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LEOPOLD DE ROTHSCHILD IN RACfNG Exploits of the Many Fine Horses Which Raced in the Colors of the Now Dead Financier. Article Three. In 1S99 Hulcot, by Crafton Queen of the Riding, opened well by carrying off the Brocklcsby. His dam was a sister to Galloping Queen and Queen pi of Hearts, the last-named being the dam of Mr. Vyncrs King Crow Northumberland Plate and Manchester Cup. Although not in tlie Stud Book owing to their tap-root, Maggie Lauder, being of unknown pedigree, these throe mares produced such good winners, and were so smart themselves as witness Galloping Queens Portland Plate and other successes, that they were in all probability of quite pure blood. Mention of Ilulcots Brock-lesby success brings to mind the extraordinary number of winners of that race trained in a few years by John Watson. Beginning witii Jest in 1891! he won it again in 1897 with Gay Lothair, in 1S with Amuratli, in 1899 with Hulcot. in 1901 with Fast Castle, and in 1902 by aid of Skyscraper.. Of these six winners in seven years. Jest, Gay Lothair, and Huicot belonged to Mr. Rothschild; Amuratli and Skyscraper to Mr. Raphael tlie father of the owner of Louviers, and Fast Castle to Mr. Wagg. That was Ilulcots only success in 1899, but others trained by A. llayhoe and Watson, who for some years prior to Hayhoes. retirement in 1904 after St. Amant had given him the satisfaction of training a Derby winner for his employer had each a number of Mr. Rothschilds string in cjinrge, succeeded so well that the aggregate winnings canie to over 5,000. Griffon won the Astley Stakes and Autumn Breeders Foal Plate at Manchester, Atbara the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket Second July beating The Gorgon, Pellisson, etc., and Chosen the Free Handicap for three-year-olds. Cracko had won the Lincoln Stakes the day before Hulcot scored in the more important Brocklcsby, ,and several races subsequently. Jaquemart picked up a couple of little spring races. Fosco obliging similarly in the autumn. The Newmarket Biennial and the Deo Stakes at Chester fell a prey to Trident, giving away weight all round in each case, and Vatel took the Croxtcth Plate at Liverpool Autumn. These were not all, but to mention tlie doings of every horse each year is impossible. A Melton Year. The year 1900 was a poor one financially, only i3,0!2 being picked up in stakes. That was the ;season in which Mr. Muskcr carried well-nigh everything before him with his Melton two-year-olds, Britannia, Lord Melton, Princess Melton, Canterbury, Bay Melton and others. However, Doricles, by Florizel II. Rosalie, was given plenty of time to grow to his big frame and, after running third to Veles and Lord Melton at Ascot be fulfilled but one more engagement. This was in the July Stakes, and he ran so well that he not only beat such as Bay Melton, Handicapper and Good Morning, but . nearly wn outright. The finish was remarkably, close, and the judges gave it as a dead-heat between Doricles T. Loates and Veles 3. II. Martin, with Bay Melton Sloan third, a neck away. Doricles was a 10 to 1 chance. In 1901 he was first saddled for the Two Thousand. Not so good a favorite as Veles, he fairly and squarely beat the latter, but was himself relegated to second place by Sir Ernest Cassels outsider, Handicapper, which won by two lengths, with Osboech third and Veles fourth, and such as St. Macloil, Lord Bobs, Orchnid, Bay Melton, etc., in the unplaced lot. Doricles was second again in the Newmarket Stakes, a desperate finish between four of the seven runners ending in the short head victory of the Duke of Portland3. William the Third M. Cannon, who thus beat brother "Kcmniy." Third, beaten a head from Doricles, was Maher on Sir J. Millers Aida winner of the One Thousand and Ian O. Madden was fourth a head behind the third. . Those two severe races possibly took some of tlie steel out of Doricles, for in a huge field, for the Derby he was unplaced to Volodyovski, William the Third, and Veronese, and in the St, George Stakes at Liverpool he succumbed to Mr. Arthur James Fortunatus, "Morny" again beating his younger brother. A Memorable St. Leger. Doricles then won the Brighton Cup and tlie Champion Breeders Foal Stakes at Derby, but bis opponents were hot brilliant, and when he came out for the St. Leger a whole row of others were backed in preference from Volodyovski 0 to 5 