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FAMOUS ENGLISH FAMILY OF TRAINERS Tin Taylor family lioasls a ioil record In turf history ami ouc wonders why It is that no written chronicle oxists of its remarkable triumphs but iiiitliur grandfather Tom Taylor who trained for Lord Chesterfield the magnificent nor old Alee was that way Inclined and young Alee is of far too retiring a character to Indulge in any such ven ¬ ture The walls of Mantou house arc covered with ItleluiTs of famous racers and sportsmen which tell tjiolr own tale and 1 doubt if any establishment can boast a more interesting collection A long story might be written around the portraits of such famous patrons as Lord Ailcslmry Mr George Payne Mr Stirlin Orawfurd the Duke of Iteau fort Sir Joseph Uawley and Mr J N Astley of whom the last was one of the tirst It says much for employer and employee that Alec Taylor and his SHI trained for him through an unbroken period of fifty years during which time he was never without a race horse though no classic success fell to the share of the drab jacket and blue cap near as was the approach to it when Pell Mell ran Cremorne to a head for the Derby It was the famous exhibition year of 1S31 that Alec senior then a young man of twentyseven made his first classic hit with Ted dington in the Derby An enormous coup was land ¬ ed over Teildlngton wliich had been extraordinarily well tried with Aphrodite The Han Clincher and other In the presence of Sir Joseph and his friend Sir John Stanley indeed it was such a surprising performance on the part of the sou of Orlando that Ills owner cunlil not believe what he had seen and actually wanted to try him again the same day but the trainer demurred and after some trouble uer suaded him to postpone the ordeal until the following day when the result was the same Hidden by Marson he started at 2 to 1 and won easily to the consternation of the leviathan bookmaker Davies who plainly told Sir Joseph that the money would be paid supposing the victory was not supplemented by that of Aphrodite in the Oaks and she did not run in consequence ISreba took her place and was favorite at 0 to 4 but proved a poor substitute but that Aphrodite could have won may be assumed for she ran second to Newminster in the Lexer in wliich Teddinglon found a place and on the con eluding stage of the meeting she won the Doiieastor Stakes and the Park Hill Stakes StakesThat That was a great week for the stable as Con ¬ fessor won the Great Yorkshire Handicap Clincher another handicap and The Han the Cup which led no to a remarkable objection under Itule 40 concern ¬ ing Horse Having in General which read readIt It being an established rule that no person can run either in his own name or in the name of any other person two horses of which he is wholly or in part the owner for any plate and doubts having sirisen as to the true definition of the word plate tiie stewards of the Jockey Club have decided that where a sum of money is given to be run for with ¬ out any stake being made by the owners of the horses the entrance money whether given to the owner of the second horse or applied to the racing fund not being considered as stake such prize shall be construed to be a plate But whore a stake is deposited by the owners of the horses which is to go to the winner and an additional sum of money or i cup piece of plate or other reward is offered as a prize to the winner even though such addition shall ho denominated a plate by the donor such race shall be deemed and taken to be a sweepstakes siml not a plate plateSir Sir Joseph Hawley had entered Vatican for the cup as well as The Ban but had sold him before the race to Mr Morris in whose name the horse ran and Mr Saxon who was second with The Black Doctor objected to the qualification of The Ban on the ground that Sir Joseph Hawley ran two horses in the race but the question was not gone into at that time It was renewed in London on Die Monday after and sent to the local stewards who referred the matter to the stewards of the Jockev Club who decided as follows followsWe We the Stewards of the Jockey CClnb Lord Clasgow General Peel aniil Mr H Lowther having considered the case referred to us by the stewards of Doncaster Itaces in relation to the objection made by Mr Saxon to the qualification of The Ban to win the Ciin on the ground that another lioro the property of Sir Joseph Hawley had started contrary to Itule 40 concerning horse racing in general and Jiaving heanl the evidence of Mr Saxon in support of Ills objection are satisfied that a bonafida salo of Vatican to Mr Morris took place previous to the race We are nevertheless of opinion that the stewards of the Doncaster Knees committed an er ¬ ror in allowing Vatican to run he having been en ¬ tered in Sir Josephs Hawleys name and that if he Jiad come in first Mr Morris would not have been entitled to the Cup but the horse having been starteil bv the sanction of the stewards as the proper tv of Mr Morris we do not think that any objection to The Ban can be sustained on that ground and therefore decide that The Ban is the winner of the Doncaster Cup As however consid ¬ erable doubt may exist as to the right of Vatican to start tlie stewards of the Jockey Club will take an earlv opportunity of submitting this point to the members of the club in order to obtain their opinion awl have the wording of Ilnle 40 made more explicit In this respect respectnother nother curious preface