DANEBURY DAYS 



There is a singular fascination about the meteoric 

 career of the ill-fated INIarquis of Hastings, whose 

 "scarlet, and white hoop, white cap" were only 

 registered in 1863, and whose connection with the 

 Turf did not extend beyond 1868. His colours 

 appear in the Calenda7\s of the period as I have 

 given them, but "hoop" should have been "hoops," 

 and that alteration was made when Mr. T. Cannon 

 adopted them in later years. It did not take the 

 Marquis long to get into his stride, for his second 

 year saw him in possession of a really good two- 

 year-old, and Danebury began a brief period of the 

 most extraordinary success that any training estab- 

 lishment has ever known, or may ever know again. 

 If the Marquis did not possess a horse good enough 

 for a "plunge" in any particular race, one was 

 almost sure to be forthcoming that could carry 

 the " blue and white hoop, red cap " of the Duke 

 of Beaufort, and nearly all George Fordham's time 

 must have been occupied in changing one cap and 

 jacket for the other, this being particularly the case 

 at meetings at Stockbridge and Newmarket. John 

 Day and his trusty lieutenant, Joseph Enoch, who 

 afterwards so ably ruled the destinies of Zetland 

 Lodge at Newmarket, never had a spare moment. If 



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