Series of Stupendous Successes,

Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 26

Series of Stupendous Successes,

which, seaspn after season, placed the patron at the head of his contemporaries "in the number and amount of his' winnings, and made the prestige 1 of the stable and the trainer the most powerful' in the land. A column or twomight.be filled with details of the achievements effected by the combination of Lord Falmouth, Mat Dawaon, and Fred Archer; but, happily, manyyof these are too recent, and most of them too well known, to need more than a brief recapitulation. Hence the p,erio4 of our subject's 'history, the most pregnant with success and distinction,may be summed up in a few lines, presenting at a glance its most notable incidents. Suffice it that from Kingcraftfs Derby down to his temporary retirement at the end of 1883 there was not a single year, in which Lord Falmouth was not; credited withsome of the best prizes of the turf, either for two or three year old horses. In Kingcraft's year Gertrude supplemented his deeds with the Yorkshire Oaks and Great Yorkshire Stakes, and in the next season Queen's Messenger won each of his three engagements, but in tjiis, season only. the magpie jacket was unrepresented in the classic events. • The Prince of Wales' Stakes, at Ascot, in 1872, was, .Queen's Messenger/s contribution to' the winning account, and Andred, with a Prendergast, Paladin, and Silver Ring followed with several two-year-old' events. Cecilia's One Thousand was followed in succeeding years by Atlantic's Guineas and Spinaway's Guineas and Oaks, augmented by the two-year-old achievements of Lady Love, Spinaway, Cataclysm, Repentance colt, Garterly Bell/Farnese, Skylark, Silvio.and Lady Golightly, till we come, to Silvio's j dual triumphs at Epsom and Doncaster, and the eve of that anwus mirabilis h 1878, when the Lord of Mereworth eclipsed all winning records of his own or his contemporaries before or since, with a total of