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FAMOUS OLD-TIME COLORS REVIVED. Last Thursdays issue of the "Calendar" contained an announcement that General Lord Blyths-wood, K. C. B., M. V. O., had registered his racing colors as "cherry, black cap." No more famous combination has ever been sported on the turf, for "cherry, black cap" was the racing livery of Sir Joseph Hawley, one of the few owners that have won as many as four Derbys. Sir Josephs first "Blue Ribbon" was secured in the Great Exhibition year, 1S51, by aid of Teddington, which defeated the biggest band, but one, that has ever gone to the post for the greatest three-year-old nice, accounting for thirty-two opponents. The record field was that of 1802. when Caractacus beat thirty-three others. Sir Joseph Hawley subsequently won the Derby twice running, with Beadsman 1S5S and Musjid 1S59, gaining Ids last success in 180S with the ill-fated Blue Gown, which died on the way out to New York In 1SS0. The "cherry and black" came within an ace of a fiftli Derby victory, Pero Gomez being defeated only by a head by Pretender. In the St. Leger, however, Pero Gomez decisively turned the tables on his Epsom conqueror. That was Sir Josephs only success in the Doncaster classic, and the Two Thousand. One Thousand and Oaks he likewise secured only once, with Fitz Roland, Aphrodite and Miami, respectively. After the death of the "lucky baronet" in the spring of 1875 his colors were adopted by the Earl of Hard-wicke, who for some years afterwards was a most popular Master of the Buckhounds. He died in 1S97. Than tho new owner of the famous "cherry, black cap" few are better entitled to tho reversion, for General Lord Blythswood in 1S09 married Mildred Catherine, the second of Sir Joseph Hawleys three daughters. The baronetcy went to Sir Josephs brother, and the present holder of the title is a great nephew of the owner of Blue Gown. Lord Blythswood before his accession to the title was Major-General Sir B. B. D. Campbell-Douglas Scots Guards, who served with much distinction with his regiment, the First Batt Scots Guards, in the first Egyptian campaign, and took part in various engagements, inclusive of Kassasin and Tel-cl-Kebir. Subsequently he commanded the Scots Guards, and during the Boer war he was in a number of actions. It Avould only be in accordance with the fitness of things were the new owner of the "cherry and black" to win a good race with a descendant of one of Sir Joseph Hawleys five great horses, Teddington, Beadsman, Musjid, Blue Gown or Pero Gomez. Nowadays, however, Teddington is only represented in the female line through the descendants of his daughter, Marigold dam of Don-caster and Baliol, while the Beadsman male line, which did such great things in the days of Blue Gown and Rosicrucian, is almost, if not entirely, extinct, and one looks in vain for a male-line descendant of Newminsters son. Musjid. Some of tho blood through which Sir Joseph Hawley exploited so successfully can still be found in the female line, and whether it be from these or other strains it is sincerely to be hoped that before long we may see a revival of the glories of the once famous "cherry and black" banner. London Sportsman of November 20.
