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mare being lOO to i. At this time Mr. Naylor secured the 

 first call on Challoner's services, and the connection proved 

 a fortunate one for both owner and jockey. Of the five 

 races he won at Ascot the most important was the Ascot 

 Triennial Stakes, which he gained in 1864 on Mr. lAnson's 

 Blair Athol. 



John Wells was born at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, 

 in 1833. He received his first lessons at Flintoff's stable, 

 at Hednesford. x^lthough he had previously ridden in races 

 of minor importance, it was in the year 1848 that Wells 

 obtained his first important chance at Northampton, when he 

 rode Ribaldry in the Trial Stakes for Mr. Fowler. The 

 Ascot Stakes was won by him on Lord Strathmore's Lucio. 

 On Mr. Howard's Rataplan he won the Ascot Vase. Two 

 years later he won the Ascot Vase for the same owner on 

 Culston. In 1857 he secured an astonishing number of 

 victories on Fisherman, twenty prizes falling to his share. 

 For some years his total of winning mounts was very high 

 (his successes at Ascot alone numbering thirty-eight), and 

 was exceeded only by that of Fordham. He had won, at 

 an early period of his career, almost all the great races — 

 the Derby and St. Leger ; the Ascot, Goodwood, Chester, 

 and Doncaster Cups ; the Two Thousand and Thousand 

 Guinea Stakes ; and the Ascot, Cesarewitch, Cambridgeshire, 

 Metropolitan, and Goodwood Handicaps. 



Luke Snowden was born in the neighbourhood of 

 Scarborough in 1840. He was articled to Mr. Harry Lister 

 at Beverley, but concluded his apprenticeship with Mr. 

 Saxon. In November, 1853, he made his first public 

 appearance at Shrewsbury. In 1858 he won the St. Leger 

 on Sunbeam. He was successful in the same race in i860, 



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