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Granville) ran a good many horses in his own 

 name. 



Mr. Henry Biggs, though now no longer remem- 

 bered, was very well and favourably known in his 

 day, and was of Stockton, Wiltshire. 



Mr. John Bowes, of Streatlam, Durham, who died 

 only a few years ago, was one of the most interesting 

 characters of the Jockey Club. He was all but 

 eleventh Earl of Strathmore, but missed the earldom 

 through his father's dilatoriness in the matter of 

 marriage ; and he himself was twice married, but each 

 time to a foreigner; first (in 1872) to Josephine 

 Benoite, Countess de Montalbo or Montalba, who died 

 in 1874 ; and secondly (in 1877) to Alphonsine Marie, 

 Countess de Courten. Thus it was that he lived abroad 

 a great deal, insomuch that George Fordham (who 

 rode for him very often in latter times, though not, of 

 course, in the palmy days, not being old enough) is said 

 not to have known him by sight. It was in his earlier 

 days that Mr. Bowes (who won the Derby in 1835, 

 1843, 1852, and 1853, with Miindig, Cotherstone, 

 Daniel O'Piourke, and West Australian ; the Two 

 Thousand in 1842, 1843, and 1853, with Meteor, 

 Cotherstone, and West Australian ; and the St. Leger 

 in 1853 with West Australian) laid down, in con- 

 junction with John Scott the trainer, the famous 'tan 

 gallop ' at Langton Wold. 



Mr. T. E. Case- Walker is the gentleman who was 

 Mr. Case when he was elected a member of the Jockey 



