2 4 8 MEN OF MY TIME. 



take it to have been the case, judging from his running 

 so soon afterwards at Goodwood, where he won; and 

 at Newmarket, when Thunderbolt only just beat 

 him, as he could many others. However, his victory 

 in the Royal Hunt Cup, in 1861, was sufficient to 

 prove his speed ; and Mr. Cookson was very fortunate 

 in securing so good a horse as a stallion, though 

 more unlucky in parting with him to the foreigners 

 before his worth at the stud was known. 



Cruiser, the horse notorious as unfit for anything, 

 because of his dreadful temper, became, under Mr. 

 Rarey's treatment, as quiet as a lamb in the stable. 

 But though he made his tamer's fortune, he remained 

 useless for practical purposes ; for I never heard of 

 his winning, or even running anywhere afterwards. 

 Mr. Rarey made £10,000 in one sum by disclosing 

 his secret to a select number of gentlemen and 

 trainers, anxious to add to their store of knowledge, 

 and pay £25 for the privilege. In other words, there 

 were 400 persons who paid for the information. But 

 I am told that even Mr. Rarey could never under- 

 stand how, out of America, such an intelligent body 

 of men, at such a price, could have been got together. 



I have now enumerated amongst the staunch 

 supporters of the Danebury stables in my father's 

 time, Lord Glenlyon, afterwards Duke of Athol ; 

 Lords Palmerston, Dorchester, Sligo, and Howth ; Sir 

 J. B. Mills, Sir Edward B. Baker, and Sir Lewin 

 Glyn ; and Messrs. Biggs, Farquharson, Wreford, 



