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and in 1828 The Colonel ran a dead heat with Cadland, but was beaten 

 in the decider. 



The Oaks he carried away with Cyprian in 1836, Industry 1838, 

 Ghuznee 1841, The Princess 1844, Iris 1851, Songstress 1852, 

 Marchioness 1855, and Queen Bertha 1863. 



The St. Leger seemed to be his prerogative during five-and-thirty 

 years, for he won it off the reel for Mr. Petre with Matilda in 1827, The 

 Colonel 1828, and Rowton 1829. Then followed I\[argrave 1832, 

 Touchstone 1834, Don John 1838, Charles XII. 1839 (after a dead 

 heat with Euclid), Launcelot 1840, Satirist 1841, The Baron 1845, 

 Newminster 1851, West Australian 1853, Warlock 1856, Imperieuse 

 1857, Gamester 1859, and The Marquis 1862, after a desperate race 

 with Buckstone, trained by Mat Dawson, referred to further on. 



In 1843 Cotherstone won the Guineas and Derby, as did Meteor and 

 Attila the year before ; West Australian in 1853 won for the first time 

 the treble event of the Two Thoui^and, Derby, and St. Leger. Scott's 

 own mare, Imperieuse, carried away the One Thousand and St. Leger 

 in 1857, and The Marquis in 1862 did the same with the Two Thousand 

 and Leger, while Hurricane won the One Thousand. In 1838, '41, and 

 '51, with separate horses, Scott won the Oaks and Leger, so he did the 

 Derby and Leger in '32 ; the Derby and Oaks in '52 ; the Guineas and 

 Leger in '56, and in '60 both the Guineas. A marvellous record was 

 this even if it ended there, but far from its doing so. 



Scott's fame was added to by the performances of such horses as 

 Velocipede, which was one of the best he ever trained. He was better 

 than The Colonel, and would have won the Leger in 1828 but for an 

 accident in the race, and thus would Whitewall have supplied the first 

 and second. With Toxophilite, Legerdemain, Prior of St. Margaret's, 

 Glaucus, Cardinal Puff, Backbiter, Epirus, Hetman Platoff, Grand 

 Inquisitor, Vandal, Vanity, The Spy, Elvina, Taraban, Madge 

 Wildfire, Nobleman, Ammonia, Tramp, Morgan Rattler, Hornsea, 

 Scroggins, Carew, Gladiator (the sire of Sweetmeat), also Queen Mary 

 (the dam of Blink Bonny and granddam of Caller Ou), and scores 

 of other cracks, Scott at times " played havoc among the classic cups '' 

 and swept them off the shelves of Ascot, Goodwood, and Doncaster 

 literally in chestfuls. In big Handicaps, particularly with the Great 

 Yorkshire Stakes over Knavesmire, near his home, he wrought wonders. 

 In two-year-old races he was equally formidable. 



Thus he won the classic races forty-one times in thirty-seven years. 



Many of the horses were rank outsiders, notably Touchstone, in 1834, 

 when he won the Leger, beating to fits Newmarket's Plenipotentiary, 

 whose attendant, William Martin, is alive and still swears that "Pleno." 

 was the best horse that ever ran a race ! 



Most of these feats were performed in days when there were no 

 railways by w^hich in comfortable boxes he could transport in a few 

 hours his horses from the centre of Yorkshire to that of Cambridge, 

 Surrey and Sussex. To these far-off shires to fulfil their engagements 



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