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GREAT EUROPEAN MARES Racing Careers of Sceptre La Camargo Kincsem and Others Lilian and Henry Savile Betting BettingCoups Coups Ormondes Dam and andHer Her Endurance Continuing his wonderfully interesting comments about the racing of notable European mares Audits in Horse and Hound writes writesSceptre Sceptre whose price of 52000 glveit by Mr Sievier has never been equaled by any other year ¬ ling holds the worlds record among her sex so far is the amount of her winnings is concerned Bred by the late Duke of Westminster and foaled on April J 1899 she won 201985 The mare to win the largest sum on the Continent of Europe was Ii Ommirgo this being 157245 and the celebrated Kincsem i chestnut daughter of Cambuscan Water Nymph bred by E Blascovitz in 1874 in Hungary was never tauten winning fiftyfour races in ¬ cluding one in this country the Goodwood Cup if two and onehalf miles in 1875 wherein Jlr Blas iovitz1 Kincsem four years pounds ridden far from artistically by Madden won by two lengths from Fred ret tons 1agcaiit aged 1117 i ouiids Tom Cannon with Lord Falmouths Lady Go liglitly four years 119 pounds P Archcr a bad third The betting was 5 to 4 against 1ageant li to 1 Lady Golightly and 5 to 2 the winner Kinc Kom won all her races except two easily and cap ¬ tured in stakes slightly over 100000 Another great mare was the French bred 1laisanterie which only running as a two and threeyearold won sixteen nut of the eighteen races she contested and in her two failures only got beaten by a short head each time At the Tattersall Francais on September 1 1883 Thumas Carter bought Plaisanterle for 153 as the fllly tbeirhud a3 svelllngwhich looked like a tumor on one of her legs Some six weeks later having broken and tested her Carter showed the filly to one of his patrons H Bouy who was suf ¬ ficiently impressed with her merits to be willing to give quite a big sum for half a share in her Carter however said lie would agree to go halves on payment of 75 which was generous and thus they formed a partnership in Plaisanterie destined to prove one of the best mares of her time She won botli the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire of 38815 and after she had easily secured the second f these races carrying 121 pounds my father wrote that lie considered her worthy to rank witli Melton and Paradox the two crack English threeyearolds of that year She never ran again and after Mr Hollys death Sir Tatton Sykes purchased her in France for 11500 The mares first produce Child wick a brown son by St Simon was bought as a yearling at Doncaster in 1891 by the then Blundell Maple for 31200 this being the record price up to that date for a horse of his age in Europe In all Sir Tatton sold six yearlings out of Plaisanterie for 9 100 a fine return for his original outlay and sho was shot at Sledmere in August of 1900 1900GREAT GREAT PROWESS OF OLD LILIAN The bay Lilian which ran the greatest number of times was bred by her owner Henry Savile and although run generally in blinkers was game enough but after her fouryearold days would never win a gallop at home Having been tried by Wil ¬ liam Gilbert a thorough stayer in the summer of her threeyearold career it was first intended to re ¬ serve Lilian for the Cesarewitch of 1872 but instead Mr Savile entered her in the Eccentric Free Handi ¬ cap on its inauguration at Lewes on Saturday Aug ¬ ust 10 1872 a race open only to supposed non stayers being over one mile and onequarter Weighted at 97 pounds and ridden by Billy New IIOUKC tins daughter of Wingrave was backed down to 5 to 4 against four others and cantered home five lengths ahead of Knutsford a fiveyearold that was trying to give her twentv pounds Mr Savile won just under 95000 in bets over this filly on this race which was wortli only 250 and lie also won a large bet 1 forget the exact amount by backing Lilian to win twenty races in one season which fact she duly accomplished in 1S74 included among tli number being no fewer than seventeen Queens Plates A heavy bettor if lie really fancied one of his horses Mr Savile was however a large lober by betting on balance a fact which I know from his relative the present Lord Savile who has all liis old betting lx oks at Rufford Abbey It was the fear of Prince Charlie which prevented Mr Savlle winning a large stake over Cremorne when this highclass horse won the Derby of 1872 but he never stopped betting on him to use a racing Idiom for the Gold Cup at Ascot the following year having tried the son of Parmesan to be a veritable champion over a lonii distance of ground with Lilian and Tlilan both of the same age the last named which easily won the Ascot Stakes of 1873 carrying 110 pounds being at least twenty eight pounds worse than Cremorne in a gallop