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Lot 482
Book - Genius Genuine, Samuel Chifney of Newmarket (1753-1807), jockey, of horse racing interest, includes an account of the Prince of Wales' horse 'Escape' at Newmarket 1791, red leather boards with gilt tooling and title to cover and spine, blue endpapers, this edition reprinted from the January 9th 1804 edition by Henry Angel, 16 Gloucester Street, Queen Square, London, c1870s
Lot 248
*Stevengraphs. A set of four horse racing embroidered Stevengraphs, late 19th/early 20th century, embroidered scenes titled:- The Start, The Struggle, The Water Jump [and] The Finish, each with a contemporary card mount with a printed title, each approximately 50 x 150 mm, framed and glazed, together with another copy of 'The Start' (5)
Lot 266
Horse Racing. Presentation album of photographs of Foxhill House stables, Wanborough, Wiltshire, circa 1920, specially produced album containing 33 black & white mounted photographs by the photographer Clarence Hailey of Newmarket, comprising exterior views of the house, yard, portraits of the horses with trainers & stable hands etc., and portraits of horses from paintings, majority with printed captions to mount, all edges gilt, original black morocco with 'Foxhill' applied in gilt to upper board, oblong folio (image sizes approximately 19 x 24cm & slightly smaller), binding 30.8 x 38cm (12 x 15ins) Foxhill House formed part of the neighbouring King Edwards Place, a well known racing yard at the turn of the last century. Sir Gordon Richards (1904-1986) started his famous racing career here as a stable boy in 1919 (pictured on Kings Pirate in the album). In the same year that the yard's Ivanhoe (pictured in album) won the Cesarewitch race at Newmarket. Sir Gordon Richards was born in Shropshire and had 4,870 victories during his horse racing career. The most famous and well known horse from the Foxhill yard was Irish Elegance who won numerous races. (1)
Lot 478
Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Words by Rudyard Kipling, 1898, 12 lithograph plates depicting hunting, coursing, horse racing, boating, fishing, cricket, archery, coaching, shooting, golf, boxing, and skating, some light offsetting to facing text leaf, some spotting to endpapers, partly cracked on innner hinges, signature of Gwendolen Grotrian to front pastedown, original linen-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and some soiling and marks, 4to Ex libris James McBryde, artist and illustrator of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James. (1)
Lot 625
*Horse Racing game. Upidee, The Great Race Game, C.W. Faulkner & Co., circa 1900, twenty chromolithographed cards, with horse racing scenes and numerals (to form the track course), six chromolithographed card horse and jockey playing pieces, each on a wooden stand, and two printed rule cards (toned and stained), contained together in reconstructed cardboard box, preserving most of original box (soiled), box 12.5 x 10 x 2.5cm (5 x 4 x 1ins), plus Derby Day, A Unique Race Game, Anglo American Games Co., boxed game with cards, rules, and counters (2)
Lot 636
*Sandown. Roulette horse racing game, F.H. Ayres Ltd., circa 1910, revolving metal disk applied with colour lithographed images of seven horses by Finch Mason, diameter 21cm (8.25ins), with perspex cover (cracked), and green baize surround, bone racing post present, without betting sheet and instructions, contained in a polished wooden box (with 3" crack at one edge), 10 x 30.5 x 30.5cm (4 x 12 x 12ins), with original stitched fitted black cloth cover, and original cloth-covered cardboard box containing twenty-one colour lithographed cards each showing a horse and jockey, an instruction card, and a number of circular counters, box rubbed and soiled (1)
Lot 75
Horse Racing Willie Carson genuine authentic signed photo, and 10 x 8 colour photo of Willie Carson on a horse! Sorry, I can identify signatures, but not horses! Clearly signed in black marker. Good condition. Item comes with lifetime guarantee of authenticity and COA from an AFTAL registered dealer.
