Mr. Harding Cox 



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From photo by Landor, Haling, W. 



MR. HARDING COX'S COCKER SPANIEL 

 CHAMPION WESTBURY MADGE 



ambition may yet be 

 attained. To Mr. 

 Harding Cox belongs the 

 authorship of the Coursing 

 volume of the Badminton 

 Library. 



It is seldom that artistic 

 and sporting tastes go hand 

 in hand, but the exception 

 proves the rule in the 

 case of our friend, for his 

 pictures, his verses, and 

 his music are almost as 

 well known as his dogs 

 and horses. The en- 

 gravings of his " Tug-of-war ''" are as familiar to the eye as the 

 strains of his " Sympatien Valse " are to the ear. 



For some years Mr. Harding Cox held a commission as Captain 

 in the Duke of Cambridge's Hussars, and won the Regimental 

 Challenge Cup for best drill three years in succession, and thus 

 became its owner. 



On the turf his light green jacket was erstwhile well known, and 

 he put in several smart performances in the pig-skin. On Weasel he 

 won eight races out of eleven. On Catoun he won thirteen races in 

 succession ; but he caused quite a sensation when he landed the 

 Portsmouth Stakes on Dornroschen, starting at 100 to 8, and bene- 

 fiting the Ring to the tune of over ^24,000. This same Dornroschen 

 for many years held the lime record for a mile, but Harrow at last 

 ousted her from the distinction. 



Mr. Harding Cox comes of a thoroughly sporting race. His father 

 was very keen with the rod and gun, and a great lover of dogs before 

 the days of shows, whilst his brother, Mr. Irwin Cox, M.P., D.L., is 

 one of the finest game shots and dry-fly fishermen of the day, but he 

 cannot approach his younger brother with the salmon rod, the rifle, 

 or the revolver. 



The portraits of Mr. Harding Cox, his Clumber Spaniel Bailie 

 Friar, his Wavy-coated Retrievers Black Drake and Black Queen, 

 his Greyhound Champion True Token, and his Cocker Spaniel 

 Champion Westbury Madge accompany this sketch. 



