Major-General Sir Hugh McCalmont 



The next year he again won the race on Captain Cleland's 

 Rocket, and at the same meeting, the Regimental Steeplechase 

 for the Hon. E, Preston. He also won the Adelaide Plate at 

 Baldoyle, on Physician, belonging to himself. 



In 1869 he won the 9th Lancers Handicap Steeplechase on 

 his own mare, Bicycle. 



In 1 87 1 Captain McCalmont, who had a year previously 

 exchanged into the 7th Hussars, won, in addition to others, his 

 most important race, viz. the Conyngham Cup, at Punchestown, 

 on Garde Civique, belonging to that veteran sportsman, Mr. 

 Alan McDonough. 



1872 was also a good year for him, as besides the Grand 

 Military at Punchestown, and several other races on Bel 

 Espoir, belonging to Captain I. McCalmont, he won the 

 7th Hussars Regimental Challenge Cup on his own mare, 

 Bayleaf ; on Lord Rossmore's Milanaise, at Hendon Park, and 

 the Aldershot Cup on Eskadale. He was second another year 

 for the Grand Military at Punchestown on Lady Gwynne ; and 

 for the Light-weight Military on Little Esther. 



During the next ten years, being on active service abroad 

 with his regiment, except some flat races and steeplechases in 

 Natal, several of which he won, Captain McCalmont had no 

 opportunity of sporting silk. 



In those days, matches were much more in vogue than is 

 the case nowadays, and in several of these Captain McCalmont 

 figured with success. One of these was in 1873, when, on a 

 mare named Mandoline, belonging to himself, he beat Mr. St. 

 James ("The Limb"), on Rebecca, over the Punchestown course. 

 Mandoline, bought by him out of a threshing machine for 

 ^45, is described by Sir Hugh as the best and fastest mare he 

 ever owned. A brilliant steeplechaser, the mare won a big 

 handicap in addition to the match just mentioned. 



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