62 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



in the Derby Sir Joseph Hawley won something 

 like ;^8o,ooo. In 1849 Fernhill, bought from 

 Mr. Parr, won the Great Metropolitan and the 

 Northamptonshire Stakes, and Vatican was suc- 

 cessful in the Newmarket Stakes. Aphrodite, 

 in 1850, carried Sir Joseph's colours— " cherry, 

 black cap" — to victory in the Chesterfield 

 Stakes, and dead-heated with Grecian in the 

 July Stakes, achievements she followed up the 

 next year by carrying off the One Thousand 

 Guineas. 



Then came the victory of Teddington in the 

 Derby of 185 1. By this time the partnership 

 with Mr. J. M. Stanley had been renewed, and 

 the confederacy horses placed under the care of 

 Alec Taylor at Fyfield, near Marlborough. It 

 was Mr. Stanley who brought Teddington into 

 the service of " the firm,** but the colours he 

 carried in the Derby were Sir Joseph's. The 

 partners, ** and all the gentlemen,'* won hugely 

 over the race. Davis, the biggest bookmaker 

 of the day, is said to have paid out ;^ 100,000, 

 " and took no more notice of it than he was wont 

 to do of his washing-bill.** Job Marson, the 

 successful jockey, received from Teddington *s 

 owners a present of ;^20oo, and another ;^iooo 

 from other sources. This excessive liberality 

 was an evil engendered by the heavy betting 

 then prevalent. I have always held the opinion 

 that racing has suffered owing to the tendency 



