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BERESFORDS TURF CAREER Late Lord Marcus Master of Kings Stud Was Sportsman English Writer Glres Interesting Accounts of ofHappenings Happenings In the Life of Tcteran In InMany Many Branches of Racing A writer in the London Sportsman gives the following interesting account of the turf career of the late Lord Marcus Beresford master of King George Vs stud and former starter for the English Jockey Club who died recently in London In Lord Marcus Beresford the world of sport has lost one of the best and truest of the many good sportsmen of our time Devoted to racing whether under the rules of the Jockey Club or the National Hunts Committee he first made his mark as an owner and gentleman rider between the flags while on the flat he figured as owner official starter to the Jockey Club and then steward of meetings Finally he was selected to fill the important post of manager of the Royal Stud at Sandringham his appointment to that position being notified in the London Gazette of January 1 1902 It was in con ¬ nection with his meritorious services in that capacity that Lord Marcus Beresford was first made a member of the Royal Victorian order and subsequently appointed an extra equerry and manager of the Kings thor ¬ oughbreds This high office he continued to fill to the end endBorn Born on Christmas Day 1S4S the fourth and youngest son of the fourth Marquis of Waterford Lord Marcus Talbot de la Poer Beresford was educated at Harrow after ward entering the 7th Hussars With his regiment he served in India from 1867 to 1870 and there his taste for the turf was made manifest by his blossoming into the ownership of several race horses among others Vanderdacken Milliner and Sweet William on which he won various races racesHOLDS HOLDS POST IN IRELAND IRELANDAfter After returning from India with his regi ¬ ment he was in 1874 appointed A D C to the lord lieutenant of Ireland the Duke of Abercorn and held the appointment till 1876 It was in the year of his return to the land of his birth that he and his broth era Lord Charles and Lord William rode In a sweepstakes at the Curraghmore Hunt steeplechases which were held on the Will iamstown course This resulted in a close finish as will be seen from the appended return taken from the Calendar of Steeple ¬ chases Past for 1874 1874A A sweepstakes of 500 each About three miles 3 subscriptions 1 000 Lord W Bcresfords Woodlark a 1G4 pounds Owner Lord M Eercsfords The Weasel n 1G4 pounds Owner 2 2Lord Lord C Bcresfords Nightwalker a 164 pounds Owner 3 Won by a bead beadThe The calendar does not give the distance between the second and third but Lord Charles we can add was not beaten far It was only in the previous December that Lord Marcus had won a Military Handi ¬ cap steeplechase at Croydon on his French bred chaser Derviche by Fitz Gladiator Deer Aquila and another steeplechase fell to horse and owner the following day at Bromley Rather curiously Milanals Lord Rossniore up which ran second for the first of these races was also a French bred animal animalTVINS TVINS ANOTHER 3IILITARY CUP CUPNot Not long afterward Lord Marcus won an ¬ other Military cup on Captain Stirlings Matelot at Bristol and each of the three victories was gained by at least ten lengths At that time Lord Marcus had his horses trained at the late Mr Fothergill Row ¬ lands place at Epsom and It was no doubt thanks to that brilliant crosscountry riders advice and tuition that some part of his great success was due Mr Rowlands was th father of the wellknown dramatist Mr Cecil Raleigh RaleighHe He had some good horses at that period and aimed high with them for In March 1S74 Lord Marcus ran second for tho Grand National with Chimney Sweep ridden by J Jones only Mr J Maunsell Richardson on Captain Machells Reugny intervening between the Epsom trained 25 to 1 chance and victory Lord Marcus also ran Der vicho R IAnson which was unplaced Chimney Sweep again had to play second fiddle to a Grand National winner in em ¬ bryo when he was second to the fouryear old Regal for the Great Sandown Handicap Steeplechase in December 1S75 and in the following spring