KC4. 

747 

4,337 

II,89O 

2O 

Lord  Howard  de  Walden 
Lord  Carnarvon  ... 

1,663 

2,6O2 

819 

847 
5,  370 

9,915 

9,477 

14 
12 

22 
22 

Lord  Falmouth  ... 

60  3* 

2,986 

2,820 

8,111 

2 

6 

6  Q7Q 

4.  4.72i 

2,'U4i 

5.^30 

7,903^ 

24. 

Mr.  Arthur  Janies 

10  60  S 

•3  244. 

5,800 

16,585* 

7,651* 

I  i 

2  62O 

10  067 

1.772 

4.QO3 

6.372 

8 

2,238 

C2S 

687 

2,562 

5,305 

8 

I  C 

Mr.  H.  E.  Randall        

IOO 

1,891; 

3,198 

5,138 

1  1 

I  = 

Mr.  G.  Thursby  

•2,844 

4,927 

IO 

17 

Mr.  J.  R.  Keene            

788 

2,399 

551 

4,616 

c 

Mr.  G.  A.  Prentice        

IQti 

1,795 

2,956 

4,594 

Mr.  W.  M.  G.  Singer    

i,  ono 

•3,  C24 

3,637 

2,156 

4,278 

Lord  "\Yolverton... 

274. 

I,  589 

3,iHH 

•5,657 

4,162 

1  AIO 

c  68qJ 

3,000 

2.  547i 

3.060 

Lord  Rosebery    ... 

3)***^ 
6  S7Q 

485 

3  Q33 

Sir  E.  Vincent    ... 

I  «8 

7  2QQ 

7  Qd8 

T.  8o8J 

Captain  F.  Forester 

i.  Hi4 

640 

273 

^.  5W 

3,637 

Mr.  W.  C.  Whitney      

2.25  A 

i 

I  Q.72O* 

r   c6o 

3  c6o 

Duke  of  Devonshire 

c  24.2 

*t*33 

-i  600 

4,888 

T  ^  ^C7 

3  ^2s 

M.  J.  de  Bremond 

3  3QO 

823 

i  888 

&yr~ 

3    328 

' 

APPENDIX. 

R. — Buckle's  last  Race-Card.      Newmarket  Houghton  Meeting,   Saturday, 

November  6,    1831. 

Mr.  Dilly's  Lioness,  Sst.  7lb.,  beat  Capt.  Bulkeley's  sister  to  Pin-wire,  6st.  nib.,  Ab.  M.,  50,  h.  ft. 

Sweepstakes  of  30  sovs.  each.     First  half  of  Ab.  M. 

Capt.  Byng's  Dryad      2  ...  8st.  2lb.  i 

Col.  Peel's  Eccentricity             ...         ...  2  ...  7st.  7lb.  2 

Mr.  Udny's  Conservator           4  ...  8st  /lb.  3     (Buckle} 

Gen.  Grosvenor's  Bartolozzi    ...         ...  2  ...  6st.  I3lb.  4 

Mr.  Vansittart's  Rubini,  8st.,  beat  Mr.  Cooke's  Cloudesley,  8st.  I2lb.     Ab.  M.,  100,  h.  ft. 
Ld.  Chesterfield's  Titania,  gst.,  beat  Ld.  Worcester's  Haymaker,  6st.  I2lb.     T.  Y.  C.,  50. 

Sweepstakes  of  10  sovs.  each,  for  two-year-old  colts,  8st.  ylb.,  fillies,  8st.  4lb.     First  half  of  Ab.  M. 

D.  of  Grafton's  bl.  c.  Ebonv     ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  i 

Mr.  Gratwicke's  gr.  f.  by  Middleton  out  of  Jest     ...         ...         ...  2 

Mr.  Greville's  Agincourt          ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  3 

Mr.  Henry's  ch.  f.  by  Middleton,  dam  by  Merlin  out  of  Seamew  ...  4 

Captain  Rous's  Crutch,  8st.  2lb.,  beat  Mr.  Henry's  Agrcable,  8st.  ;lb.     T.  Y.  C.  100,  h.  ft. 
Mr.  Henry's  Margaret,  8st.  5lb.,  beat  Mr.  Greville's  Margravine,  8st.  3lb.     T.  Y.  C.,  100,  h.  ft. 
Mr.  Pettit's  f.  by  Partisan  out  of  Bravura,  8st.  3lb.,  beat  Mr.  Osbaldeston's  Peter  Finder.  Sst.  5lb.  T.  Y.  C. 

50,  h.  ft. 

Ld.  Jersey's  Blunderer,  Sst.  2lb.,  beat  Ld.  Orford's  Grand  Duke,  Sst.  81b.     A.  F.,  100. 
Mr.  Henry's  Protocol,  Sst.  lib.,  beat  Sir  M.  Wood's  Captain  Arthur,  Sst.  I2lb.       A.  F.,  100. 
Mr.  Chapman's  The  Cardinal,  Sst.  2lb.,  beat  Ld.  Worcester's  Coition,  Sst.  ulb.     A.  F.,  100,  h.  ft. 
Sir  M.  Wood's  Galantine  reed.  ft.  from  Mr.  Greville's  Ear-wig,  Sst.  5lb.  each.     B.  C.,  100,  h.  ft. 

N.B.— Two  guineas  of  the  entrance  money  for  the  Plates  (except  for  the  Handicap  Plate  on  Monday)  will  be 
returned  to  the  owners  of  those  horses  which  start,  and  of  those  which  are  drawn  at  or  before  the  time  of 
reading  the  list  the  evening  before  running. 

Persons  having  horses  engaged  are  requested  to  take  notice,  that  the  stakes  must  be  made  before  starting  for 
the  first  race  of  the  day,  and  that  all  forfeits  must  be  declared  to  the  keeper  of  the  Matchbook,  by  ten 
o'clock  the  night  before  the  race  was  intended  to  be  run,  whether  the  list  be  then  read  or  not,  and  the 
forfeits  must  be  paid  the  day  the  race  is  run,  otherwise  the  discount  will  not  be  allowed. 

S. — Four   Days'   Racing   in    1903. 

SANDOWN,    ECLIPSE    STAKES;    NEWMARKET,  JOCKEY    CLUB    STAKES;    TWO    DAYS    OF    THE    HOUGHTON 

MEETING. 

SANDOWN    ECLIPSE    MEETING,   1903. 

Stewards—  EARL  OF  DURHAM,  LORD  RENDLESHAM,  MR.  L.  DE  ROTHSCHILD,  and  GENERAL  OWEN  WILLIAMS.  Jud"e 
—MR.  C.  E.  ROBINSON.  Starter—  MR.  A.  COVENTRY.  Clerk  of  the  Scales— MR.  W.  C.  MANNING,  ffandicappers 
-MESSRS.  DAWKINS,  KEYSER,  and  LEE.  Clerk  of  the  Course  and  Stakeholder—  MR.  H.  WILLIAMS. 

FRIDAY,  JULY  17. 

3.10.— The  Sixteenth  Renewal  of  the  ECLIPSE  STAKES  of  10,000  sovs.;  the  second  receives  500  sovs.;  the  third 
100  sovs. ;  and  the  nominator  of  the  winner  500  sovs.  ;  weight  for  age,  penalties,  etc.  Eclipse  Stakes  Course  (one  mile 
and  a  quarter). 

1.  Mr.  J.  Gubbins's  br.  c.  Ard  Patrick,  by  St.  Florian—Morgancttc,  4  yrs.,  lost.  2lb.  (violet, 

crimson  buttons  and  cap)         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  ...         ...    ().  Madden       I 

2.  Mr.   W.  Bass's  b.  f.   Sceptre,  by  Persimmon— Ornament,  4  yrs.,  gst.  I3lb.  (yellow,  green 

sleeves  and  cap)  ...         ...         ...         ...  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...    p.  Hardy         2 

4.   Sir  J.  Miller's  br.  c.  Rock  Sand,  by  Sainfoin — Roquebrune,  3  yrs.,  gst.  4lb.  (white,  primrose 

braid,  sleeves,  and  cap)  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...    j.  H    Martin    •• 

3.  Mr.  G.  Faber's  Linke  of  Westminster,  by  Orme— Gantlet,  4  yrs.,  gst.  I3lb.  (white,  yellow 

collar) M.  Cannon      4 

6.   Lord   Rosebery's  Oriole,  by  LaJas—Or.e,  3  yrs.,  Sst.   I2lb.   (primrose  and  rose  hoops, 

rose  cap)  W.  Halsey       o 

The  figures  preceding  the  owners'  names  correspond  with  the  numbers  on  the  card. 
(Race  started  at  3.15.     Winner  trained  by  S.  Darling,  at  Beckhampton.) 


APPENDIX. 

Betting  :  5  to  4  against  Rock  Sand,  7  to  4  Sceptre,  5  to  I  Ard  Patrick,  loo  to  6  Duke  oj  Westminster,  and  33  to  I  Oriole 
(offered). 

Both  the  parade  and  canter  were  led  by  Ard  Patrick,  and  the  horses  assembled  at  the  post  a  few  minutes  after  the  hour  fixed 
for  the  start,  and  a  minute  after  the  white  fl  ig  went  up  the  barrier  was  released.  The  first  away  was  Rock  Sand,  followed 
by  Oriole  and  Ard  Patrick,  with  Dnkc  of  Westminster  last.  On  settling  down  into  their  places  Oriole  drew  out  clear  of  Rock 
Sand  and  Ard  Patrick,  with  Sceptre  next.  A  mile  from  home  Ard  Patrick  joined  Rock  Sand,  but  Oriole  continued  to  lead  until 
fairly  in  the  line  for  home,  where  Ard  Patrick  drew  to  the  front,  followed  by  Rock  Sand  and  Sceptre.  A  quarter  of  a  mile  from 
home  Sceptre  became  second,  and,  passing  Ard  Patrick  soon  afterwards,  the  pair  fought  out  a  most  exciting  finish,  Ard  Patrick 
winning  by  a  neck  ;  three  lengths  separated  the  second  and  third.  Duke  of  Westminster  was  fourth.  Time,  by  Benson's 
chronograph,  2  min.  7|  sec. 

It  was  early  known  that  Mr.  Gubbins  had  agreed  overnight  with  Count  Lehndorff,  through  the 
International  Horse  Agency  and  Exchange  (Limited),  to  sell  Ard  Patrick  for  delivery  after  running  not 
more  than  three  weight-for-age  engagements  during  the  remainder  of  the  current  season.  The  price  is 
20,000  guineas,  the  same  as  the  Russian  Government  gave  for  Galtee  More,  through  the  same  Agency,  but 
with  this  important  difference — that  Mr.  Gubbins  has  three  valuable  races  to  the  good,  one  of  which, 
the  Eclipse  Stakes,  he  has  already  won,  and  the  other  two — the  Jockey  Club  and  the  Champion  Stakes 
— he  will  probably  win. 

But  as  to  the  race,  the  race — for  few  looked  at  any  other  to-day—well,  they  paraded  and  cantered, 
nothing  going  down  quite  so  well  as  Sceptre,  though  Ard  Patrick  also  strode  out  with  the  utmost  freedom. 
And  now  they  were  at  the  gate.  I  could  feel  my  heart  going  thump,  thump,  as  I  doubt  not  many 
others  did.  It  was  a  supreme  moment,  one  in  which  you  seem  to  live  through  ages,  and  then  up  went 
the  barrier.  The  start  was  superb.  Presently  Oriole  dashed  to  the  front,  followed  by  Rock  Sand,  with 
Ard  Patrick  always  lying  handy,  Sceptre,  as  usual,  a  bit  slow  in  getting  fairly  into  her  stride,  and  Duke 
of  Westminster  dropped  behind  last.  Just  as  they  neared  the  top  turn  I  saw  what  made  me  sure  Ard 
Patrick  would  beat  Rock  Sand,  for  Madden  took  his  mount  up  without  any  apparent  effort,  and  gained 
a  good  place  for  the  crucial  turn.  The  big  horse  came  round  it  well,  and  Sceptre  was  now  fairly  moving, 
so  that  although  Ard  Patrick  got  first  run  into  the  straight  and  soon  settled  the  leaders,  Sceptre  was 
hard  on  his  tracks,  and  a  furlong  from  home  seemed  to  have  taken  his  measure.  Already  there  was 
a  roar  of  delight  over  the  anticipated  victory  of  the  public  idol.  "Sceptre  wins  !"  Yes,  it  seemed  clear 
as  the  day.  There  she  was,  making  one  of  her  brilliant  runs,  which  no  opponent  yet  has  ever  stalled 
off,  for  Sceptre  has  never  been  beaten  when  putting  in  her  best  efforts.  "  Come  on,  old  girl ! "  cried 
an  irreverent  admirer ;  and  then  came  first  a  murmur,  growing  quickly  into  a  shout,  "  Ard  Patrick ! 
Ard  Patrick  !  "  and  people  choked  and  gasped  with  excitement.  What  a  race  !  What  a  race  ! 

The  gallant  Irishman  had  come  again  with  extraordinary  resolution  and  courage,  but  the  mare  also 
held  on,  amazed,  I  dare  say,  to  find  any  presumptuous  horse  challenging  her  supremacy.  Yes,  she 
held  on,  and  both  jockeys  rode  for  their  lives.  Rock  Sand  faded  away ;  you  only  saw  the  splendid  duel 
as  it  progressed  in  all  its  bitterness  and  all  its  beauty  before  your  eyes.  Not  till  very  close  home 
could  the  most  acute  of  judges  have  foretold  the  result,  and  then  Ard  Patrick  fairly  battled  the  mare 
out  of  the  race,  but  only  by  a  neck,  and  a  great  sigh  of  relief  went  up  from  all  and  sundry.  Few  could 
pull  themselves  together  for  several  minutes  after  seeing  this  sight  of  a  lifetime.  For  my  part  I  could 
scarcely  bear  to  think  of  it,  so  overpowering  had  it  been ;  and,  after  just  staying  to  see  the  winner  and 
Sceptre  weigh  in,  I  went  home.  No  more  racing,  no  race  but  one  to-day. 

NEWMARKET   FIRST   OCTOBER   MEETING,   1903. 
THIRD  DAY.— THURSDAY,  OCTOBER  i. 

3.0. — The  JOCKEY  CLUB  STAKES  of  10,000  sovs.  ;  the  second  received  1,500  sovs.  ;  the  third  1,000  sovs.  ;  the 
nominator  of  the  winner  400  sovs.,  and  the  nominator  of  the  second  200  sovs.  ;  weight  for  age,  etc.  Last  mile  and 
three-quarters  of  Cesarewitch  Course. 

3.  Mr.  \Y.  Bass's  b.  f.  Sceptre,  by  Persimmon — Ornament,  4  yrs.,  lost,  (yellow,  green  sleeves 

and  cap) F.  Hardy         I 

5.  Sir  J.  Miller's  br.  c.  Rock  Sand,  by  Sainfoin — Roquebrune,  3  yrs.,  8st.  I3lb  (white,  primrose 

braid,  sleeves,  and  cap)  D.  Maher         2 

6.  Mr.  W.  B.  IMirefoy's  b.  g.  Cappa  While,  by  Buckingham— Eivir,  4  yrs.,  8st.  7lb.  (light  blue 

and  black  hoops)  B.Dillon         3 

4.  Mr.  J.  Musker's  William  Rufus,  by  Melton— Simena,  3  yrs.,  8st.  I3lb.  (light  blue,  violet 

sleeves,  grey  cap)          O.  Madden      4 

2.  Duke  of  Devonshire's  Cheers,  by  Persimmon — Applause  II.,  4  yrs.,  lost,  (straw) W.  Halsey       o 

The  figures  preceding  the  owners'  names  correspond  with  the  numbers  on  the  card. 

(Race  started  at  3.11.     Winner  trained  by  A.  Taylor,  at  Manton,  and  bred  by  the  late  Duke  of  Westminster.) 
It  was  very  soon  a  case  of  laying  odds  1 1  to  10  on  Rock  Sand,  but,  at  the  same  time,  &<gfMr¥had  adherents  galore  at  1 1  to  8  and 


Rtifus,  loo  to  I  against  Cheers  (offered). 

Neither  Sceptre,  Cappa  White,  nor  Cheers  was  on  view  in  the  paddock,  and  H  'illiam  Rufus  cantered  down  to  the  post  in  front 
of  Rock  Sand.  The  white  flag  was  hoisted  at  3.10,  the  lot  being  despatched  to  a  capital  start  a  minute  later,  Cappa  Whitt 
showing  the  w.iy  to  Rock  Sand  and  William  Rufus,  with  Cheers  whipping  in.  There  was  no  change  whatever  till  about  six 
furlongs  from  home,  when  Sceptre  took  third  place,  and,  gradually  improving  her  position,  she  drew  to  the  front  after  passing 


APPENDIX. 

the  Bushes,  at  which  point  Maher  began  to  be  uneasy  on  the  favourite,  who  was  lying  second,  with  Cappa  White  next.  Thence- 
forward the  race  resolved  itself  into  a  procession,  Sceptre  maintaining  her  lead,  and  won  easily  amidst  a  scene  of  the  wildest 
enthusiasm  by  four  lengths  ;  two  lengths  divided  the  second  and  third.  Cheers  was  last  throughout.  Time  by  Benson's 
chronograph,  3  min.  10  sec.  Value  of  the  stakes,  ,£",185. 

As  soon  as  Sceptre  drew  up  to  her  opponents  on  reaching  the  Bushes  she  did  what  we,  with  many 
others,  thought  next  to  an  impossibility.  It  was  not  the  fact  of  conceding  the  islb. — the  breeding 
allowance  of  Rock  Sand  was  discovered  to  be  61b.  instead  of  gib. — but  the  way  it  was  accomplished. 
She  was  travelling  as  smoothly  as  possible  when  she  pulled  her  way  there,  and  one,  of  course,  expected 
to  see  a  fight,  or  the  weight  tell.  But  it  was  not  so.  Maher  at  once  had  to  ask  his  colt,  and  it  took 
but  very  few  strides  to  tell  us  of  an  easy  result ;  indeed,  as  she  showed  the  latest  triple  crown  hero  a 
clean  pair  of  heels  rising  out  of  the  dip,  a  roar  began  not  frequently  heard  from  Newmarket  stands,  and 
was  continued  until  the  horses  were  out  of  view.  We  do  not  often  find  cheering  in  the  Birdcage — 
not  the  etiquette  of  Newmarket ;  but  under  weight  of  excitement  of  this  grand  performance  it  was 
excusable.  As  Lady  Noreen  Bass  palled  and  fondled  the  heroine  of  the  hour,  folks  gave  vent  to  their 
feelings,  and  the  filly  did  not  seem  very  much  fatigued  under  all  circumstances.  Rock  Sand  ended  up 
a  season  most  favourable  to  Sir  James  Miller  and  Blackwell,  his  trainer,  despite  his  two  hollow  defeats 
when  meeting  those  of  advanced  ages. 

