356 KIXGSCLERE 



Mr. Merry's Folkestone in the Triennial Produce Stakes 

 at the Newmarket First October, and afterwards won the 

 Criterion and the Glasgow Stakes at the Newmarket 

 Houghton. As a three-year-old he ran third to Diophantus 

 and Kettledrum in the Two Thousand Guineas, and fifth in 

 the Derby. The horse was despatched by the twelve o'clock 

 train from King's Cross to Malton on June 18, 1 86 1, and, the 

 train taking fire between Retford and Bawtry, was literally 

 roasted to death in his van. Klarikoff was the only horse in 

 the van, but the fire destroyed Mr. and Mrs. John Scott's 

 wearing apparel, with many handsome presents of jewellery 

 from stable patrons of Mr. Scott, and the whole of William 

 Boyce's wardrobe, as well as 60/. in notes belonging to 

 him. Lord St. Vincent had purchased a half-share of 

 Klarikoff from Mr. Henry on the Saturday before the 

 Derby, with half the horse's engagements, for 5,000 guineas. 



THE VANNING OF ELIS FROM GOODWOOD TO DONCASTER" 



The conveyance of Elis to fulfil his engagement in the 

 St. Leger in a van from Goodwood Park to Doncaster, in 

 the year 1836, is described with a circumstantiality which 

 the importance, not to say the daring, of the experiment 

 warrants in the ' Racing Life of Lord George Ben thick/ 

 by John Kent, edited by the Hon. Francis Lawley. In 

 perusing, possibly not without a smile at the elaborate 

 nature of the preparation for the expedition and the secret 

 precautions taken, it should be remembered that horses 

 were previously to that period walked from town to 

 town to fulfil their engagements, and their presumed 

 ability (or not) to compass journey and race had a weighty 

 influence on the betting markets, especially in respect of 

 the big events. John Kent says : ' His lordship exercised 

 his active and ingenious mind in giving effect to an idea 

 that race-horses might be conveyed in a sort of van which 

 would preserve them from the risk and fatigue, to say 

 nothing of the delays, inseparable from travelling on foot 

 from place to place. This idea he expounded to my father, 

 who thought there would not be much difficulty in 

 accomplishing it, as he remembered a horse called 

 Sovereign, belonging to Mr. Terrett, having been conveyed 

 in a bullock-van from Worcestershire to Newmarket. As 



