Ill 



DANEBURY AND LORD GEORGE BENTINCK 



Sat est vixisse. 



Wherein were two things equally amusing : 

 The one was winning, and the other losing. 



Danebury for sale !^ Is there a surviving votary 

 of the Turf of the Victorian era whose mind is 

 not charged with memories of Danebury and 

 Stockbridge — once the centre of racing interests, 

 where the quick pulse of the Turf world throbbed, 

 where fortunes were made and lost, and where 

 the dead progenitors of the race-horses of to-day 

 were born and trained for their engagements ? 



Some seven miles from Andover and about 

 seventeen from Salisbury lies the little town of 

 Stockbridge, with its race-course in the middle 

 of the open country. On the sky-line is seen the 

 majestic Danebury Clump, and as the descent is 

 made from that commanding height, there stretches 

 the famous Danebury Down, revealing all the quiet 

 beauties of the valley. The turf is sound and 

 yielding and of a livelier hue than elsewhere. The 

 hill-sides are bright with a rich verdure, and in 

 the sunshine the landscape has a freshness and 

 a warmth of colouring peculiar to this delicious 

 quarter of Hampshire. The race-course on which 



I This property was put up for sale, and bought by Lord Glanely. 



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