The  weather  was  fine  except  for  a  slight  fall  of  rain  during  the  race,  and  the  attendance  was  larger 
than  on  the  previous  days  during  the  meeting.  The  Duke  of  Cambridge  honoured  the  gathering  with  his 
presence.  Among  the  company,  besides  the  Earl  of  Durham  and  Mr.  A.  James  (Stewards  of  the  Jockey 
Club),  we  noticed  Prince  Soltykoff,  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Devonshire,  Marquis  of  Cholmondeley,  Earl 
and  Countess  of  Coventry,  Rajah  of  Padukota,  Earl  of  Harewood,  Lord  and  Lady  Marcus  Beresford,  Lord 
Kesteven,  Lady  Anne  Lambton,  Lord  and  Lady  Lurgan,  Lady  Prinsep,  Lady  Barbara  Smith,  Lord  and  Lady 
Alice  Stanley,  Lord  Villiers,  Lord  Westbury,  Hon.  G.  Lambton,  Hon.  Francis  Lambton,  Hon.  F.  VV. 
Lambton,  Hon.  Humphrey  Sturt,  M.P.,  Hon.  Hugh  Astley,  Hon.  B.  Boyle,  Hon.  A.  Brabazon,  Sir  Patrick 
Hlake,  Sir  Daniel  and  Lady  Cooper,  Sir  Edwin  Egerton,  Sir  John  Kelk,  Sir  James  and  the  Hon.  Lady 
Miller,  Sir  Edgar  Vincent,  Sir  A.  Thornhill,  Sir  Charles  Nugent,  Major  B.  Atkinson,  Colonel  E.  \V.  D.  Baird, 
Colonel  P.  Bagot,  Major  L.  E.  Barry,  Captain  W.  A.  E.  and  Lady  Lilian  Boyd,  Major  F.  L.  Braithwaite, 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  Chaine,  Captain  Cookson,  Colonel  Cumberlege,  Colonel  Augustus  FitzGeorge,  Rear- 
Admiral  Adolphus  FitzGeorge,  Colonel  and  Mrs.  H.  Fludyer,  Major  Hall,  Captain  J.  G.  R.  Homfray, 
Captain  Hunt,  General  A.  Williams,  Major  Finies,  Major  Paul,  Colonel  Hutton,  Colonel  Irwin,  Captain 
Laing,  Major  C.  Lambton,  Captain  Milligan,  Major  Ord,  Captain  Soames,  Captain  the  Hon.  A.  C.  E. 
Somerset,  Major  and  Lady  Elena  Wickham,  Mr.  Argenti,  Mr.  John  Barker,  Mr.  H.  F.  Beaumont,  Mr. 
VV.  C  Beaumont,  Mr.  A.  Brisco,  Mr.  A.  M.  Cardwell,  Mr.  E.  C.  Clayton,  Mr.  Harvey  Combe,  Mr. 
W.  Cooper,  Mr.  A.  W.  Cox,  Mr.  Ernest  Dresden,  Mr.  C.  A.  Egerton,  Mr.  Fairie,  Mr.  C.  J.  F.  Fawcett, 
Mr.  Tresham  Gilbey,  Mr.  J.  H.  Houldsworth,  Mr.  E.  Hutton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  J.  James,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  H.  J.  King,  Mr.  J.  W.  and  Lady  Isabel  Larnach,  Mr.  W.  F.  Lee,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Leigh,  Mr. 
Theodore  Lloyd,  Mr.  J.  H.  Locke,  Mr.  Eustace  Loder,  Mr.  Rochfort  Maguire,  M.P.,  Mr.  A.  W.  Merry, 
Mr.  C.  J.  Merry,  Mr.  J.  A.  Miller,  Mr.  J.  Musker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  S.  Newton,  Mr.  R.  A.  Oswald,  Mr. 
Hugh  Owen,  Mr.  John  E.  Platt,  Mr.  G.  A.  Prentice,  Mr.  Arthur  Portman,  Mr.  R.  Pryor,  Mr.  W.  Raphael, 
Mr.  C.  D.  Rose,  M.P.,  Mr.  Ernest  de  la  Rue,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herbert  de  la  Rue,  Mr.  H  Salvin,  Mr.  A. 
J.  Schwabe,  Mr.  Sheriffe,  Mr.  W.  Taylor  Sharpe,  Mr.  J.  Tail,  jun.,  Mrs.  Montague  Tharp,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Thornton,  Mr.  Munro  Walker,  Mr.  A.  E.  Watson,  Miss  Watson,  Mr.  M.  Weyland,  Mr.  J.  B.  Wood 
and  Mr.  C.  F.  Young. 

NEWMARKET   HOUGHTON    MEETING,  1903. 
FIRST  DAY. — TUESDAY,  OCTOBER  27. 

2.0— The  FORDHAM  WELTER  HANDICAP  of  251  sovs.     Rouse  Course  (five  furlongs). 

Mr.  J.  Pincus's  ch.  g   by  Despair — light  of  the  Harem,  4  yrs. ,  7st.      ...         ...         ...         ...  Plant  I 

Mr.  II.  J.  King's  br.  f.  Mimicry,  4  yrs.,  9st.         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  H.  Jones  2 

Mr.  J.  R.  Keen's  ch.  c.  Hurst  Park  //.,  3  yrs.,  8st.  7lb.  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Lyne  3 

Sir  E.  Gorst's  Pansy  Masters,  3  yrs.,  8st.  7lb W.  Lane  o 

Duke  of  Devonshire's  Lady  Bnrgoyne,  3  yrs.,  8st.  2lb.    ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Trigg  o 

Mr.  C.  Levy's  La  Urugitaya,  aged,  8st.  lib.  ...          ...          ...          ...          ...          ...         ...  J.  H.  Martin    o 

Mr.  L.  de  Rothschild's  Fosco,  aged,  751.  13)0.       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Hardy  o 

Mr.  E.  Bonner's  Mount  Lyell,  5  yrs.,  7st.  I2lb.    ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Watts  o 

Mr.  Fairie's  Kinaldo,  3  yis.,  751.  4lb.          ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Heppell  o 

(Race  started  at  2.2.     Winner  trained  by  Owner,  at  Newmarket,  and  bred  by  Mr.  J.  A.  Miller.) 

In  quick  succession  4  to  I,  7  to  2,  3  to  I,  and  5  to  2  was  booked  in  favour  of  Ifurst  Park  II.,  but  at  the  same  time  La 
Liruguaya  had  an  immense  following  at  5  to  I  and  half  a  point  less,  and  tnree  others  soundly  supported  at  loo  to  12,  8  to  I, 
100  to  14,  and  7  to  I  were  Mimicry,  Fosco,  and  Lady  Burgoyne.  As  regards  the  winner  or  any  other,  loo's  to  X  were  finally 
obtainable. 

Betting:  5  to  2  against  Hurst  Park  II ,  g  to  2  against  La  Uriiguaya,  7  to  I  each  against  Mimicry,  Latty  fiargoyiie,  and 
Fosco,  and  loo  to  8  against  any  other  (offered). 

Pansy  Masters,  on  the  lower  ground,  showed  the  way  to  Fosco,  on  the  left,  Ifurst  Park  11.,  on  the  top  ground,  Mimicry 
and  La  Uruguaya,  with  Mount  Lyell  and  LaJy  Burgoyne  next,  to  the  Dip,  when  Mimicry  and  Jlurst  Park  II.  took  a  slight 


APPENDIX. 

lead  of  Light  of  the  Ifarem  gelding,  but  the  latter,  coming  with  a  wet  sail  up  the  hill,  won  by  three-parts  of  a  length  ;  a  head 
divided  the  second  and  third.  La  Uruguaya  was  fourth,  Lady  Burgoyne  fifth,  Fosco  sixth,  and  Mount  Lyell  last.  Time  by 
Benson's  chronograph,  I  min.  6£  sec. 

3.30— The  OLD  NURSERY  STAKES  (handicap)  of  226  sovs.     R.M.  (one  mile). 

Mr.  J.  Pincus's  br.  g.  by  Florizel  II. — Profit,  7st.  I2lb   ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  W.  Lane  I 

Mr.  H.  E.  Randall's  b.  g.  Love  Game,  8st.  Randall  2 

Mr.  R.  S.  Sievier'sb.  f.  St.Joie,  8st.  3lb Hardy  3 

Mr.  Fairie's  Charmer,  6st.  nib.      ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Heppell  4 

Mr.  M.  Gurry's  Lady  Dundas,  8st.  2lb.     ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Watts  o 

Mr.  H.  J.  King's  Fanfare,  yst.  gib.*  Bott  o 

Mr.  Douglas  Baird's  Marmontel,  8st.          H.  Aylin  o 

Mr.  E.  L.  Heinemann's  Lucid,  7st.  81b.*  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Dawson  o 

Major  J.  D.  Edwards's  Volar,  751.  lolb.     ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  J.  H.  Martin   o 

Duke  of  Devonshire's  f.  by  St.  Frusquin — Ronaldina,  7st.  61b.  ...         ...         ...         ...  Griggs  o 

Mr.  T.  Simpson  Jay's  Castellar,  7st.  3lb.   ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  Trigg  o 

Lord  Ellesmere's  Somersault,  6st.  5lb.*       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  J.  Jarvis  O 

*  5lb.  apprentice  allowance  deducted. 
(Race  started  at  3.37.     Winner  trained  by  Owner,  at  Newmarket,  and  bred  by  Mr.  W.  M.  Low.) 

Weight  of  money  soon  disclosed  Somersault  in  the  light  of  a  distinctive  first  fancy  at  7  to  2.  This  notwithstanding,  Profit 
gelding  had  friends  in  force  at  4  to  I  or  anything  over,  and  very  good  sums  went  on  Volar  at  8  to  I,  loo  to  14,  and  7  to  I. 
St.Joie  was  backed  at  loo's  to  12  and  8  to  I,  and  so  was  Lady  Dundas  at  10  to  I,  100  to  12,  and  so  forth.  Marmontel  had 
supporters  at  loo's  to  7  and  8.  Nothing  else  could  boast  an  admirer. 

Betting:  7  to  2  against  Somersault,  4  to  I  against  Profit  gelding,  7  to  I  against  Volar,  8  to  I  against  St.Joie,  loo  to  12 
against  Lady  Dundas,  100  to  8  against  Marmontel,  and  100  to  7  against  any  other  (offered). 

The  profit  gelding,  on  the  lower  ground,  slipped  away  with  a  clear  lead  of  VJjlar,  in  .the  centre,  Castellar,  and  Ronaldina 
filly,  with  Fanfare,  St.  Joie,  and  Somersault  next,  and,  holding  the  lead  throughout,  won  in  a  canter  by  four  lengths  from  Love 
Game  and  St.  Joie,  who  were  only  separated  by  a  head.  Charmer,  close  up,  was  fourth,  Somersault  fifth,  Castellar  sixth, 
Fanfare  seventh,  Marmontel  next,  and  Volar  last.  Time  by  Benson's  chronograph,  I  min.  52*  sec. 

4.0— The  LIMEKILN  STAKES  of  415  sovs. ;  weight  for  age,  etc.     A.F.  (one  mile,  two  furlongs). 

Mi.'W,'BBM'tb.f.Sceftre,bjPernmm<>ti — Ornament,  4  yrs.,  gst.  nib Hardy  I 

Prince  SoltykofPs  b.  c.  Paregoric,  3  yrs.,  8st.  lib.  ...         ...         ...         ...         Watts  2 

(Race  started  at  4.6.     Winner  trained  by  A.  Taylor,  at  Manton,  and  bred  by  the  late  Duke  of  Westminster.) 

Such  an  absolute  certainty  was  this  race  considered  for  Sceptre  that  the  extravagant  odds  of  66  to  I  were  at  once  laid  on, 
and  these  were  immediately  followed  by  considerations  of  100  to  I. 

Betting  :  loo  to  I  on  Sceptre. 

Sceptre  made  the  whole  of  the  running,  and  won  in  a  canter  by  eight  lengths.  Time  by  Benson's  chronograph, 
2  min.  30!  sec. 

4.30— The  CRITERION  STAKES  of  706  sovs.,  for  two  year  olds  ;  colts,  8st.  Sib. ;  fillies  and  geldings,  8st.  61b.  ; 

winners  extra.     Criterion  Course  (six  furlongs). 

Major  Eustace  Loder's  ch.  f.  Pretty  Polly,  by  Gallinule — Admiration,  gst.  2lb.         ...         ...    W.  Lane  I 

Mr.  W.  C.  Whitney's  b.  c.  Hands  Down,  gst.  lib.          J.H.Martin   2 

(Race  started  at  4.30.     Winner  trained  by  Mr.  Gilpin,  at  Newmarket,  and  bred  by  Owner.) 

It  was  another  case  of  long  odds  on,  loo's  to  7  being  finally  betted  on  Pretty  Polly. 

Betting  :  100  to  7  on  Pretty  Polly,  who  waited  on  Hands  Down  till  below  the  distance,  when  she  drew  out  and  won  in  a 
canter  by  a  length  and  a  half.  Time  by  Benson's  chronograph,  I  min.  24^  sec. 

This  has  been  a  day  of  some  moment.  We  have  seen  Sceptre  and  Pretty  Polly  run  and,  of  course,  win. 
We  have  seen  Sceptre  in  the  paddock  both  before  and  after  her  race,  and  very  beautiful  she  looked,  despite 
her  broken  coat.  We  have  seen  other  things  of  importance,  and  have  pursued  investigations  into  the 
Cambridgeshire  possibilities  and  probabilities  in  the  time-honoured  manner,  but  everything  has  sunk  into 
insignificance  by  comparison  with  Mr.  Pincus.  Few,  indeed,  are  the  men  who  can  live  for  years  in  a 
place  like  Newmarket,  where  rivalries  must  needs  be  created,  and  come  out  of  it  with  such  a  tremendous 
demonstration  of  the  goodwill  of  all  and  sundry  as  Jacob  Pincus  did  to-day.  It  must  be  remembered,  too, 
that  it  was  no  Englishman  they  were  cheering,  but  an  American  trainer,  and  one  who  twenty-two  years  ago 
first  captured  a  Derby  and  St.  Leger  for  an  American  owner.  His  Majesty  the  King  arrived  in  time  for 
the  first  race. 

THIRD  DAY. — THURSDAY,  OCTOBER  29. 

JOCKEY  CLUB  CUP  of  500  sovs.  (a  cup  value  100  sovs.  and  the  remainder  in  specie),  added  to  a  sweepstakes  of  20  sovs. 
each,  h.  ft.,  weight  for  age,  etc.  ;  the  second  received  50  sovs.     Cesarewitch  Course  (two  miles  two  furlongs). 

His  Majesty's  Mead,  by  Persimmon—  Meadow  Chat,  3  yrs.,  7st.  1 2lb Watts      I 

M.  M.  Caillault's  Chatte  Blanche,  3  yrs.,  7st.  gib Hardy     2 

Lord  Howard  de  Walden's  St.  Maclou,  5  yrs.,  gst.  lib  Cain        3 

(Winner  trained  by  R.  Marsh.) 

Betting :  6  to  4  against  St.  Maclou,  2  to  I  Chatte  Blanche,  g  to  4  Mead. 

St.  Maclou  led  until  fairly  on  to  the  flat,  when  Chatte  Blanche  assumed  the  lead,  but  gave  way  as  the  Bushes  were  neared 
to  Mead,  who  won,  amidst  hearty  cheering,  by  .six  lengths  ;  a  bad  third. 

After  a  protracted  period  of  wet  and  gloom  it  was  a  relief  this  morning  to  find  that  there  were  such 
distinct  signs  of  improvement,  and,  indeed,  the  early  sunshine  engendered  a  strong  feeling  of  exhilaration ; 

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APPENDIX. 

thus  people  were  out  betimes,  as  a  stroll  on  the  heath  before  breakfast  is  to  many  one  of  the  most  delightful 
features  of  the  week's  visit  to  headquarters.  Amongst  those  who  witnessed  the  horses  at  exercise  was  his 
Majesty  the  King,  who  was  again  mounted  on  his  hack.  As  the  day  wore  on  the  weather  became  of  the 
very  best  autumn  type,  and  such  an  enjoyable  afternoon  has  not  been  experienced  for  a  long  time. 

The  field  for  the  Jockey  Club  Cup  cut  down  to  limited  proportions.  I  believe  that,  had  it  been  known 
in  the  early  part  of  the  week  that  Zinfandel  did  not  run,  Wavelet's  Pride  would  have  been  started  for  the 
race.  St.  Maclou  was  left  to  do  battle  single-handed  for  Major  Beatty's  stable,  and  as  he  was  only  opposed 
by  Mead  and  the  French  filly,  Chatte  Blanche,  it  was  thought  he  would  place  the  prize  to  the  credit  of  Lord 
Howard  de  Walden.  Mead  had  so  utterly  failed  to  extend  Rondeau  in  the  Lowther  Stakes  here  a  fortnight 
ago  that  it  was  not  easy  to  regard  his  prospects  in  an  optimistic  light,  but  the  French  filly,  Chatte  Blanche, 
had  some  very  fair  form  to  her  credit  on  the  other  side  of  the  Channel.  St.  Maclou  was  not  in  one  of  his 
best  moods,  and  the  precaution  had  to  be  taken  of  saddling  him  at  home  two  hours  previous  to  the  race, 
so,  perhaps,  his  connections  were  not  unprepared  for  his  sulky  exhibition.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  he 
obstinately  refused  to  gallop,  and  the  issue  was  in  the  last  half-mile  left  to  the  other  pair,  of  whom  Mead 
stayed  the  longer,  and  won  by  half  a  dozen  lengths.  Needless  to  say,  the  success  of  the  King's  horse  was 
immensely  popular,  and  his  Majesty  was  obviously  much  pleased  when  he  went  into  the  Birdcage  to  see  the 
son  of  Persimmon  return  to  the  unsaddling  enclosure.  The  Royal  livery  has  been  so  singularly  out  of  luck 
this  year  that  it  is  most  gratifying  to  chronicle  a  change  in  Fortune's  wheel  in  regard  to  Egerton  House,  and 
it  is  to  be  hoped  that  this  will  be  only  a  prelude  to  further  successes. 

NOTE. — The  above  extracts  were  made  from   "The  Daily  Telegraph,"  "Sportsman,"  "Sporting  Life,"  and   "Sporting 
Times." 

T. — Some  Authorities  consulted. 

The  General  Stud  Book,  Vol.  I.  to  Vol.  XIX.  (Weatherby  &  Sons.  1901). — Horses  Past  and  Present ; 
The  Young  Race  Horse,  by  SIR  WALTER  GILBEY  (Vinton  &  Co.  1900). — Reminiscences  and  Opinions,  by 
SIR  F.  DOYLE  (Longmans.  1886). — History  of  Newmarket,  by  J.  P.  HORE  (A.  H.  Baily  &  Co.  1886).— 
The  Great  Game,  by  EDWARD  SPENCER  (Grant  Richards.  1900). — Stallion  Register  for  1900,  by  WILLIAM 
HALL  WALKER.— The  Racing  Calendar  (6,  Old  Burlington  Street). — The  Horsebreeders'  Handbook,  by  JOSEPH 
OSBORNE  (E.  Scale.  1898). — Ruff's  Guide  to  the  Turf  (140,  Fleet  Street).— From  Gladiattur  to  Persimmon, 
by  SYDENHAM  DIXON  (Grant  Richards,  iqoi).— Kings  of  the  Turf,  by  "THORMANBY"  (Hutchinson, 
1898).— Racing:  the  Badminton  Library  (Longmans.  1900). — The  English  Ttirf,  by  CHARLES  RICHARDSON 
(Methuen.  1901). —  The  Turf,  by  ALFRED  E.  T.  WATSON  (Lawrence  &  Bullen.  1898). — Famous  Horses, 
by  T.  TAUNTON  (Sampson  Low.  1901.) — Kingsclere,  by  JOHN  PORTER  and  BYRON  WEBBER  (Chatto  & 
Windus.  i8<)6).—P0iHfs  of  a  Racehorse,  by  SIR  JOHN  HILLS  (Blackwood.  1903).— The  English  Racehorse, 
by  T.  H.  MORLAND  (1810). — Silk  and  Scarlet ;  Post  and  Paddock  ;  Scott  and  Sebright ;  Saddle  and  Sirloin, 
by  "  THE  DRUID  "  (1862).— Life  and  Times  of"  The  Druid;'  by  HON.  F.  LAWLEY  (Vinton  &  Co.  1895).— 
The  Chace,  The  Turf,  and  The  Road,  by  "  NIMROD  "  (John  Murray.  New  Ed.  1870). — Racing,  by  W.  A.  C. 
BLEW  (Everett.  1900).— Newmarket  and  Arabia,  by  CAPTAIN  R.  D.  UPTON  (1873). — Genius  Genuine,  by 
SAMUEL  CHIFNEY  (1804). — Horse-racing  in  England,  by  ROBERT  BLACK  (Bentley.  1893). — The  Racehors: 
in  Training,  by  WILLIAM  DAY  (Chapman  &  Hall.  1880). — Ttie  British  Thoroiighbred  Horse,  by  W.  ALLISON 
(Grant  Richards.  1901). — Racing  Reminiscences,  by  SIR  GEORGE  CHETWYND  (Longmans.  1891). — 
Turf  Annals,  by  JOHN  ORTON  (Longmans.  1844). — A  Mirror  of  the  Turf,  by  L.  H.  CURZON  (Chapman 
&  Hall.  1 892).— History  of  the  British  Turf,  by  J.  C.  WHYTE  (Colburn.  1840.)—  Sixty  Years  on  the  Turf, 
by  G.  HODGMAN  and  C.  R.  WARREN  (Grant  Richards.  1901). — History  of  the  St.  Leger  Stakes,  by  J.  S. 
FLETCHER  (Hutchinson.  1902). — 2'he  Jockey  Club  and  its  Founders ,  by  R.  BLACK  (Smith  &  Elder.  1891). 
—Ashgill,  by  JOHN  OSBORNE  and  J.  B.  RADCLIFFE  (Sands  &  Co.  1900). — Lord  George  Bentinck,  by 
J.  KENT  and  HON.  F.  LAWLEY  (Blackwood.  1892). — History  of  the  British  Turf,  by  JAMES  RICE 
(Sampson  Low.  1879). — Cracks  of  the  Day,  by  "WILDRAKE"  (Ackermann.  1840). — Royal  Ascot,  by 
G.  J.  CAWTHORNE  and  R.  S.  HEROD  (Treherne.  1902). — Riding  Recollections,  by  H.  CUSTANCE  (Arnold. 
1894).—  The  Racing  Year,  by  E.  MOORHOUSE  (Grant  Richards.  1903). — Racing  Life  and  Racing  Characters, 
by  MARTIN  COBBETT  (Sands  &  Co.  1903). 

