SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



Chisel in the final, won the Beech Farm Stakes 

 and the cup added thereto by the president. In 

 January, 1905, a one-day meeting was held over 

 the same ground and was well supported locally, 

 Mr. Edgar Smith winning two stakes with Stump 

 Speech and Scholastic. In December of the 

 same year a much more important programme 

 was framed, a full card of two 32 and two 1 6-dog 

 stakes rewarding Mr. Cook's efforts. The Ben- 

 acre Hall Stakes and the cup presented by the 

 town of Lowestoft were won by Mr. Death's 

 Dutch Defence, who beat Mr. M. G. Hale's 

 Happy Remedy in the final. Four puppies shared 

 in the division of the Hall Farm Stakes, two of 

 them, Staff Surgeon and Sixes and Sevens, belong- 

 ing to Mr. Edgar Smith, the other two being 

 Mr. Death's Diamonds Declared and Mr. Tighe's 

 Top Hole. Mr. Smith's superior claims were 

 recognized, and he took the cup which the club 

 added to the stake. The Covehithe Stakes were 

 divided by Mr. Mann's Black Earl and the hon. 

 secretary's Calid, the former taking the cup given 

 by Sir Thomas Gooch. Mr. Cook was again to 

 the fore in the Beech Farm Stakes, winning 

 Mr. J. S. Sterry's Cup with his useful dog Cabman, 

 who beat Mr. Tubby 's Rare Talker in the final. 

 Game was plentiful, the going was good, and the 

 beating and all arrangements connected with the 

 meeting exceedingly well carried out. 



The county claims many coursers whose grey- 

 hounds have made their mark at the principal 

 meetings in England. So long ago as 1838 the 

 late Earl of Stradbroke won the Altcar Stakes, 

 then run at the same meeting as the Waterloo 

 Cup, with a dog named Madman, repeated the 

 performance in 1840 with Marquess, and again 

 in 1842 with Minerva, winning the Waterloo 

 Purse with Magna the same year. Newmarket 

 and Swaffham were perhaps the meetings he 

 chiefly patronized, but he ran dogs at Ashdown 

 in 1841 with conspicuous success, winning the 

 Cup with Musquito, the Craven Stakes with 

 Minerva, and two smaller stakes. In 1842 

 his Magdalen won the Swaffham Cup, Mango 

 ran up for the Champion Puppy Stakes at New- 

 market, and Minerva won the All-aged Stake 

 there. 



The following year Mintman won the Swaff- 

 ham Derby, and the Port Stakes at Newmarket 

 in 1845. The kennel was in great form at 

 Newmarket in 1846, winning the Derby with 

 Mentor, the Cup with Manse, and the Port 

 Stakes with Mac. Three years later Lord Strad- 

 broke almost repeated this performance, winning 

 the Derby with Merchant, the Oaks with 

 Manto, and the Port Stakes with Mary. 



Merchant, Merrymaid, and Midnight in the 

 following years maintained the prestige of the 

 kennel. In 1857 Lord Stradbroke won three 

 stakes at Newmarket with Miranda, Mahomet, 

 and Mischief respectively ; Mischief in a previous 

 season had divided the Champion Puppy Stakes. 



In those earlier days matches were greatly in 



vogue and Lord Stradbroke was conspicuously 

 successful even against such opponents as Mr. 

 Dobede, Mr. Fyson, and Captain Daintre. 



The present earl keeps a few greyhounds, and 

 each year holds at Hen ham a Tenants' Meeting, 

 at which he acts as judge. The late Duke of 

 Hamilton was the possessor of a useful kennel of 

 greyhounds in the seventies. In 1877 Huron 

 ran into the last four of the Waterloo Cup, and 

 the following year occupied a like position in the 

 Purse. In 1878 High Seal ran up for the Ash- 

 down Oaks, and the duke was highly successful 

 later in the season at Newmarket, dividing the 

 Champion Puppy Stakes with High Seal (beating 

 Misterton), the All-aged Stakes with Bluebeard, 

 and the Chippenham Stakes with Hawkshaw 

 Belle. Harpsichord, High Pearl, and Hughie also 

 ran with credit. A contemporary of the Duke 

 of Hamilton was Mr. T. P. Hale, who inherited 

 a love of the sport from his father. Mr. Hale 

 started a kennel in 1872 ; Babety, out of the 

 celebrated bitch, Bab at the Bowster, crediting 

 him with perhaps his earliest success, by winning 

 the Cheveley Stakes at Newmarket in 1873. 

 For a few years no great success attended him, 

 but in 1879 Heligoland divided the South of 

 England Stakes at Plumpton. In 1882 Hoffman 

 divided the Produce Stakes at the South of Eng- 

 land Meeting at Amesbury, Hunooman the 

 following year dividing the Cheveley Stakes at 

 Newark, Hussey dividing the Southminster 

 Oaks in 1884. Hippia, Huntingdon, Heart of 

 Oak, and High and Mighty, were successful in 

 succeeding years. Hemstitch in 1888 divided 

 the Produce Stakes at the South of England 

 Meeting at Stockbridge, a smart bitch out of a 

 still smarter dam, Stitch-in-Time; Head Mourner, 

 High Light, and High Tone, were also credited 

 with winning brackets. Horizon won the 

 Produce Stakes at Newmarket, and also at Wye 

 in 1890, and Hardy Born in 1891 divided the 

 Produce Stakes at Stockbridge. Handkerchief, 

 out of Mr. Hale's old favourite, Hemstitch, in 

 1892, divided the Produce Stakes at Amesbury, 

 the Produce Stakes at Southminster, and the 

 Champion Puppy Stakes at Newmarket ; whilst 

 Hardy Born won the Craven Challenge Cup at 

 Amesbury, and Haverhill Lass, another daughter 

 of Hemstitch, ran up for the Produce Stakes at 

 Stockbridge. The following year Handkerchief 

 divided at Newmarket and at Stokesby. High 

 Wind, Hair Restorer, and Hailsworth also won 

 stakes for the kennel. Since about the year 

 1880 Mr. M. G. Hale has had his kennel at 

 Claydon, and perhaps no one in the county has 

 made a bolder bid for Waterloo honours than he. 

 In 1886 Happy Omen divided the Waterloo 

 Plate. In 1894 Happy Relic divided the Purse, 

 and three years later Happy Sight also divided 

 the Purse, whilst Happy Sammy at the same 

 meeting won three courses in the Waterloo Cup, 

 being beaten by Five-by-Tricks in a desperately 

 near trial ; in 1889 Happy Rondelle, another 



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