RACEHORSE THAT WON OVER £50,000.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 191, 10 February 1912, Page 9 (Supplement)

RACEHORSE THAT WON OVER £50,000.

FOAL OF A MAEE THAT USED TO • DRAW A DOGCART. In -the annals of Turf, history the name of Isinglass, the famous horse, who, died suddenly at Chievely Park, Newmarket, is written large. He was foaled in 1890, his sire being Isonomy and his mother Deadlock, a mare which once worked in, the shafts of a dog-cart. In four years (in the last.of which he only ran once) he won'the record sum of £57,455 for his millionaire owner, the late Mr; Harry McCalmont, being only once beaten. He won his first race, as a two-year-old, 'in the Maiden Plate, of '2OO sovs., at the Newmarket second spring meeting, and' this success he followed up by securing the New Stakes, worth 2006 sovs., at Ascot, and the Middle Park Plate, value 2375 sovs.

As a three-year-old Isinglass gained the greatest honor that can be credited to a racehorse—namely, the ■ "triple crown," winning the Two Thousand Guineas, the Derby and St. Leger. In the same year he was also credited, with the valuable Newmarket States, but in the Lancashire Plate at Manchester, conceding 101b, he had to be content with second place to Kaeburn, this being his only reverse.

Among the' races, won in 1894 were the Princess of Wales' Stakes, valued at 10,911 sovs., the Eclipse Stakes, 9285 sovs. and the Jockey Club Stakes, 11,302 sovs.

In 1895 Isinglass only carried,silk once —namely, in the Ascot Gold Cup, of 3000 sovs., which he won in a canter.

The great horse had also a successful career at the stud, though he failed to sire anything as good as himself. None of his stock won the Derby, though his son Louyiers was only beaten by a short head for it by Minoru in 1909. Hie daughter, Cherry Lass., won the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks in 1905, and Glass Doll was successful in the Oaks two years afterwards.

'Arnbng'b'tlie'i' goba horses to claim him as sire wire Rising Sun, St. Veles, Vain (Duchess, Glass Jug, Baltinglass, Challenger, . Kilglass, Admiral Crichton, etc. " Of these, Rising Glass ran second to Ard Patrick for the Derby and to Sceptre for the St. Leger of 1902. In all, Isinglass' descendants have won 279, races and ' £148,514' 15s in stake money.