on. Fortunatus and Jacobite II. 10 to 1, Revenue and Veronese 100 to S, and Ian 100 to C down to Pietermaritzburg. and Lord Bobs at 25 to 1. Against Doricles and Princess Melton 40 to 1 was a current offer, Cynical,- Ada, Syneros, each on offer at 100 to 1. How Doricles won the last of the classics from Volodyovski, with Revenue, at the head of the others, is an oft-told tale and it need only be said here that the finish was a humping one, owing to Revenue swerving on to Volodyovski, which was between him and Doricles. That did tip good to the Derby winner and Doricles, on the outside, was the quickest to recover, going on and outstaying Mr. Whitneys colt by a neck. An objection by "Volys" rider, L. Reiff, on the ground of bumping was overruled, the stewards being of the opinion that Volodyovski was interfered with, but not by the winner. An important handicap won in the spring of that year was the Queens Prize by Hulcot C. Manser tip, which readily disposed of the favorite Lackford, Osbcch and numerous others, including Nightshade, Sibola, Ameer, the American horse, Rensselaer, Hawfinch, Most Excellent, etc. Gunilda won three juvenile races in the spring, beginning with tlie Lincoln Plate and ending with the Fitzwilliani. Vatel. Royal Ivy, Fo.sco, Venus and Hulcot were- the chief prizewinners in 1902, Hulcot securing the Long Course Trial Plate, Venus the Triennial Produce Stakes itliree-year-olds at Nowttnarket First October, Royal Ivy the May Plate of 1,000 sovereigns at Kempton, beating Ard Patrick which was giving him twenty-one pounds. That was about three weeks before Aril Patrick won the Derby. Fosco, now aged, was good enough to win a couple of selling plates in big fields in the autumn and but let the curtain descend on 1902, for St. Amant demands entrance. About St. Amant. It is Ascot in 1903, and the Coventry Stakes runners have gone down to the post. M. F. Alexanders Bitters, which had come in alone for the Stamford Plate at Chester is favorite at 2 to 1, with John o Gaunt, which had run Lord Roseberrys Chelys to a head at Newmarket, second in request at 9 to 4. A "dark" colt, a handsome bay, by St. Frusquin Lady Loverule, has plenty of admirers at 5 to 1 or thereabouts, but bar the three 100 to 8 is offered, and any price you like almost concerning some of the others, of which Lancashire is on the small side, while Herbert Vincent a two-year-old, by St. Simon belonging to. Mr. Croker is another friendless one. Later in life he is to become well known under N. II. Rules. The race ends in the easy victory of St. Aniant from Lancashire and Bitters, and Hayhpcs hopes are justified. At Goodwood the colt beat Henry the First in the Prince of Wales Stakes, with good odds on liim, but in the Champagne Stakes he was only third of five to the peerless Pretty Polly and Lancashire. He subsequently beat Leucadia and two .others for the Rous Memorial at Newmarket, and then in the Middle Park Plate he again had his number taken down by Pretty Polly, - but Lancashire was this time unplaced. As a two-year-old St. Amant won 3,705, little more than the amount contributed by Bass Rock, a good-looking gray son of Grey Leg Pindi, which was bred by Sir John Robinson and bought as a yearling for a "monkey" by Lord Rothschild, who presented him to his brother. Bass Rock won six races out of nine, inclusive of the Ascot Biennial, Fern Hill Stakes, Great Lancashire Breeders Produce Stakes, and the Chesterfield Nursery at Derby, carrying in the last-iiieutioued race 125 pounds, four pounds more than Trident won it under. Catgut and Venus wero among the other contributors, as was Kunstlcr. This last was a chestnut five-year-old by Juggler Dprcas. In quick succession he wpn the Pytcli-ley and Buccleuch Handicaps at Northampton, the Doveridge Handicap at Derby, and the Leicestershire Spring Handicap. Then came a couple of failures, followed by a success in the Doncastcr Spring Handicap. Despite this list of successes, he was given but 103 pounds in the Royal Hunt Cup, and many people thought him outclassed. The Ring shared that idea, and he started at 1Q0 to 3, such as St. Brendan nnd Roe ONeill 9 being Joint favorites at 9 to 2, with the Hungarian, Hazafi, Duke of Westminster, Kilcheran, General Cronje, Burses, Imperious, Kearsage American, Handicapper, and others preferred to him. Kunstler won, however, beating Imperious Lord Howard da Waldeus by a neck. To be continued.