to the Kules ami Orders of the Jockey Club read as follows followsNewmarket Newmarket First November 1811 At a meet ¬ ing of tlie stewards and members of the Jockey Club it was stated that much uncertainty had prevailed with regard to the operation of the Rules and Or ¬ ders of the Jockey Club and therefore it was thought proper to declare that they apply to all races run at and engagements made for New ¬ market only the Jockey Club having no authority to extend their Rules and Orders to any other place although they have for the sake of greater nni fortuity and certainty recommended the adoption of the same rules to the stewards of other races and that the stewards of the Jockey Club will not receive any references of disnutes from any places except those at wliich the rules and regulations of NewmarlMt shall have been declared to be in force in the printed articles of those races racesIt It must be admitted that the above questions from the records of the fifties make funny reading by comparison with the presentday Rules and Or ¬ ders of the Jockey Club ClubV V tremendous coup just failt when Savernake fiuceumbcd to Lord Lyon for the Derby of ISM Tim halfbrother to St Allians wliich had won the Sf Legcr six years before was not named until within a few days of the race and never having run previously was an absolutely unknown quantity when on the Monday at Kpom week Mr George Pavne appeared at TattersallV to back the colt bvStockwell out of Bribery to win a huge fortune at 100 to I Half of those odds were taken at start ¬ ing and with French up he failed by a matter of inches with the usual result that the jockey on the beaten horse came in for a lot ot abuse and was superseded br Challoner in tin St Leger but the two horses again ran true to an inch and the award was another head in favor of distance ami LoiKl Lyon French who was one ot the finest horse ¬ men that ever sat in a saddle was in no way to blame and the only possible excuse for Savernake at Epsom was that as frequently happens on a horses first appearance on a race course he ran a bit green from want of experience Lord Ailes bury had many good horses in his time nnd one veal smasher in the twoyearold Cantlniere which iinfortnnatelv went wrong in her wind although she in turn produced a nailer for Lord Falmoutli in Bill Gal Kor the Duke of Beaufort the late Alec Taylor trained an Oaks winner in Reve dor and live years after Gang Forward deadheated with ICaiser for second place behind Doncaster in the Derby Mr Crawfnrd saw the Graf ton scarlet in front on Sefton which bad previously won the City and Suburban Before that Moslem hail run a dead beat with Formosa for the Two Thousand Crnig inlllar won the St Leger and Tbebals the One Thou Kittiil Guineas and Oaks Perhaps the best deal he ver miirle was when he purchased Devotion from his trainer at the same price he had given for her as a yearling as she not only won some good races but was a big success at the stnd being th dam of Iphigenia Madrida Zeal Thotmis Kt Mar ¬ guerite winner of the One Thousand Guineas Clalrvaux St Honorat Jleloise etc Mr Crawfnrd vvas second for the Derby also in 1S70 when King ¬ craft beat Palmefstou and moxt of the races worth winning went at one time or another to the crcilit of the Fytteld and Man ton stables stablesHaving Having refcrred to old tmes at Manton It behoves me now to deal with the stables history since Young Alec assumed the reins and it may at once IK said that the fame of the establishment has been handsomely upheld for did not Lemherg after n head defeat by Xeil Gow in the Two thousand win the Derby and divide the lTcllpse with Lord ISoseberys horse V This was another iastance of true running by two horses With odds laid on him however Lemberg could only get third to Swynford and Bronzino for the St Leger though he made ample amends for that failure afterwards by winning In succession the Jockey Club Stakes the Champion Stakes and the Tovther Stakes at New ¬ market and the Sundown Foal Stake His half liorther Bayardo in spite of earlier defeats in the Guineas and Derby was the best of bis year He found his form in the Prince of Wales Stakes at A cot and won eleven races off the reel including tin Sandringhain Foal Stakes and Kclipse Stakes at Sundown the Duchess of York Stakes at Hurst Park the St Leger the Doncaster Stakse the Cliamnion Stakes the Lowther Stakes the Sandown Fonl Stakes the Limekiln Stakes and the Liverjiool St Leger A very handsome rcqneneo it will bo admitted As a twoyearold moreover he went through seven engagements without n tlefeat and when four years old had annexed consecutively the fiOth Newmarket Biennial Stakes the Chester Vase the Gold Cup and the Dnllngliam Plate behind the Ditch before the tragic finale to his brilliant career came In the Goodwood Cup when with odds of 20 to 1 laid on him be was defeat oil by Magic though 1 think Maher would MI if ess that tlefeat was tint rather to an error of judgment on his part than to the horse Respectively sous of Bay Ronald and Oyl lene Bayardo and Lciulierg aro both the produce of Gallcia wliich has proved a gold mine to Mr Kairie ami both horses ar now at the stnd one standing at Manton at 100 guineas and the other at Mr K II Leachs farm at Newmarket NewmarketOther Other classic successes stand to the credit of Alec Taylor who won the St Leger for Mr W M Singer with Challacoinbc and the Oaks for Sir Wil ¬ liam Bass with Hostdrop while Sancy was only beaten a head by