A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



St. Legers, three One Thousand and three Two Thousand Guineas, the Champion 

 and the Great Challenge Stakes, all trained and ridden by the donors. The 

 trophy did high credit to all three, and Lord Falmouth's winning record from 

 1872 to 1883 was extraordinary for the days before the "ten thousand-pounders." 



He averaged ,18,000 a year in stakes, 

 and his ^"38,000 for 1878 was then 

 the largest total credited to any single 

 owner. His best horses were Queens 

 Messenger, Atlantic, Cecilia, Qiieen 

 Bertha, about whom he made his only 

 bet of sixpence, Spinaway, Silvio, 

 Wheel of Fortune, the fastest thorough- 

 bred he ever owned, Dutch Oven, and 

 Harvester, who was sold with the rest 

 of his stud, and ran a dead heat for 

 Sir J. Willoughby with St. Gatien for 

 the Derby, while Mr. S. Baird bought 

 Busybody, and scored the One Thousand 

 and the Oaks with her. The sale 

 reached the total of 110,000 guineas, 

 without counting contingencies on races 

 for which the various animals had been 

 entered by Lord Falmouth. He was a 

 splendid example of the man who loves 



racing for its own sake, who was able to afford to race without betting, and who 

 exhibited in his favourite sport those sterling characteristics of an honourable and 

 scholarly life which endeared him to his friends and will ever preserve his memory 

 among his countrymen. 



By permission of" Country Life" 



Lord Falmouth. 