To  many  other  Authors,  Newspapers,  and  Magazines  the  writer  desires  to  make  his  acknowledgments, 
regretting  that  space  forbids  him  to  print  the  names  of  all. 


CONTENTS     OF     CHAPTERS. 


VOLUME   I. 
DEDICATED    TO    THE    FIRST   DUKE   OF    WESTMINSTER. 

PAGE 

LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS  IN  VOL.  I. 

PREFACE. 

Changes  and  Developments — Lord  William  Beresford — William  Byron — Meeting  at  Brocket  Hall — Lord 
Leconfield— Crabbet  Park — Old  and  New — Vitality  and  Value  of  Racing — King  Edward  VII.— 
Goodwood  in  1830 — The  Sandringham  Stud — Bend  Or — St.  Simon — Society  and  the  Turf — Artists 
and  Instantaneous  Photography — Art  Collections  reproduced  in  this  Book — Mr.  A.  F.  B.  Portman  ...  ix 

CHAPTER  I. — INTRODUCTORY. 

Racing  Career  of  King  Edward  VI 1.  as  Prince  of  Wales — The  Triple  Crown— Ambush  II. — Persimmon  and 
Diamond  Jubilee — American  Jockeys — St.  Simon's  Stock— Development  of  the  English  Thoroughbred 
— Arabs  in  Greece,  Rome,  Italy,  England — Some  Authorities  on  Turf  History  ...  ...  I 

CHAPTER  II. — THE  HORSE  IN  ENGLAND  TO  THE  BEGINNING  OF  THE  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY. 

Boadicea  at  Newmarket — Severus  at  Netherby — Athelstan's  Running  horses — Arabs  in  the  Twelfth  Century 
— William   I.'s  Arab — Richard  I.'s  Horses — Sir  Bevys  of  Southampton — FitzStephen's  "  Racing •"- 
Edward  1 1  I.'s  Barbs — Gambling — Lord  Arundel's  Match —Argentines  and  Alingtons  at  Newmarket 
— Prices  in  the  Fourteenth  Century— Irish  "  Hobbies" — The  Sporting  Abbot— Black  Saladin—1\\e. 
Ferrara   Stud — Margaret  of  Anjou — Governatore  and  Altobello — Diirer's  "Small  White    Horse  "- 
Henry  VI I  I.'s  Horses—The  Duke  of  Northumberand's  Horses— Tudor  Racing— Charles  Brandon— 
Henry  VI I  I.'s  Racing  Stable— The  Chester  Cup— Tudor  Legislation— Edward  VI.'s  Horses— Holin- 
shed's  Accounts— Queen  Elizabeth  at  Croydon  Races— And  at  Salisbury— Sir  Walter  Hungerford— 
The  First  "Steeplechase"  at  Huntingdon— The  Carlisle  Bell— Elizabethan  Horses— The  Greenwich 
Stud  ...  •••  ...         ii 


CHAPTER  111.— THE  TURF  UNDER  JAMES  I. 

James  I. — The  Markham  Arabian — Evolution  of  Thoroughbred  Type — Gervase  Markham — "Hunting 
Matches" — Barnaby  FitzPatrick's  Stud — Race  on  Gatherley  Moor — The  Duke  of  Newcastle — 
Michael  Barrett — Henry,  Prince  cf  Wales — The  Royal  Stud — Importations  of  Eastern  Stock — First 
Duke  of  Buckingham — Gambling — "Horse-Bread" — Ancient  Ideas  of  Training — Croydon — Enfield 
Chase — Doncaster — Leasowe  Castle — Chester — Salisbury — Richmond — Woodham  Moor — Nicholas 
Assheton  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  44 


728  CONTENTS   OF  CHAPTERS. 


CHAPTER  IV.— THE  TURF  TO  THE  RESTORATION. 

PAGE 

Wagers  in  Hyde  Park— Dr.  Michael  Hudson— Harry  Verney— Colonel  Harewood's  Pessimism— The  Digby, 
Villiers,  Fenwick,  and  Newcastle  Studs— The  Royal  Stud  at  Tutbury — Statue  of  Charles  I. — The 
Astleys— The  Bowes  Family— Racing  in  Yorkshire,  Northampton,  Salisbury,  Winchester,  Stamford- 
Oliver  Cromwell — Lord  Fairfax — Charles  II.  and  his  Court — levels  at  Newmarket — The  Ladies  of 
Honour — Frances  Stuart  and  the  Penny  Piece — Tom  Thynne — The  Duke  of  Monmouth— Fire  in  the 
Royal  Stables— Nell  Gwynne — Her  Banking  Account— Sporting  Wagers— Gambling  ...  64 

CHAPTER  V.— THE  BEGINNINGS  OF  REAL  RACING  AND  THE  FIRST  GENEALOGIES  OF  BLOOD  STOCK. 

The  King's  Jockeys— The  Grand  Duke  of  Tuscany — Races  at  Dorset  Ferry — The  First  Grammar  School 
at  Newmarket — Eastern  Sires — Racing  in  1666 — Lord  Suffolk's  Whitefoot — Bernard  Howard — His 
Banking  Account — The  Second  Duke  of  Buckingham — Tregonwell  Frampton's  First  Bet — Spring 
Meeting  of  1680 — Matches  in  1681 — The  First  Earl  of  Shaftesbury — Yorkshire  Thoroughbreds — 
Racing  at  Northampton,  Burford,  and  Epsom — William  III.  at  Cambridge — The  Duke  of  Somerset's 
Stud — Mr.  Leedes's  Careless — Famous  Horses  of  the  Seventeenth  Century — Mr.  Pulleine's  Thorough- 
breds— Eastern  imported  Sires  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  91 

CHAPTER  VI.— MR.  TREGONWELL  FRAMPTON  AND  HIS  HORSES. 

His  Bets  in  1675 — The  Untruth  about  his  Dragon — Dr.  Hawkesworth's  Inventions — Other  Dragons — His 
Snorting  Bess — Heath  House  in  1689 — Trainer  to  the  King — The  Turf  and  the  Mansion  House — 
Death  of  Molly — Bay  Bolton — The  Famous  Match  between  him  and  Sir  William  Strickland — 
Disastrous  Victory  of  Merlin — Matchem  Timms — Buckhunter — The  Hobby  Mare — Cock-fighting — Sir 
R.  Fagg — The  Father  of  the  Turf  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  125 

CHAPTER  VII.— ARABIAN,  TURK,  AND  BARB. 

The  Moonah  Barb  Mare — What  is  meant  by  the  "Figure  System" — Pure  Descent  and  the  "English 
Thoroughbred" — Flaws  in  Pedigree  of  Eclipse,  Matchem,  and  Herod — Original  Mares  of  Modern 
Racing  Genealogies — Tregonwells  Natural  Barb  Mare — The  Black-legged  Royal  Mare — The  Dam 
of  the  True  Blues — The  Godolphin  Arabian — The  Fortunate  Moment  of  the  Eighteenth  Century — 
Arab  Blood  and  Arab  Breeding — Points  of  an  Arab — The  Darley  Arabian — More  Valuable  Importa- 
tions— Legends  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian — His  Stock — Lord  Rosebery's  Pictures  of  him  ...  ...  145 

CHAPTER  VIII.— THE  REIGN  OF  QUEEN  ANNE  AND  HER  INFLUENCE  ON  RACING. 

Lord  Wharton  and  the  Racing  Politicians — The  Hellfire  Club — Leedes — Queen  Anne's  Stud — Races  at 
Black  Hambleden,  Datchet,  and  Ascot — Queen's  Plates — The  Duke  of  Marlborough  and  Lord 
Godolphin — "Seven  Thousand  a  year,  girls,  and  all  for  us  !"—  Robert  Walpole — Ladies  on  the  Turf— 
Pallampores  and  Byrampants — The  Exquisites  of  St.  James's — Newspapers  in  1712 — Racing  in  1703 
and  1704 — Basto — Mr.  Pelham's  Brocklesby  Betty — Clifton  and  Rawcliffe  Ings  in  1714 -Victory  of 
Queen  Anne's  Star — Northern  Racehorses — St.  John  Paulet — The  Konigsmarcks — George  I. — 
Swift  and  Addison — The  South  Sea  Bubble — Birth  of  Flying  Childers — Legends  about  his  Pace — 
Lord  Portmore's  Fox — Parson  Goodricke — Race  Meetings  in  England  before  1765 — Bonny  Black 
— Miss  Neasham  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  173 

CHAPTER  IX. — RACING  LADIES,  AND  A  FOUNDER  OF  THE  JOCKEY  CLUB. 

George  II.'s  Accession — Mrs.  Carr — The  Routh  Family — Queer  Nomenclature — Lord  Portmore's  Crab — 
Mr.  Mann's  Sedbury — York  Races  in  1739—  Lord  March — Death  of  Queen  Caroline — And  of  Marske 
—The  Grosvenor  Family  and  Estates — Mary  Davies — Her  London  Property — Sir  Thomas  Grosvenor, 
Third  Baronet,  of  Eaton — The  First  Earl  Grosvenor — His  Pottos — His  Racing  Successes  ...  ...  205 


CONTENTS   OF  CHAPTERS.  729 


VOLUME    II. 
DEDICATED    TO    THE   EIGHTH  DUKE   OF  DEVONSHIRE. 

LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS  IN  VOL.  II. 


CHAPTER  X.— THE  JOCKEY  CLUB  IN  THE  DAYS  OF  CHARLES  JAMES  Fox. 

Sir  Charles  Bunbury,  the  Duke  of  Queensberry,  and  George  Selwyn — Racing  Society  when  George  III. 
was  young — Betting  at  White's  and  Brookes's — Horace  Walpole's  Descriptions — Sir  Charles  Bun- 
bury's  Racing  Career,  his  Wife,  her  Letters— Ladies  at  Newmarket— "  Old  Q." — "Chillaby" 
Jennings — "  Old  Q.'s "  Character  and  Death — Charles  James  Fox,  his  Eloquence,  Scholarship, 
Extravagance,  and  Popularity — Fox  at  Newmarket  with  Lord  Foley — Alarums  and  Excursions  in 
Westminster — Beginnings  of  the  Jockey  Club  in  1750 — Its  Origins  in  Sir  John  Carleton's  Authority 
and  in  Royal  Race-riders — Its  Early  Members  and  First  Meetings — The  First  Racing  Calendar — 
Ownership  of  the  Heath — Value  of  the  Association  of  Owners — Colours — Disputes — Legislation — 
"Give  and  Take"  Plates — King's  Plates — Changes  in  Modern  Turf — Meetings  at  Newmarket — The 
Duke  of  Cumberland — Eclipse — Ascot  Races — Lord  Clermont — Lord  Egremont— The  Duke  of 
Devonshire — The  Duke  of  Ancaster — Tommy  Panton — Richard  Vernon — Sir  Thomas  Gascoigne — 
Mr.  William  Fenwick — Sir  John  Moore — Sir  Charles  Sedley — Mr.  John  Warde — Sir  John  Shelley — 
Mr.  Wastell— Mr.  Charles  Pigott— The  Duke  of  Bridgewater — The  Duke  of  Grafton— Lord 
Portmore — Lord  Eglinton — Lord  Gower — The  Marquess  of  Rockingham — The  Barrymores — The 
Grosvenors — The  Prince  of  Wales  ...  ...  ...  •••  ...  ...  ...  ...  225 

CHAPTER    XI.— "MATCHEM,"  "HEROD,"  AND  THEIR   DESCENDANTS. 

Development  of  Breeding — Early  Days — Value  of  Staying  Powers — How  the  English  Thoroughbred  was 
produced — Mixed  Blood — No  Exact  Science  of  Breeding  possible — Horses  running  in  1764 — 
Pedigree  of  Matchem — Dr.  Syntax — Beeswing — The  Conductor  Line — Sorcerer's  Strain — Matchem 
and  the  "Figure  System" — Matchem  Blood  from  1798  to  1817 — The  Solon  Family — Herod's 
Pedigree — His  Performances — Woodpecker  and  his  Line — Pantaloon — Thormanby  'Blood— Selim — 
Bay  Middleton — Plenipotentiary — Famous  Foals  of  Famous  Rivals — Perils  of  Vedette — Bay  Middle- 
ton's  Performances  and  Progeny — The  Highflyer  Branch — Sir  Peter  Teazle — Formosa — The 
Fisherman  Strain  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  275 

CHAPTER    XII.— "ECLIPSE"  AND  THE   MODERN  THOROUGHBRED. 

M.  de  Saint-Bel's  Measurements — Eclipse's  Skeleton — Photographic  Confirmation — The  Skeleton  of  Red 
Lion  Square — Famous  Bones — Historic  Relics — Stubbs'  Great  Painting — Lord  Rosebery's  Collection 
—Pedigrees— The  Duke  of  Cumberland,  Mr.  Wildman,  and  Colonel  O'Kelly— The  First  Colt— Pot&os— 
The  Duke  of  Grafton's  Mares — Touchstone — The  Ithuriel  Branch — Ten  Derby  Winners — Aged  Sires 
— The  Sir  Hercules  Line — Romance  of  Birdcatcher — The  King  Fergus  Line — Recovery's  Statue — 
The  Hambletonian  Blood — Blacklock — Mercury's  Family — Joe  Andrews — A  Fine  Record  ...  ...  297 

CHAPTER  XIII.— RACING  AT  THE  DAWN  OF  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTURY. 

GimcracKs  Breeding  and  Performances — Some  of  the  Old  Sort — Trentham — Eclipse  Colts — John  Pratt's 
Epitaph— //<z/«^te«/a«  and  Diamond—  A  Little  Quiet  Betting— Gambling  Hells— Strange  Wagers 
—  Bullbaiting  and  Cocking — King's  Plates — The  Weatherbys  and  their  Work — The  Tattersall 
Dynasty — Racing  Officials  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  323 


73°  CONTENTS   OF  CHAPTERS. 


CHAPTER  XIV.— HISTORIC  JOCKEYS  AND  A  ROYAL  OWNER. 

PAGE 

From  Buckle  to  Archer— "The  Druid's"  Quartet— Old  and  New— John  Singleton— Thomas  Jackson- 
Christopher  Scaife — Charles  Dawson — Joseph  Rose — George  Herring — Samuel  Chifney  the  First — 
The  "  Chifney  Rush  " — A  Slack  Rein — The  Escape  Scandal — The  Prince,  Mr.  Lake,  Sam  Chifney,  and 
Sir  Charles  Bunbury — A  Queer  Verdict — Nobbling  and  Poisoning — The  "  Qui  Tarn  "  Actions — 
Retirement  of  the  Prince  of  Wales — Dr.  Johnson — Sir  John  Lade — The  Lively  Letty — Society  at  the 
Pavilion — Famous  Bookmakers—"  Nando  "  Bullock  and  "  Splitpost "  Douglas — Sir  Tatton  Sykes — 
Amateur  Riders — A  Foreign  Visit  in  1800 — Colonel  Thornton — Jockey's  Attire — Lady  Sarah  O'Brien 
— "Neutralising" — Changes  in  Society — Miss  Alicia  Meynell  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  340 

CHAPTER  XV.— FRANCIS  BUCKLE  AND  SOME  OTHER  FAMOUS  RIDERS. 

Dennis  FitzPatrick— The  "  Double  Event" — Jem  Robinson's  Lucky  "  Treble  "—His  Finish  on  Matilda— 
James  Chappie  in  1833— Jim  Templeman's  Record— The  "  Pocket  Hercules  "—From  Peterborough  to 
Newmarket— Buckle's  Two  Wives— "All  the  Good  Things  at  Newmarket"— Mr.  Vansittart— Frank's 
Last  Race— His  Epitaph— His  Family— His  Integrity— Young  Sam  Chifney  and  Frank  Butler— The 
Duchess  of  Cleveland— King  George  IV.  and  Sam— Priam— Ben  Marshall's  Sketches— Harry  Edwards 
— Arnull  and  Goodison— William  Clift's  Pensions— Shepherd,  Jackson,  Peirse,  and  Ben  Smith— Poor 
Mangles— Winning  with  a  Broken  Leg— "  A  sadly  Forrard  Young  Man"— The  Great  Bill  Scott- 
Sam  Darling— John  Scott  the  "  Wizard  "—Tommy  Lye  spoils  a  Record— Templeman— Job  Marson— 
Nat  Flatman — The  Days  of  Danebury  ...  ...  ...  ...  ,g2 

CHAPTER  XVI.— TRAINING  AND  BREEDING. 

Changed  Methods— Different  Aims— The  Committee  of  Horse-breeding— Big  Horses  and  Small  Horses- 
Comparisons— Have  they  degenerated?  What  about  Stayers?— The  Cracks  of  1847-57— Foreign 
Breeders — Germany  and  France — Old  Stallions  and  Modern  Sires— Expensive  Yearlings — A  loss  of 
over  Half  a  Million— Waste  of  Horseflesh— The  Influence  of  Gate-money— Breeding  from  Babies- 
Inflated  Prices — Two-year-old  Racing — Winners  bred  by  Owners — Gimcrack  Dinners — John  Porter's 
Reforms — The  First  Royal  Victory  for  Sixty  Years — Purchase  of  Sceptre — Season  of  1902 — St.  Simon 
and  Bend  Or — What  the  "  Figure  System  "  implies — Bruce  Lowe's  Figures  and  William  Allison's 
Theory — Female  versus  Male  Influence— Value  of  Mr.  Allison's  work  ...  ...  ...  ...  410 

CHAPTER  XVII.— LORD  GEORGE  BENTINCK.  AND  THE  EVOLUTION  OF  THE  MODERN  TURF. 

Need  for  a  "  Dictator  "—The  "  Manly  Sports  Bill  "—Orville—Emilius—Co\<me\  Mellish— Jack  St.  Leger— 
Mr.  Thornhill— Blackfaces  Bad  Luck— The  Comus  Blood— Fleurde  Lys— Famous  Races  for  the  St. 
Leger— Sir  Francis  Doyle  at  Doncaster— Mr.  John  Gully  and  Mameluke— Jim  Belcher  and  the  Game 
Chicken — The  old  P.  R.— The  Betting  Rooms— Cadland  and  The  Colonel— Memnon's  Year— Jack 
Mytton — Famous  Owners— Lord  George's  Career—  Gaper  and  Cotherstone—lhn  Starting  Flag- 
Goodwood  Races  -Bay  Middleton  as  a  Sire— Elis  in  a  Van— Crucifix  and  Miss  Elis—  "A  Superb 
Groan"— "The  Blue  Ribbon  of  the  Turf"— A  Sudden  Tragedy  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  440 


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VOLUME    III. 
DEDICATED    TO    THE    SIXTH  DUKE   OF  PORTLAND. 

PAGE 

LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS  IN  VOL.  III. 

CHAPTER  XVIII.— SOME  EARLY  VICTORIAN  OWNERS. 