Lot 935
An Interesting M.B.E. and ‘Passchendaele’ M.C. group of Four awarded to Captain Robert Launcelot Busby, 2/8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, taken P.o.W. in 1918, who afterwards rose to prominence in Manchester and Salford as Director of the local racecourse and as a local politician, and later served as Commandant of the Salford “Specials” during the Blitz, comprising: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, Member’s second type breast badge, in silver; Military Cross, GVR, the reverse privately engraved (Captain R. L. Busby); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. L. Busby) the latter with M.i.D., mounted on bar with reverse pin for wear, lightly toned, good very fine, offered with an extensive file of copied research, including his MIC entry which confirms his BWM & Victory Medals were issued in 1928. (4) NOTE: M.C.: London Gazette, 06 April 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On his Commanding Officer becoming a casualty, he took charge of the situation, communicated with the forward troops, and sent messages to Brigade Headquarters under difficulties. He collected men from various units scattered about in shell holes and sent them forward under a responsible leader. The men though tired out, were everywhere inspired by his coolness and tact.’ M.i.D.: London Gazette, 23 May 1918: ‘For the March Retreat in 1918 where he was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW’ M.B.E.: London Gazette, 09 June 1938: ‘For political and public services in Manchester and Salford.’ Robert Lancelot Busby was born in Hampstead, London, in 1880, and lived with his uncle Charles Frail, following the death of his parents. Frail was a respected figure in horse racing, and in 1898 he acquired 132 acres of land beside the River Irwell in Salford where the foundation stone of the Club Stand for Manchester Racecourse was laid three years later. Robert was appointed Secretary of the new racecourse in 1904. At the outbreak of war he joined the Lancashire Fusiliers as 2nd Lieutenant in the 2/8th Battalion in August 1915, but his battalion did not proceed to France until early 1917, when Busby had reached the rank of Captain and Adjutant. As Adjutant, he was responsible for the unit’s war diary, and one entry of his written on the eve of an attack at Passchendaele on 9 October 1917 reads as follows: ‘Conditions were almost indescribable. The night was inky and the track led over ground covered with innumerable shell-holes full of mud and water. This march would normally take about one and a half hours. It took the Battalion eleven and a half hours.’ The regimental history further describes how the men were often up to their waists in water so ‘several drowned through sinking down in the water from the weight of their equipment and sheer exhaustion.’ The C.O. of the 2/8th was wounded on the morning of 9 October, where Busby assumed command of the Battalion H.Q. and went forward to rally the men: according to the regimental history they ‘responded cheerfully to the inspiration of his coolness and tact.’ Eventually the Battalion’s objective was reached but they suffered casualties of 13 officers and 374 other ranks killed, wounded or missing. In another war diary entry dated 31 October 1917 Busby listed those decorated for their part in the attack, with his own name listed amongst those awarded the MC. In March 1918, his Battalion was positioned near Peronne where it faced ‘head on’ the ‘German Spring Offensive’ with heavy bombardments of gas and artillery which was swiftly followed by large-scale infantry attacks. Some 500 of its ranks were killed, wounded or taken prisoner in this attack, and Busby himself was interned at the Citadel Queists POW Camp in Germany before being repatriated to England at the end of November. Post-war, Busby returned as a Director at Manchester Racecourse, and ‘as much at ease with a groundsman as with a member of the Jockey Club’ he gained a reputation as one of the best racecourse organisers in the country. He was awarded the M.B.E. in June 1938, and on the outbreak of hostilities Busby was appointed Commandant of the ‘Salford Special’ Constabulary, in which role he worked tirelessly despite the devastation caused during German air-raids over Manchester in 1940. On two nights in December around 8,000 homes in Salford were destroyed and Busby’s office was also wrecked - and a direct hit on the racecourse resulted in the cancellation of the New Year meeting. Having worked himself to near-exhaustion, he was persuaded that he should take recuperative leave, and Busby retreated to Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales but tragically on the 18th of August 1941, he took his own life. Ex Dr Alan Stott collection, D.N.W., 25 March 1997, lot 111. Full details of his career and tragic death appeared in a biographical article in Medal News in February 2012 - “A Study in Fortitude”.
