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With the single exception of Xi, who, as I 

 explained, was partly owned by Sir Frederick 

 Johnstone, all the horses I saddled to win races 

 from the time I went to Cannon Heath in 1863 

 until 1873 were owned by Sir Joseph Hawley. 

 In 1868 I had received a couple of yearlings 

 owned by Lord Derby, ** the Rupert of Debate,*' 

 but I soon found they were worthless, and they 

 remained at Kingsclere a few weeks only. An 

 important change in the personnel of the stable 

 took place, however, in 1873. So few of our 

 boxes were occupied by Leybourne-bred horses 

 that it was now arranged I should take charge 

 of some animals belonging to Mr. Frederick 

 Gretton and Mr. Thomas Eades Walker. Mr. 

 Gretton was one of the partners in Bass's brewery, 

 and had previously been a patron of Matt Daw- 

 son's stable at Newmarket. Mr. Walker, de- 

 scended from a wealthy London merchant who 

 settled in Warwickshire early in the seventeenth 

 century, had hitherto raced under the manage- 

 ment of Captain Machell. Sir George Chetwynd 



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