A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



its supporters. Like several others that could be named, Sir Joseph Hawley, of 

 Ley bourne Grange, did not burn to distinguish himself as a politician in the House 

 of Commons, and deliberately gave up his excellent chances of representing Kent 

 in Parliament in order to add the names of Teddington, Beadsman, Musjid, Blue 

 Gown, Aphrodite, and Mendicant to the annals of the English Turf. By 1844 he 

 had registered the "cherry and black cap" that was to become so famous, and 

 he won the Oaks three years later. His first Derby victory, with a horse really 

 the property of his friend, who was afterwards known as Sir J. Massey Stanley 

 Errington, was appropriately timed for Exhibition year, when the enormous 

 Epsom crowd was swollen by a huge concourse of visitors from almost every 



country in the world. 

 "Leviathan" Davis lost 

 about ,100,000 when 

 Teddington came in 

 ahead of thirty -two other 

 starters, and Job M arson 

 his jockey got ,2,000 

 from the lucky owner. 

 Aphrodite, who scored 

 the One Thousand, was 

 beaten for the Leger 

 by Newminster, but Sir 

 Joseph got a neat 

 revenge by breeding 

 Musjid, another Derby 



winner, from the conqueror, and further consoled himself by compiling a larger sum 

 in stakes than any other owner that same year, besides a quantity of heavy bets. 

 Teddington only cost ,250, with an additional ,1,000 after his Derby victory. 

 Another son of Orlando won the Two Thousand for Sir Joseph in 1858, when 

 "Tiny Wells " also secured the Derby for him with Beadsinan ; and it seemed as 

 if luck could go no further when Musjid won the great race again at the next time 

 of asking. In 1867 and 1868 the winning numbers began to turn up again as fast 

 as ever with Green Sleeve, Rosicrucian, Bhte Gown, his fourth Derby winner, 

 Pero Gomez, The Palmer, and Wolsey on the cards. Blue Goivn, though the darling 

 of the public, was never a favourite with "the lucky Baronet," who gave the stakes 





"Blue Gown" by " Beadsman" (1865). 



