SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



Doncaster in 1865 she was, with See Saw at foot, 

 sold to Mr. Richard Bell — for years manager of the 

 Cobham Park Stud — for 55 gs. He afterwards sold 

 her to the elder Mr. W. Blenkiron for 950 gs., 

 when she was carrying Crinon, who made 1800 gs. 

 as a yearling. At the dispersal of the Middle Park 

 Stud, consequent on Mr. Blenkiron's death, the 

 Cobham Company, in July 1872, gave 1200 gs. 

 for the mare, while her Blair Athol foal realised 500. 

 Apart from See Saw she threw Dunbar and Ecossais, 

 the latter of whom had not run at the time of her 

 sale. He was an extraordinary horse, winning his 

 three juvenile engagements — one the New Stakes at 

 Ascot — and then going, next season, so completely 

 to the bad that he was made a present to his trainer, 

 old Tom Jennings. Tom promptly had him " cut " 

 (this was in 1874) and did not race him till 1876, 

 when at 71b. he beat Trappist at Windsor. That 

 was in August, and in October at 1 5 lbs. he cantered 

 away from Lowlander, later carrying 11 st. 3 lbs. 

 successfully in a Flying Welter, giving some of the 

 runners 4 st. ! All courses were alike to Ecossais, 

 and he was — when well and backed — indifferent to 

 weight. Old Tom Jennings told me that he had never 

 tried a two-year-old so highly as he had Ecossais — 

 a fact that caused him to start an odds on chance 

 for the New Stakes, which he won by half a dozen 



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