Lord  George  Bentinck,  John  Kent,  and  Abdale — Some  Dead  Heats— A  Triple  Dead  Heat — Some  Jockeys' 
Misfortunes — Greville  and  Lord  George — Alarm  at  Epsom — The  Gaper  Betting — A  Criticism  of 
Character — John  Bowes — The  "  Owdacious  Young  JUn  " — Epirus  and  Doncaster — West  Australian 
— Differing  Types — Whitewall — Yorkshire  Trainers — The  Agnes  Blood  at  Ascot — Alice  Hawthorn — 
William  I'Anson — Fobert — French  Pedigrees — Ncivntinster — Bill  Scott's  Death — Doncaster  in  1854- — 
Old  Times  on  Langton  Wold — Horse-painters  of  the  past — G.  F.  Herring — Lord  Glasgow — Admiral 
Rous — Handicapping — A  Modern  Expert — Winners  of  Handicaps  from  1866  to  1898 — Presentation  to 
Admiral  Rous — Noble  Owners — Epsom  in  1833 — Death  of  Sam  Day — Lord  Derby- — Canezou — Lord 
Palmerston — Buckthorn — "  Capital  Exercise  " — Palmer  the  Poisoner — The  Rugeley  Surgeon— Life 
Insurances — Goldfinder  and  Doubt — Pratt  and  Cook — A  Haunted  Racecourse — Lord  Eglinton — 
Blue  Bonnet— The  Flying  Dutchman— RussborougKs  Rush—  Voltigeur—  Cup  Day  at  Doncaster— 
"  Like  Hiron  "— Marlow's  Riding— The  Second  Struggle— Lord  Zetland's  Favourite — George  Payne 
— "Dram-drinking  Excitement" — Master  of  the  Pytchley — Lord  Jersey — General  Peel — Sir  Joseph 
Hawley — "Leviathan"  Davis — A  fourth  Derby  Winner— James  Merry — Mr.  Frederick  Swindell — 
The  Derby  of  1 860 — Lord  Falmouth's  Career— A  Famous  Sale  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  465 

CHAPTER  XIX. — BRITISH  STABLES  AND  FOREIGN  METHODS. 

"  Little  Bell  "  at  Ascot — Sir  Mark  Wood's  Pistol — Some  Duties  of  a  Jockey — More  Competition — Jockey 
Reform — What  Weight  can  do — Winning  Mounts  in  1902 — American  Methods — "Tommy  and 
Toddy" — The  Crouch  Seat — Making  the  Pace — Mr.  Ten  Broeck — Tod  Sloan's  Riding — Famous 
Finishes — John  Osborne,  Archer,  and  Fordham — "  The  Demon  " — Winning  "  with  his  Head  "- 
Archer's  Seat— A  Great  Record— Bend  Or's  Derby— Death  of  Archer— "Mr.  Manton's"  St.  Minn — 
Each  Stable  its  own  Jockeys — The  Apprentice  Rule — Riding  from  1897  to  1902 — Famous  Racing 
Days — Favourite  Mounts — Tom  Cannon — Fees  and  Retainers — Training — The  "  Sheeted  String  "- 
Details  of  the  Stable — R.  Denman's  Success — French  Horses — Two  Strings  to  a  Bow — Famous 
Trials  on  the  Turf — Sir  Joseph's  little  Errors — The  Bend  Or  Inquiry — When  to  pull  a  Horse — The 
Derby  of  1868 — The  Ill-fated  Marquis  of  Hastings — Admiral  Rous's  Letter — Hermit's  Victory — Lady 
£h'zti6et/i'sTr\a.\ — Joseph  Enoch — John  Watts — Thomas  Jennings — Count  Lagrangeand  Gladiateur — 
Regalia — Foreigners  on  the  Turf — Kincsem — French  Victories — M.  Lefevre — M.  Blanc — Holocaust* — 
Vinidus — John  Dawson  and  Galopin — The  Duke  of  Portland's  Victories — Tom  and  Matthew  Dawson 
— Petrarch — Heath  House — Disasters  of  Stephenson,  the  Duke  of  Hamilton,  and  the  Duke  of  New- 
castle— The  Russley  Stables — Ladas  and  Sir  Visto — Stayers— The  Touts  at  Stockbridge — Races  of 
Famous  Winners — Sir  Blundell  Maple's  Records — Descent  of  Flying  Fox — Centralisation  and 
Enclosed  Meetings — The  Faddist — Ward  of  Yorkshire,  Trainer  and  Prime  Minister  ...  ...  519 

CHAPTER  XX.— STEEPLECHASING. 

Beginnings  in  Ireland — Matches  in  Leicestershire — Colman  at  St.  Albans  in  1830 — Lord  Clanricarde — 
Moonraker — Captain  Becher — Colonel  Charretie — Aylesbury  Vale  and  the  Marquess  of  Waterford 
— Jem  Mason's  First  Ride — A  Sporting  Fellow  of  Oriel — William  Archer  at  Cheltenham — "  A  Good 
Wall  Jumper" — Alan  McDonough — The  Chandler  at  Leamington — Origin  of  the  Liverpool  Grand 
National — The  Successes  of  Jerry — Lottery  wins — The  Irish  Brigade — "Josey  "  Little — Peter  Simple 


73 2  CONTENTS   OF  CHAPTERS. 

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— Abd-el-Kader— Mysterious  Miss  Moivbray — George  Stevens — Lord  Coventry's  Victories — "Mr. 
Thomas" — The  Tragedy  of  1862— "Mr.  Edwards"— "Could  not  carry  a  Pair  of  Boots  "—Captain 
MachelFs  Successes — Mr.  J.  M.  Richardson — Lord  Manners  and  Count  Kinsky — Old  Joe— Cloister 
and  Ambush  II. — Famous  Jockeys  and  Great  Horses — "Fog"  Rowlands — The  Grand  National 
Hunt  Committee— Success  of  the  Foreigners  at  Newmarket — The  "Popular  Mystery" — Ascetic  and 
the  Famous  Steeplechasing  Sires — The  Irish  Winners — Manifesto — Irish  Breeding  ...  581 

CHAPTER  XXL— FAMOUS  RACING  STUDS  OF  THE  LAST  THIRTY  YEARS. 

Fisherman  and  Old  Tom  Parr— Racing  Stables  near  Wantage— Mr.  Naylor  and  Mr.  Savile— Cremorne's 
Trial — Prince  Charlie — John  Porter's  Early  Days — John  Day  and  the  Famous  Danebury  Cracks — 
John  Kent  and  Lord  George  Bentinck — Goodwood — "  Kingsclere  Racing  Stables,  Limited  " — Sir 
Joseph  Hawley— Sir  Frederick  Johnstone— "  High  Farming  and  Old  Port  for  Ever  "— /«>«<wy — 
Lord  Alington — Si.  Blaise's  Trial — Mr.  Brodrick  Cloete's  Paradox — Cereza's  Great  Race  at  Doncaster 
— Ormonde,  The  Sard,  Saraband,  and  Minting — A  gentlemanly  Thoroughbred — Perfect  Conforma- 
tion— Sainfoin — Common — La  Fleche  and  Orme — Throstle's  St.  Leger — The  King's  Horses  and 
Marsh's  Stables— Florizel  //.,  Persimmon,  and  Diamond  Jubilee — Ayrshire  and  St.  Serf— St.  Simon 
ax\A.Stockwell — A  Splendid  List  of  Sons  and  Daughters — Full  Brothers  and  Sisters — Direct  Descent — 
Famous  Matrons — More  Remarks  on  the  "  Figure  System  " — A  Record  rather  than  a  Guide — Modern 
Representatives  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  the  Byerly  Turk,  and  the  Darley  Arabian  at  Ascot — 
Supremacy  of  Eclipse  Blood,  and  the  Birdcatcher  Strain,  in  1903 — Donovan  at  Welbeck — The  Duke 
of  Portland's  Carbine — Other  Australian  Sires — Trenton  and  the  Cobham  Stud — Was  Zinfandel  the 
best  of  his  Year?—  Victor  Witt/-S\r  Ernest  Cassel— Mr.  Gubbins's  Galtee  More  and  Ard Patrick— 
Lord  Rosebery  at  Christchurch — Two  Derby  Winners — Epsom  Lad — Geldings  in  the  Derby — Black 
Sand—Amphion — Melton — Northern  Trainers  —  The  Eaton  Stud  —  Big  Prices — The  House  of 
Rothschild — "  Follow  the  Baron  " — St.  Frusquin,  Doricles,  and  St.  Amant  ...  ...  ...  617 


CHAPTER  XXII.  AND  LAST.— "'SCEPTRE'  WINS!" 

Losses  of  the  English  Turf  in  1902  and  1903 — Captain  Machell— Colonel  Harry  McCalmont  and  Isinglass 
— "Two  Important  Races  and  I  haven't  won  a  Penny  !  "—"The  Mate  "—St.  Macloifs  Double  Event 
— Prince  Soltykoff—  Sun  Rose  and  the  Starting-gate — Sir  J.  Blundell  Maple — A  Splendid  Stud — The 
Remount  Department — Racing  Expenses — Betting- Abuses — The  Duke  of  Portland  and  the  Jockey 
Club — Mr.  Sievier's  Purchase  of  Sceptre — A  Famous  Derby — A  Record  for  the  Classic  Events — 
Mr.  W.  Bass  buys  the  Mare— The  Great  Race  for  the  Eclipse  Stakes  of  1903— Famous  Fields  in 
Former  Races— Rock  Sand — Historic  Mares — On  the  Turf  and  at  the  Stud— The  Arab  in  Ancient 
Greece  and  Rome — The  Late  Queen  Victoria  and  English  Racecourses — The  Hampton  Court  Stud 
— The  Truth  about  Remounts — The  Value  of  Imported  Sires — How  to  preserve  Typical  Conforma- 
tion—The  Ideal  Turf  Historian— The  Close  of  this  Work  ...  ...  ...  ...  672 


APPENDIX. 

A.  to  N.  Pedigrees  of  Flying  Childers,  Matchem,  Herod,  Eclipse,  Blacklock,  Carbine,  Maximum  II., 
Quo  Vadis,  Arizona,  Beeswing,  Stock-well,  Bend  Or,  Isinglass,  and  Persimmon — O.  The  Ballad  of 
Gatherley  Moor— P.  The  Twelve  Stone  Plate  at  Newmarket  in  1665— Q.  Some  Winning  Owners 
— R.  Buckle's  Last  Race  Card. — 8.  Four  Days'  Racing  in  the  Season  of  1903,  at  Sandown  and  New- 
market— T.  A  List  of  Authorities. 

INDEX  of  Names  of  Horses  ...  ...  •••  •••      733 


INDEX 


[This  Index  contains  references  to  the  names  of  horses  mentioned  in  the  preceding  chapters,  but  not  to  those  names  which 

occur  only  in  the  List  of  Illustrations  or  in  the  Appendix.] 


Aaron,  320 
Abbess,  588 

Abd-el-Kader,  598,  609,614 
Abercorn,  618,  706 
Abjer,  385,  420 
Abstinence,  570 
Abutt,  no 
Achievement,  155,  432,  553, 

560,  648,  664,  670,  694, 

700 

Achmet,  459 
Ackworth,  559,  576 
Actceon,  293,  32r,  359,  487 
Adieu,  649 
Adonis,  367 
Advance,  313,  534 
Adventurer,  308 
sEsop,  615 
Agnes,  477 
Aim-well,  209,  259 
Ainderby,  264 
Alabaculia,  270,  353,  356 
Alarm,  294,  471,473.  495 
Albert  Victor,  649,  660 
Alcibiade,  602 
Alcock  Arabian,   168,  209, 

259,  325 

Alderman,  361,  457 
Alecto,  314 
Aleppo,  169,  203,  308 
Alexander,  311 
Alfred,  264,  283 
Algier,  190,  191 
Alicante,  667,  674 
^/»«  Hawthorn,  288,  320, 

405,  467,  480,  483,  572, 

700,  701 
Aliiaal,  684 
.•///  /f/mtf,  498 
.  \llbrook,  533,  630 
.///  Fours,  327 
.llmanzar,  118,  166 
yl//,  500 

Altisidora,  321,  400 
Altobello,  20,  24 
Amato,  320,  387,  663 
Amazon,  527 
Ambrosio,  293,  335 
Ambush,  432 

Ambush  II.,  5&r,  608,  615 
Amiable,  568,  649,  657,  685 
Antpliion,  638,  666 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


Amphora,  659 
Anatis,  601 
Ancaster  Creeper,  118 
Ancaster  Driver,  261 
Ancaster  Egyptian,  261 
Ancaster  Gentleman,  261 
Ancaster  Starling,  210,  261 
Ancaster   Turk,   134,  152, 

166,  170,  188,  307,  311 
Andover,    155,    420,    461, 

692 

Andre^a,  155,  320 
Angelica,    283,    477,    636, 

650 

Annette,  263,  311,  477 
Antaeus,  373 
Antelope,  260 
Anticipation,  449 
Antinous,  257,  286,  326 
Antonia,  398 
Antoninus,  420 
Antonio,  450 
Anvil,  286,  332 
Aphrodite,  514,  627 
Apology,  303,  345,  694,  700 
Arabian,  113,  261,  264 
Archduke,  292 
Archer,  124 
Archibald,  513 
Archiditc,  433 
Ardeer,  684 
.-//•</  Patrick,  428,  507,  540, 

616,   649,  662,  664,  691, 

692,  696,  698,  706 
Ardrossan,  385,  451,  476 
Arethusa,  293,  701 
Argences,  562 
.-l»y«  Navis,  68 1 
Arizona,  653,  695 
Arsenal,  529 
Ascetic,  613 
Ascham,  265,  286,  326 
Ascot,  292 

Ashriage  Ball,  188,  265 
•^ttV,  150 
Assassin,  258,  458 
Atalanta,  284,  650 
-  Itheliag,  614 
Athena,  559,  560,  623 
At-him-Jcnnv ,  208 
Atlantic,  518,  574 
Atlas,  260,  352 


Attila,  293,  363,  420,  464,    Barefoot,  322,  384,  451,  420 


697 

Augusta,  155,  289,  385 
Augustus,  289 
Auracaria,  281 
Aurum,  618,  658,  706 
Austerlitz,  606,  608 
Australian  Peer,  285 
Australian  Star,  653,  658, 

706 

Australian  (U.S.A.),  285 
Avalanche,  618 
Aventuriere,  477 
.  lyacanora^  281 


AZ/-K  Dance,  684 
Baroncino,  564 
Baronet,  335,  358,  361 
Bartizan,  654 
Bartlett's     Childers,     146, 

152,  166,  170,  197,  200, 

206,  216,  308,  329 
AJ.W  Rock,  653,  695 
Basto,  124,  137,  146,  rjo, 

186,  209,  216,  260 
Batchelor ' s  Button,  619 
Bathsheba,  503 
Bait,  166,  641 


Ayrshire,    130,    307,    314,    Baxter,  143 

421,  546,  554,   568,   574,    Bay  Arabian,  124,  203,  228 
576,  646,  647,  650,  684        Bay  Barb,  124 
Azor,  289,  384,  385  Bay  Bolton,   112,  118,  120, 

Azrek,  702  128,   129,  133,   146,  200, 

202,  210,  216,  229,  266, 
317.  352 
Bay  Celia,  560 
Bay  Childers,  146 


Baber,  327 


•  Corbet,  49 


Babraham,    146,   170,  212     Bay  D' Any,  no 


215 

Bay  Harrington,  42 

Baccelli,  267 

Bay  Jack,  165,  198 

Bacchante,  289 

/toy  Malton,  270,  275,  286, 

Bacchus,  229,  675 

312.  324,  326,  327,  353 

Badger,  200 

/toy    Middle  f  on  ,    36,    1  30  , 

Bagdad,  285 

155,  289,  291,  292,  316, 

Bagpiper,  165,  190 

385,  409,  459,  461,  464, 

Bajazet,  212,  213 

480,  513 

Bald   Charlotte,   120,    143, 

/to_y  Newcastle,  69 

i46 

Bay  Peg,  133,  186,  197 

Bald  Frampton,  168 

/toy  Pigot,  176 

/to  A/  Galloway,    75,     138, 

/to/  Rosebery,  42 

146,  166,  170 

/toy  Tarrel,  64,  67 

Baldwin,  499 

/toy  Tempest,  36 

/to#£,  68  1 

/to_y  Wanton,  189 

Ball,  106,  132,  141 

Beadsman,    316,    322,   483, 

BjUantrae,  541,  673 

494.  5!4.  S31-  558-  627 

Ballot  Box,  587 

Beauclerc,  467 

Balmoral,  684 

Beau  Clincher,  268 

Bandy,  223 

Bcaudesert,  629 

Banker,  458 

Bcaufremont,  356 

Banter,  314 

Beauty,  209 

/tor£,  1  08 

Beehunter,  505 

without  a  tongue,  122  Beeswing,    283,    316,    404, 

Barbells,  292,  480,  504  464,  466,  467,  475,  476, 

Barcaldine,  124,   138,   158,  479,  480,  483,  697,  700, 

2«5.  435  7°i 


Beggarman,  398 
Beiram,  289,  293 
A?/  Demonio,  322 
A-/  Esperanza,  569 
Belgrade   Turk,   158,    216, 

333 

Belgrave  Turk,  166 
Belinda,  294 
Belladrum,  572 
Bellario,    233,     310,    327, 

33i 

Bellerophon,  229,  312 
Bellina,  223 
Belshazzar,  556 
Bendigo,     123,     153,    317, 

578,696 
&«</  Or,  75,  130, 155,  156, 

29°.  3'4.  316,  351.  364. 

433.  533.  534,  535.  554. 

