2 4 o MEN OF MY TIME. 



with you, as he is going to another place of Sir 

 Charles's directly.' 



I thanked him, and had some good afternoons' 

 sport over the property, it being close to my own 

 house, and showing a variety of game in fair quanti- 

 ties — partridges, pheasants, hares, rabbits, and particu- 

 larly woodcock, for which the coverts were noted. 



Lord Sligo was little known on the Eno-lish turf : 

 for he was content to keep one or two horses 

 at a time. He had Wedge, Winter, and Wire, but 

 not many other good ones ; and, of course, out of so 

 small a stud, anything beyond a win now and then 

 could hardly be looked for. And this was about all 

 he ever accomplished in England. He kept a larger 

 stud in Ireland, but with what success I do not know. 



Lord Glenlyon, a Scotch nobleman, commenced 

 racing at Danebury in 1843, in my father's name, 

 with Ben y Ghlo and brother to Pharold, which were 

 both winners. The next year he raced in his own 

 name, and had, besides the two horses referred to, 

 Hotspur, The Mountain, Glencroine, Lycurgus, and 

 several others, which he ran with fair success. Ben y 

 Ghlo alone w r on him no less than three cups, as many 

 Queen's plates, and six or seven other races. After 

 his lordship's succession to the Dukedom of Athol, 

 he raced but little, and, so far as I know, did nothing 

 worthy of record. I never saw him ; in fact, he 

 never was at Danebury the whole of the time he 

 trained there. But I have always heard him spoken 



