SIR JOSEPH IIAWLEY 



AS \vc have takou the Duke of IJoaiifort as oue of the most distinguislied aniuugst 

 masters of hounds, and Lord Pouk^tt as an owner of steeplechasers, so there is no oue on 

 the turf that has been to the fore oftener in great races than Sir Joseph Kawlcy ; and 

 well indeed has ho earned the title conferred on him of the Lucky Baronet, for not 

 onl)^ has he owned four Derby winners, but, as Buckle said, has picked up most of the 

 good things at Newmarket and at other places besides. It is now some years since he 

 became an owuer of race-horses, and his hrst passion for the sport Avas developed while 

 residing in Itah', where he ran a few horses in conjunction with Mr. Stanley. In 1846 

 he won his tirst great race in England with Maimi, who beat the highly-tried Cossack 

 for the July, and then followed her success by winning the Oaks the next Spring. 

 Thus the roan daughter of Veuison proved at the time a much more remunera- 

 tive purchase than the Oaks winner of the year before. Mendicant, bought for a large 

 sum from Mr. Gulley for the purpose of wiuuiug the xVscot Cup, for which she ran 

 nowhere, and Houghton Down nuist have been far more to Sir Joseph's liking than 

 Danebury at the time. The wonderful daughter of Touchstone, however, made ample 

 amends at the stud for her shortcomings on the turf, and laid the foundation of some of 

 the greatest successes of modern days for the subject of our notice. Fernhill, purchased 

 fi'om Tom Parr, did him yeoman's service, and won both the j^^orthamptonshire Stakes 

 and Metropolitan. The Yenisou blood again came to his aid with Vatican, third to The 

 Dutchman in the St. Leger, and winner of several good stakes besides ; but afterwards 

 turned such a desperate savage at the stud, that he was deprived of sight. Aphrodite 

 was able to run home head-aud-head with the Danebiuy Derby crack, Grecian, lor the 

 July, and then to win the Chesterfield, besides placing the One Thousand and Park Hill 

 to her three-year-old credit ; indeed, she was oue of the most beautiful tillies we ever 

 remember to have seen. Few have had such a string of threc-j'ear-olds in their stable 

 at the same time as Aphrodite, Teddington, The Ban, and Confessor. For though 

 the game little Derby winner was not Sir Joseph's own horse, he ran in the cherry 

 jacket and was under his management. The Derby, Oue Thousand, Doucaster Cup, 

 Park Hill, and Great Yorkshire Handicap, is not — added to being second for the Two 

 Thousand — a bad allowance of great races for one stable in the year. Xotwithstanding 

 this success, with the autumn came the determination to sell off the baronet's stud, 

 and, with the exception of The Confessor and Cowl, they came to the hammer. Luckily, 

 Mendicant's figure stopped short of the £500 reserve, and with her and a few other 

 mares he commenced breeding, the effect of which was that five years later the black 

 and chestnut Beadsman and Fitz-Roland were walking about the Stockbridge Downs in 

 breaking tackle. But luck used their owner so scurvily that he took j^rivate training 

 grounds on Cannon Heath, with George Manning as master of the horse, and removed 

 his stud from Danebiu-y before these horses had shown their true merits. Fortune soon 

 dawned upon the new undertaking, for tiie Two Thousand and Derby both came to 

 Kingsclere in the following year ; and the two-j'ear-old Musjid began to show what was 

 in him at the Stockbridge Meeting. It is somewhat singular that within a very short 

 space John Day should haAC lost two studs, through their owners preferruig to train 

 privately, which contained the winner of a Two Thousand and a Derby, besides a dead- 

 heater for the Newmarket Stakes, and such cliukers as Mu.sjid and Buccaneer, as they 

 say in dinner parlance, to follow. Perhaps still more strange is the wonderful luck 

 which followed both the teams thus removed, oue of which was placed under the care of a 

 hunting groom, who did wonders with them ; though, good as he was in the stable, he did 

 not prove himself strong enough to ward off enemies from A^'ithout, and through the 

 treachery of his OAvn lads lost a great chance of piilling off some of the great three- 

 year-old races. But to retiun. We left Sir Joseph mth Beadsman and Fitz-Eoland at 

 tlie head of the poll as three-year-olds, with Mu.-^jid just beginning to show the best two- 

 year-old form of the season ; and thus far the Manning and AYells )iicii(i(/c seeuied as 

 successful as the Taylor and Marson one of old, when the chestnut bi'own and bay 



