SOME EARLY VICTORIAN OWNERS. 



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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). 



