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he was. But I should hardly myself take it to have been 

 the case, judging from his running so soon afterwards at 

 Goodwood, where he won ; and at Newmarket, when 

 Thunderbolt only just beat him, as he could many others. 

 However, his victory in the Eoyal Hunt Cup, in 1861, 

 was sufficient to prove his speed ; and Mr. Cookson was 

 very fortunate in securing so good a horse as a stallion, 

 though more unlucky in parting with him to the foreigners 

 before his worth at the stud was known. 



Cruiser, the horse notorious as unfit for anything, be- 

 cause of his dreadful temper, became, under Mr. Earey's 

 treatment, as quiet as a lamb in the stable. But though 

 he made his tamer's fortune, he remained useless for 

 practical purposes, for I never heard of his winning, or 

 even running, anywhere afterwards. Mr. Earey made 

 10,000 in one sum by disclosing his secret to a select 

 number of gentlemen and trainers, anxious to add to their 

 store of knowledge, and pay 25 for the privilege. In 

 other words, there were 400 persons who paid for the 

 information. But I am told that even Mr. Rarey could 

 never understand how, out of America, such an intelligent 

 body of men, at such a price, could have been got to- 

 gether. 



I have now enumerated amongst the stanch supporters 

 of the Danebury stables in my father's time, Lord Glen- 

 lyon, afterwards Duke of Athole ; Lords Palmerston, 

 Dorchester, Sligo, and Howth; Sir J. B. Mills, Sir 

 Edward B. Baker, and Sir Lewin Glyn ; and Messrs. 

 Biggs, Farquharson, Wreford, Pryse-Pryse, and Etwall. 

 Surely these supporters were enough to have kept him 

 from lack of horses to train, even without the aid of Lord 

 George Bentinck ! Of my father himself, in his profes- 

 sional capacity, I may, in closing this special reference to 

 the patrons of Danebury, say a few words. To him his 



