2iS MEN OF MY TIME. 



He had Recruit, Jenny Vertpre, and many others 

 that did him good service, considering the smallness 

 of his stud. Beyond this brief record I have little to 

 say ; but I call to mind that in those early days, both 

 himself and my father were grossly libelled in a 

 scurrilous print, known as The Penny Satirist. This 

 was what appeared : 



' John Day pulled up the Duke of Grafton's mare 

 in a most disgraceful way, letting the leg, Sir Lewin 

 Glyn's horse, win.' 



This serious accusation was made when my father 

 was a young man, and had just commenced riding 

 for the Dukes of Portland, Grafton, and Cleveland. 

 He naturally thought that a public charge of the 

 kind, notwithstanding that it came from a recognised 

 venomous quarter, might do him some harm in the 

 racing world. So he consulted Mr. C. C. Greville 

 as to what steps he should take to satisfy the public 

 and his employers, and received the following very 

 good advice : 



' Have you lost any of your masters, or has any of 

 them spoken to you about it ?' Mr. Greville asked. 

 And being answered ' No,' said, ' Go home, John, 

 and think yourself a great man, or they would not 

 have noticed you.' 



Another Danebury worthy, Mr. J. J. Farquharson, 

 of Langton, Dorsetshire, was a gentleman who raced 

 in a different style from most people. He w r as 

 a great hunting-man, and kept a pack of foxhounds 