in the big Liverpool Stee ¬ plechase Regal confirmed the form by win ¬ ning with the Sweep J Jones only fourth Congress and Shifnal occupying the second and third berths berthsCHIMNEY CHIMNEY SWEEP WINS BIG RACE RACEA A little while afterward however Chim ¬ ney Sweep J Jones won the Grand Interna ¬ tional Steeplechase at Sandown from Palm Shifnal Master Mowbray and others Sub ¬ sequently he won the Prince of Wales Steeplechase on the same ground In 1S77 Chimney Sweep J Joics was onco more fourth for the Grand National to Auster lizt Congress and The Liberator and later won the Great Sandown Steeplechase SteeplechaseA A fourth bid for Grand National honors was made by Lord Marcus in 1S73 when his penalized Sandown and Croydon winner old Jackal carried J Jones and a Eeven pound penalty Into second place behind The Liberator which with the late Garret Moore In the saddle won by ten lengths Martha the property of the German sportsman Ilerr Oelschlaeger was third and the French bred Wild Monarch cirricd the colors of the Marquis de St Sauveur Into fourth place while among the other runners was Count Festetlcs the youngers Brigand ridden by Metternich truely an international race with England Ireland France Germany and Austria represented representedThe The famous light blue black Cap of the house of Waterford almost needless to say was the racing banner of Lord Marcus as It was alKo at a later period of his other soldierbrother Lord AVilliam of Llundi and V C fame Chilblain carried his jacket when he himself won the Croydon Grand military on hinj in 1S75 but in 1S77 when among other successes Chilblain secured Grand Military Gold Cup honors it was for 1 Mr Fitzroy FitzroyAlthough Although Lord Marcus did not ride a winner of the Soldiers Blue Ribbon he won the National Hunt Steeplechase for Mr Ballard in 1876 on Burford at Bogside It was In that year that Lord Marcus dis ¬ solved partnership with Fog Rowlands and removed his horses from Pitt Place to other quarters at Epsom with J Jones as his trainer Lord Dupplin Mr Fitzroy owner of Chilblain and Mr Paget joined forces with him and with inter alia Chil ¬ blain Wocdcock which won several good hurdle races Lucy Zingaroo Badger Sir Walter Roundhead and Chimney Sweep the confederacy did well wellBefore Before the National of 1S79 Lord Mar ¬ cus became the owner of Jackal which had boeen through various hands and with him he for the second time ran up for the big I steeplechase It has often been seated that Lord Marcus rode both Chimney Sweep when second to Reugny and Jackal when beaten ten lengths by The Liberator Garrett Moore up but Jack Jones was in each case the rider riderHarking Harking back to the Grand Military meet ¬ ing of March 1877J Jones saddled no fewer than four winners on the opening afternoon Lord Waterfords The Badger winning the First Life Guards Challenge Cup Colonel Ewarts Zanzozee the Household Brigade Cup and Chilblain W B Morris up win ¬ ning the Grand Military while Lord Marcus easily secured the Veteran Stakes a three mile steeplechase on Captain Pigotts Roundhead from Captain Middleton on Vic ¬ tory and three others On the following aft ¬ ernoon Mr Fitzroys Whitethorn won the Household Brigade Hunters Flat race Dur ¬ ing that spring Lucy an aged mare by Com ¬ motion gave Lord Marcus several winning rides at Sandown Cottenham and Bromley where she won over hurdles and fences on successive afternoons afternoonsWINS WINS SEVERAL STEEPLECHASES STEEPLECHASESIn In the autumn of 1878 old Chimney Sweep carried off the Grand Sefton and the fol ¬ lowing year won several steeplechases at Kempton and Liverpool A smart hurdle j j I racer owned by Lord Marcus at that time was Kemptpn and Liverpool A smart hur ¬ dle Sign Manual which won hurdle handi ¬ caps at Kempton on successive afternoons with his trainer in the saddle Sign Manual was by Blue Mantle The stable also did well in the two following years but it would serve no good purpose to further extend this already lengthy notice of the career of the deceased as an owner of jumpers jumpersThat That his fondness for the sport did not weaken with the passing years was shown by his occasionally