FAMOUS RACING STUDS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS. 



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Somersetshire Stakes ; two each in the Metropolitan, Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, 

 Great Eastern Handicap, Cesarewitch, Goodwood Stakes, and Northamptonshire 

 Stakes ; besides the Portland Plate, Chesterfield Cup, Stewards' Cup at Chester ; 

 Doncaster and Lincoln Handicaps ; the Newmarket, Lincoln, Goodwood, Doncaster, 

 and Stockbridge Nurseries. To this list must be added the New Stakes at Ascot, 

 the Criterion at Newmarket, the Oaks, the Emperor's Vase at Ascot, the Goodwood 

 Cup and Derby, the Two Thousand (twice), and the Queen's Vase at Ascot. He 

 bought St. Giles for Lord Ribblesdale in a lot of five colts at 60 guineas each in 

 a paddock at Sledmere. Promised 

 Land was the best he ever owned ; 

 and with Dulcibella and Weather- 

 bound he won the Cesarewitch and 

 Cambridgeshire in the same year for 

 Mr. Swindell. Few trainers have 

 been so successful as was John Day 

 at Danebury in 1866 and 1867, and 

 even Lord George Bentinck, as he 

 stood on the slopes to watch Crucifix 

 gallop, never saw such a team at the 

 same time on those famous Downs 

 as the horses which then carried the 

 " blue and white hoops " of the Duke 

 of Beaufort, and the "scarlet and 

 white hoops " of the Marquis of 

 Hastings. They were Athena, Black 

 Prince, Ceylon, Challenge, Duke of 

 Beaufort, Gomera, Herald, John 

 Davis, Lady Hester, Lord Ronald, Lecturer, Lady Elizabeth, :-M'amcluke, Miss 

 Havelock, Naivete 1 , Red Cap, Rustic, Sec Saiv, The Earl, Viridis, and Vauban ; 

 and it must have nearly broken John Day's heart to have seen them all dispersed 

 within a twelvemonth. In 1880 he trained Foxhall for Mr. James R. Keene, of 

 New York, at a small private stable in Wiltshire, and again won the same two 

 events, when Foxhall carried /st. 1 2lb. in the Cesarewitch and Qst. in the 

 Cambridgeshire, and was steered by John Watts. 



It was by John Day at Danebury that Venison was trained for Lord George 



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Lord Russell of 

 Killo-wen. 



