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witted the lady-like Deception for tlie Derby^, and to 

 Blink Bonny was left the fame of breaking' through the 

 Eleanor spell. With ^^ honest John" on her, Deception 

 won the Oaks as she pleased, and thus at length Mr. 

 Craven's great ambition was gratified. It is only right 

 to say that he himself found no fault with the way in 

 which she was ridden for the Derby ; and, as he declared 

 at the time, " I only put John Day up to satisfy the 

 public.'^ The Oaks filly went on to both Stockbridge and 

 Goodwood, with only further favour ; but, despite such 

 signal success, her owner was again declining. In 1840, 

 he had only her and Benedetta, with which he won the 

 Hopeful, in workj and in 1812 his career closed with a 

 couple of platers, whose names were highly emblematic 

 of the man and his tastes just at that period. They were 

 ^' Don't-say-No !" and the still more slangy "That's-the 

 time- o' Day !" 



Like many more gentlemen who have made a noise in 

 the Ring, Fulwar Craven was little hurt by what he did 

 on the Turf. He was a tolerably keen bettor at times, 

 but, with all his "flash," in reality a careful man. It is 

 true, he sold the Chilton estate, but he sold it well to 

 Mr. Popham, and only in order to purchase the Brock- 

 hampton property, which he looked on more as the family 

 place, and where, we believe, his father, the reverend 

 John Craven, and his mother, were buried. Despite the 

 disadvantage to which Mr. Fulwar Craven showed him- 

 self, he had many redeeming qualities. He was a tho- 

 rough gentleman when he cared to throw off the part 

 lie had taken to, had naturally good abilities, and was 

 a very fair scholar. He is spoken yet more highly of in 

 his own neighbourhood as an excellent magistrate and a 

 good landlord. Nothing delighted him more than a day's 



