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" old Mr Prince." After my grandfather's death, 

 his house was occupied for many years by James 

 Robinson, and then by Frank Butler, two of the 

 very finest jockeys that I ever saw. The work- 

 shops and business premises occupied by my grand- 

 father were, on his decease, taken by Mr John 

 Clark, the father of the present much-respected 

 ex-judge. They remained in the hands of the 

 elder Mr Clark and his sons for many years. It 

 is not generally known that, despite my lifelong 

 connection with Newmarket and Goodwood, my 

 great - grandfather was a native of Wantage, in 

 Berkshire, where some of the best training-grounds 

 for race - horses that England contains may not 

 improbably have given him a taste for racing. 

 Anyhow, it is certain that his son, my grandfather, 

 took up his abode at Newmarket, and was greatly 

 interested in racing for many years. I find that 

 " Mr Kent of Newmarket, Cambridgeshire," was 

 a subscriber to the ' Racing Calendar' in 1775, 

 and has continued, with slight intermission, since. 

 It will thus be seen that the surname by which I 

 am known was borne by people associated more 

 or less with horse-racing for a hundred and seven- 

 teen years. In my father's lifetime, no less than 

 in my own, a vast number of changes have occurred 

 in the noble sport, which is now more popular than 

 ever among Englishmen, and, I must add, among 

 Englishwomen ; nor can I be blind to the fact 

 that to the influence of the latter such " drawing- 



