678 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



when he was asked to give iclb. to Raeburn in the Lancashire Plate. His 

 eleven victories were 



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1892. T\vo-Year-Old Plate ' 196 j 1894. Princess of Wales's Stakes 10,911 



., New Stakes, Ascot ... 2,006 j Eclipse Stakes ... 9,285 



Middle Park Plate ... 2,375 



1893. Two Thousand Guineas ... ... 4,250 



Newmarket Stakes ... ... ... 3,795 



,, Derby 5,515 



St. Leger ... 5,300 



Jockey Club Stakes... 11,302 



1895. Gold Cup, Ascot ... 2,520 



Total ... ,57,455 



It was indeed hard luck on Mr. C. D. Rose that his Ravensbury should have 

 been born in the same year, apparently for the sole purpose of running second 

 invariably to the bay colt by Isonomy out of Deadlock, a mare who was bought by 

 Captain Machell for nineteen sovereigns from the late Lord Alington, sold once more 

 by him, until the value of her colt, Gervas, was discovered, and most luckily got 

 back again out of a farmer's light cart in exchange for a colt by Marvellous. She 

 was sold to Mr. McCalmont with Islington at foot for ,500, and her next foal 

 was Isinglass. Lord Alington 's only consolation must have been that it was by 

 Captain Machell's advice that Fusee had been sent to Hermit, with the result of 

 St. Blaise. 



It took a long time for Newmarket, and the rest of the world, to appreciate 

 how good Isinglass was, because, like many another of the very best, he was very 

 lazy by temperament, and not only objected to home gallops, but even to making 

 his own running in a race. Even for the Princess of Wales's Stakes he actually 

 went to the post a less fancied chance than Ravensbury, and 9 to i could be got 

 about him, says Mr. Sydenham Dixon. Some time afterwards Colonel McCalmont 

 said to Mr. John Corlett : "You were the first man I ever heard say he would 

 win the Derby. Come over to the coach, and we will celebrate it." And away they 

 went. 



The racing world has rarely felt so sudden and so deep a shock as when the 

 news came that Harry McCalmont had died with appalling suddenness, by heart 

 failure, just as he was leaving the hall of his house in St. James's Square, at the 

 early age of forty-one. Born on the day when Kettledrum won the Derby, he 

 seemed destined early to success in sport, and the large fortune he inherited enabled 

 him to give his instincts full play. He stroked the Eton eight at Henley in 1880, 

 and rowed in the Kingston crew for the Grand Challenge. Like many another 

 lover of horses he was an enthusiastic yachtsman, and his "Giralda" was sold to 



