A collection of 25 commemorative racing plates relating to Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, each preserved after a victory and mounted onto a tin base, painte

A collection of 25 commemorative racing plates relating to Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, each preserved after a victory and mounted onto a tin base, painted & inscribed with details of the racehorse, race, year & prize money, the racehorses comprising: Scipio (Hastings Plate, Newmarket, 1914), Troubadour (Tower Maiden Plate, Leicester, 1914), Canterbury Belle (Column Produce Stakes, Newmarket, 1916), Corcel (Bromford H'Cap, Birmingham, 1922), Casanova (Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, 1938), Panorama (Newmarket 2-Y-O Stakes, Newmarket 1938), the wartime St Leger winning Sun Castle (Melbourne Stakes, Newmarket, 1941), the Oaks winning filly Hycilla (Champion Stakes, Newmarket, 1944), Persian Gulf (Linton Stakes, Newmarket, 1944), Herald (race details now indistinct), Ladycross (Yorkshire Oaks, York, 1947), the St Leger winner Black Tarquin (Derby Trial Stakes, Lingfield, 1948 & The White Rose Stakes, Hurst Park, 1949), Erica Fragrans (Strawberry Girl Plate, Hurst Park, 1949), Raise You Ten (Goodwood Cup, Goodwood, 1964), Crimea II (Cheveley Park Stakes, Newmarket, 1963), Pardao (Derby Trial Stakes, Lingfield, 1961), the Derby winning colt Parthia (Dee Stakes, Chester, 1959 & Jockey Club Cup), Dickens (Midland Breeders Foal Stakes, Birmingham, 1959 & the Dante Stakes, York, 1959), the St Leger & King George winning colt Alcide (Winston Churchill Stakes, Hurst Park, 1959), the St Leger winner Premonition (Yorkshire Cup, 1954) & Lone Eagle (Hastings Stakes, Newmarket, 1949), mounted for presentation on a mahogany backboard 72.5 by 85cm., 28 1/2 by 33 1/2in. The plates dated 1914 to 1916 in this lot relate to Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort's appointment as Sir Ernest Cassel's racing manager, while those dating from 1922 onwards relating directly to his training achievements at Freemason Lodge.