234 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



My next son, Fred, trained Yentoi, the winner 

 of the Cesarewitch, for Lady de Bathe, besides 

 bringing off one or two other good coups for other 

 clients. He has also been very successful in 

 Germany and Hungary, winning £50,000 in stakes 

 in the two years he was training in Germany. At 

 the present time he is here, and has taken over 

 Beckhampton. His future, as far as I can see, is 

 assured, and his heart is in his work. 



The next in family is Violet, now Mrs. Duncan 

 Stanning, whose husband played cricket for Lan- 

 cashire. She left with her brother, D ouglas, for E ast 

 Africa in the summer of 1912, and on the voyage 

 she met her husband. I followed them out in 

 the first week in January 1913, and on the voyage 

 Mr. John Stanning, brother of Duncan, became my 

 stable companion. When we arrived at Mombasa, 

 to my surprise my daughter came on board, 

 announcing that she was engaged, and if I approved 

 would I give her away while I was out there. 

 Her fiance was on board, and she would introduce 

 him. Presently Messrs. Duncan and John Stanning 



came walking up the deck together — 

 An un- ox o 



expected neither John nor myself knew anything 



of the engagement until we met at 



Mombasa— and I need hardly say that I quickly 



thought Duncan the best of good fellows, and 



within a few days I gave him my daughter, and 



