George Lambton -- made no secret of doping his horses in a demonstration to stewards

[Calzone Lord]

George Lambton was a legendary British trainer. He trained for Lord Derby for more than 30 years. He won all the big races of his day.

Thinking he was just a top class horse trainer of his day, I was blown away by how impressive his writing is. However, Lambton was a son of the 2nd Earl of Durham and he was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University.

This is a Vanity Fair caricature of Lambton from 1904:



Lambton wrote a 17-column series called 'Memoirs of the British Turf' -- in two separate columns he touched on doping.

Here is a cut of him writing about when he openly doped:









Interestingly, the famous Whitney silks actually belonged to him. Mary Lou Whitney still runs her horses in those colors. Here is the story of how the Whitney's bought the colors from Lambton:





Lambton's description of how the Whitney's obtained his silks is different than Bill Christine's, who rated the Whitney silks the 2nd most iconic in Racing History behind only the Phipps silks in this DRF piece: http://www.drf.com/events/top-10-mos...racing-history