SOME EARLY VICTORIAN OWNERS. 



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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). 



