FAMOUS RACING STUDS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS. 



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the young Oxford bloods of nearly fifty years ago to pay a visit to Letcombe Regis, 

 but they rarely got a glimpse of the crack they came to see, and the traditions of 

 " old Parr's " tea-dealing, training, and riding are not dead yet in the village which 

 is scarcely two miles from my father's house in Wantage, beneath the windy pastures 

 of the Vale of the White Horse. At Letcombe Regis are the stables of J. Hornsby, 

 where Carabine was trained in 1902, when he won the Chester Cup, and found, next 

 year, that the climate of India did not suit him so well as the Berkshire Downs. In 

 July, 1903, Decave, too, showed that the Kendal blood in his dam had served him 

 well. C. Morton trains also at Letcombe, and won ,13,305 in 1903 with twelve 

 winners, of whom Our Lassie, Sundridge, His Lordship, Kilcheran, and Inishfree 



By permission of Mr. Calvert. 



The Cambridgeshire 0/1896. 

 i. " Winkfield's Pride!" 2. " Yorker." 

 3. " Laodamia." 4. " Chitchat.'" 



did best. He began the season of 1904 with twenty-seven two-year-olds in the 

 stable. Then at Ilsley there are J. East, P. Lowe with Over Norton, and C. Peck 

 with Week End, Sundorne, and Bate he lot's Button. At Lambourne is H. Bates, 

 J. Sergeant with Flamenco, and J. Chandler with Lord Falmouth's Fiancee and 

 Quintessence. A. Clement trains for an American owner in the same district. There 

 are many more besides these on the Downs which have been consecrated to training 

 by the White Horse carved upon their crest; and nearer Wantage, itself the birth- 

 place of Alfred the Great, are the stables of E. Robson, from which came Hi^/icr 

 Up, Medina, Miss Archer, and Winnipeg. From him R. S. Sievier bought Bobsie, 

 who turned out afterwards to be a brilliant steeplechaser, and was entered for the 

 Grand National of 1904. 



It was to Mr. Naylor that Tom Parr sold Isoline, and in his colours that she 



