152 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



In the three years 1867-8-9, the horses I 

 trained for Sir Joseph Hawley won stakes to the 

 value of £s2^6^j. Then, however, came another 

 succession of lean seasons. Not until 1878 did 

 the Kingsclere total for any one year run again 

 into five figures, and in the meantime Sir Joseph 

 had been gathered to his fathers. After Blue 

 Gown and Rosicrucian had left the Turf, his 

 active interest in racing rapidly waned, chiefly 

 owing to his bad health. When I say ** active 

 interest " I mean the interest he took in his own 

 horses, none of whom, as it happened, was of 

 much account. In other ways he continued, 

 for a time, as alert as ever. It was, indeed, in 

 1869 and 1870 that he became so prominent as 

 an advocate of Turf reform. 



