DANEBURY DAYS 



known and popular " harlequin " of Mr. Watt, 

 brought off a 20 to 1 chance in the Great York- 

 shire Stakes, beating the Danebury colt by a length, 

 and it was then decided that it would be useless to 

 send the latter to the post for the St. Leger, and he 

 was reserved for the Doncaster Stakes, in which he 

 had no chance against Savernake. He had gone 

 completely to the bad when he met his quondam 

 stable companion, Lord Lyon, in a match for 1000 

 sov. over the D.I. at the Houghton Meeting, for, 

 although a severe two miles was by no means to 

 the liking of the Derby winner, he had no trouble 

 in gaining a twenty lengths victory. " Sold to go 

 to Prussia " appears against Rustic's name in the 

 Calendar for that year, and I do not think that his 

 exile was a matter for regret. He stood fully 

 seventeen hands, and was always a great helpless- 

 looking colt, with very indifferent action, and 

 apparently lacking the necessary power to move 

 his gigantic frame. 



Of a widely different type was Lecturer, the 

 famous Danebury " retriever." The little wonder 

 never quite reached fifteen hands, but was a horse 

 of remarkable length. When fairly stretched out 

 in a gallop he carried his head so low that it was 

 almost on the ground, and he had such extra- 

 ordinary round action that he used to cut his 

 elbows, and had to be shod with half tips. He was 

 by Costerdale out of Algebra, and belonged as a 

 two-year-old to Alfred Day, for whom he proved 

 incapable of winning a race. His last effort at 

 that age was in a Nursery at Weymouth, in which 

 he was heavily backed down to 7 to 4, and dis- 

 appointed his owner sadly by getting beaten a 

 head. In the following season he was tried over 

 five furlongs during the same week in which the 

 Stockbridge Spring Meeting took place, and won 



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