66 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



he had a " leg." I only ran him once — in a 

 handicap at Newmarket the following spring — 

 and he then failed. 



Sir Joseph Hawley was now, and had been for 

 some years, breeding all or nearly all the horses 

 he raced. His stud was at Leybourne, where 

 he kept about twelve brood mares. I made a 

 practice of going there every year to see the foals 

 and yearlings. The stud groom, a man named 

 Tweed, was an extremely capable and very 

 superior servant. There were several beautiful 

 paddocks, and the establishment as a whole 

 was maintained in first-class order. The Derby 

 winners, Beadsman and Musjid, were both stand- 

 ing there as stallions. After Sir Joseph's death 

 Leybourne Grange was occupied for some years 

 by Mr. T. Phillips, a hop grower and merchant. 

 He had as one of his stallions the Two Thousand 

 winner Galliard. So far as I can remember I never 

 in any one season received more than six yearlings 

 bred by Sir Joseph, and after I joined him he 

 bought very few horses. 



The first race meeting I attended as a trainer 

 was that at Doncaster in September, and there 

 I won a couple of races with the three-year-old 

 filly Columbia, and the two-year-old Washington. 

 They were by an American-bred stallion named 

 Charleston, whom Sir Joseph had bought. The 

 races they won were those immediately pre- 

 ceding the St. Leger, in which Lord Clifden was 



