308 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



in this particular had it not been for the Earl of 

 Hare wood. 



Lord Harewood has owned not a few good horses in 

 his time, and Minstead, after winning the Middle Park 

 Plate, seemed likely to prove the best of his year, but he 

 came to grief in the spring of his three-year-old season. 

 His half-brother, Cantilever, was a more solid success 

 and did wonderfully well in 1913, when as a three-year- 

 old he beat Tracery for the Jockey Club Stakes and, 

 later on, won the Cambridgeshire, though he was 

 coughing and had a temperature. He carried 7 st. 

 12 Ib. that day a big weight for a three-year-old and 

 it was on Lord Harewood's own judgment that he ran, 

 although his jockey had been given up, and he was 

 ridden in the race by his stable boy. 



I have many pleasant memories derived from the 

 working of the old Sporting League in the early and 

 mid nineties. Nothing was more to my mind than the 

 campaign which we carried on against Mr John Burns, 

 after he had expressed his desire to see all race-courses 

 ploughed up. 



A very large number of his constituents in Battersea 

 were railwaymen working on the South Western and 

 Brighton lines, and it was easy to send leaflets to 

 them all explaining how Mr Burns desired to stop the 

 race traffic and thus turn them out of work. This 

 had a very great effect, and in an election which took 

 place about that time Mr Burns came very near 

 to being beaten, and was, in consequence, extremely 

 angry. 



Then followed events which are sufficiently recorded 

 in the following copy of a hand-bill circulated in 

 Battersea some time before a later election : 