the trio had over the two middle miles at Newmarket which finishes at the bushes bushesLILY LILY AGNES AND LOUISE VICTORIA VICTORIAI I may just mention that ia 1874 Lilian ran thirty two times and won on twentyone occasions This was the number of races Lily Agnes dam of the renowned and unbeaten Ormonde won during her career of four years on the turf Counting walks over as in those days a horse doing so had to compass the entire course Lilian traversed in her various races no less than 199 miles threequarters and eightyone yards During 1874 she ran seventy two miles ono half and fortyeight yards a rare task in one season Lily Agnes in all went fifty seven miles threeeighths and 132 yards and that grand mare Louise Victoria covered fortysix milos onequarter and fiftvsoven yards in her various races This chestnut sister to the heavyshouldered Derby winner George Frederick was like him bred by that fine old west country sportsman W S Cartwright and did not run as a twoyearold Indeed the first time she appeared in his scarlet black cap was for the Oaks being made favorite at r to 2 but despite all the efforts of her power ¬ ful rider Harry distance she failed by half a length to defeat the nearly equally well fancied Mr Lefevrcs Heine George Fordham which in her only previous race that season had won the One Thousand Guineas having got no nearer than third each time for the two races she ran in 1871 both being maiden plates at the Newmarket Houghton week as a twoyearold Louise Victoria I may add ran five times subsequently without winning in 1872 her first success being gained when carry ¬ ing 97 pounds and ridden by Harry Constable she Continued on second page GREAT EUROPEAN MARES Continued from first page easily won the Great Ebor Handicap at Tork in 1873 by a length f rom Mr Marshalls Shannon five years 117 pounds G Fordham I think with ¬ out doubt the best rtwoyearold fillv I ever saw Tiiii was Signorin which won all the nine races slit contested in 1889 and after St Simons daughter had secured tlifi Middle Park Plate in really wonder ¬ ful style Matt Dawsori who had trained her re ¬ marked to me She is the best I have seen since her sire sirefl fl SOME OTHER GREAT RACING MARES HSignorina was twiffe second as a threeyearold Meiiioir beating her by fliree lu rters of a length for the Oaks and also twice second the following season The hard worked Lilian I may add was a bad brood mare ind this applies to Tliebais also the ten races she ran at seven years old seeming t have quitp jaken all the yihijity out of her Severe tests on their endurance do not however howeverappear appear to have hurt those oldtime excellent per perrirpriiHjrs rirpriiHjrs Alice HJn fJhfcrri and Beeswing as the former threw hat good Derby winner Thormanby avhen nineteen years old and at the age of fifteen Beeswiig produced to Touchstone the bloodlike but rather delicate NeWminster winner of the St Leger and a notable tallion However another mare long in training did little at the stud I al lildeJjV FlejiifdeliiS She did not start as a two yearold aild raceil as Sir M Dudleys until 1827 when George IV purchased her A fine stayer she wonmauy ra esrbutl eriaps chiefly owes her fame to perfdriiiances at Goodwood Where as Delnie Rad cliffes who then managed the kings horses the mare secured the Goodwood Cup of 1829 Carrying 129 poindsand rjdijon by Jim Robinson she upset the odds of to 4 laid on the Derby winner Mr GXillys M aiiieluks five years 127 pounds with four others behind them George IV having ended his tempestuous life on JIIHO 2fi 1830 FleurdeLis wjikli hail not previously started that season again rame out for the Goodwood Cup sis the property of ofWYHJVjm WYHJVjm Jy thifvlHting on Wednesday August 11 Our sailor king had three in the race ami decided decidedto to start the whole fleet as he himself put it with the result that FJeur deLis ased 135 pounds Nelson won from HI Majestys slightly more fancied Zinganej five years 130 pounds J Day with His Ma jestys The Colonel five years Pavis T Tthird third and the Duke of Ifichmonds muchfancied fouryearold Hindoo the last of the nine starters FleurdeLis when favorite for the Doncaster Cup cut up badly in the race won by Lord Kelbournes KelbournesReirlever3iid Reirlever3iid only oiice after tins did she appear upon a race CQiirse vizi for the Goodwood Cup of 1831 Carying 137 pounds slie had Priam four years J31 jKiunds and Variation four years 137 pounds opiK slng her they being the respective Derby1 tfrtd Oaks winners 6f 1830 With the betting close between the kings mare and Priam the gambling was tremendous but a fractional favorite Lord Chesterfields celebrated horse in the hands of Conolly proved too tnufch for Bourbons daughter daughterwhich which in 1837 was purchased by Mr Lupin for 2SCO arid tVflcbn to Prance
