30 NEWMARKET EARLY IN THE CENTURY. 



room meetings" as Kempton Park and Sandown 

 Park are undoubtedly due. Some of these changes 

 are, of course, unpalatable to an old man like 

 myself, especially those identified with the short 

 courses, which are now all the vogue. Upon this 

 oft-debated subject 1 have no intention of entering 

 with wearisome iteration at the present moment. 



As I have previously stated, my grandfather 

 lived in a house built by himself on Mill Hill. 

 This house was within a few feet of that occupied 

 by the grandfather of Mr Richard Prince. The 

 latter trained for the fourth Duke of Portland, and 

 for many other distinguished noblemen, and was 

 one of the most upright men of his class that New- 

 market ever contained. " Old Mr Prince " and 

 his wife took a great liking to my father when he 

 was a little child, and insisted upon having him 

 over to their house as often as possible. In fact, 

 he was adopted at a very early age by her and her 

 husband, despite their own large family. Mr Prince 

 himself was of Irish extraction, and was buried by 

 torchlight, which at the time made a great sensa- 

 tion at Newmarket. My father was carried when 

 a child to see this funeral by S. Wright, my grand- 

 father's foreman, who, to distinguish him from 

 another man of the same name, was called " slab 

 Wright," being a bricklayer by trade. Mr Prince 

 was succeeded by his son, whose mother kept house 

 for him until his own death. All this time my 

 father continued to reside under her kindly roof, 



