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the War Office, it is said) ; the accompHshed 

 (second) Earl of Wilton (of Heaton Park, a 

 great ' gentleman jockey,' a yachtsman, his own 

 ' domestic chaplain,' an organist, a surgeon, and 

 a ' Christian,' as well as a ' Mr. Worldly Wise- 

 man '); Mr. C. Brewer (bookmaker, joint owner, 

 with Mr. C. Blanton, the trainer, of Robert 

 the Devil) ; Lord Rodney (of ' Kilwarlin ' me- 

 mory) ; Mr. Isaac Day (of ' Caravan ' memory, 

 no relation to the Days of Danesbury, but ' always 

 the best of friends ') ; Mr. Pettit, or Petit (of ' St. 

 Francis ' memory) ; and Mr. Ramsay (the famous 

 Scottish sportsman, who ' belonged to ' Lanercost, 

 and who gave rise to the common toast in Mid- 

 Lothian, before the days of Mr. Gladstone and 

 Home Rule, of ' Mr. Ramsay and the hounds '). 



Then there were Mr. Orde (' of Northumber- 

 land,' the owner of Beeswing) ; Mr. Campbell 

 (owner of Woolwich) ; Mr. Farrance (owner of 

 the marvellous little Joe Miller) ; Lord Lon- 

 desborough (the first Baron, who had both 

 West Australian and Stockwell as sires in his 

 stud at the same time) ; Mr. W. S. Cartwright 

 (a gentleman in some business on a large scale, 

 and owner of ' the beautiful ' Ely) ; Messrs, 



