HERMIT AND ISINGLASS 



Marvellous. He was in a light cart, and the 

 animal in the shafts struck the Captain as being 

 an old friend, and he was not long in recog- 

 nising Deadlock. It was not very difficult to 

 obtain re-possession of her, as the farmer was 

 glad to exchange her for a fine cart colt by 

 Slarvellous. She was then put to Isonomy, and, 

 in the following year, sold to ^Ir. M'Calmont, 

 with Islington at foot, for £500. In 1889 her 

 new owner sent her back to Isonomy again, 

 and the produce was Isinglass. Years after- 

 wards, when the hero of the "triple crown" had 

 fully established his fame. Lord Alington laugh-, 

 ingly reproached Captain Machell with having 

 deprived him of a horse like Isinglass, saying, 

 " It was a nice thing to come to my place and 

 virtually take away a Derby winner for nine- 

 teen sovereigns " ; but the Captain reminded him 

 that, if he had cost him one Derby, he had 

 previously been the means of giving him another, 

 by persuading him to send Fusee to Hermit. 

 This is the Orlando and Newminster cross, which 

 has almost always proved successful, and the result 

 in this case was St. Blaise. 



Isinglass made a very modest debut in a 

 Maiden Plate over the Rous Course at the New- 

 market Second Spring. There were eleven runners, 

 and INIr. John Hammond booked the race as a 

 good thing for his Sweet Laura, a disappointing 

 filly by Petrarch out of INIacaria, whom he backed 

 very heavily. Meeting Captain Machell a few 

 minutes before the start, he asked, " Can yours 

 go ? " " Yes, he can a bit," was the reply, but, 

 unfortunately, JNIr. Hammond paid no attention 

 to the information, or he might have saved his 

 money at comparatively small cost, for 5 to 1 was 

 obtainable about Isinglass, who beat Sweet Laura 



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