LORD FALMOUTH 



Arclier pretty well all he knew, and I was always 

 a bit too good for him." This was a trifle start- 

 ling, so I asked him if he had ever ridden against 

 Fordham. " Oh yes, sir, and I could always beat 

 him," was the immediate reply, after which it 

 appeared to me that there was nothing more to be 

 said, and I could only marvel at this fresh and 

 remarkable instance of how little the world knows 

 of its greatest men ! 



The story of the time when Lord Falmouth 

 raced under the name of " JNIr. T. Valentine," and 

 his horses were trained by John Scott at Whitewall, 

 does not come within the period to which I have 

 confined myself. His first classic winner was 

 Queen Bertha, who brought off a 40 to 1 chance in 

 the Oaks of 1863, and was second to Lord Clifden 

 in the St. Leger. The horses were transferred from 

 William Boyce, who had them for a short time after 

 the death of John Scott, to Matthew Dawson, 

 and the first real mark made by his new trainer 

 was with Kingcraft. He was by King Tom out 

 of Woodcraft, a medium -sized bay, with a white 

 near hind -heel. He was tried in the Spring 

 of 1869 with the two-year-olds Stephanotis and 

 Atlantis, and the five-year-old Festival, and won by 

 half a length. I have no idea of the respective 

 weights that were carried, but Kingcraft must have 

 accomplished something pretty good, for odds of 

 9 to 2 were laid on him when he made his first 

 appearance in public, which was in a Triennial at 

 Ascot, and there was much dismay when INIahonia, 

 a King Tom filly belonging to Baron Rothschild, 

 who was never quite in the first class, beat him by 

 a head. Later on, this race was brought forward 

 as an instance of his in-and-out running, but this 

 hardly seems fair, for he won his next six races off' 

 the reel, and probably owed his defeat to being new 



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