DEATH OF CONSTABLE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2229, 20 April 1881, Page 3

DEATH OF CONSTABLE.

[“ Sportsman.”] Oonstable’s racing career was a short but brilliant one. He was born at Bayswater in 1853, and was apprenticed to the elder Beeves, whose establishment is contiguous to the breezy downs of Epsom. The first big winner that he rode was Botheration, in the Chesterfield Cup, at Goodwood, and, curiously enough, he steered Napolitain in the same race next year also for Wadlow’s stable. During 1874 wo believe ho commenced the connection, which was never afterwards severed, with Lord Roseborv, for whom he piloted Louise in the Great Yorkshire Handicap at Doncaster. The remaining part of his career was in a certain sense wrapped up with the primrose and rose hoops, and amongst winners that ho rode in this jacket can be mentioned two Lincolnshire Handicap heroes in Controversy and Touohet, a Cambridgeshire winner in La Merveille, a Portland Plato winner in Rosbach, a conple of Liverpool Summer Cup victors in Controversy and Snail, and many others of more or less importance. It is in connection with Sefton's Derby, however, that Constable’s name will bo remembered by the general public. Previous to the Epsom Meeting Lord Rosebery hod nothing worth running, and therefore left Constable at liberty to accept any engagement. Mr Orawfurd at once retained him to ride Sefton, and the jockey as quickly agreed. Less than an hour before the race Lord Rosebery purchased Bonnie Scotland from Robert Peck for something like £6OOO, and Webb having been engaged to ride him he had the mount, much we believe to the satisfaction of Constable. As everybody knows, Sefton won, but his success was as much due ts the riding of poor Hurry as any merit on the horse’s part, for had Insulairo swung round the turn as close to the rails as did the son of Speculum, the Qladiateur victory might have been repeated. Constable was not oftea seen in the saddle last season, and his final mount was Oipolata in the Cambridgeshire, when ahe was placed third to Lucetta and Fernandez.