68 The Life of Fred Archer 
as to how they might best be prepared to meet their engage- 
ments. 
The popular colours were first enrolled in the Racing 
Calendar in i860, when " Mr. T. Valentine's " Silverhair 
(purchased as a yearling at Middle Park) won the Great 
Northern Handicap at Ripon, ridden by Egerton, In 1862, 
Queen Bertha made her debut and won a great stake at New- 
market, and in the following year she won for Lord Falmouth 
his first Oaks, ridden by Aldcroft, after an extraordinary race 
with Manifold and Vivid. She also took the Ascot Triennial, 
but was second to Lord Clifden for the St. Leger. In 1864, 
Lord Falmouth threw off his nom de guerre, and in that year was 
elected a member of the Jockey Club. 
On the whole, his luck was provoking until he placed his 
horses under the care of Mathew Dawson. A great friendship, 
and even affection, sprang up between the pair, which lasted to 
the end of their Uves. Meanwhile we find Lord Falmouth in 
1869, with Kingcraft as a two-year-old (he won the Derby in 
1870), winning six races with 3,765 sovereigns, including the 
Chesterfield Stakes, at the July meeting. With these suc- 
cesses, and with those of StromboH, Gertrude, Atlantis, Lady 
Betty, Nightjar, etc., the Magpie colours soon became well 
known. This was the time when Fred Webb first distinguished 
himself as a jockey. Mathew Dawson was perhaps less success- 
ful for Mr. Naylor than for his other patrons. 
Archer first sported silk at headquarters at the Second 
October Meeting in Cherie's Cesarewitch week in a handicap 
plate. He had the mount on Honoria, but the mare was merely 
started to give Archer practice and make the running for Fred 
Webb, the stable's leading lightweight, on Lord Falmouth's 
Stromboli, a King Tom colt out of Hurricane, who won the 
race. The coming luminary finished ingloriously last. 
About this time William Archer visited Newmarket to see 
how his little boy was getting on, and he took Fred to the sale 
of Mr. Naylor's horses. Mrs. Willins, of Gorgate Hall, East 
