A GREAT YEAR 



win the Cesarewitch,was another Danebury bred, as was 

 Reminder, who won the City and Suburban of 1895, 

 having been purchased by Sir George Chetwynd, and 

 Humewood, winner of the Cesarewitch of 1887, sold 

 shortly before the race to Lord Rodney. But Dane- 

 bury-bred winners were too numerous to mention. 

 Tom Cannon was not on good terms with his tenant 

 Chandler, the trainer, who occupied the Houghton 

 Downs Farm, the reason being that Chandler was in 

 the habit of taking out his gun without permission 

 from his landlord ; but Amphion was in the Houghton 

 Downs stables, Tom Cannon declared that he must 

 have a ride on this charming chestnut, and for a time 

 the quarrel was patched up. 



The events with gentlemen riders were a feature 

 of the Bibury Club Meetings, as indeed to a less 

 extent they continue to be now that the Club has 

 removed to Salisbury. Mr. Arthur Coventry was 

 continually to the fore in Tom Cannon's scarlet and 

 white hoops, other familiar names being those of 

 Mr. George Lampton, Mr. Hugh Owen, Mr. Hed- 

 worth Berkeley, Mr. Hanbury, Lord Marcus Beresford, 

 Capt. Robert Sandeman, Mr. Bevill, Capt. " Roddy " 

 Owen. These were all experienced practitioners, but 

 sometimes members of the Club less accustomed to 

 the saddle rashly embarked upon enterprises which 

 they failed to enjoy. One of them started one day 

 on a two mile race, and when the field had gone some 



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