578,  649,  650 
Beningbrough,     288,     318, 

336.  442 

Beningbrough  Mare,  283 

A?.rf  .l/a«,  669 

Bethell  Arabian,  i63 

Betty  Leedes,  195 

Atf/y  Percival,  176 

A'//  of  Portland,  649,  666 

AY/v,  1 86 

Binnacle,  467 

Birdcatcher,  156,  166,  290, 
308,  311,  314,  316,  317, 
3i8,  457,  578,  615,  654 

Birmingham,  293,  475 

Bismarck,  322 

A'af*,  498 

Ato£  Air/5,  145 

Blackfoot,  190 

Black  Hearty,  124,  200 

Black-legged  Royal  Mare, 

437 

Blacklegs,  124,  134,  151, 

152,   165,   189,   197,  198, 

216 

Blacklock,  166,  290,  294, 

311,  314,  317,  318,  320, 

400,  420,  437,  446,  448, 

45L  458,  569.  577.  6;4 
Ato*  Morocco,  68 
Black  Nanny,  134 
AW*  Prince,  623 
Black  Saladin,  19 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


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INDEX. 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


Black  Sand,  665 

Black  Sloven,  114 

Blair  Athol,  289,  318,  363, 

412,  416,  476,  477,  479, 

480,  574,  668,  692 
Blairfinde,  649 
Blanche  of  Middlebie,  552 
Blank,  130,  197,  228,  257, 

266,  286,  288,  309,  310 
Blaze,  197,  213,  313 
Blenheim,  621 
Blink  Bonny,  156,  303,  315, 

316,  318,  382,  388,  417, 

468,  479,  480,  483,  692, 

694,  701 

Blinkhoolie,  479,  677 
Bloodstone,  364 
Bloody  Buttocks,  120,  166 
Bloody  Shouldered  A  ration , 

168,  203 

Bloomsbury,  464,  692 
Blossom,  119,  150,  170 
Blucher,  399 
Blue  Bonnet,  314,  405,  464, 

476,  5°3.  5°4 
Blue  Cap,  105 
Blue  Gown,  155,  322,  416, 

SM.  SIS.  553.  558.  628 
Blue  Ribband,  575 
Blundel,  186 
Blunderbuss,  104,  134 
Bob,  108 

Booadil,  233,  588 
Bob  Booty,  316 
Bobrinski,  653 
Bobsey,  197 
Bobsie,  619 
Boiard,  566,  620,  697 
Bolingbroke  Grey  Arabian, 

228 

Bolton  Sloven,  122 
Bolton  Starling,   197,  267, 

275 

Bolton  Sweepstakes,  168 

Bona  Rosa,  66 1 

Bona  Vista,  420,  422,  649 

Bon  dick,  no 

Boniface,  5 

Bonnie  Morn,  429 

Bonny  Bay,  200 

Bonny     Black,    134,     146, 

200 

Bonny  Jean,  674 
Bopeep,  98 
Bordeaux,  288 
Border,  421 
Border  Knight,  531 
Borodino,  400 
Bosphorus,  295 
Bounce,  259 
Bourbon,  420,  449 
Boitrton,  600 
#™?,  3:7,  534 
Brahma,  563 
Bran,  155,  476 
Breadalbane,  563,  648 
Breadknife,  692 
Briar,  223 
Bridegroom,  610 
Briglia,  675 


Brilliant,    168,  233,    236,    Caller  Ou,   351,  479,  531, 

310  700 

Brimmer,    120,  122,     124,    Callistrate,  295 

133,  189  Calveley,  641,  647 


Chanticleer,  316,  325,  361, 

515 

Chapean  a'  Espagne,  461 
Charibert,  554,  574 


£,  118,   124,   166,   186,     Camarine,   304,   320,    459,     Charles    XII.,     321,    404, 


190,  203,  2ii  575 

British  Yeoman,  472  Camballo,  569 

Brocklesby,  123,  165  Cambuscan,  564 

Brocklesby  Betty,  124,  138,    Cambusmore,  535 


146,  186 

Bronze,  223,  288 
Broomielaw,  479 
Brown  Betty,  195 
Brown  Lusty,  133 
Brown  Thornville,  380 
Browne  Newcastle,  69 
Brownlow,  168 


/,  313,  316,  415 
Camelia,  566 
Camelopard,  321 
Camilla,  133,  270 
Camillus,  113,  202,  320 
Canadian,  363 
Canezou,  483,  497 
Canteen,  452 


464,  467,  476,  504,  507, 

5!5.  697 
Charlotte,  190 
Charm,  587 
Charmer,  200 
Charming  Jenny,  122,  150, 

176 

Chatelherault,  570 
Chatsworth,  324,  327 
Cterj,  428,  693,  698 
Chelandry,  436 
Cherry,  631 


Brownlow  Turk,  124,  210,    Canterbury  Pilgrim,    155,     Chesnut  Arabian,  121 


325  436,  543.  643 

Bruce,  121  C<z/  and  Bells,  662 

Brunette,  591,  597,  614  Cajte  Flyaway,  134,  499 

Brutandorf,  304,  320,  420,  Cappa  White,  608 

451,  452  Capsicum,  373 

Brutus,  270  Captain,  190 

Buccaneer,    294,   295,   296,  Cara,  398 


420,  515,  564,  618 
Bucentaure,  566 
Bucephalus,  211,  310 
Buckhunter,  138,  146 
Buckingham,  no 
Buckstone,  321,  468,  517 
Buckthorn,  420,  498,  499 
Buffcoat,  170 
/(«//,  108 


Carabine,  619 
Caractacus,  517,  692 
Caravan,  313 
Carbine,    158,    314,     433 

481,  574,  646,  656,  706 
Cardinal    Beaufort,     258,     Chorister,  457,  622 

382  Christmas  Carol,  562 

Cardinal  Puff,  270,  327          Cincinnatus,  312 
Cardinal  York,  223  Cinderella,  406 


Chicken,  200,  502 
Chigger,  310 
CAz'/rf  0/;V;«  J/»>/,  656 
Childers,  150,  213 
Childivick,  421,  649,  682 
Childwickbury,  682 
Chillaby,    108,     124,     145, 

166 

Chillaby  Arabian,  239 
Chimney  Sweeper,  202 
Chippenham,  603 
Chopper,  108 


Burton   Barb    Mare,    155,     Careless,     118,      120,     121,     Cinquefoil,  699 

132,   150,  169,   174,  195,     Cinnamon,  118,  119 


r58.  436.  438 
Bushey  Park,  543 
Bustler,  120,  134,  146 
Busybody,  155,  518,  574 
Butler,  70 
Button,  75,  134,  190 
Buzzard,    157,    223,    288, 

322,  406,  448 
Byerly  Gelding,  124 
Byerly  Turk,  44,  75,   112,     Castrel,  158,  223,  2 

119,  120,   154,   155,   166,        320,  448 

173,  176,  186,  200,  210,     Cathedral,  468 

211,  256,  266,  280,  282,     Catherina,  314,  406 

285,  307,  653 
Byerly  Turk  Bustler  Marc, 

436 
Byerly  Turk  Mare,  130 


200,  266,  352 
Carlton,  523,  537 
Carnival,  451 
Caroline,  155,  259,  313 
Cartouch,  124 
C'awe  7"e/e,  604 
Cassimore,  429 
Castaway,  134,  137 


572 

Cafo,  168,  257,  324 
Cotton,  321,  420,  452 
Caustic,  584 
Cecilia,  518/574 
Cedric,  264,  294,  385 
Ceres,  155,  223 
Cereza,  633 
Certosa,  640 
129,   166,    170,  211,     Cervantes,  284 

256,  275,  282,  288,  309,     Ceylon,  560,  623 

324 


Clanville,  310 
Claret,  259,  684 
Clarion,  477 
Cleaver,  264 

Clementina,  294,  438,  510 
Cleopatra,  210 
Clifden,  363 
Clinker,  582 
296,    C/jo,  311 

Cloister,  608,  614 
Clorane,  645,  660 
C/OTW-,  566 
Catherine  Hayes,  316,  322,     Clubb,  128 

Clumsev,  122 

Clumsy,  120,  133,  176,  197, 

285 

Clwyd,  65i,  669 
Cobham,  363,  404 
Cobweb,  155,  291,  385,  544, 

701 

Cockfighter,  357,  529 
C0C/&  Robin,  589 
Coffin  Mare,  74 
Coheiress,  466 


Chaleureux,  653 
Cadland,     155,    320,    385,     Chalfont,  327 

456,  458,  468  Challenge,  560,  623 

Cadogan,  620  Chamant,  566 

Champagne,  660 


Ciesar,  218 
C'a/n,  294 
CWai,  551 
Calash,  288 
Caliban,  310 
Caliph,  588 


Colchester,  120 
Cole ' s  Barb,  122 
Collar,  641 
Collingwood,  556 
Colonel,  155 


Champion,    118,   190,    314,  Colsterdale,  322,  468 

392,  452  Columba,  628 

Chance,  136,  189,  213,  341  Colwick,  293 

Chandos,  522  £'«;»«  Away,  609,  615 

Chanter,  134,  197,  699  Comedy,  675 


Conifit,  294 

Commodore,  316 

Common,     158,     284,    430, 

566,  628,  630,  638,  684 
Commoner,  75,  122,  202 
Compliment,  684 
Comte  d'A  rtois,  451 
Comus,  228,  284,  312,  321, 

402,  420,  437,  448,  451, 

452,  456 
Condor,  566 

Conductor,  259,  264,  329 
Coneyskins,  124,  151,  152 
Congress,  615 
Conqueror,  70,  197,  213 
Conquest,  542 
Conrad,  596 
Conservator,  390 
Consul,  670 
Conyers  Arabian,  352 
Coombe  Arabian,  228 
Coriander,  288,  320,  361 
Corisande,  670 
C0>-,4,  107,  132 
Coronation,  288,  292,  317, 

420,  464,  483 
Corregio,  401 
Corsair,  317 
Corsica,  310 
Cortolvin,  602 
Cosmopolite,  565 
Cossack,  321,  388,  412,  420, 

481,  483,  504,  684,  692, 

699 
Cotherstone,   62,    122,  314, 

363,  385,  460,  464,  472, 

474,  484,  551,  552,  577 
Cottager,  673,  684 
Coughing  Polly,  197 
Counsellor,  122 
Count  Beni m,  191 
Counterpane,  641 
Co«r/  #«//,  684 
Cowslip,  292 
Cra£,    119,   123,   124,    146, 

153,   168,   198,  200,  206, 

209,    210,    213,    257,    275, 

325 

Crafton,  296,  632,  674 

Craig  Millar,  155,  569 

Craig  Royston,  295 

Crazy,  206 

Cream  Cheeks,  118,  176 

Creepe,  170 

Creeper,  118,  119,  191,  333, 

359,  361 

Creeping  Kate,  190 
Creeping  Molly,   124,   165, 

176,  202 

Creeping  Polly,  318 
Cremorne,    158,    416,    468, 

510,  620,  697 
Cresceus,  143 
Cress ida,  320 
Cricket,  121,  132,  145 
Cricketer,  259 
Cripple,  202,  267,  325 
Croagh  Patrick,  626 
Cromwell,  74 
Cronie,  266 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


INDEX. 


735 


Crop,  107 

Crucifix,     158,     292,    314, 

320,  438,  460,  461,  470, 

510,  560,  622,  694,  700, 

701 

Cruiser,  294 
Cruiskeen,  317,  505 
Csardas,  672,  690 
Cullen  Arabian,  265,  275 
Cupbearer,  429,  693 
Cupid,  120,  145,  166 
Cure- All,  597 
Curio,  654 
Curiosity,  223 
Cunuen    Bay    Barb,     120, 

138,  169,  186,  203,  317 
Curtven  Old  Spot,  119,  122 
Cn::i»ti,  206 
Cyllene,  422 
Cymba,  156,  388 
Cyprian,  155,  405,  464 
Cypron,  256,  285 
Cyprus  Arabian,  168,  200 
Cyrus,  168,  607 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.    Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 

Dunsinane,  450  Evelina,  294,  318 

Dutch  Oven,  518,  574,  620,     Evelyn,  123 


Dexterous,  467 

Diakka,  314 

Diamond,    105,    122,     161, 

335.  3'i8 

Diamond  D'Arcy,  104 
Diamond  Jubilee,   5,    157, 

528,  541,  576,  641,  643, 

646,  649,  665 
Diana,  168 


674 
.Da*,  288 
Dyer '  s  Dimple,  150 


,  376,  444 


Evergreen,  288 
Everlasting,  264,  333 
Example,  397 
Expectation,  284 
Express,  335 


Andreses,    290,    321,    Eagle  Colt,  362 


45° 

Dicky  Pierson,  124 
Dieudonnt,  646 


Eastern  Princess,  412 
Ebor,  446 
Echidna,  318 


Fairfax's 
75.  ">4 


Morocco    Barb, 


Dimple,  120,  168,  170,  303     Eclipse,  44,  146,  148,  151,    Fair  Helen,  188 


Dinna  Forget,  653 
Diomed,  233,  332,  345 
Diophantus,  556,  704 
Discount,  597,  608 
Disguise  //. ,  4,  662 
Dismal,  118 
Disraeli,  569 
Disturbance,  292,  452,  605, 

606,  677 
Divorce  Court,  682 


162,   166,   173,  188,  209,  f airplay,  264 

211,  213,  216,  223,  233,  Faith,  223,  288 

256,  257,  263,  267,  270,  Fanchon,  467 

275,  280,  282,  285,  290,  Fandango,  474 

291,  296,  297,  298,  299,  Fanny,  112,  134,  143,  212 

301,  303,  305,  306,  309,  Fanny  Dawson,  318 

310,  356,  414,  415,  416,  Fanny  Gray,  552 

417,  436,  481,  503,  577,  Fantail,  552 

653>  654  Famvell,  632 

Economist,  314,  318,  469  Farintosh,  460 


/)/-.  Syntax,  283,  315,  448,    Ecossais,  480,  552,  566,  704    Father  O'Fiynn,  614 


Daddy  Longlegs,  589 
Daedalus,     155,    166,    223, 

436 

Dainty,  601 
Dainty  Davy,  327,  356 
Dancer,  206 
Dancing  Master,  190 
Dandy,  362 
Dangerous,  322,  387 
Dangu,  565 
Daniel  O'Rourke,  62,  388, 

406,  420,  483 
/}<*«  O'Connell,  594,  597 
Dapper,  256,  263 
Darcey,  190 
D' Arcy  Counsellor,  122 
D'Arcy  White  Turk,   122, 

'33.  J52.  '97.  3°7 
D'Arcy      \Voodcock,      104, 

134,  2" 
D'Arcy  Yellmv  Turk,  122, 

124,  152,  186,  307 
Darius,  120 
Darley    Arabian,    44,    75, 

146,   150,    151,   165,   169, 

173.   J76.   I91.   '95.  202. 

213,  256,    266,  280,  285, 

286,  289,  308,  311,  313, 

316,  436,  653 
Decave,  619 

Defence,  292,  294,  313,  316 
Defender,  617 
Defiance,  316 
Delpini,  263,  264 
Democrat,  253 
Denmark,  329 
Dcnnis-oh  !  321 
Derby  Ticklepitchcr,  122 
Dervise,  170,  395 
Despair,  296,  654 
Despatch,  604 
Devonshire  Childcrs,  2o5 
Devotion,  282 


464.  542 
Dodsworth,  120,  124 
Dodsworth 's  Darn,  98,  104 

s,  296,  654 
I,  206 
~>on  Carlos,  257 


Elba,  694 

Eleanor,    233,     320,    335, 

382,  384,  692,  694 
Election,  258,  304,  438 
Elephant,  262 
El  Hakim,  529 


Doncaster,    158,    290,   315,    /?/«,    289,    291,    399,    409, 


441.  461,  464.  575.  622, 
624 


420,  427,  477,  515,  517 

554,  578,  620,  626,  668 
Don  John,  284,    294,   398,    Elizabeth  M. ,  412,  673 

404,  464  F.I  la,  515 

Donovan,    131,    157,    437,    Ellen  Home,  477 

554,  568,  569,  574,  646,    Ellen  Middleton,  294 

650,  655  Ellerdale,  322,  476 

Doochary,  693  Ellermire,  476,  515 

Doricles,     543,    644,    660,    Ellington,  42?,  476 

665,  671,  673  Eltham,  562 

Dorimant,  228,  312,  332         Elthiron,  288 
Dorimond,  257,  264 
Dormouse,  170,  257,  275 
Doubt,  500,  501,  502 
Doubtful,  108 
Dragon,   64,  95,   106,   107, 

108,  120,   125,   126,   127, 

129.   133.   '38,   143.  368, 

566 


Dragon  the  Second,  128 

Droghfda,  609 

Dromo,  260 

Drone,  326 

Drudge,  212 

Drumcree,  608,  613 

Drumhead,  675 

Dmtnmond,  566 

Duchess,  137,  138,  213,  164    Epaminondas,  533 

Duke  of  Beaufort,  623  Ephemera,  155,  158,  259 

Duke  of  Westminster,  220,     Epirus,  289,  398,  473,  474 

429,  432,  690,  696 
Dulcibella,  623 
Dinnplin,  168,  256,  303 
/>////  Arabian,  122 


£/X  7«>v£,  124,  168 
Emblem,  600,  601,  614 
Emblematic,  600,  602 
Emetic,  239 
l-'.militts,     293,     320,     384, 

390,  404,  443,  457,  461, 

464 

Emily,  320 

Emma,  316,  321,  474,  701 
Empress,  311,  608,  614 
Energy,  421,  630 
Engineer,  264,  331 
England,  165 
Enigma,  284 
Ennui,  480 
Enthusiast,  614,  655 


Faugh~a-Ballagh,  156,  317, 

420 

Favell,  13 
Favonian,  295 
Favonius,    158,    626,    670, 

671,  697 

Favourite,  124,  210 
Faizoletto,  134 
Fearnought,   122,  133,  146, 

190,  210 
Fee  now,  271 

Fenwick  Barb,  70,  128,  307 
Feramorz,  387 
Fernhill,  618,  627 
Feronia,  289 
Festiis,  468 
Fiancee,  619,  695 

ro  //. ,  477 
f,  282 
Filagree,  291 
Filbert,  134 
Filho  da   Puta,   292,  293, 

355.  399,  4°3.  4°2,  475 
/•'///«  rf«  /'^!>,    284,    562, 

565,  670,  701 
Findon,  479 

Firetail,  257,  270,  324,  329 
Fisherman,    158,  296,  315, 

417,  468,  480,  499,  503, 

522,  564,  575,  576,  617, 

618 

FitzRoland,  627 
Flageolet,  626,  697 
Flash  in  the  Pan,  415 
Flatface,  112 
Flatfoot,  49,  77,  91,  93 
Fleecem,  197 


Dundee,  515,  517 
Dundonald,  428 
Ditngannott,  288,  293,  303,     Europa,  560 
311,  332  Evander,  449,  450 


Epsom  Lad,  253,  425,  664,    FleurdEH,  661 

665,  696,  697  Fleur   de   I.ys,     112,    321, 

Escape,  216,  225,  233,  357, 

359.  361.  395 
Euclid,  321,  404,  464,  467 
Euphrosvne,  477 


395.  449.  55",  7OO,  7°4 
Flight,  316 
Flora,  320 
/•'/or  Fina,  630 
Florian,  564 
Floriform,  644,  660,  673 


Hansel,  345,  388,  438 
Florizel  II,,  290,  421,  627, 

641.  643.  644.  649.  659. 

684 

Flotsam,  428,  540,  699 
/•'/X«-,  701 
Flying  Childers,  146,  150, 

165,    170,    195,    2IO,    2l6, 

260,  275,  283,  285,  293, 

3°8.  313.  345.  4i6 
Flying  Duchess,  290 
Flying  Dutchman,  155, 

'57.  3'6,  321,  409,  467, 

485,  489,  507 
Flying  Fox,  157,  158,  290, 

316,  417,  421,  430,  437, 

527.   543.  544.  55°.  57^. 

