3o8 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



worth ;^i8oo. He won the race by a head from 

 Lord Durham's Gulbeyaz. The following spring 

 he won the Craven Stakes at Newmarket. 



In Miguel, a black colt by Fernandez, Mr. 

 John Gretton owned a useful little horse, but an 

 unlucky one. The only prize he placed to his 

 credit was the Rutland Plate, which he won in 

 the autumn of his two-year-old days. The 

 following season, 1889, he was second to Donovan 

 in the Derby and St. Leger, second to Morglay 

 in the Ascot Derby, and second to Gulliver in 

 the Hardwicke Stakes. Those four races were 

 worth ;^i 2,404, but Miguel's portion amounted 

 to only £Sso, In 1888 Mr. Gretton had a 

 pretty good three-year-old in Apollo, by Hampton 

 out of Rosy Cross. The dam won the Lincoln- 

 shire Handicap in 1880 — one of the few mares 

 who have been successful in that race. Apollo 

 had not raced as a two-year-old, but the following 

 season he won races at Stockbridge and Good- 

 wood, and, with odds of 66 to i laid against him, 

 finished a good fourth in the St. Leger to Sea- 

 breeze, Chillington, and Zanzibar. 



Mr. John Gretton was a splendid man in 

 every way. To my knowledge he never made 

 a bet, but raced purely for the love of the sport. 

 He bred most of the horses that carried his 

 colours, first at Coton, near Burton, and after- 

 wards at Bladon Hall. My association with the 

 Gretton family has continued down to the present 



