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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



winner, and once the St. Leger and Oaks winner of 1902. Colonel McCalmont's 

 light blue and scarlet quartered jacket, white cap, was first registered in 1888, and 

 he began well by winning at Ascot with Timothy, bought from " Mr. Manton " 

 for 4,000 guineas. Four years afterwards Isinglass appeared in a Maiden Plate 

 at the Newmarket Second Spring Meeting, "a smart plater," as he was then 

 modestly called by James Jewitt, with whom Colonel McCalmont trained until his 

 retirement from ill health brought in Captain Beatty. The excitement when Isinglass 

 won the Eclipse Stakes of 1894 will not easily be forgotten, nor will so valuable 

 a field of seven as that which contained him, Ladas, Ravensbury, Raeburn, and 

 Throstle often be seen again. After that, 1902 was Colonel McCalmont's next 



best season, and in the 

 i 



last year of his life the 



victories of Rising Glass, 

 St. Maclon, and others 

 brought his stakes up 

 to ^18,114, which was 

 better than Sir Blundell 

 Maple, and only beaten 

 by Sceptres owner. No 

 doubt St. Maclou and 

 William the Third wre 

 the best four-year-olds 

 of their day in training. 

 Isinglass, too, did equally 

 well for him at the stud, 

 for it was only by St. Simon and Persimmon that his figures of ,27,826 were 

 beaten in the list of winning sires in 1902, and that good stallion's record at 

 Cheveley Stud contained such winners as Vain Duchess, Veles, Star Shoot, Sweet 

 Sounds, Glass Jiig, Rising Glass, Glasalt, The Scribe, and John o Gaunt. Lord 

 Howard de Walden made a capital beginning to a promising racing career by 

 securing some wise purchases from the McCalmont stud and training them with 

 Captain Beatty. 



Very little less than a year after Harry McCalmont passed away, died Prince 

 Soltykoff, a man known far longer at Newmarket, who never achieved anything 

 like his younger rival's successes, but who never failed for want of trying. Born 



By permission of" Country Life." 



^ Ravensbury^ 



