CHAPTER VI 



DANEBURY AND THE MARES 



By his purchase of the Danebury Estate Lord Glanely 

 has become possessed of classic ground. What the 

 Bibury Club and Stockbridge Meeting used to be 

 was described by my old friend Lord Suffolk who 

 might be best known as the literary Earl. Thus he 

 writes in the " Racing " volume of the Badminton 

 Library : 



' The ' Calendar months ' include no fixture more 

 keenly anticipated and relished than those three 

 summer days on the downs at Danebury. Stock- 

 bridge, to which the Bibury Club meeting was removed 

 in 1 83 1, when local support failed at its birthplace on 

 the Cotswolds, has seldom if ever attempted to provide 

 the rich prizes which fire the ambition or the avarice 

 of owners. The Hurstbourne, established in 1870, 

 at the suggestion of Lord Portsmouth, is now by far 

 the most valuable of its stakes, the Stockbridge Cup — 

 a piece of plate value 300 sovereigns — coming next in 

 order of importance, and the whole affair has always 



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