Gorgos for the Two Thousand anil Glass Doll alone barred the way ot Laomedia to victory in the Oaks in the classic category may be included also the Ascot Gold Cup wliich fell in turn to Love Wisely Bayardo and Aleppo while Sceptre accomplished some big performances Though she could not Inat Ard Patrick for the Kclipse Stakes she won the Hardwicke at Ascot for Sir William Bass the Vukey Cull Stakes and the Duke of York Stakes at Kempton under great ditlieulties Taylors record in connection with the Jockey Club tenthoiisandioiuider Is something to lie pniud of seeing that in addition to the splendid daughter of Persimmon lie turned out other winners in Love Wisely Sancy tainhcrg and Trots Temps wliiie to enumerate his important handicap triumphs would occupy more space than I have at my disposal For the second time in his career lie last year headed the list of winning trainers and a liberal contributor to that result was Trois Temps which added the North Derbv at Newcastle to the Jockey Club Stakes though not quite in the first class of threeyearolds This son of William the Third may have a big future before him as he has winter ¬ ed exceptionally well having muscled np over his back and loins and lost the weak appearance he presented last year Like bis sire he is a thorough stayer and might easily make up into a Cup horse Torchlight of which so much was expected turned out a disappointment and beautifully as she Is bred by John o Gaunt Lesbia proved deficient in stam ¬ ina It looked all Lombard Street to a China orange on her for the One Thousand but she failed in climbing the hill for home and as she did not win a race during the season Sir John Thursby deckled to send her to the stud studAlthough Although be wen the Two Thousand after a desperate struggle with Corcyra after having romped away with the Craven Stakes Kennymore must I fear be styled a failure for his subsequent perform ¬ ances were strangely erratic and a remarkable dis ¬ play of bad temper at the start for the Derby not Improbably lost him that race He sinned similarly if not quite so badly in the Kclipse Stakes lint was well enough behaved at Doncaster when beaten by Black Jester for the St Leger and needless to add F Templeman was blamed for having made too much use of him The jockey was in a thoroughly unenviable position for Kennymore is not the sort of horse to pull about though it is a fact Unit lie has done best when waited with Back again to his favorite ground at Newmarket he made short work of the moderate lot opposed to him in the local St Leger He is not the first of Croceums produce to show these unfortunate peculiarities of tempera ¬ ment and it is a curious fact that lie is normally of behavior at home and a quiet sober horse in the stable During the recess he has grown all the right way and is now a magnificent horse standing butter than before on legs that have always been a cause of some anxiety This is not altogether rare in connection with the progeny of his sire which by the way was a bit curious himself in his temper as will be remembered by those who witnessed his mad antics while being saddled for a twoyear old race which he won Kennymore it is hoped will have improved in this respect with age and in such an event the Ascot Gold Cup should not be beyond his powers powersLord Lord Cadogaus short association with Manton has Itorne gcoil fruit thanks in the main to Redfern and Tin Cnrrngh and it was a pity that the last should have broken down after winning the Prin ¬ cess of Wales Stakes for he was probably a better horse than generally supposed possessed as ho was of the rare combination of speed and stamina He is well bred being by Spearmint Currajong and should succeed at the stud Redfern however is Lord Cadogaus star performer and bis excellence must have come as a pleasant surprise for he was by no means a favorite as a foal or yearling in fact his joints were so faulty that it was not thought worth while to enter him for the Derby They have carried him all right so far and better still are sounder in apiwarance today than ever lefore in spite of some desperately bard races with Ixt Fly last year There can be very little to choose between these two youngsters ami both were nearly at the top of the juvenile class Probably the best of his sires progeny Redfern Is a good hanl bay colt by St Denis and big enough for anything Ills performances in public pro veil him to be as game as a pebble under strenuous con ¬ ditions and he has progressed in a manner quite satisfactory since lie retired into winter quarters after the Dewhurst Plate As a matter of fact he as linetl down considerably and now shows de ¬ cidedly more quality than he did as a twityearold Jlis first important engagement this season Is in the Two Thousand Guineas but no doubt he will have an eyeopener before that event But for an extraordinary accident there would have been a two yearold sister to Redfern whose dam is by Ladas Redwing Her paddock mate in infancy was a filly by Solferino Ietual and they were only just yearlings early in January when in the course of their last frolic they collided slantwise shoulder to shoulder and so seriously injured eacli other that both had to be destroyed forthwith The sil ¬ ver lining o this cloud may however reveal itself in the yearling half brother by Solferino which is described as a real beauty chestnuut in color and much better looking than was Redfern at the same age Vigilant in London Sportsman
