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State considerations, which, by natural instinct in him, stood secondary 

 to sport. In about 1841 he sent his horses to Whitewall, where they 

 continued for the remainder of his racing career, which practically 

 ended in 1863, some six years before his death. During that time Lord 

 Derby had under Scott's care a total of nearly 250horses, and won in stakes 

 nearly £95,000 — a big record then, but it would now be for the same races 

 something like three times the amount. A lot of the Knowsley bred 

 horses, and those Lord Derby purchased, were of little use, so that with 

 the exception of one Oaks, one Two Thousand, one Doncaster Cup, 

 two One Thousands, and two Goodwood Cups, the Knowsley " black 

 jacket and white cap " fluttered in front in great races very seldom 

 when compared with the " all black " of Streatlam. It was in two 

 year old and minor races that Scott won for the " Rupert of Debate " 

 the most of this stake-money. 



^Memorable Races. — A memorable race was the Leger of 1S51, when 

 Scott saddled Newminster to represent the North, and Alec Taylor, 

 who died last winter, stripped Aphrodite, then the joint property of 

 Sir Joseph Hawley and Mr. Massey Stanley, to do battle for the South. 

 A great race it was between the two, for, coming away from the other 

 fourteen starters, the future sire of Hermit beat the Fyfield crack, and 

 thereby caused tens of thousands to be lodged in Yorkshire banks to 

 the credit of the followers of Whitewall. 



In the Derby of 1836, in a field of twenty-one, Scott ran second to 

 Bay Middleton with Lord Wilton's Gladiator, his brother Bill riding 

 and the next two horses were Venison and Slave. Referring to these 

 four horses in their position in the Stud Book, Mr. Lawley, in one of 

 his sporting reminiscences, says of this race that, " In the long and 

 splendid history of England's greatest race no such four horses were 

 ever placed for it as Bay Middleton, sire of The Flying Dutchman, 

 Andover, and Aphrodite ; Gladiator, sire of Sweetmeat and Miss 

 Sarah ; Venison, sire of Alarm, Miami, and Ugly Buck ; and Slave, 

 sire of Sting, Merry Monarch, and The Princess. It may also be 

 remarked that each of the placed horses for the Derby of 1836 were the 

 sires of animals that could stay for any distance — e.g., The Flying 

 Dutchman, Sweetmeat, Alarm, and Subduer." 



Bill Scott and John's Children. — Writing of Bill Scott, at p. 388, 

 I should have added that he won the Two Thousand in 1842, on Mr. 

 Bowes' Meteor, and the next year also on that gentleman's Cotherstone, 

 while in 1846 his own horse, Sir Tatton Sykes, carried him to victory 



John Scott, by his first marriage, left a son and two daughters, but 

 there was no issue by the second marriage. 



Mr. Naylor — Correction. — By a slip of the pen, or the print, a mis- 

 take has been made in the table at p. 392. It was Mr. R. C. Xaylor, 

 as is mentioned in the text, and not Mr. Bowes, who bought StockwelJ. 



