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ENGLISH OFFICIAL AND BREEDER DIES. Was Popular and Member of the Noted Family Which Bred Blink Bonny and Blair Athol. one famous in connection with racing in Baglaad passed on when Mile- lAiison died in his home at Btingcrford House, Malton. Monday, February 13. The IAnson lamily has long been associated with the best phases of Bnglish racing and especially noted iii bsvlag bred many of the BMat celebrated horses id English tnrf history. In this country a sea of their grand brood aia re, Qaeeu Maiy founded a family thai is -till virile and iBSportsat. This borac was Bonnie Scotland, which is now best represented in our present breeding by Ben Brush. Delhi and Broossstlck. of the dead man and his family"- world famous Blink Bonny Stud. I»udou Snorting I ill said: The aaaar of IAassa is known and respected In snorting circle- throughout the length and breadth ■if the country, for he had been connected with the little northern sporting tosra of Msltoa for nearly Mvcniv rears oast. Not only baa the deceased and hi- "well known brother. William iAnson. the traiaer, done iii- beat oi late years to increase the raciag prestige of the town, but it may be said that, second only to Iota Sc.it. ii was to their father that tbe peal eilacnce to which sport in tin ncrth has attained, was essentially due. When the late Willi. in IAaaoa weal is Maltea in is40. Kcntl was having ii pretty much hi- own way in the north, hot he soon discovered thai in the dlaV cult ail of training he had found in William iAasaa an opponent "f no mean -kill. The history of old iju.cn afarj and Williain lAiison and his lucky association with the notable mare is so well known thai ii i- almost needle-- to reproduce it at length here, sufficient to ear that she laid the foundation of the PAneons fortunes, and which Caller iu. Mink Bonny. Blair Athol and others did so much to eahaaee. ■•.Miles IAassa was the fourth son of the late William IAnson, sad eras born at Boring Cottage. Norton, on Jane 1". 18SO, eery soon after the father hail hit Scotland for the good little northern radpg town, of • -i . Mile- himself could personally remember bill little ..f the earlier fame which cairn-tu his father la the Brat ami second decades of his residence in Maltoa. Be need readily to admit that Queen Msry, Caller Oa and Blink Bonny were but mere aaaaes to him until ho grew up. Be was only seven rears old when Blink Bonny won her sensational dual victory at BpSOaS, bat at an early age be gave evidence of the zeal and energy which he bad in lacing, and which has -inc.- marked him SS a breeder aad ■ model clerk of the coarse, la which dual rapacity deceased area for many years vary prominent. . "The raciag men ..f the fifties and sixties Rhea ncre of the late brothers Robert and Taaa IAasoo than they did Of William and Miles, and il was lierhsps not until the death -it" their father in 1W that the taro latter began to make their mark. The late William IAnson had twilight what is BOW knows ss the bIihk Bonn, breeding farm and the lllghneld estste the "id hosae of the notable Bill S..,ili: sud at bis death the stud farm wa- left to i Ml leu IAnson. and Hie training eatate at nightiebi to William hence Miles earliest experience in the I arorld ems a- a breeder. When the late William IAnaoal Stad wis -obi early In ISM, then w,-i iii ii - ■ very srealthy stock, sad ■ large ami influential I«hI .if turfites, as well a- the eti .■it 1 public assembled at the dispersal of tbe -tud. Inning tbe time William PAttSOU. Sf.. had been at Malini. short ■- it was, home bred hoi-es from Spring Cottsge had won tbe Derby and St. Legcr twice and tin Oak- ..nee: in addition to numerous caps, handicaps snd t*neen*s Plates; beace the iu- lesest taken in the -.•:• W Out of twenty two !,,ts saTarad, there were only ■ four ihat were not direct lineal descendants if Queen Msry. ami there «:■-. ,f eoarse, great competition for them, seven of the .1.1 mares descendant realizing what was then the ssndsome sverage of 47:: guimas. Perbaiw the most sensational Incident of the sal., however, was when The Pearl Caller mis haiid-Hiie daughter was led Into the rlag. The • evergreen Jobnn tJsborne astonlshad many at thsae • round with his bid of o ihhi guima- for lhe mar.-, but she was ■ favorite of Mr. Mil,-. and he would i i ,,t let kar go, topping Johaavs bid by l »i i guiucus, liiai Mr. Tattaraall knocked uer down to . i ■ • • i i . him. to the great satisfaction of the Maltou racing men. Caller On herself, although twenty-three years old al the time, brought 125 guineas, and the total sum realised at the sale was close ou 10.000 guineas. In the spring of lssl Mr. William IAnson took up his residence at Hightield and entered on that long career of successful training which lie continues up to the present. Mr. Miles IAnson followed his father at Hungerford Iloust . which he had pwr- chased from the executors of the yoefcap Charlton, who had built It for himself soon after his noted Victories on Blink Bonny. Willi Will CwtverS still tit ion for them, seven of the old males descendants in the land of the living i