Lots 693 to 697-Mr Dermot McCalmont Mr Dermot McCalmont will always be remembered as the owner of

Lots 693 to 697-Mr Dermot McCalmont Mr Dermot McCalmont will always be remembered as the owner of the most astounding two-year-old to grace the Turf, The Tetrach. Born in 1887, he was to inherit most of his fortune from Colonel Harry McCalmont (1861-1902), owner of the Triple Crown winner Isinglass. In his youth, Dermot McCalmont rode over fences and won the Grand Military Gold Cup on his own horse at Sandown Park. The trainer Henry ("Atty") Persse was his cousin and offered him an extraordinary looking blotchy grey colt he had bought at Doncaster at cost price. The youngster-to be named The Tetrrach-was unbeaten in all his seven starts as a juvenile and was winter favourite for the Derby, but injury prevented his racing again. He founded a dynasty for speed at his owner`s Ballylinch Stud in Co. Kilkenny, and was sire and grandsire of Dermot McCalmont`s two winners of the 2000 Guineas. Other good horses campaigned by the Major included Slide On and Piccadilly, both winners of the Irish Derby. Dermot McCalmont was for many years Master of the Kilkenny Hounds. He hunted up until a year before his death. His colours were light blue and scarlet quartered, white cap. The silver-mounted hoof of Major Dermot McCalmont`s mare Ballymacoll, the hinged lid inscribed BALLYMACOLL, 1904-1925, BY HACKLER-BALLYMACARNEY, WINNER OF THREE RACES ON THE FLAT, SEVEN STEEPLECHASES AND ONE HURDLE RACE, SHE WAS ALSO PLACED SECOND TEN TIMES, AND THIRD EIGHT TIMES, IN NEARLY ALL HER RACES SHE WAS RIDDEN BY HER OWNER, MR. D. McCALMONT. Provenance: Sotheby`s auctions at Mount Juliet, Co. Kilkenny, for Mr Victor McCalmont in 1986 & 1987