Lot 255
A Victorian mahogany games compendium, containing an assembled collection of thirty two boxwood and rosewood chess pieces, dominoes (two varieties to include thirty carved Secessionist examples) backgammon pieces, a cribbage board, horse racing pieces, die shakers etc (at fault) box 39.5cm wide, 21.5cm deep
Lot 11
FDC cover collection of 38 covers. Some of those included are British Architecture, Stockton & Darlington Railway, Shire Horse Society Centenary, Come Racing at Ascot, Come Racing at Goodwood, Come Racing at York, Come Racing at Haydock Park, Come Racing at Doncaster, Come Racing at Ayr, Come Racing at Newmarket, Come racing at Cheltenham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 1880 Centenary Tour, Comes in blue album. Good condition
Lot 951
HORSE RACING A miscellany including 2 metal badges in 1904 from Kempton Park and Newmarket, 2 Race cards for Doncaster 2/4/1936 and 13/6/1936 and a colour postcard of The King leaving the Course at the Grand National 1900 Peacock Brand issue and a Press photograph with paper notation on the reverse 5/5/1910 showing the grandstand at Goodwood with paper loss. Fair to generally good
Lot 958
HORSE RACING-SILVER SADDLE Boxed , framed silver saddle presented to the winning jockey of the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Classic at Ascot , 9/8/2014. Hall-marked and comes framed with inscription. Measures (including frame) 39cm x 39cm. The race was won by Our Gabrial ridden by Olivier Peslier to whom this award was given. Good
Lot 755
Five Unframed Signed Limited Edition Roy Miller Horse Racing Prints - Arkle 13/850, The Flying Grey and the Water Jump no. 86/850, Shergar and Walter Swinburn no. 250/850, Dancing Brave Pat Eddery no. 250/850 (and signed by Pat Eddery) plus Nashwan no. 461/950 (and signed by Willie Carson) - all with coas
Lot 919
ASSORTED DIECAST MODEL VEHICLES comprising a Matchbox 1-75 series No.35, E.R.F. Marshall Horse Box, red and tan, metal wheels, near mint; Matchbox 1-75 series No.41, Jaguar D-Type, green, racing number '41', metal wheels, near mint; Matchbox 1-75 series No.46, Morris Minor 1000, dark green, metal wheels, near mint; and a further thirty-five models, by Matchbox and others, variable condition, many good, several incomplete, all unboxed, (38).
Lot 49A
A contemporary decorative silver brooch in the form of a horse and jockey - horse racing interest. Total weight 5.6g FREE UK POSTAGE ON ALL LOTS INCLUDING COMBINED PURCHASES ( ECONOMY UN-INSURED 2ND CLASS). 48HR TRACKED AND RECORDED SERVICE £6.99+VAT. OVERSEAS PLEASE VIEW WEBSITE FOR DETAILS
Lot 22
THE CEYLONESE SILVER-MOUNTED SHORTSWORD (KASTANE) PRESENTED TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR WILLIAM HENRY GREGORY, K.C.M.G., 14TH GOVERNOR OF BRITISH CEYLON (1872-1877), FROM MRS ALWIS, CIRCA 1872-90 with curved single-edged blade formed with a long slender fuller on each face, the forte encased in engraved brass inlaid with silver scrolls and leaves (small losses), hilt of characteristic form almost entirely encased in chased silver plaques, comprising a pair of quillons, arms and knuckle-guard involving Simha and Makara heads and traditional scrollwork, the grip chased with further scrolls and the pommel formed as a Simha head with a single red stone eye (the other missing, small losses), in its wooden scabbard encased in gilt copper, decorated with traditional scrollwork at the top and bottom, fitted with a single ring for suspension, and with presentation inscription towards the top 64.7 cm; 25 ½ in blade The inscription reads: To The Right Honorable Sir W.H. Gregory, K.C.M.G., From Mrs Alwis. Sir William Henry Gregory (1816-1892) was the son of Robert Gregory of Coole Park, co. Galway, and Elizabeth O'Hara of Raheen. He was born on 13 July 1816 IN Dublin and educated at Harrow School from 1831 under Charles Thomas Longley, who considered him the cleverest boy he ever taught. Gregory was head of the school before leaving for Oxford. At Harrow he began a lifelong friendship with Anthony Trollope. Gregory matriculated at Christ Church on 6 June 1835, but was less successful there, running second for the Craven scholarship in two successive years. Deeply disappointed by this failure, and increasingly distracted by an interest in horse-racing, he left Oxford without a degree. In January 1842 he stood at a by-election as the Conservative candidate for Dublin, and was returned against the whig-Liberal Viscount Morpeth. The election cost £9000, of which the chief item was a 'gratification for 1500 freemen at £3 a head'. Gregory was soon regarded as being among the promising young men of his day in the House of Commons. He was popular with all parties and attracted the attention and regard of men as different as Peel, Disraeli, and O'Connell. He was the author of the 'Gregory clause', which disentitled the possessor of more than a quarter of an acre of land, and his family, to relief. He declared in parliament on 29 March 1847 that the