384 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Cap Martin in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, 

 and " placed '* in two other races. He also won 

 the Doncaster Stakes and the Great Foal Stakes 

 at Newmarket. Although by no means a top- 

 sawyer, he did not, therefore, do by any means 

 badly. In 1899 he was second for the Craven 

 Stakes at Newmarket, and then second to Uncle 

 Mac, beaten half a length, in the Chester Cup. 

 After running unplaced for the Ascot Stakes he 

 was sold to go to South America, where he did 

 fairly well at the stud. 



Hawfinch, a son of Goldfinch, was bred by 

 Mr. J. Terry, of Emsworth, Sussex, from whom 

 I leased him. He was an incorrigibly lazy colt 

 — almost too idle to go to sleep. When he was 

 passing the stands at Newmarket on his way to 

 the Dewhurst Plate starting-post, his sluggish 

 gait excited the jeers of the crowd. Some one 

 shouted to Sam Loates, who was on his back: 

 ** Shall we come and give him a push ? " When 

 actually racing, however. Hawfinch was another 

 animal altogether. This was his only outing as 

 a two-year-old. He won by a neck from 

 Ninus, with Dieudonn^ third. Both were giving 

 him weight. Directly afterwards he was sold 

 to Mr. Horatio Bottomley for, I think, ;^3000. 

 The following year, as I was driving up to the 

 course at Goodwood with a poor specimen of a 

 horse in the shafts, Mr. Bottomley passed me in 

 a carriage drawn by a pair of beautiful horses. 



