MEN OF MY TIME. 



my life as a trainer, I will only here say of Sir 

 Edward, that he was unsurpassed in all the good 

 qualities that a man of taste and honour may 

 laudably desire to possess. 



Sir John Barker Mills, Bart., was another faithful 

 adherent of the Danebury stables. He was remark- 

 ably vivacious in manner and disposition. He lived 

 at Mottisfont Abbey, not far from the Stockbridge 

 racecourse, a good part of which he owned and leased 

 to my father, and afterwards to my brother John. 

 Like Sir Edward, he cared not a fig where his horses 

 ran in the race. He was not, comparatively speaking, 

 a rich man ; but kept a good house, and was quite 

 one of the old style. Once, after a long run of ill- 

 luck, of which he never complained (in fact, I should 

 think such a thing never entered his head), on his 

 winning a little race at Stockbridge, he hastened 

 from the stand to meet my father, as the latter was 

 returning from the scales, and greeted him with a 

 cheery : 



' Hallo, John ! we have won again !' and received 

 the congratulations of his friends with unfeigned 

 delight. 



Sir John's patience was certainly unexampled in 



my experience, except in the case of Mr. A , a 



proctor of Doctors' Commons, who trained with my 

 cousin Sam Scott, son of Mr. Scott of Ascot Heath. 

 Sam was a trainer at Houghton Downs, Stock- 

 bridge. He never had many horses or employers, but 



