Gentlemen Riders 



subject of our sketch took up his abode at Cokethorpe Park, 

 Oxon, rented from his brother Clement, to whom it had 

 descended from his uncle, Mr. Walter Strickland ; and here 

 he trained a few high-class chasers, belonging to his friends 

 and himself, with considerable success ; the late Major Orr- 

 Ewing — for whom he has nothing but praise — and who owned 

 Ford of Fyne, Nelly Gray, and others, being his principal 

 patron. 



In 1906 his brother Clement, familiarly known as "Jockey" 

 Dormer, a nickname he acquired at Eton from his fondness for 

 sporting literature and horsey attire, and who at one time rode 

 a good many hunters' races on the flat with more or less success, 

 died, being followed soon after by his mother ; and as by the 

 terms of her will, the subject of our sketch had to choose between 

 Cokethorpe (which had already become his) and Ingmire Hall, 

 in Yorkshire, he selected the latter ; one of the conditions of his 

 doing so being that he was to change his name to Upton. 



And there, with the exception of a month or two in the winter, 

 when he and his wife repair to Lew House, near Bampton, lately 

 bought by him for a stud farm, for the purpose of hunting with 

 the different Oxfordshire packs, Mr. Upton principally resides. 

 Though neither his father nor grandfather took any interest in 

 racing — the latter indeed had a positive dislike to it on the 

 ground that it was cruel — his great grandfather. Sir Clement 

 Cottrell, in his day, was a noted figure on the Turf, and at one 

 period, we believe, owned a good many horses in training, his 

 best probably being The Darling, from the circumstance that 

 his old stud groom, John Price, on retiring from his service, 

 set up a public house in the village of Rousham, which he 

 called after the horse in question. At the latter's death the 

 house was converted into two cottages, which are still known 

 as " The Darling Cottages," whilst the original sign of the 



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