578,  621,  636,  641,  649, 

664,  668,  696 
Flying  Jib,  218 
Flying  Lemur,  429,  693 
Flying  Whigg,  166,  174 
Forester,  262 
Forfarshire,  684 
Formosa,    294,    432,    515, 

533.  569.  691.  694.  7^p 
Fortissimo,  531 
Fortitude,  333 
Fortunatus,  627 
Fortune  Hunter,  267 
Fosco,  671 
Fowling  Piece,  693 
/far,    132,    133,    216,    285, 

359.  388 
Foxbury,  498 
/TO;  C«i*,  176 
Foxhall,  523,  561,  564,  623 

674 

Foxhiniter,  138,  206 
/•V<z  Diavolo,  284 
Frampton's  Turk,  132 
Franklin,  49 
Freake,  64 
Frederick,  325 
Freemason,  654 
Freetrader,  589,  599 
I'riar s  Balsam,  631 
Frigate,  608,  609,  614 
Friponnier,  470 
Frisell,  68 
Frisetl  Longlegs,  68 
Frolic,  420 
/•' i/iit'v,  606 
Fvldener,  293 


Gabrielle  d'Estre'es,  565 
Gadabout,  318 
</'</;.',•,  108 
Gainsborough,  415 
Galtinthus,  466 
Galnta,  289,  459 
Galcotlia,  569 
Galliard,     568,     569,    574, 

668 

Gallinnle,  421,  616 
Gallopade,  304 
Galopin,     158,     171,     250, 

316,  320,  420,  422,  427, 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


736 


INDEX. 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


433.  437.  564,  567.  568, 

574,  668,  672 
Galtee  More,  158,  420,  438, 

543.  576>  616,  649,  662 
Galtram,  308 
Game  Chick,  690 
Game  Chicken,  610 
Gamecock,  608,  609 
Gamester,  404 
Gander,  176 
Gannet,  466 
Gaoler,  382 
Gaper,  460,  471,  472 
Gardevisure,  553 
Gaudy,  401 
G<y  Lad,  596,  608 
Gehfimniss,  629 
Gemma  di  Vergy,  317,  457, 

468,  503,  529 
General,  311 

General  Chasst,  406,  476 
General  Peel,  487 
George  Frederick,  314,  650 
Georgiana,  321 
Ghuznee,  288,  464 
6V,  268 
Gildermire,  617 
Gimcrack,   223,    236,    252, 

267,  303,  312,  324,  325, 

326,  331,  414,  417,  428, 

475 

G?>jy/,  133,  200,  216,  357 
Girton  Girl,  682,  684 
Gladiateur,    21,   158,    282, 

284,  294,  316,  438,  551, 

554.  561,  562,  563,  564, 

565,  566,  567 
Gladiator,    161,    291,    294, 

29S.  316,  318,  481 
Glamos,  265 
Glasalt,  680 
Glass  Jug,  680,  699 
Glaucus,     157,    294,    295, 

3°4 

Glenarlney,  449,  458,  556 

Glencoe,  289,  295,  296,  316, 
459,  618 

Glenwood,  669 

Glowworm,  267 

Godolphin,  257 

Godolphin  Arabian,  44,  49, 
98,  150,  158,  161,  166, 
169,  170,  172,  173,  181, 
209,  212,  229,  256,  263, 
267,  268,  275,  280,  282, 

307,  316,  333,  653 
Godolphin  Blossom,  325 
Godolphin  Mare,  436 
Gog  Magog,  181 
Gohanna,     166,    258,     288, 

294,  311,  321,  418 
Gold,  681 

Golden  Crown,  314 
Golden  Locks,  119,  120 
Goldjinch,  28^,  639 
Goldjinder,    75,    155,    283, 

308,  324,  327,  436,  438, 
501,  502' 

Goletta,  671 

Goliath,  124,  197,  420 


Golumpus,  321 

161,   198,  320,  335,  338, 

Hester,  363 

/o«,  294,  296,  316 

Gomera,  556,  623 

357.  446 

Hetmaji  Platoff,  321,  322, 

/;•/>,  483 

Gorhamburv,  586 

Hambletonian  Colt,  376 

481 

Irish  Birdcatcher,  477,  480 

Goshawk,  467 

Hamburg,  673 

Highflyer,    130,     228,    259, 

Ironsides,  401 

Gouverneur,  566,  639,  640 

Hampton,    283,    415,    433, 

261,  266,  286,  288,  292, 

Iroquois,   4,   20,    158,    535, 

Governatore,  20,  24 

437,  626,  641,  684 

294.  295,  310,  318,  356, 

564 

Gower,  309 

Hampton    Court    Chestnut 

359.  417,  421,  565 

Isaac,  404 

Gower  Stallion,  268,  282 

Arabian,  176 

Highlander,  252,  475 

Isabel,  704 

Grand  Coup,  563 

Hampton    Court   Chillers, 

Highland  Laddie,  176 

Ishmael,  289,  531 

Grantham,  186 

197 

Highland  Lassie,  206 

Isidore,  535 

Grasshopper,  124,  265 

Handicapper,  661,  673 

7/j^,  138,  213 

Isinglass,  5,  158,  433,  438, 

Gra_y  Azn>,  145 

Hannah,     158,     468,     670, 

Hippia,  559,  670,  694 

470,  576,  628,  645,  649, 

Greenmantle,  289,  392 

694,  700 

Hippolyta,  670 

656,  664,  677,  678,  680, 

Green  Pea,  467 

Hannibal,  258,  394 

Holibie  iVoble,  288,  515,  572 

696 

Green  Sleeve,  514,  569 

Hanover,  295 

Hobby,  186 

/«>,  468 

Green  Sleeves,  558,  628 

Haphazard,  292,   293,  320, 

Hobby  Mare,  138 

Isoline,  618,  619 

Grey  Appleton,  49 

335,  400 

Hobgoblin,   146,    158,    169, 

Isonomy,  158,  317,  351,  433, 

Grev  Arabian,  164 

Happy  Slave,  647,  699 

210,  308 

435,  523,  626,  628 

Grey  Azri,  137 

Hardwicke,  599 

/fyf,   120 

Ithuriel,  314,  497 

Grev  Bingham,  42 

Haricot,  479 

Holbein,  420 

Grey  Brocklesby,  120,  325 

Harkaway,   158,    166,   311, 

Holderness  Turk,  168 

Grev  Clifford,  36 

314,  3lfi.  3i8,  416,  464, 

Hollandaise,  261,  263,  282, 

Grev  Crofts,  176,  202 

481,  5°3.  6l5 

356 

Jack-come-tickle-me,  207 

Grev  Dallavell,  49 

Harmless,  190 

Holocauste,  527,  567 

/flc£  of  Hilton,  218 

Grey    Diomed,     333,    360, 

Harpurs  Arabian,  168 

Homily,  533 

Jack  Spigot,  451,  476,  485 

361 

Harriet,  119 

Honest  Kitt,  216 

Jacko,  327 

Grev  Dosby,  42 

Hartley  Mare,  166 

Honeycomb     Punch,     120, 

Jacquemart,  671 

Grey  Ellerton,  49 

Hartley  Mare,  Large,  170 

122 

Janette,  574 

Grev  Hautboy,    112,     118, 

Hartley's  Blind  Horse,  166, 

HonfYwood  White  A  rabian  , 

Janissary,  156 

133,  202 

168,  202,  316 

166 

Jannette,     155,    554,     650, 

Grevhound,  108,  124 

Hartley  s  Little  Mare,  197 

Honywood  Arabian,  124 

657.  695,  697 

Grev  Lambert,  49 

Harvester,    128,    470,   518, 

Horizon,  311,  312 

Janus,  587 

Grev  Layton,  122 

543,  632,  647,  677 

Horse  Chestnut,  569 

Jarnicoton,  565 

Grev  /.«y,    296,    498,    543, 

Hautboy,  75,  118,  119,  120, 

Hospodar,  565 

Jason,  210,  265 

653,  654.  660 

152 

Hotspur,  504 

Jasper,  670 

Greylegs,  118 

Haute  Saone,  633 

Hudibras,  312 

Jeddah,  155,  156,  643 

Grev  Momus,  284,  461 

Have-at-all,  208 

/fa?  WHO?  6>v,  570 

Jennv,  268 

Grev  Newcastle,  69 

Havoc,  656 

Humphrey     Clinker,    284, 

Jenny-come-tie-me,  207 

Grey  Ram  sden,  75,  112 

Hawk,  584 

437,  449 

Jenny  Howlett,  476 

G/YV  Robin,  228,  312 

Hawker,  134 

Hurricane,  476 

Jenny  l.ind,  467 

Grey  Stanhope,  42 

Hawthornden,  130,  155 

Hutton  Royal  Colt,  104 

Jerboa,  294 

Grey  Stroud,  no 

Hazafi,  564 

Hutton'  s    Bav   Barb,    152, 

Jereed,  289 

Grec  Valentine,  49 

Hazard,  136,  189 

3°7 

Jerne,  316 

Grey  Why  Not,  128,  166 

Headlong,  284 

Hutton  s   Grey  Barb,    124, 

/errv,    263,  283,  355,  451, 

Grey  Wilkes,  122,  152,  156 

Hector,  213 

3°7 

452,  456.  5  to,   595-  596, 

Grimaldi,  325,  584 

Heidelberg,  415 

Hyale,  449 

608 

Grimston,  476 

//£//  /•»<?,  208 

Hybla,  480 

Jessica,  467 

Grisette,  553 

Helmsley    Turk,    98,    104, 

Hylas,  364 

Jester,  570 

Grisewood's  Teaser,  210 

122,  134,  307,  512 

/£«,  329 

Grudon,  608 

Hemp,  327 

//££•,  120,  168 

Guardian,  327 

Henry  the  First,  700 

Jilian  Thrust,  64 

Giiava,  624  - 

Hepatica,  483 

Joe  Andrews,  296,  311,  321 

Guiccioli,  316,  317 

Hephestion,  216 

Iambic,  150 

/(«  Miller,  294,  483,  528, 

Guise,  75 

Herald,  623 

/««,  673 

575 

Gunboat,  529,  564 

Hermione,   293,    327,    338, 

Ibrahim,  459 

/0A#  rt  Nokes,  218 

Gunpowder,  311 

438 

A:^  Maiden,  641 

/o/i»  j5»//,  223,  333 

Gitstavus,  325,  359,  567 

Hermit,  158,  282,  285,  303, 

Ignoramus,  674 

/0A«  Davis,  623 

314,  432,  461,  494,  513, 

//«•,  608 

Johnny,  312 

537,  553,   559.  5<5o.  613, 

lliona,  407,  498,  499 

/0Aw   0'  Gaunt,    465,    481, 

667,  670,  677 

Illuminata,  650,  663 

680 

/tero,  563 

Imperatrice,  631 

Jonathan   Wild,  476 

Herod,  44,    146,   151,    152, 

Imperieuse,  404,  483,  631, 

Jongleur,  566 

153.   '73.   J98,  209,  228, 

674,  694 

Jouvence,  564 

Habit,  264 

229,  256,  257,  275,  280, 

Incendiary,  629 

Juba,  310 

Hackler,  613 

282,  285,  286,  291,  296, 

Indus,  556 

Julia,  130,  266,  294,  417 

Hairbreadth,  559 

353,  412,  414,  436,  618, 

Industry,  320,  464 

Juliance,  402 

Halfcaste,  608 

653.  654 

Infant,  132 

/«//'«.(,  499,  556,  559,  560, 

Hall  Court,  602,  603 

Herodias,  364 

Ingle  man,  588 

570,  704 

Hambleton,  449 

Herring,  98 

Insulaire,  566 

Julius  Ccesar,  704 

Hambletonian,      130,     155, 

Hesperus,  404,  704 

Interpreter,  420 

Juniper,  257,  320 

Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


INDEX. 


737 


Jupiter,  321,  332,  414 
Justice,  138,  157,  257 


Kaiser,  620 
Kaleidoscope,  570 
Kangaroo,  562 
Kf  tidal,  420,  633 
Kcrmesse,  620,  66  j 
Kestrel,  529 
Kettledrum,  158,  316,  420, 

678 

AVr*  £//,  108 
Kilcock,  660 
Kill' em  and  Eat  em,  208 
Kilmeny,  572 
Kilwarliii,    153,    296,  543, 

635.  654.  677 
Kincsem,    314,    512,    564, 

626,  657,  701 
King  Alfred,  670 
Kingcraft,   481,  517,    570, 

574.  670 
AV»f  Fergus,  212,  288,  290, 

296,  311,  314,  318,  320 
Kins;  Herod,  212,  213,  256, 

257,  264 

King  of  the  Valley,  591 
King  Pippin ,  498 
King's  Courier,  653,  706 
Kingston,    294,    316,    42t, 

475.  483.  653.  654 
Kings  Turk,  119 
AV«f  7"««,   158,  281,  316, 

318,  438,  574,  670 
Kingwood,  311 
Kirkconnel,  284,  684 
Kisber,  294,  468,  548,  564, 

566,  567,  704 
Kiss-in-a-corner,  207 
Kissing  Cup,  429 
Kitty,  268 
Kittywick,  682 
Knight  of  Gwynne,  614 
Knight  of  the  Shire,  317 
Knight  of  the  Thistle,  665 
Knightley  s  Mare,  124 
Knowsley,  358 
Kroonstad,  653 
Kunstler,  695 


L'Abbesse  de  Jouarrc,  674 
L'Africain,  615 
/-a  Caniargo,  657,  684,  701 
£fl   Fleche,    156,  158,  417, 

424,  428,  429,  523,  639, 

640,  649,  657,  674,  692, 

694,  700,  704 
Art  Paix,  646 
/.«   Roche,  4,   5,  641,  649, 

685 

/.rt  Urugitaya,  665 
Labrador,  641 
La/fas,  130,   155,  156,  283, 

314,  42!,  429,  436,  477, 

570.  575.  576,  640,  663, 

674,  680,  684 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 

Ladislas,  331,  566 
Lady  B rough,  394 
Lady  Coventry,  569 
Lctdv  Cow,  176 
Lady  Elizabeth,   558,    559, 

560,  569,  623,  657,  700 
Lady  Georgiana,  420 
Lady  Hester,  623 
Lady  Legs,  120,  143,  146 
Lady  Morgan,  289 
Lady  Paramount,  537 
Lady  Peggy,  641 
Lady  Thighs,  189,  208 
Lady  Yardley,  284 
Lake,  361 
Lambert  Turk,  75 
Lambkin,  574 
Lamplighter,  284,  415,  459 
Lamprie,  146,  200 
Lancashire,  653 
Lancet,  586 
Landscape,  292 
Lanercost,    157,    288,    322, 

363,  404,  405,  467,  476, 

481,  503,  504,  565 
Langar,  289,  466 
Langold,  321 
Languish,  288 
Laodamia,  659,  661 
Lapdog,  155,  258,  313,  458 
7.<z/A,    146,   158,   166,    170, 

213 
Launcelot,   313,    314, 

405,  464,  556 
Laura,  552 
Laurestina,  586 
Lavengro,  693 
Laveno,  649,  650 
Layton    Barb    Mare, 

158,  284,  436,  651 

7>  Beau,  260 

7.e  Blizon,  696 
/.c  Mandarin,  562 
/,  638 


4°4, 


Limasol,  295* 

7,tt<ry  Gray,  321 

Lister  Snake,  124,  188 

Luggs,  122 

Lister  Turk,  123,  138,  151, 

Lugg  's  Mare,  202 

152,  186,  307 

Lusty,  105,  125 

List  on,  467 

Luzborough,  498 

Little  Charlie,  600 

Lyard,  13 

Little  David,  532 

Little    Driver,    146,    252, 

324 

£»«/«•  (/>;«,  312 

Little  Hampton,  467 

Mabel,  143 

Little  Highlander,  267 

Mabon,  647 

Little  John,  168 

Macaroni,    295,    476,    494, 

Little  Mountain  Barb,  168 

533 

Z.tV//i  Partner,  213 

Macaroon,  674 

7,;V//f  Prince,  275 

MacGregor,  517 

/jWe  AW  #(«'«•,  415 

Macheath,  202,  296 

Little  Tommy,  600 

Mackerel,  64,  108,  121 

Little  Wonder,  320 

Mackintosh,  644,  660,  684 

Litton  s  Chestnut  Arabian, 

Macmahon,  295,  296 

168 

McMahon,  654 

Liverpool,  322 

Madame  Sarpi,  420 

Llanthony,  640 

Madcap,  108 

Lochiel,  621 

Mademoiselle  de  Chantilly, 

Lollypop,  294,  552,  556,  706 

564 

Lonely,  158,  667 

Magic,  608 

Longbow,  475,  483 

Magistrate,  420 

/-osf  I  -egged  Lcrwthcr  Barb, 

Magog,  263,  362 

122 

Magpie,  235 

7,o«»  -17<y,  124,  165 

Maid  of  the  Oaks,  223 

Longrange,  483 

Mail  Train,  563 

I^ongwaist,  321 

Mainstone,  499,  515 

I-ongy,  422 

Makeless,  75,  112,  121,  124, 

I^nsdale     Bay     Arabian, 

133,  146,  168,  189,  282 

129,  132,  168,  265 

Malton,  303,  420 

Lonsdale    Counsellor,    no, 

Mambnno,     7,    143,    242, 

15° 

264,  329,  331,  702 

Lonsdale  Mare,  197 

Mambrino  Howard,  143 

154,    Lonsdale  Tregonwell  Barb    Mameluke,    155,  293,   294, 


Mare,  121 
Lonsdale  Tregonwell  Marc, 

210 
Ij>oby,  108,  120,  213,  324 


385.  387.  449.  452.  456. 
458,  513.  556,  56°.  623 
Mandane,    288,    320,     322, 

4'7 


Lord  Bobs,  412,  673,  682,     Manifesto,   608,    609,    614, 


ancy,  289,  295,  567,  654        684 


arrazin,  569 
Leadenheels,  107,  108 
Leamington,  317,  468 
Leander,  363 
Lecturer,    559,     564,    575, 

623,  697 
Leedes,  150,  176,  178,  188, 

202 
Leedes  Arabian,  122,  152, 

178,  186,  197,  325 
Leonid,  690 
Leonie,  570,  572 
Levant,  533 
Leveret,  373 
Leviathan,  216 
Lexington,  233 
Lexington  Arabian,  210 
7,zA'/,  471 
Liberator,  609 
£«rt>r,  553 
Lifeboat,  317,  468 
Lightfoot,  165 
Lilian,  620,  700 
/.z'/.v  Agnes,  433,  476, 

650,  700 


LordClifden,  158,  283,  437,    Mango,  130,  155,320,  470, 

533.  57°  473.  479.  495 

Lord  Fauconberg,  479  Manners,  641 

Lord  George,  475,  610  Manuella,  393,  400 

Lord  Lyon,  75,    130,    155,  Marchioness,  156 

156,  510,  553,  565,  574,  Mania,  293 

578,  648,  664  Marcion,  661,  684 

T-orrf  o/VAi;  /.!/«,  284,  385  Marco,  296,  654 

T-fnz1  Ronald,  560,  623,  648  Marcus,  397 

Lottery,  161,  322,  457,  589,  Margrave,  284,  385,  455 

595 

Louise,  381 
Louise  Victoria,  650 
Loupgarou,  322 
Louse,  208 

Tjwtf  Wisely,  661,  695 
Loved  One,  654 
Lmvland  Chief,  138 
Lowlander,  567,  569 
Lowood,  641 


Maria,  288,  312,  317,  457 
Marie    Stuart,    515,    517, 

657.  695.  7°° 
Marignan,  565 
Marigold,  290 
Mark  Antony,  200,  259 
Markham  Arabian,  6,  43, 

44,  48,  52,  68,  98,  150 
Marmion,  451 
Maroon,  405,  554 
Lowther  Whitelegged  Barb,    Marpessa,  316 

168  Marquis,  263,  531 

LuceUum,  587  Marquis  Conyngham,  .,66 

Lucetta,  459,  681  .\farsden,  665 

Z.»cv,  353  Marshall,  122,  284 


Marshal? s  Spot,  119 
Marshall  Turk,  165 
Marske,  152,  216,  218,  223, 

256,  257,  275,  307,  308, 

312,  320,  331 
Martagon,  666 
Martha,  614 
Martha   Lynn,    321,    438, 

5°5 

Martin,  324 

Masquerade,  216 

Massey's  Black  Barb,  154, 
158,  438 

Master  Henry,  314 

Master  Kildare,  158,  317 

Matchbox,  630,  640 

Matchem,  44,  75,  119,  129, 
146,  148,  151,  152,  173, 
209,  213,  256,  261,  263, 
264,  275,  280,  282,  283, 
284,  285,  291,  296,  354, 
362,  436,  653,  654 

Matchmaker,  655 

Mat/lew,  597,  614 

Matilda,  385,  387,  397,  402, 
404,  456,  468,  484 

Maud  Victoria,  650 

Mavourneen,  543 

Maximum,  695 

Mayday,  459 

Mead,  477,  695 

Meddler,  673 

Medina,  619 

Mcdura,  289,  659 

Melanion,  650 

Melbourne,  156,  284,  285, 
296,  318,  437,  474,  480, 

653 

Melidora,  197 

Melton,  317,  351,  421,  433, 

S31.  535.  537.  54$.  5^6. 

