CHAPTER XIX 



WHAT HAVE I DONE? 



The Sporting League Salvation of Racing The Dunn Case overruled 

 The Starting Gate introduced The Stud Book purified Fresh 

 Blood imported Musket and Herod Object Lessons provided 

 Studs that have grown up Studs that have ceased Strange 

 Case of Cyllene's dam and " Tom " Vigors Unpleasant Sequel 



WHAT have I done in all the years of writing 

 as "The Special Commissioner"? Well, it 

 is hardly for me to say, but there have been 

 a few things done which cannot be disputed. One was 

 the institution of the Sporting League and, thanks to 

 Mr Stutfield, the salvation of racing from the otherwise 

 fatal effects of the judgment in the Dunn case. That 

 was at least something to the good. I don't want to 

 quote too freely from The Sportsman, but I shall never 

 forget the judgment of the Court of Crown Cases 

 Reserved as pronounced by Mr Justice Hawkins. Mr 

 Bigham, Q.C., the leading counsel for Dunn, turned 

 to his junior, Mr Stutfield, by whom I was sitting, and 

 said: "That ends it finally." But Mr Stutfield asked 

 me to come to his chambers, where he pointed out to 

 me that the judgment was wrong, and as a result I 

 wrote an article for the next day's paper, which ex- 

 actly anticipated the judgment of the House of Lords, 

 later on, in the case of Powell v. the Kempton Park 

 Company Limited. Mr Bigham became a judge and 

 a peer of the realm, and Mr Stutfield languished in 

 obscurity, but it was he who saved the Turf at that most 

 critical juncture. 



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