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Trent, confided his money to Job Marson and Aphrodite, the beauti- 

 ful filly with which Sir Joseph had won the One Thousand Guineas 

 at Newmarket. But with fierce glee the Yorkshiremen accepted 

 the challenge. John Scott was then, indeed, the Wizard of the 

 North, and the many-acred shire believed in him to a man. Never 

 before had there been so exciting a contest between the equine 

 champions of the North and South. But this time the North 

 had it. Aphrodite went down before Newminster, who was subse- 

 quently to become the sire of one of Sir Joseph's Derby winners. 

 But the master of Leybourne could not complain of his year's 

 fortune. Besides the One Thousand and the Derby he had won the 

 Great Metropolitan with The Ban, the Ascot Stakes with Vatican, 

 the Great Yorkshire Handicap with The Confessor, the Doncaster 

 Cup with The Ban, whilst Teddington pulled off his great match, 

 for a thousand guineas against Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Deer; 

 in addition to which a multitude of minor races had been credited 

 to Sir Joseph's account. Indeed, although not equal to Lord 

 Falmouth's winnings in 1877, it is doubtful whether any turfite 

 had ever previously won so large a sum in stakes as did Sir Joseph 

 Hawley in 1851 ; and it must be remembered that, unlike the 

 owner of Kingcraft and Silvio, the Kentish baronet betted heavily. 

 Not to dwell at length on minor events, we will merely record that 

 Teddington — whom Sir Joseph first saw at three months' old, and 

 being wonderfully struck with his action, bought him, with the 

 mare, from a blacksmith at Stamford, for £250, and a thousand 

 contingency — wound up his racing career gloriously by winning the 

 Emperor's Plate at Ascot as a five-year-old, and then we hasten on 

 to 1858, which was another of Sir Joseph's lucky years. He opened 

 the ball by winning the Two Thousand, with Filz-Koland, another 

 son of Orlando, and followed this up by carrying off the Derby with 

 Beadsman, Wells in both cases being the jockey, and thus brilliantly 

 inaugurating the long series of successes he was destined to achieve 

 in the cherry and black. The following year Sir Joseph again won 

 the Derby with Musjid, the son of Newminster already referred to. 

 Just ten years later, namely, in 1867 and 1868, Sir Joseph again 

 carried all before him. In the former year, among other successes, 

 he was first and second in the Middle Park Plate with Green Sleeve 

 and Eosicrucian; won the Criterion Stakes with Rosicrucian; ran a 

 dead-heat for the Cambridgeshire with Wolsey ; won the Clearwell 

 with Blue Gown, the Prendergast with Green Sleeve, &c., and 

 when he sent his horses to his winter quarters, must have felt that, 

 in spite of the Marquis of Hastings, the Duke of Newcastle, and Mr. 

 Chaplin, he was really master of the situation for the coming 

 year. He began badly, however, as Green Sleeve could only get 

 fourth for the Two Thousand ; but Blue Gown won the Derby as his 

 father Beadsman had done before him, the son and grandson of Men- 

 dicant thus justifying Sir Joseph's derided purchase ; and on this race 

 the followers of the " lucky baronet " won so enormously as to pretty 



