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redeemed the fortunes of the master, and of some of the 

 patrons of Danebury. His noble employers always evinced 

 great regard for John Day. His manners were quiet and 

 unobtrusive. He was closely associated in business matters 

 with the late Marquis of Hastings, and so great was his 

 success, at one period of that exciting era, that the cry 

 was "John Day will break the ring!" Within a short 

 space of time, he had a great number of good horses under 

 his charge, and his stables included such animals as Tippler, 

 Catalogue, Lecturer, Ischiel, The Duke, Rustic, The Earl, 

 and Lady Elizabeth. It says much for John Day's business 

 ability, tact, and integrity, that, at one time, he had in 

 his stables horses belonging to the Duke of Beaufort, Lord 

 Hastings, Colonel Baillie, Colonel Berkeley, and others ; 

 all of whom were entirely satisfied with his management 

 of their interests. John Day was a man of genial disposition, 

 kindly and hospitable, and a companion full of amusing 

 anecdote. He died at Danebury, on December 3rd, 1883, 

 in the sixty-eighth year of his age. 



Between 1850 and i860 the names increase so rapidly 

 that, with the exception of those of whom an account is 

 given below, it is impossible to do more than make the 

 following list of Jockeys and to number in brackets the races 

 won by them at Ascot: — Hiett (i), Cowley (3), Thick (i), 

 G. Brown (i), T. Smith {2), H. Goater (i), Mahon (i), 

 Norman (8), Rodney (i), Harlock (i), Basham (i), Garvey 

 (3), T. Sherwood (i), J. Steggles (2), J. Marson (8), Keeler 

 (2), Olliver (i), Bumby (2), J. Rogers (i). Cliff (i), 

 Clements (4), Yates (i), Ashmall (9), Prior (5), Ouinton 

 (i), Britton (i), Cresswell (5), Pritchard (2), Rothera (i), 

 Plumb (i), Hughes (7), Bray (i), Rayner (i). Land (i), 



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