Two Day Sporting Memorabilia - Day 1 Monday 05 November 2012 12:30 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street London W1A 2AA Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia - Day 1) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 took full use of the opportunity A gold model of a kettledrum steering Reefer to a comfortable commemorating the victory of the 3 lengths win. Rossmore was racehorse 'Kettledrum' in the sure of victory and no doubt a 1861 Derby, the 'drumskin' made healthy wager helped pay for the with a grey hardstone and being purchase of this grand cup to a seal stamp with the following more than suitably commemorate hand written inscription reverse his horse's achievement. engraved KETTLEDRUM, Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 WINNER OF THE DERBY, 1861, attached to a gold chain nearly 12in. in length Lot: 3 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 A preserved hoof of 'Zoedone' the 1883 Grand National winner, mounted with electroplate and Lot: 2 converted as an inkwell, the A magnificent trophy hinged lid inscribed ZOEDONE, commemorating the victory of GRAND NATIONAL WINNER, Lord Rossmore's 'Reefer' in the 1883, PRINCE KARL KINSKY 1882 Nottingham Spring Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Handicap, in hallmarked continental silver, a large vase & cover, the handles formed by Lot: 4 swan necks, the body with a A pair of royally presented racing band featuring winged horses plates worn by The Prince of and laurel, the square base with Wales's racehorse Persimmon ball & claw feet and inscribed and his full brother Diamond identically on two sides Jubilee when winning classic 'REEFER' NOTTINGHAM races in 1896 and 1900, the HDCAP 1882, the inside of the Persimmon plate relating to the cover extensively engraved THIS St Leger victory, the Diamond CUP WAS ORIGINALLY Jubilee plate relating to the 2,000 PRESENTED BY THE KING OF Guineas, both plates uniformly THE BELGIANS TO THE KING presented, gilded and within a OF HOLLAND WHO giltwood border surmounted by AFTERWARDS GAVE IT TO Prince of Wales's Feathers, ONE OF HIS AMBASSADORS below are hand inscribed IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY plaques, all laid down on red PURCHASED BY LORD velvet under glass in a wooden ROSSMORE TO frame, the backs fitted with an COMMEMORATE WINNING easel support and also ringed if THE NOTTINGHAM SPRING hanging is preferable, both 33 by HDCAP 1882 1 1/4m. £366 WITH 28cm., 13 by 11in. The plaques HIS CHESTNUT GELDING read: H.R.H. The Prince of 'REEFER' BY LORD CLIFDEN - Wales's, Persimmon, by St WEATHERSIDE, BY 3 Simon ... Perdita II, St. Leger LENGTHS CARRYING TOP Stakes, Sept. 1896 H.R.H. The WEIGHT 8st 7lb, RIDDEN BY Prince of Wales's, Diamond GEORGE BARRETT, overall Jubilee, by St Simon ... Perdita II, height 63.5cm., 25in., width Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, across the handles 30cm., 11 May ... 1900 Provenance: 3/4in. Reefer was a chestnut Bought at Sotheby's inaugural gelding foaled in 1875 by the St Racing Sale 13th November 1996 Leger winner Lord Clifden out of Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 Weatherside. He had already won a Chester Cup in 1879 and was the classiest horse who lined Lot: 5 up for the Spring Handicap at Mr T. Worton's colours bag and Nottingham in 1883, having to the colours carried by his top carry top weight of 8st. 7lb. In his class handicapper of the 1890s autobiography 'Things I Can Tell' Victor Wild, the leather colours Lord Rossmore reveals that he bag inscribed to the brass lock T. had begged the champion jockey WORTON, LAMBOURN, Fred Archer to ride Reefer at BERKSHIRE; the colours Nottingham, but Archer declined comprising a black & gold striped having already committed to jacket with red collar & cuffs, and another runner. George Barrett 1 of 43 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia - Day 1) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com a black & gold quartered cap offered at auction here. The Victor Wild won the Royal Hunt competition then became known Cup at Ascot in 1894, and as the Brassey Challenge Cup. consecutive runnings of the In 1900 history repeated itself. A Great Jubilee Handicap at report in the Sydney Mail 17th Kempton Park in 1895 & 1896. March 1900 covers the match on Often burdened with big weights, 6th March and Camperdown's Victor Wild was also runner-up in defeat of Caramut at Moonee the Royal Hunt Cup in 1895 & Valley Racecourse and explains 1897, and in the Great Jubilee he that 'after an exciting struggle finished third in 1897. Mr T Camperdown was left in the Worton owned and trained Victor enviable position of owners of the Wild. Worton operated on a very trophy the match, which they small scale and Victor Wild was have now won three years in therefore a horse of great fortune succession.' Thus Lord for him. The winnings enabled Brassey's trophy was retired after Worton to build the Waltham just thee years, with the dominant House Stables in Upper Camperdown team having now Lambourn in 1898. Later won the annual polo match at occupants of the stables were the Moonee Valley six years in Rothschild family trainers F C succession. Thomas Brassey, Pratt (1919-1939), A J Wood 1st Earl Brassey, was a British (1940-1946 & D F Watson (1947- Liberal Party politician and 1957). Waltham House Stables Governor of Victoria, Australia, was renamed Lethornes in 1964 from 1895 to 1900, residing at when Doug Marks trained there. Government House, Melbourne. Today's occupant is Michael Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,600.00 Blanshard. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 7 A trio of silver goblets awarded Lot: 6 as point-to-point trophies in 1903 An Australian polo trophy: The and 1906, all fully hallmarked, Brassey Challenge Cup at awarded by the Tally Ho Club for Moonee Valley won outright by point-to-point competitions, all Camperdown Polo Club in 1900, won by Mr H Palethorpe, two by a two-handled English silver his horse Deist the other by his trophy cup, hallmarked Charles horse Ferret, the tallest 26cm., Stuart Harris, London, 1896, 10 1/4in. inscribed PRESENTED BY HIS Estimate: £250.00 - £300.00 EXCELLENCY LORD BRASSEY K.C.B., 1897, POLO CHALLENGE CUP, set on an Lot: 8 ebonised plinth with three A racing plate worn by Craganour winner's shields attached when winning the Middle Park chronicling the three successive Stakes at Newmarket in 1912, victories of Camperdown Polo mounted in a wooden frame Club in seasons 1897-98, 1898- together with a photograph of 99 & 1899-1900, height of cup Craganour with William Saxby 29cm., 11 1/2in., weight 829gr., up, set with a title plaque, 23cm., 26oz. 13dwt. The Sydney Mail 9in. square As a two-year-old 20th March 1897 carries a report Craganour won the Middle Park of the Challenge Cup polo match Stakes and the Gimcrack Stakes. at Moonee Valley between The following year in 1913 the Camperdown and Colac. After colt was controversially Camperdown ran out comfortable disqualified after winning The winners the report informs us 'at Derby at Epsom. Craganour was the conclusion of the game his owned by Charles Bower Ismay, Excellency the Governor [Lord a member of the family that Brassey] presented the cup to owned the White Star Line whose the Camperdown team, who liner RMS Titanic had sunk on have now won it for three years her maiden voyage, 15th April in succession, and are thus the 1912. The decision to disqualify owners of it.' Lord Brassey Craganour appeared harsh and himself then commissioned a has long been thought to be the replacement challenge trophy, racing establishment closing which is the silver cup being ranks to prevent a member of the 2 of 43 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia - Day 1) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com stigma ridden Ismay family Lot: 10 wining the blue riband event of A gold watch presented to the the racing calendar. Besides all jockey Steve Donoghue to of this, the 1913 Derby is as commemorate the six famous for being the 'Suffragette consecutive victories with Brown Derby' with Emily Davison Jack in the Queen Alexandra dashing onto the racetrack and Stakes at Royal Ascot, 1929 to bringing down the King's horse 1934, an 18ct Gold Hunting Anmer, the shocking protest Cased Keyless Lever Watch By resulting in her death. Am Waltham co., dial & provenance: The grandfather of movement signed, full plate gilt the present vendor was the lever movement, bimetallic jockey Fred 'Brusher' Herbert, compensation balance, white winner of over 3,000 races in 21 enamel dial, hair cracks, roman countries and winner of Kentucky numerals, subsidiary seconds, Derby in 1910 on Donau. William the polished case front with Saxby the rider of Craganour was reeded edge, applied equestrian Herbert's brother-in-law. motifs and inscribed BROWN Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 JACK, Br,.G, 1924, JACKDAW- QUERQUIDELLA, the back inscribed TWO OLD Lot: 9 RELIABLES, EVERGREEN Two telegrams sent to the royal STEVE & OLD BROWN JACK, racehorse trainer Richard Marsh the case front interior inscribed from King George V in 1922 and PRESENTED TO STEVE from Queen Alexandra The DONOGHUE, RIDER OF Queen Mother in 1924, both BROWN JACK, WINNER OF being by the way of a thank you THE QUEEN ALEXANDER [sic] for birthday greetings, the first STAKES AT ASCOT FOR SIX instructed from Buckingham CONSECUTIVE YEARS FROM Palace and dated 3rd June reads 1929 TO 1934, the cuvette R. MARSH ESQ. NEWMARKET, inscribed OWNERS SIR I WARMLY THANK YOU, MRS HAROLD & LADY ZIA MARSH AND THE EGERTON WERNHER, TRAINER IVIR HOUSE EMPLOYEES FOR ANTHONY, JOCKEY STEVE YOUR KIND DONOGHUE; sold together with CONGRATULATIONS ON MY a signed affidavit dated 1976 BIRTHDAY, GEORGE R.I.; the confirming that this gold watch second is instructed from H.M.S.