[1] Grandsire Hampton was a multiple winner of top races in England and the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1887.
[2] As an unnamed yearling, at $15,000 he brought the highest price at Haggin's annual Rancho Del Paso California yearling sale, held on June 17, 1903, in the paddock at Gravesend Race Track in Brooklyn, New York.
A winner at two but not in any of the important stakes for his age group, as a three-year-old Cairngorm was among the top horses of his age group, ranked near the great 1905 Three-Year-Old Champion and American Horse of the Year, Sysonby.
[10] Four-year-old Cairngorm made his first start of the year on June 1, 1906, scoring an impressive win in a mile and a sixteenth handicap event at Belmont Park.
[11] However, on June 21, he ran ninth in the Suburban Handicap, the premier event in the United States for older horses [12] and for the remainder of the year showed little of his three-year-old form.