Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — Equine Celebrities. [ARTICLE]

Equine Celebrities.

Lord Falmouth gives it as his opinion that the ten best horses of the centuryhave been Plenipotentiary, Bay Middleton, Priam, West Australian, Flying Dutchman, Surplice, Harkaway, Touchstone, Cremorne, Gladiateur. Mathew Dawson thinks the ten best were Touchstone, Flying Dutchman, Voltigeur, Stockwell, West Australian, Thormanby, Blair Athol, Gladiateur, St. Simon, and Ormonde. John Porter, one of the most successful trainers in the world, says Teddington, Virago, West Australian, Fisherman, Gladiateur, Rosicrueian, Isonomy, Robert the Devil, St. Simon, and Foxhall were the best of the century. The Hon. Fiancis Lawlev, a well-known turf litterateur, includes Foxhall among the ten best which he has ever seen. So does Mr. James Smith, owner of Rosebery, winner of the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire; so, of course, does William Day, who also names Plenipotentiary, Bay Middleton, Mendicant, Priam, Blue Gown, Touchstone, Surplice* West Australian, and Crucifix as the best he ever saw. John Nightingall includes Foxhall in the best he ever saw. T. Jennings, Jr., includes Verneuil (by Mortemer) in the best he ever saw. John Dawson names absolutely the best horse he ever saw as Prince Charlie. All are more or less influenced by their close connection with the best horses they name, yet, for the benefit of. posterity, their own opinions may be well worth preserving.— Sportsman.