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to bestow upon jockeys extravagant emoluments. 

 It has been the ruin of many of them. 



At the end of the season 1851 the public 

 heard with astonishment that Sir Joseph Hawley 

 had decided to quit the Turf. His reason for 

 retiring was the annoyance occasioned him by 

 criticism regarding the running of a filly called 

 Breba in the Oaks and the Cambridgeshire, and 

 by an allegation that the sale by him of Vatican 

 to Mr. Morris was not a legitimate one. There 

 was a great rumpus over this Vatican business. 

 The race it arose from was the Don caster Cup, 

 for which Sir Joseph had entered two horses — 

 Vatican and The Ban. He sold the former to 

 Morris before the race. Both horses ran, and 

 The Ban won. At that time there was a Rule of 

 Racing which decreed ** that no person can run, 

 either in his own name or in the name of any 

 other person, two horses of which he is wholly 

 or in part the owner, for any plate.** After the 

 race Mr. Saxon, the owner of The Beach Doctor, 

 who finished second to The Ban, objected to 

 the winner on the ground that Sir Joseph Hawley 

 had run two horses in the race. The matter was 

 referred to the Stewards of the Jockey Club — 

 Lord Glasgow, General Peel, and Captain H. 

 Lowther. They decided that there was a ^ona 

 fide sale of Vatican, but expressed the opinion 

 that the Doncaster Stewards ought not to have 

 allowed the horse to run, because, having been 