smallholding class was 'no longer an object of pity'. He also procured the insertion of provisions for assisting emigration. Gregory inherited his father's Galway estates in spring 1847, and soon acquired a reputation as a humane and improving landlord. In 1850 he was appointed high sheriff of Galway, and became active in local affairs. Gregory's already considerably encumbered estates were pushed further into debt by his famine expenditure. His financial embarrassments were compounded by his passion for the turf, where he made heavy losses in the early 1850s and in 1857 he was obliged to sell more than half his estate. After this financial breakdown Gregory finally quitted the turf, but he retained his interest in racing matters to the end of his life. Gregory became best known in parliament for his promotion of state funding for the arts. In 1860 he chaired a House of Commons inquiry into the British Museum, and he subsequently had much to do with the arrangement and development of the South Kensington collections. He was an ardent supporter of the opening of public museums on Sundays and took a keen interest in popularizing the study of the arts. In 1867 he was appointed by Disraeli a trustee of the National Gallery, and he took a very strong interest in the enlargement of the national collection. Shortly before his death he presented the best of his private collection to the National Gallery. Early in 1871 Gregory was sworn of the Irish privy council, and later that year he was appointed, governor of Ceylon. In January 1872 he sailed for that colony, in which he remained for over five years. In this position Gregory exhibited high administrative qualities, and his tenure of the governorship was one of considerable success and popularity. He spent more money on transport and irrigation works than any other governor, doing much to stimulate the cultivation of coffee and tea, and to improve the harbours of the island. His efforts at social reform and attempts to end the commercial monoculture of coffee were more circumspect and of limited success. He also took a great interest in the culture and antiquities of Ceylon, and established a museum at Colombo. In 1875 he received the Prince of Wales in Colombo and was knighted. Increasingly bored by administrative routine, irritated by the criticisms made of him by the plantation interest, and having clashed with the Conservative colonial secretary over the privileges of the Anglican church in the colony, Gregory decided to resign in 1876. After a visit to Australia in January 1877, he returned to Ireland. Thenceforward Gregory took no active part in public affairs, though his interest in them remained keen. As an Irish landlord he was deeply alarmed by the land war, and he vehemently criticized Gladstone's Land Act of 1881. In 1882 he had a sharp confrontation with his tenants over rent levels, and relations were subsequently strained on the Coole estate. He was strongly opposed to the home-rule movement, and in 1881 he printed privately a 'confidential letter', attacking what he took to be the separatist aims of Parnell and his followers. From 1886 Gregory considered himself a Liberal Unionist, ready to support coercion against agrarian agitation, but looking increasingly to tenant purchase as the solution to the land question. Gregory had a strong interest in the Middle East; he visited Egypt and north Africa in 1855-6, and published an account of his travels privately in 1859. In 1882 he advocated the cause of Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian nationalist leader, in letters to The Times. Subsequently to his retirement from the Ceylon government he paid three visits to that island. He contributed to The Racing Life of Lord George Bentinck by John Kent and Francis Lawley (1892) and in 1889 he published an article on Daniel O'Connell in the Nineteenth Century. Gregory was twice married: first, on 11 January 1872, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Clay and widow of James Temple Bowdoin, a lady of considerable private fortune, who died in 1873; second, on 4 March 1880, to Isabella Augusta (1852-1932), youngest daughter of Dudley Persse of Roxborough, co. Galway. She survived him with one son, William Robert Gregory, and both published Gregory's posthumous autobiography and turned Coole Park into the centre of the Irish literary renaissance. After 1890 Gregory's health gradually failed, and he died at his London home, 3 St George's Place, on 6 March 1892. A reduction, taken from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Lot 553
HORSE RACING INTEREST - a cream silk scarf centrally printed in brown with the race-horse "Grand Parade", the jockey in painted black, red and blue silks, "Winner of the Victory Derby ... 1919 .... property of Lord Glanely", within a brown border printed with all previous winners from 1780, with two selvedges and two machine stitched hems, 36" x 33"
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