5/'°.  574.  631,  632,  635, 

666,  697 
Memnon,     112,     155,    321, 

449,  452,  456,  457,  510 
Memoir,  156,  158,  428,  554, 

556,  568,  639,  649,  657, 

666,  674,  695,  704 
Mendicant,  314,  322,  388, 

5'4.  7°! 
Mentor,  471 
Mephisto,  633,  635 
Mercury,     123,    204,    311, 

321 

.]/<';•<•////(>,  406 
Merlin,  129,  134,  135,  136, 

137,  261,  288,  420,  446 
Merman,  658,  706 
Merry  Andrew,  26 
Merry  Gal,  665 
Mcny-go-round,  397 
Merry  Hampton,  158,  314, 

427,  674,  684 
Merryman,  190,  200 
Merry  Monarch,  364 
j'1/t'rrr  Quaker,  203 
Messenger,  264,  331 
Mctaphysian,  331 
M,-t,vr,  223,  311,  333 
Meteor  Colt,  373 


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Meteora,  475 

Miami,  388 

Michael  de  Basco,  569 

Mickey  Free,  475 

Midas,  475 

Middleton,   155,    291,   294, 

385,  415,  513 
Midlothian,  556 
Milford,  420 
Milkmaid,  190 
Milksop,  257 
Miller  of  Mansfield,  452 
Mimi,  543,  633 
Minion,  354 
Minotaur,  407 
Minstrel,  421 
Minthe,  655 
Minting,  75,  130,  315,  317, 

436,  537.  S5L  574,  635 
Minting  Queen,  684 
A/<«/  Sauce,  574 
Minuet,  155,  384 
Mirza,  265 
Miserrima,  288,  572 
Misfortune,  223,  288 
A/m,  112,  190 
A/m  Agnes,  477 
Miss  Archer,  619 
A/m  Belvoir,  325 
A/m  Coiner,  443 
A/m  Cornforth,  357 
A/m  Cranbourn,  257 
A/m  Ditto,  420 
A/m  /?/«,  463,  465,  466 
.1/m  Elliott,  325 
A/m  Havclock,  623 
A/m  Hungerford,  588 
A/m  Jummy,  633,  674 
A/m  Lay  ton,  146 
A//J5  Letty,  320,  322 
A/m  Meredith,  286 
A/m  Mowbray,  599 
.1/m  Neasham,    146,    202, 

203,  204 

A/m  Nightingale,  362 
A/m  />atofc,  138 
.1/m  Patty,  102,  204 
A/m  Pratf,  318 
A/m  Ramsden,  168,  288 
A/m  Redcap,  213 
A/m  Slamerkin,  213 
A/m  South,  242,  332 
A/m  Tindall,  597 
A/m  7iw/<fy,  318 
•',  284 


Mogul,  239 

Molly,  124,   133,  146,  165, 

176,  202 

Monahjue,  316,  564,  565 
Monica,  166 
Monkey,  132,  165,  168,  191, 

203 

Montague  Mare,  394 
Montargis,  566 
Montem,  477 
Moonah   Barb  Mare,    145, 

158,  166,  176 
Moonraker,  584 
Moonshine,  420 
Moorcock,  146,  213 
Morel,  155,  266 
Morgan's  Mare,  108 
Morganette,  649,  701 
Morglay,  295,  296 
Morion,  296,  654 
Morna,  553,  572 
Morocco,  68,  186 
Morocco  Barb,  120,  122 
Mortemer,  552,  566 
Mortimer,  618 
Morwick  Ball,  327,  356 
A/<M«,   155,  294,  388,  397, 

418 

Moslem,  432,  694 
Mother  Neasham,  202,  204 
Mouse,  107,  128,  197,  210 
Mffiuerina,  316,   320,    474, 

542.  574.  650 
Mulatto,  321,  415,  464, 

674 

Muley,  320,  420 
Muley  Edris,  385,  535 
Muley  Ishmael,  165 
Muley    Moloch,    123,    153, 

288,  320,  479,  480 
Mundig,  62,  294,  321,  402, 

452,  473.  474 
A//«/c,  155,  384 
Musjid,  314,  514,  483,  531, 

627 
Musket,  158,  314,  433,  481, 

487,  510,  574,  617 
Mustapha,  191 
Mustard,  145,  191 
J/jvrt,  420 
^lyrmidon,  327 
^V/K  Uncle,  543 


Nei.vminster,  166,  283,  307,     Ollyan  Nines,  564 
311,  314,  316,   363,  417,     Olympia,  289 
437.  483.  5*4.  564.   57O,     Olympian,  662,  673 


-1/m  Windsor,  257 

Nablocklish,  318 

J/z'^j  B^or&w^,  132,  133 

Nabot,  682,  706 

J/r.  Pelham  s  drey  Arab, 

Nailer,  583 

209 

Naivete",  623 

.1/r.    Wilks,  133 

Napoli,  650 

.1/r.f.  Barnet,  292 

Narcissus,  261 

J//-J.  Buttenvick,  568,  649, 

Natural  Barb  Mare,   130, 

657.  674 

436 

J/rj.  Coaxer,  208 

Naworth,  467 

J/rj.  Ridgway,  290 

Nectar,  423 

Mixbury,    124.     134,     165, 

Nettle,  502 

190 

Newcastle  Turk,  75 

Modest  Molly,  204 

Newcourt,  466 

Modwena,  574,  633,  650 

Newhaven,  706 

Omar,  267 
Omladina,  684 
Omnium,  283,  654 
Omphale,  292,  356 
Oppressor,  468 
Orchid,  412,  541,  673 
Organist,  477 
Brown    Oriana,  400 

Oriole,  477,  696,  699 

Orion,  666,  667 

Orla?ido,  314,  363,  382,  3^4, 

513.  556 
Orme,   156,    290,  308,  316, 

363,  429,   576,  621,  636, 
285,        639,  640,  645,  649 

Ormonde,    156,    290,    316, 

395.  435-  476-   535.  537. 

560,  574,  576,  578,  621, 

633.  636,  645,  649,  668, 
669,  701,  706 

Ornament,  421,   429,  433, 

564 

Oroonoko,    122,     197,     206, 

212 

Ortolo,  649 
Orvieto,  639,  640,  649,  650, 

666 

Orville,  166,  307,  311,  314, 
316,  318,  322,  353,  384, 
442,  446 

Orwell,  564,  638 
Osbech,  425,  684 
Osboch,  673 
Oscar,  332 
Ossian,  674 
Ossory  Chestnut  Arabian, 

228 
Othello,  108,  124,  146,  206, 

213,  318,  329 

233  O/M  228,  312 

Old  Dragon,  108,  128,  129     O/Z.T,  322 
O/rf  -£&>«>•,  154  Otterley,  326 

O/rf    England,    363,    364,    Oulston,  479,  622 

406,  409,  622  O«/-  Lassie,  546,  619,  699 

Old  Fox,  146 
O/</    Hautboy   Mare,    122, 

133,  197 
Old  Joe,  607 

Old  Merlin,  104,  133,  134 
Old  Montague  Mare,  211 
O/W    Morocco    Mare,    122, 

133,  176,  186 
O/W  Orange  Girl,  =52 
Old  Partner,  120,  143 
Old  Peg,  122 

O/W  Scar,    128,    129,    146,    Palmbearer,  671 
189  /•>„„,  452 

Imithson,  122 


701 

.\ewsboy,  682,  684 
Newton's  Arabian,  206 
Nightshade,  259 
.iVife,  223 

Noble,  146,  261,  292 
Nord  Ouest,  611 
Northumberland 

Arabian,  178 
Nosegay,  257 
.V«»  Nicer,  684 
Nunnykirk,  283 
Nunsuch,  659 
Nutmeg,  105,  137,  191 
Nutwith,    123,     153, 

385,  464,  551,  568 


Oakley,  466 

Oatlands,  368 

Oberon,  633 

Ocean  Wave,  296,  654 

O'Connell,  601 

Octavian,  450 

Octavius,  138 

Orfd?  Trick,  529 

O' Donovan  Rossa,  253,  425 

Odsey,  197 

Oglethorpe   Arabian,    124, 

189,  3°7 

Old  Bald  Peg,  122,  133 

Old  Bustler,  104 
Careless,  176 
Cartouch,  75,  146,  213 
'^hild.Mare,  104 
''lubfoot  Mare,  152 
Country  Wench,  152 


Our  Nell,  155,  464,  476 
OIYV  Norton,  619 
Overton,  198,  357 
Oxford  Barb  Mare,  270 
Oxygen,  155,  292,  320,  457, 

622 
Oystcrfoot  Arabian,  168 


Padoroshna,  664 
Palestro,  565 


Old  f:pot,  165 

CW  7>««  />'//«•,  190 

O/(/  Tuner,  190 

6W  Vintner  Mare,  436 

('/,/  Wen  Mare,  120,  122 

6>/</  H/7y  .\W,  70,  128 

CV</  Woodcock,  436 

Oliva,  261 


Pantagniel,  625 
Pantnhwn,    158,    283,   288, 

296,  405,  464,  475,  5':o 
Panton  Arabian,  261 
Papillon,  292 
Paradigm,  477 
Paradox,    350,    397,    551, 

574,  631,  632,  633 
Paragon,  355 


Parasol,  266,  294,  313,  417, 

449 

Parasote,  293 
Pardon,  533,  534 
Paris,  292,  384 
Parker,  108 
Parmesan,  157,  295 
Partisan,    155,    294,    295, 

316,  449,  456 
Partner,  120,  123,  146,  153, 

165,  211,   213,   267,   275, 

282,  325 
Passaic,  531 
Pastille,  155,  292 
Pastime,  395 
Pastisson,  653 
/WcA  Buttock,  208 
Pathfinder,  572,  601 
Patron,  618,  706 
Paulina,  293 
Pauline,  294 
Paulowitz,  401 
Pavilion,    394,    397,    443, 

444 

Paymaster,  157,  228,  438 
Paynator,  283,  294 
Peacock,  70,  132 
/Vfl/Y,  128 
Pedlar,  134 
Peeper,  341 
/V^,  124 

Peggy-grieves- me-so,  208 
Pekin,  649 
Pelham  Spot,  119 
Pelisse,  155,  260,  313,  354 
Pell  A/ell,  510 
I'cndragon,  190 
Penelope,     130,     266,     281 , 

283.  313.  335-  363.  4i7. 

436,  438,  701 
Penguin,  583 
Pepper,  112,  145,  191 
Perdita    II . ,    5,    415,    437, 

570,  641,  649,  701 
Peri,  317 
Pericles,  420,  448 
Perion,  391,  415 
/V;*0  Gomez,  322,  514,  515, 

568,  572 
Perseus,  627 
Persimmon ,   157,   280,  290, 

421,  422,  429,  433,  436, 

437.  448,   475.  539.  5-1 L 
561,  576,  641,  643,  644, 
645,  649,  659,  671,  674 

/W  Lamb,  108 

Pet  Mare,  122,  152,  156 

/><?/£/-,  513,  552,  556,  667 

Peter  Flower,  639 

/We1/-    Simple,     596,     598, 

609,  614 

Petrarch,  75,  570,  672 
Petronel,  158,  395,  533 
Petronius,  293 
Peut-ctre,  621 
Phantom,    264,    291,    204, 

304.  385.  458 
Pharisee,  669 
Phenomenon,  438,  4^9 
Philammon,  285 


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Phceni.v,  587 

Phosphorus,  332,  398,  459 

Phryne,  288 

Physician,  321 

Pickleherring,  202 

Picnic,  466 

Pide  A/arkham,  42 

Pictermaritzburg,  649,  673 

Piety,  420 

Pig,  208 

Pigot  Turk,  1 20 

Pilgrimage,  674,  677 

Pincher,  243 

Pioneer,  313,  655 

Pipeator,  361 

Piping  Peg,  138 

Pironette,  362 

Pistol,  691,  706 

/Y(7«'.f    H-'Az'/V    7«/-i,    74, 

75,      98,      I2O,      122,     189, 
2O2,   210 

Placida,  158 

Plaisanterie,  523,  649,  701 
Plaistmv,  197 
Platina,  259 
Plaudit,  406 
Playfair,  608 
/V«&e,  313 
Plenipotentiary,    289,    320, 

'443.  459.  481 
Ploughator,  374 
Plume,  309 
Plumper,  304 
Plunder,  353,  438 
Plutus,  565 
Pocahontas,  281,  289,  304, 

316,  318,  438,  480 
Podargus,  313 
Points,  166 
Palest ar,  502 
/W/y  Agnes,  476,  477 
Pomona,  257 
/•<»«  /'am,  671 
Pontac,  216,  312 
Pontz,  134 
/'tf/e,  130,  436 
Pope  Joan,  313 
/>»;•*  S/nz'r,  662,  690 
Postboy,  107,  126,  128 
Postmaster,  312 
PotZos,   166,  223,  288,  290, 

292,  294,  296,  303.  311, 

320,  322,  332,  392,  437, 

438,  449,  578,  668 
Poulet,  295 

Prairie  Bird,  130,  438 
Precipitate,  288,  449 
Preserve,  470 
Pretender,  216,  314,  568 
/>«zVx  £0f,  468 
/Jre«v  /W/>',  615,  616,  652, 

700 
Priam,  304,  320,  321,  322, 

395.  449.  46'.  464.  477. 

499,  531,  692 
Pride  of  Mabestown,  613 
Priestess,    229,    345,    476, 

684 

Prime  Minister,  322 
Prime  Warden,  473,  474 


Primrose,  118,  604 

Ralph,  363,  622 

Rouge  Rose,  289,  477,  554 

Primrose  League,  295 

Ranter,  284,  448 

Roundhead,  170,  206 

Prince  Charlie,    211,    412, 

Rapid  Rhone,  487 

Roivena,  476 

480,  568,  569,  620,  621 

Rappalo,  650 

Rovjton,  304,  320,  397,  404, 

Prince  Leopold,  398 

Ratan,  364 

457.  475.  484 

Prince  Hampton,  684 

Rataplan,    158,    23i,    316, 

Roxana,  158,  166,  169,  170, 

Prince  Paul,  397 

475.  477.  48  '.  499.  522. 

282 

Princess,  155,  321 

575.  6'8 

Royal,  200 

Princess  Alice,  466 

Ravensbury,  678,  680 

Royal  Colt,  122 

Princess  of  Wales,  649,  701 

Ravenshoe,  566 

Royal  Flush,  295 

Prior,  564 

Rayon  (fOf,  566 

Royal  Hampton,   156,  308, 

Prioress,  529,  564 

Rebecca,  288,  480 

632,  684 

Privateer,  531 

Recluse,  190 

Royal  lancer,  684,  693 

Prizefighter,  385,  406,  551 

Recovery,  292,  320,  443 

Royallieu,  565 

Prologue,  406 

AW  Cfl/,  623 

Roval  Glares,  98,  436 

Promise,  266,  417,  438 

AW  Deer,  466,  479,  528 

Royal-Aleath,  614 

Promised  Land,  623 

AW  AW,  106,  127 

Royal  Oak,  321 

Prophet,  326 

Regal,  606,  609,  677 

Royal  Rouge,  673 

Proserpine,  137,  576 

Regalia,    468,     559,     563, 

Rubens,  33,   158,  223,  288, 

Prunella,    130,    266,    313, 

591,  64^,  670 

292,  316,  362,  420,  448 

363,  417.  438 

Regulus,  200,  202,  257,  .275, 

Ritbini,  391 

Pulleine's    Arabian,     123, 

308,  310,  326,  336 

Ruby,  206 

3°7 

Reine,  284 

Ruby  Mare,  216 

Pumpkin,  305,  324,  329 

Remus,  270 

Rueil,  567 

Pussy,  49,  622 

Reputation,  534 

Rugantino,  318 

Puzzle,  202 

Restitution,  671 

Ruler,  134 

Pyrrha,  318 

Retriever,  499 

Runcevall,  39 

Pyrrhus,  242,  243 

Reuben  liutler,  584 

Running  Rein,    363,    459, 

Pvn'futs  the  First,  388,  402, 

Reugny,  605,  677 

5'3.  624 

420,  692 

A'Ji'e  JO/-,  284 

A"w>z  fcow  or  Hunt  for  ever. 

Reveller,  284,  448,  531 

208 

Revenge,  218 

Rupert,  63 

Revenue,  673 

Russborough,  385,  467,  505, 

Reverend,  566 

506 

Quainton,  118 

Rhadamanthus,    155,    223, 

Russet  t,  212 

Quaker,  132 

436,  668 

Rustic,  553,  575,  623,  648 

Queen  Adelaide,  667 

Rhysworth,  605 

AW  #/<«,  285 

Queen    Bertha,    155,    438, 

A'zA  206,  211 

Rydal  Head,  477 

476,  518,  552  Riddlesworth,  459,  513,  704    Ryegate,  165 

Queen  Bess,  529  Rider  Chestnut  Barb,  168      Ryegate  Mare,  118,  131 

Queen  Mab,  321  Ringtail,  108  Ryshworth,  620 

£«ef«  Afizry,  318/477,  479,    Ringtail  Galtoway,  138 

480  Rising    Glass,     428,    540, 

()z«wz  (J/Mt-  Gipsies,  321  680,  693 

Queen  of  Trumps,  320,  452,    Robert  McGregor,  143 
459,  483,  622,  695,  704        Robert  the  Devil,  75,   130, 
'55.  282>  3'7.  433.   533 
543.  694 
Robin,  108 
Rocket,  326 


Queen  s  Birthday,  669 
Queens  Holiday,  682,  684 
Queen's  Messenger,  518 
Quibble,  189 
Quiet,  202 
Quintessence,  541,  619,  695, 

699 

Quiver,  649 
(?»«'  Kz'w,  483 
(5«z'2,  438 
(P»o  Vadis,  550,  551 


Sabinus,  351,  531,  533,  630 
Sacripant,  671 
5nz'/or,  155,  397 
Sailor  Prince,  537,  543 
Rockingham,  155,  271,391,    Sainfoin,    427,    638,    674, 

4°4.  556  704 

Rockingham  Colt,  373  67.  Alexis,  628 

Aw/4  Sand,  428,  507,  540,  67.  Aldegonde,  685 

567,  651,  662,  682,  696,  6V.  Amant,  652,  67 


697,  698,  702 
Rockwell,  121 
Roderick  Random,  341 

/?<*,  95 

Rogerthorpe,  468 
Roman,  286 
Romping  Girl,  670 
Rondeau,  699 
Roquebrune,  649 
Roquefort,  607,  672 


Rabelais,  428,  627,  696 

A"a«  Mare,  125 

Rachel,  288,  352,  420 

Raconteur,  649 

Radical,  582 

Raeburn,    574,    649,    650,    Rosette,  284,  400,  448 

656,  678,  680  Rosicrucian,  416,  514,  553, 

A'rt^i,  644  558,  569,  628 

Rainbow,  98,  420  Rosinante,  176 

108,  124,  202  Rouge  Dragon,  566,  640 


695, 

700 

67.  Angela,  574 
67.  Benet,  503 
6V.  Bennett,  476 
5/.  .StoV,    158,   314,  566, 

629,  630,  669,  678 
6V.  Brendan,  693 
67.  Brigida,  5 
6V.  Damien,  640 
67.  Florian,  433,  649 
St.l-'rusquin,  158,  421,433, 

576,  616,  644,  649,  664, 

671,  696 
6V.  Gatieu,  282,  420,   435, 

518,  632,  647,  677,  697 


5/.  George,  654 

67.    G!/«,    322,    452,    623, 

692 

6z"   Grz'i,  671 
67.  £f£V?r,  597 
6/.  Maclou,  423,  428,  540, 

543,  649,  673.  679,  680, 

691 

67.  Martin,  503 
67.  Medard,  674 
67.  Mirin,  537 
67.  Nitouche,  5 
67.  Patrick,  450 
67.  Ronan,  569 
6V.  6V/y^  307,  646,  647,  649, 

666 
6V.  Simon,  5,  150,  156,  158, 

282,  290,  308,  320,  421, 

429,  432,  433,  437,  448, 

463.  475.  55°.  56o.  568, 

569.  57°.  574.  575.  6z6. 

646,  648,  649,  650,  654, 

661 
6/.  KzV/or  &»»*,  166,  168. 

3°7 
67.     Windeline,    649,   691, 

692 

Saintly,  469 
Salamander,  602,  608 
Salopian,  216,  312 
Saltram,  311,  332 
Salvator,  621 
6a»z,  155,  397 
Sampson,     124,     146,    213, 

270,  286,  312,  324,  331 
Sancho,  322,  392,  394,  443 
Sandbeck,  292 
Sandjlake,  429 
i'«»f  /</«/,  661 
Santoi,  665 
Santry,  700 
Saraband,    317,    635,    682, 

684 

Sarpedon,  304,  312 
Satellite,  332 
Satiety,  420 
Satirist,  288,  402,  404,  405, 

464 
Saucebox,    120,    161,    283, 

404,  552,  618 
Saucepan,  597 
Saunterer,  468,  480,  617 
Savemake,  510,  648 
Savoyard,  607 
6c'a/-,  189 
Scaramouche,  266 
Scarbro  Colt,  203 
Scarrington,  605 
Sceptre,  423,  428,  429,  432, 

433-  435-  436.   475.  5°7. 

539.  54°.    54L  554.  564. 

