' SCEPTRE' WINS!" 



677 



that was on the lungs. Captain Machell did not win very largely over the 



race, though he repeatedly begged Lord Hastings to hedge the enormous sums 



that reckless nobleman stood to lose, and Hermit, ^\f\\om he always considered 



delicate and difficult to train, was his favourite up to that time ; but he thought 



Blinkhoolie his best stayer, and Sir Joseph Hawley considered Vespasian the 



fastest he had ever seen. He trained for the late Lord Lonsdale, the late Lord 



Aylesford, the late Duke of Beaufort, Sir Charles Legard, General Owen Williams, 



Mr. J. B. Leigh, Sir John Willoughby, Mr. Warren de la Rue, Lord Rodney, 



Mr. C. F. Blake, the Duchess of 



Montrose (Mr. Manton), and others. 



Timothy had been often beaten in the 



scarlet jacket ; but when the Captain 



bought him for Mr. McCalmont, he 



almost immediately landed the Gold 



Cup and the Alexandra Plate at 



Ascot. The Duchess of Montrose 



naturally felt this was bad luck, 



and she was heard to murmur, as 



she approached the weighing-room : 



" Two important races, and I 

 haven't won a penny ! They may 

 go scot-free here, but One Above 

 will surely punish them ! " \Vhen 

 he had had control of Colonel 

 McCalmont's horses, Captain Machell 

 could boast of having secured all the 

 classic races in his time, among them 

 the Two and One Thousand victories of Pilgrimage, Harvesters dead heat with 

 St. Gatien, Kilwarliris St. Leger, Seabreeze's St. Leger and Oaks, besides four 

 Grand Nationals with Disturbance, Reugny, Regal, and Seaman, and scores of 

 handicaps. 



From 1864 to his death Captain Machell won 540 races worth _iio,oio in his 

 own name ; but it was of course with Isinglass that his greatest successes were 

 associated ; and as the wonderful record of this splendid horse has never been 



beaten, it may well be tabulated here. He ran twelve times, and only once failed, 



VOL. III. G G 



liv permission of Sir 

 ' F. Astley Carbctl. 



Sir John Aslley <w 'Drumhead " 

 (6yrs., i6st. 616.) 



