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CURIOUS OLDTIME RACING INCIDENT Oaks Filly Prevented From Starting on Erroneous Protest She Was Four Years Old In the Oaks of 1845 before the competing fil ¬ lies loft the paddock an objection was lodged against the qualification of Quern of Cyprus by Liverpool Careful on the ground that she was four years old The stewards ordered an exam ¬ ination of her mouth by the veterinary surgeons Barrow and Bartlett who certified that she was four years old The mare was therefore not al ¬ lowed to start But her owner and breeder Mr C Wagstaff was most dissatisfied with the de ¬ cision and sought further opinion opinionWith With the approval of the stewards the two junior professors at the Royal Veterinary College Ctuii tleu Town Messrs C SpoonCr and J B Simonds and also Mr Field were called in After exam Ining the fillys mouth these authorities pronounced her to be three years old oldThe The stewards rather stultified their previous ac ¬ tion by accepting the threeyearold pronounce mciit Moreover the matter caused much con ¬ troversy at the time among the supporters and ene ¬ mies of the newly chartered Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons wli ei must not be confound ¬ ed with the Royal Veterinary College at Cniuueu Town TownBut But as both Spooner and Simonds were instru ¬ mental in obtaining the Royal Charter for the veterinary profession their decision and its accep ¬ tance tended to draw attention to the prestige of the graduates from the London and Edinburgh veterinary schools Bartlett who practiced at Dorking belonged to a family long connected with the treatment of animals animalsIn In the previous year he was in agreement with Field that Leander which was struck into the Derby by Running Rein Maccabeus and shot the same evening at his stable at Ashstead was four years old Barrow I rather thinU was the father of Mr William Barrow who qualified in 1851 and for many years was the leading veterinary surgeon at Newmarket NewmarketDIFFICULT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND UNDERSTANDIt It is not easy to understand how a threeyear old filly could be mistaken at the end of May for a fouryearold by anyone having an intimate knowledge of the dentition of the horse Later in the year early and precocious threeyearold thoroughbreds at times might be mistaken by a casual observer of their teeth for fouryearolds fouryearoldsI I think it was Donovan for example which had already cut his fouryearold permanent incisor teeth when he won the St Leger Queen of Cyprus only started once in 1844 and was unplaced in the Chesterfield Stakes In 1845 she never appeared on a race course after her EPSOIU experience But as a fouryearold and after being sold to Mr Rrains bottom she won a little twomile handicap at Abingdoii and pulled up lame lameLater Later her owner paid forfeit on her account to the Duke of Bedford for a match which had been arranged between them which arrangement goes to show that the Jockey Club had no doubt whatever that Queen of Cyprus was qualified to run in the Oaks of 1845 1845The The wonder is that Mr Wagstaff did not attempt to recover damages for Injury to his reputation and pocket It would seem that it was alleged that Queen of Cyprus was bom in 1841 in which year her dam Careful was returned barren On the face of the Stud Book return and without reference to the dentition in May 1845 of Queen of Cyprus the contention that the latter was born in 1841 is somewhat probable probableCareful Careful had foals in 1837 1838 1839 and 1840 after which date excepting Queen of CJPr and a filly by Elis born in 1845 she had no further offspring But as previously stated the de ¬ cision of Messrs Spooner Simonds and Field was filial Mankato in Manchester Sporting Chronicle
