92 THE TURF 



turf, and perpetual steward of Newmarket, 

 resides at Beilby Grange near Wetherby, in 

 Yorkshire, where he has a small but very 

 fashionably bred stud, and was the owner 

 of Chateau Margaux, now in America, and 

 Comus. He is the only man who claims 

 the honour of winning the Derby and 

 St. Leger stakes the same year, with the 

 same horse, which he did with Champion, 

 by Pot-8-o's, ridden in each race by Francis 

 Buckle. 1 The turf is highly indebted to 

 this gentleman, not only for his paternal 

 care of its general interests and welfare, 

 but for having, by his amiable and con- 

 ciliatory manners and conduct, united the 

 sportsmen of the north and south, and 

 divested their matches and engagements of 

 some disagreeable features which had pre- 

 viously been too prominent. Mr. Richard 

 Wilson, now no more, resided at Bildeston, 

 in Suffolk, and was one of the largest 

 breeders of racing stock, of which he had 

 an annual sale ; and Lord Berners, late 

 Colonel Wilson of Didlington, near Brandon, 

 Suffolk, has likewise some capital mares, 



1 It is remarkable that both Champion and Hamble- 

 tonian had a hip down. 