645,  649,  652,  657,  659, 

662,  668,  679,  690,  692, 

693,  694,  696,  698,  700, 

702,  706 

Schiedam,  605,  606 
6V0Z1  Free,  647 
6Voz*  Ofx,  605 
Scotia,  264,  384 
Scottish  Chief,  572 


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Scottish  Queen,  480 

5*r  /Wer  Teazle,  292,  345 

Spavins,  98 

Sweepstakes,  216,  242,  309, 

TV  Cure,  321,  477 

Scrap,  266 

.SYr  Solomon,  400 

Spectator,  209,  270,  345 

33L  674 

7V  Darley  Arabian,  279 

Scrub,  327 

.SYr  Tatton  Svkes,  156,  402, 

Spectre,  265 

Sweetbriar,  331 

TV  Deemster,  654 

Scud,  155,  397,  436 

483 

Speculum,  156 

Sweetest  when  naked,  208 

TV  Doctor,  589,  604 

Scythian,  474,  552 

.SYr  Thomas,  438 

Speedwell,  197 

Swcetlips,  64,  106,  208 

TV  Duchess,  355 

Seabreeze,    284,    543,    663, 

A"«>   Kwto,    158,   284,    296, 

Sphynx,  216 

Sweetmeat,  294,  467 

TV  Z>*V,   560,  575,  594, 

677,  695 

47°.  543,  57°,  575.  649, 

Spider,  134,  168 

Si«<tf  Sounds,  680 

648 

Seaman,  607,  608,  615,  677 

654,  663 

Spiletta,     152,     256,     307, 

Sweet   William,  223,  303, 

TV  Dutchman,  480 

Second,  146,  178,  197,  213 

.SYr  Walter,  450 

308 

33L  438 

TV  £ar/,  558,    559,  560, 

Second  Mourning,  106 

.SYr  William,  590,  594 

Spinaway,  155,  518,  574 

Swiss,  198,  310 

623 

Sedbury,  157,  207,  210,  211 

Sirenia,  543 

Spitfire,  270 

Symmetry,  263 

TV  Emperor,  316,  420 

Sedbury  Royal  Mare,  122 

Sirius,  502 

Sportley,  213,  324 

7V     Flying     Dutchman, 

See  Saw,  296,  560,  623 

Sister,  152 

Sportsman,  268,  327,  590 

292,  392,  417,  420,  461, 

Sefton,  427,  512 

Skim,  210,  267 

Sportsmistress,  311 

464,  477,  480,  481,  483, 

Selaby  Turk,  119,  122,  165 

Skipjack,  202 

.S/W,    106,    119,    120,    127, 

503,  504,  508,  509,  618 

Selim,  223,  288,  289,  395, 

Skirmisher,  321,  468 

210,  476 

TV    Godolphin    Arabian, 

448 

Skylark,  361 

Spree,  420 

279 

Semiseria,  321 

Skyscraper,  264,   292,  333, 

Sprightly,  242 

Tadcaster,  364,  554 

7fo  Golden  Heron,  570 

Semolina,    156,    554,    568, 

359,  382 

Springfield,  308,  316,  317, 

Taffolet,  120 

TV  Gorgon,  5,  646 

574,  649,  650 

Slander,  466 

423,  433,  674,  704 

Taffolet  Barb,  191,  266 

TV  Hadji,  552 

Serina,  155 

Slane,  291,  321 

Spring  Jack,  674 

TV*?.  259 

TV    Knight    of   Givvnne, 

Serjeant,  311 

Sleight  of  Hand,  288 

Squirrel,     146,     166,     186, 

TVzgf  ,  382 

598 

Sermon,  661 

Slouch,  309,  310 

188,  270,  324,  329,  359 

Tancred,  191,  384 

TV  Ijimb,  601,  60?,  604, 

Seymour,  155 

Sloven,  133 

Squirt,  151,  152,   197,  213, 

Tandem,  119,  271,  333 

614 

Shaddock,  641 

•!•"/«/,  134 

216,  308 

Tangier,  no 

TV   Lambkin,     155,    436, 

Shaftesbury  Turk,  no 

Slugey,  108,  124 

Stadtholder,  206 

Tankot,  106,  127 

647,  674 

Shafto,  468 

•SVaj1,  136 

Stamford,  293-,  320 

Tantdlus,  673 

TV  Liberator,  606 

Shakespeare,  197,  308 

Smart,  210 

Stan  more,  589 

Tantivy,     124,     165,     186, 

TV  Marquis,  404 

Shambleshanks,  168 

Smiling  Molly,  200 

Stanyan  Arabian,  124 

352 

TV  Marshal,  448 

Shannon  Lass,  608,  609 

Smiling  Tom,  352,  353 

Stapley,  95 

Tantrum,  327 

7A('  \abob,  420 

Shapeless,  324 

Smolensko,   233,    283,    384, 

Star,  145,  189,  257,  261 

Tapster,  108 

TV  ,V««,  590,  595 

Shark,  216,  264,  283,  303, 

451,  486 

Starch,  294 

Taraban,  474 

TV  0w/,  684 

312,  331 

Smuggler,  376 

Starling,     133,-  146,     178, 

Tarporley,  649,  669 

TV  /J<z£-<r,  589 

Sheen,  284,  68  1 

5«az7,  118,  1  88,  285 

2IO,  211 

Tarquin,  176 

7Ae  Palmer,  514,  553 

Sheet  Anchor,  322 

Snake,  118,  152,  202,  206 

Star  Shoot,  680 

Tarrare,     161,     321,    452, 

TV  Poet,  590 

Shifnal,  606 

Snap,   132,   198,    216,  229, 

Staveley,  443 

461 

7V  Rake,    296,   432,  470, 

SA0A  i  20 

257,  264,  265,  266,  275, 

Sterling,  211,  308,  631 

Tartar,  197,  211,  281,  285, 

676 

Shotover,    314,     427,    477, 

283,  292,  293,  308,  312, 

Sternchaser,  658 

286,  356 

TV  Ranger,  623 

543,  629,  650,  692,  694 

326,  327,  436 

Sti/  Dick,  118,  132,  145 

Tawney,  zoo,  341 

TV  Reiver,  288,  572 

Shotten  Herring,  70 

Snapdragon,  283 

Stockwell,     158,    166,    280, 

Tcague,  107 

7^<?  Returned,  597 

Shoveller,  155 

Snip,   123,    198,    202,    216, 

281,  289,  290,  311,  315, 

Teddington,   158,  290,  314, 

7A^  Saddler,  457 

Shuffler,  106,  108 

275 

316,  318,  417,  433,  438, 

417,  512,  514,  627 

7//£  .SYo/,  607 

Shuttle,  443 

Snorting  Bess,  no,  130 

468,  475,  480,  483,  560, 

Teetotum,  282,  327 

TV  Scribe,  680 

Sibola,  284 

Sobersides,  207 

563.  574,  578,  617,  648 

Telemachus,  288 

7V  Speaker,  134 

Siffleuse,  684 

Soldier,  153,  332 

Stout,  190 

Teller,  132 

TV  Student,  384 

Signorina,  649,  657 

Solitaire,  661 

Stradella,  565 

Temperance,  218 

7A«  Tartar,  587 

Silverhampton,  693 

Solon,   138,  270,  285,  296, 

Stradling,  123 

Tempest,  64 

7V  Victory,  618 

Silverleg,  146,  213 

55' 

Strathnarer,  468     . 

Temple,  641 

7,fo  I^«/,  474 

Silverlocks,  166,  170,  229 

Somerset  Arabian,  120 

Streatham,  452 

Terror,  118,  120,  133,  166, 

TV  Wizard,  532 

Silvia,  618 

Sonatura,  661 

Streatham  Lass,  376 

202 

T/iebais,  282,  667 

Silvio,  155,  356,  421,  480, 

Songstress,  388,  483 

Strike-a-light,  646 

Tertius,  123,  153 

Theodore,  155,  355,  450 

481,  5l8,  534.  554.   566. 

Soothsayer,  263,   289,    291, 

Stripling,    197,    198,     202, 

TVzw,  351,  643,  647 

Theophania,  263 

57°,  574,  7°4 

420 

218,  265 

TV  Abbot,  629 

Thormanby,  158,  284,  295, 

Simon  Dale,  5,  641 

Sophonisba,  188,  202 

Strongbow,  425,  646 

7V  5a«,  627 

296,  479,  494,  515,  517, 

Simon  s  Bay,  684 

Sorcerer,  283,  448,  449 

Stumps,  259,  467 

TV  /ten/,    75,    421,    537, 

S32,  565.  567.  568,   57°, 

Simontault,  649 

Sorcery,  397 

Suburban,  569 

626,  633,  635 

572,  701 

Simony,  682,  684 

Sorrell  Fenwick,  69 

Sulphur,  257 

TV  Baron,  316,  318,  404, 

Thoulouse  llarb,  165 

Sinopi,  662 

Sorrel  Tempest,  36 

Sultan,  213,  289,  291,  307 

420,  578,  615 

77;r<r  /.,;<,'.!•,  353 

Sir  Bevys,  533,  671 

Southdown,  294 

Sunbeam,  155,  515,  552 

TV  Bishop,  684 

Throstle,    543,    630,    640, 

.SY>  Geoffrey,  666 

Spadille,  292,  355,  359 

Sundridge,   412,  619,   682, 

7V  British  Yeoman,  587 

680 

.SYr  Harry,  292,  357,  452 

Spaniard,  362 

696 

7A«  Byerly  Turk,  279 

Thumper,  105 

Sir  Hercules,  158,  313,  316, 

Spaniel,  155,  313,  398,  457, 

S««  jVwf,  68  1 

TV   Chandler,    591,    593, 

Thunderbolt,  448 

3J7.   457,  464.  S02,  578, 

459,  7°4 

Sunshine,  289 

597 

Thurgarton,  600 

615 

Spanke,  121 

Surbiton,  653 

TV  CWow/,  318,  385,  395, 

Thurio,  68  1 

.Szr  Hugo,  566,  639,  692 

Spanker,  75,  118,  120,  122, 

Surefoot,  638 

404,  449,  456,  484,  551, 

Thwaites'  Dun  Mare,  436, 

Sir  John,  614 

124,   146,   176,   186,    188, 

Surley,  190 

590,  600,  603,  604,  614, 

437,  438 

Sir  Joshua,  292,  399 

282 

Surplice,     158,    314,    363, 

615 

Tibthorpe,  68  1 

.SYr  Paul,  294,  295 

Spanker  Mare,  122 

388,  417,  463,  483,  497 

TV  Cossack,  155,  156 

Tickle-mc-quickly,  207 

Sir  Peter,  157,  284,  320,  417 

Spanking  Roger,  146,  282 

Surrey,  165 

TV  Car,  556 

Ticklepitcher,  165,  202 

.SVr  /Vfer  I^aurie,  589 

Spark,  122,  190 

Swallmv,  198 

TV  Curate,  597 

Tiftcr,  203 

Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


INDEX. 


74' 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


Tigg,  285 

Timothy,  667,  677,  63o 

Tinker,  108 

Tiresias,    155,     288,    289, 

3'3.  372.  452,  458.  459 
Tobvt  64 
Tomato,  670 
Tom  Bowline,  487 
Tomboy,  283,  568 
Tom  Cringle,  655 
To  in  my  i  263 

Tommy  Tittlemouse,  537 
ZVw?  Paine,  364 
7"(^w  Thumb,  212 
7 'ow  Tinker,  286 
y<>;«  TV/^",  316,  318,  596 
Tontine,  364,  395 
T",;/,  206 

Tormentor,  559,  670 
Torrismond,  146,  210 
Tortoise,  310,  326,  327 
Touchstone,  1 30,   1 66,  283 , 

288,  303,  311,  313,  314, 

316,  322,  405,  409,  412, 

459.  464.  474.  477.  479. 

481.  552,  570,  575-  613, 

654.  668 
Toulouse  Barb,    118,    124, 

131,  176,  190,  202 
Toxophilite,  483,  628 
Trafalgar,  384 
Tragical,  466 
Tramp,  157,  166,  288,  289, 

311,  321,  322,  400,  420, 

45i 

Tranby,  390,  518 
Transit,  216,  223 
Trappist,  156,  552,  704 
Traveller,    108,   326,    327, 

333-  359 
Treasure,  326 
Tregonwell's  Natural  Barb 

Mare,  154,  155,  437 
Trentham,  242,    243,    264, 

329.  33L  438 
Trenton,     314,     618,    658, 

706 

Trial,  309 
Trickstress,  501 
Trident,  671 
T)  ifle,  259 
Trimmer,  197 
Tristan,  566,  667 
Troon,  543,  650 
TVw  /?/(«•,  134,  154,  213 
True  Blues,  124,  155,  156, 

'57.  !58,  166,  438 
Tnnnpator,  130,  259,  283, 

313 

Trumpeter,  132,  259,  560 
Trunchefice,  39 
Trustee,  397 
Tuberose,  288 
Turcoman,  289 
Tiircophone,  655 


Turf,  286 

Turk,    1 18,    130,   145,   166, 

204 

Tun/noise,  155,  289 
T-wig,  208 
Tybalt,  364 
Typhous,  569* 
Tyrant,  266,  326,  384 


.  209 

£,  294,  409 
Uhlan,  620 
Umpire,  515 
f/KC/e  So/,  660 
Usna,  615 
Uzabel,  553 


/'<//>&  Duchess,  680 
("«//;  //»/£,  587 
I'nlentine,  48,  49,  420 
I 'umpire,  429 
Vanderdeckcn,  620 
Vandcvelde,  569 
F<!««,  659 

Vanguard,  596,  600 
Vanity,  483 
JVz«  Tromp,  322,  392,  417, 

476,  480,  503,  504,  515 
Vatican,  627 
Van  tan,  560,  623 
Vedette,  290,  316,  321,  417, 

437.  483.  S°9.  S69 
Veillantif,  19 
Velasquez,   576,    645,    649, 

655,  663 

Ke/«,  428,  673,  680 
Velocipede,  157,  320,  398 
Vengeance,  502 
Venison,     291,    294,    295, 

461,  480,  498,  575,  623 
Venire  St.  Gris,  295 
Vermont,  158 
Verncuil,  566 
Vernon  Barb,  168 
f  'eronese,  655,  673 
Vespa,  387 
Vespasian,  522,  677 
Vestris,  333 
K«-«  Chancellor,  587 
Vicissitude,  385 
Victor,  290 
Victor  Wild,  314,  645,  660, 

672 

Victoria  Alexandra,  650 
Victorious,  197,  210,  267 
I'idame,  682 
Vinagrillo,  380 
Vinicius,    475,    546,    550, 

55'.  567 


Vintner  Mare,  122,  153 
Violante,  292,  390,  395 
Violet,  289 
Virago,  261,  289,  293,  320, 

417,  564,  622,  700 
Viridis,  623 
Visconti,  671 
Viscount,  321 
Vision,  564 
/  Vjfo,  649 
Vitellin.a,  420 
Vivian,  586,  589 
Vixen,  104 
Volatile,  259 
Vol  an  Vent,  466 
I'olodyovski,  422,  531,  564, 

644,  660,  665,  673 
Voltaire,    211,     294,    308, 

315,  320,  321,  397,  437, 

448,  457,  5°5 

Voltigeur,    158,    290,    292, 
315,  316,  321,  385,  409, 

4'7.  433.  437.  4^4.  467. 

468,  483,  489,  504,  505, 

506,  507,  508,  509,  522 
Volunteer,   146,    212,    321, 

332,  382,  444 
Volunteer  Colt,  376 
Voluptuary,  531,  607,  672 
Vonolel,  702 


Wakeful,  657 

Wallace,     134,    515,    517, 

532 

Walnut,  359 

Walton,  293,  304,  320,420, 

449.  45° 

Wanderer,  552,  608 
H-"rt#/0«,  129,  134 
Warde' s  Arabian,  264 
War  Eagle,  322 
I  K<z?£VYzj'£,  673,  706 
Warlock,    123,   404,    468, 

483.  6i7 

U  "arlock  Galloway,  206 
I^a/-/,  112,  190 
Washington,  628 
Wastell  Turk,  168 
Water  Nymph,  564 

I  Vatershed,  673 

Waxy,  166,  258,  288,  291, 
292,  294,  311,  312,  314, 
317,  366,  372,  384,  417, 

430.  443.  578 
Waxy  Pope,  155,  266,  313 
Il'au'/,  170 
Weatherbit,  166,  211,  308, 

311,  322,  465 

I 1  'eatherbound,  623 
Weathercock,  603 
Weathergage,      161,      420, 

464,  552,  618 


Weaver,  210 

M  >^,  281,  291,  313 

H  'elf are,  510 

Wenlock,  468 

ltV.tf  Australian,  62,  122, 
156,  157,  285,  2:,6,  316, 
404,  417,  420,  437,  474, 
475.  477.  480,  481,  483, 
55'.  567.  572 

Westminster,  404 

Whalebone,  130,  155,  166, 
223,  266,  281,  294,  311, 
313,  316,  317,  318,  363, 
418,  436,  457,  578,  614 

Wfeel  i/  Fortune,  155, 
518,  552,  554,  556,  560, 

574.  657.  7°° 
Whipper-in,  212,  629 
Whisk,  409 
irA»&r,     130.     155,    166, 

223,  281,  294,  311,  313, 

3'8,  363.  384.  446.  450, 

457 
fFAw&y,    166,    233,    288, 

294,  311,  313,  320,  436 
Whistle  Jacket,  166,    191, 

229,  270 
White  Barb,  145 
H-'AzVc  Buttocks,  108 
H-'Az'te  />am?,  36 
White  D'Arcy  Turk,  118 
Whitefoot,  49,  98,  99,  124 
Whitefriar,  636 
White     Legged     Ijrwthcr 

Barb,  123,  265 
Whitelock,  284,  320 
Whitetieck,  132,  165 
Whitenose,  134,  170,  190 
IFAzVe  Tempest,  36 
JW/l?  7W/&,  134 
Whittington,  204 
Whizgig,  292 
Why-do-you-slight-me,  208 
H^Ay  .Vctf,   95,    107,    127, 

608,  609 

Wildair,  263,  438 
Wild  Dayrell,    122,    294, 

295.  296,  3'6,  417.  475. 
483.  57° 

\Vildfowler,  157,  616,  662 
H'V/rf  Huntress,  660 
M-V/rf  ftzfr,  570,  572 
William,  486 
William  Kufus,  698 
William   the    Third,  428, 

543,  641,  649,  656,  665, 

671,  673,  680,  695 
Willoiighby,  601 
Windgall,  639 
Windham,    75,     118,    119, 

I2O,    122 

Windhound,  157,  288,  479, 

572 

W»'»^p,  395 
1 1  'inifreda,  4,  5 


Winkfield,  296,  468,  654 
I  Vinkfield  's  Pride,  550 
Wisdom,  122,  157,  433 
(Fz'je  A/nn,  569 
Witching  Hour,  613 
',  198 

Gelding,  202 
Woful,  155,  281,  289,  313, 
420 


Wolfs  Crag,  654 
IP'o/jg',  514 
lF0«<fer,  357 
Woodbrook,  607 
IKftttfo*^,    77,    108,     134, 

137,  140,  325 
Woodpecker,   155,  262,  286, 

288,  295,  436,  438 
\Voodstock   Arabian,    134, 

166 

Wormwood,  75 
lI'orMv,  313 
Worthy  Gelding,  364 
Wyndham,  129,  165 


Xaintrailles,  566,  632 
AY,  628 
A"a>T,  314 


Yedmine,  164 
Yellow  Jack,  165 
Yorkshire  Mare,  118,  132 
Young  Bald  Peg,  133 
Young  Cade,  311,  326 
Young  Cartouche,  146,  213 
Young  Dragon,  128 
Young  Eclipse,   311,    331, 

384 

Young  Flora,  292,  355 
Young  Giantess,  233 
Young  Lamp rie,  202 
Voting  Mark  Antony,  36 
Young  Marsk,  218 
Young  Melbourne,  285 
Young  Traveller,  336 
Young  Wizard,  385 


'/.ephyr,  670 

'/.erbino,  312 

7,hatour,  108 

Zz»c,  155,  384 

'/.infandel,   477,  659,    696. 

697 

'/.inganee,  395,  449,  551 
'/.oedone,  607 
/.ouave,  604 


Vol.  II.  begins  with  p.  225.     Vol.  III.  begins  with  p.  465. 


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