LORD FALMOUTH 



one or two who are now living, but it is extremely 

 doubtful if it will ever become public property. 

 It is certainly the very general impression that he 

 ought to have won, and the unpleasant rumours 

 connected with the race probably had a good deal 

 to do with Lord Falmouth's decision to retire from 

 the Turf. The colt had a great week at Ascot, 

 where he swept off the Prince of Wales's Stakes, 

 the St. James's Palace Stakes, and a Triennial. In 

 an ordinary way three gallops at Ascot Avould be 

 quite sufficient to account for a horse never running 

 again, but I am assured that Galliard showed no 

 signs of giving way in his preparation for the St. 

 Leger, and the reason of his withdrawal from that 

 race is a mystery. 



Lord Falmouth possessed a couple of very 

 smart two-year-olds in 1883 in Busybody, a bay 

 filly by Petrarch out of Spinaway, and Harvester, 

 a brown colt by Sterling out of Wheatear. The 

 former, indeed, was something quite out of the 

 common, as was discovered the first time she was 

 tried. She was looked after at that time by a lad 

 named Smith, who was extremely anxious to ride 

 her in this trial, and managed to dodge being 

 weighed out, saying that he knew he was 7 st. 

 9 lb. There were several in the gallop, in which 

 Busybody finished first and Harvester second, and 

 when all Smith's efforts to escape being weighed 

 in proved fruitless, it was discovered that he was 

 really 8 st. 4 lb., so that Busybody was giving 9 lb. 

 to her stable companion, and, as she beat him by a 

 length and a half, must have been fully 14 lb. in 

 front of him. The subsequent performances of the 

 pair quite bore out the correctness of this estimate. 

 Harvester won a Triennial Produce Stakes at the 

 First October Meeting and the Clearwell Stakes a 

 fortnight later, but he was beaten in his four other 



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