. The encyclopaedia of sport. ve done so in1886 ; Carlton won the Doncaster Cup in 1887as did Claymore in 1889 ; and four times infive years from 1886 the stable carried off theManchester November Handicap, with Stour-head, Carlton (20 runners) Claymore (18), andParlington (19). Returning to the Stewards Cup at Goodwood,there is comparatively little to be said in corn- is completed at Brighton and Lewes. TheBrighton Stakes dates from 1824. The raceused to be over two miles: it was after-wards reduced to a mile and a half, and subse-quently to a mile, the usual difficulty havingbeen found of ge
. The encyclopaedia of sport. ve done so in1886 ; Carlton won the Doncaster Cup in 1887as did Claymore in 1889 ; and four times infive years from 1886 the stable carried off theManchester November Handicap, with Stour-head, Carlton (20 runners) Claymore (18), andParlington (19). Returning to the Stewards Cup at Goodwood,there is comparatively little to be said in corn- is completed at Brighton and Lewes. TheBrighton Stakes dates from 1824. The raceused to be over two miles: it was after-wards reduced to a mile and a half, and subse-quently to a mile, the usual difficulty havingbeen found of getting good fields for a longdistance. The Brighton Cup has been reducedin the same way. Some good horses have wonthis latter, including Caller Ou, Dollar, Ely,Speculum, Albert Victor, Lilian, ;Marie Stuart,and Isonomy ; but in 1883 there was nothing tooppose Border Minstrel. Fields for the previousdozen years had not averaged four in number,and the distance was consequently lessened toa mile. Brag, a speedy horse belonging to. In the BlKDCAGE, parison with the interest which the contestannually awakens. It is, indeed, rather as amedium of speculation than as a great race thatthe Stewards Cup has to be considered. Somenotably speedy horses have won—Oxonian,Trappist, Herald, and Peter. Another horsewho went a great pace ought to have won in1888. This was Bismarck, whose jockey, how-ever, after he had passed the distance, turnedround to grin derisively at his followers, whomhe supposed he had easily beaten, when hishorse seized the opportunity of swerving andrunning right across the course, leaving a half-bred five-year-old mare from Danebury, Tibby name, to carry her light burden of 6 lbs. first past the post by a short head. AfterGoodwood, what is called the Sussex fortnight Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, carried 8 st. 10 1885 in the exceptionally short time of i sec. The Baron, who had started an odds-on favourite for the Derby (he had consistentlys
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