as bis right band man. Miles continued the Blink Bonny Stud and eminently well kept up its record, to which the saccessfal yearling sales at Doncastcr for mtiiv years bate testimony. With the near proximitv of the Highticlds training establishment the broth .is IAaaoa could manage tho dual business of breeding and racing with greater advantage, and the two establishments attained considerable no toriety in the next two decade-.. Prominently con-nected with the Blink Bonny Stud were the noted horses Beaticlere a great favorite of William F Ansons i . Bread Knife. Beiby. Keniiworth. Bos-psoras, Waterford. Ingoldsby. Pefros and others. Beauclere himself was bred at the Malton eatah lishiiient and fetched 1.05H guineas as a yearling; whilst Macaroaea, another yearling. mu ie 2. .".00 guineas. Lady Muncastcr. the dam of Speedwell, was another of note: her name, it will be remembered, figuring conapicaoaaly in the pedigree of Bayardo. Lady Mum-aster was by laoaaasy out Blue Light, a mare that not only did good duty at lliglitield. Imi als.i at the Blink Bonny Stud. Other g.H.d horses there were, but it is miner cssary to aaote further. Sufficient t. say that the deceased kept up tin- stud with tile same ablltiy :is shown by his late father, like whom he was determined to have none but the best in the establishment; and on this principle he continued until some four or five years ago. when declining health induced him to part from this part of his connection with the turf, and ho sold tin old place lo Sir John Thursby. who also subsequently took over tii Hightield training establishment, ami together these have made a perfect model tireedine and training estate, which is likely to keep up the sporting prestige of Malton for many years to come. "The exact date at which Mr. Mile- IAaaoa took up his duties of clerk of the eoarse we have not just now at hand, but his connection therewith arose through the declining 1 Ith of the late Mr. Rich.ir.l Johnson, one of the coolest and Ix-st racing officials who ever made a handicap or judged a race. At the beginning of his career in this department the deceased was sssodated with the late T. S. Daws. in. hi- brother-in law. "the son of the Pretender. as be was called, and the connection was kept up until Daw -on- death in lSXO. since which time he has been assisted by Mr. J. S. Atkinson, his nephew. "For fully thirty years the deceased has been prominent as clerk of the course, which has brought him into pleasant contact with racing men throughout the length ami breadth of Kuglaud. as well as over the border. He only held a lic-nso to act as clerk of the course and stakeholder, and a striking evidence of the efficiency with which he fulfilled those duties is proved by the number of meetings which he managed almost up to his death. Amongst these niav lie enumerated Gasferth Park. Dsaeaetsr. Bedcar, Think, Blpon. Pootefract, Catterkk Bridge. Beverley, fork, and Edinburgh. "Mr. Miles IAnson never married. Almost eve. since the death nf his father he lived nt Hunger ford House with his sister, the widow of the lata Mr. T. S. Atkinson Tin- man-ion is full of memories of the past on- an admirable painting of Blink Bonny, with Charlton up. by Harry Hnl1. which Mi. Mil.- great. y prized: a portrait of hail ton himself, and two ,.f Blink Boaaya kosfe. Do ceased also to tin last owned and greatly valued the old van which was need to convey Blink Bonny to Epsom to h.r great victories, when traveling fsclli-ties were less plentiful and luxurious than tlipy ire at the present day. His father. William r.ii-;i. himself gave tin -keietou ..f Blink Boaar, and the stirrup which Charlton lost when i idiiL- her tu rl tory in tin- Oaks, to the museum at York, where they an be seen al the preseat day. ""He liked to talk of the old times in Which 1 -father t.ok so prominent a part, and he readily ad mltted that hi- best information ••! those times wss derived from the veteran Mr. Sidinv Jacobs, who was closely connected with, and managed the affairs for hi- father in Hi" Blink Bonny days of the early fifths, and who wa- a perfect rade meciitn on sport. He it was who secured Charlton t . ride Blink Bonny for the Derby and Oaks, ids sen ice- tHiug available solely ..wing I., some unpleasantness between Charl ton "and Banm Rothschild. Thus Carltons meant on Blink Bodny nay be called a chance one. "A singular fact can lie recounted in connection with Blink Bonnys career. She was not really intended for the Derby In 185T. She w.i- brought from Malton to F.psom. suffering at that time greatly from teethlag troubles, and the stable had their money ..u her companion. Strathnaver, belong- tag to the" hit.- Mr. C. IIariis.ni: but when at Bp s Mr. IAnson. on the Monday before the race. galloped Blink Bonnv over the course with Btrsth asver. and a- she heal the latter cleverly, tbe asonej wa- at once put into lhe market, and the marc COO bequcutly CSSSe back from 40 to 1 tu 20 lo 1 taken al the start, whilst she left off just five points batter in demand than Strathnaver. The result is now hi-t uy. but Miles used to say that Mr. Sidney Jacobs was entitled to all the honors. "