having a horse or two with Escott at Lewes and winning good races with them Jealousy for instance won i three hurdle races off the reel as a three yearold in 1908 and was sent to France the next year Wet Paint was an earlier win ¬ ner over hurdles hurdlesTurning Turning to Lord Marcus career as an owner of flat racers he won small races with Euphrasia and Shabrack in 1881 and his absence from the list of winning owners from that year to 1892 was in great meas ¬ ure due to his being appointed in 1885 as starter to the Jockey Club a position which owing to his lengthy experience as a rider under National Hunt rules he was well qualified to fill knowing as he did all the wiles and dodges by which jockeys in the antestartinggate era attempted to get the better of the man with the flag flagPARADE PARADE TO POST HIS IDEA IDEAIt It was Lord Marcus who initiated the cus ¬ tom of parading the competitors prior to races of importance Perhaps the best and at any rate the most successful flat racer he owned was Wet Paint which was bred at Sandringham and was first named Eitreb jWet Paint was by St Frusquin Red Enamel land was therefore a three parts brother to Royal Rouge by Florizel II Among other races Wet Paint won in 1D03 the Prince Ed ¬ ward Handicap at Manchester with J Jar vis in the saddle saddleAbout About ten years earlier Versailles won sev ¬ eral races and St Jude and Houndsditch i likewise carried his colors with success in the nineties In the present century Joe Ull man Portcullis Pericline Amorel Phidip pides Teb worth Wiseton Isograph Mores Coxcomb and Bahudur won races for him from time to time timeReverting Reverting to his tenure of office as starter a story used to be told of a difficulty he had with a certain light weight soon after he took office The iad had started too soon and Lord Marcus shouted to him to come back threatening him if he disobeyed that he would pull him off his horse and give him a jolly good thrashing before he knew where he was wasAnd And what did you do asked the pal to whom the delinquent was telling the story Do Why I got back more sharper for I knew hed keep his word was the ready response responseBOUGHT BOUGHT LA FLECHE FOR BARON BARONWhen When he retired early in the nineties Lord Marcus took up the management of Baron de Hirschs race horses It was Lord Mar ¬ cus who bought IJL Fleche for the baron when she was sold as a yearling at Hamp ¬ ton Court for the at that time record price of 27500 and his judgment was amply jus ¬ tified in Uie result for the daughter of St Simon Quiver won during her career on the turf sixteen races out of twentyfour at ¬ tempts worth nearly 5175000 5175000Tho Tho appointment as manager of the kings thoroughbreds which was at a subsequent period conferred on Lord Marcus is referred to in the early part of this memoir It ini ¬ tiated a brilliant era when Sandringham and Richard Marsh sent out a succession of classic winners in the royal colors Persim ¬ mon and Diamond Jubilee to take the Derby In 1S96 and 1900 respectively when King Edward VII was Prince of Wales and Minoru nine years afterward when he had ascended the throne thronePersimmon Persimmon It will be remembered also won the St Leger as did Diamond Jubilee i and the latter by winning the Two Thousand ThousandGuineas Guineas as well became what it is cus ternary to describe as a triple crown hero Minoru also accounted for the Two Thou ¬ sand and another classic winner under the auspices of Lord Marcus Eeresford was Thais in the One Thousand of 1S9C In dif ¬ ferent directions Florizel II and other horses did good service and helped to shed luster on what was altogether a remarkable period and ono in which tha loyal enthusiasm of tho lieges found agreeable and frequent scope for expression Lord Marcus retained his liking for cross country sport after he had ceased that active participation in it which marked his early earlyracing racing career and usually had a horse or two in training with Escott at Lewes He ran a few on the flat also and appears among amongtho tho winning owners of the past season with a small stake credited to him by Blockhead Blockheadat at Doncastcr in May
