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his son, C. Brook, on whom devolved the duty of eri taring the 

 young stock. 



The vicar owned two other good horses, namely, " Agility " 

 and "Holy Friar,'* the latter's best win being the Gimcrack at 

 York. 



I believe the vicar actually visited a race -course on three 

 occasions, but the only time his trainer recollects having seen 

 him on one was at Ascot in 1856, when he had gone to see 

 Mr. J. M. Brook's mare " Manganese " run for the Ascot Cup. 

 It seems strange that a man should be content to race for so 

 many years without ever seeing his horses on the course. I do 

 not know why the parson avoided the meetings so religiously ; 

 whether it was because he did not want to go, or whether he 

 refrained because he was a parson, is hard to determine now. 

 If it were the latter highly laudable motive it certainly throws a 

 strong suggestion of sincerity on his declarations to his Bishop 

 that he kept race-horses and raced for the sake of preserving the 

 breed. 



Mr. King was also a keen shooting man ; for many years 

 he joined Lord Henry Bentinck and Mr. Hall, at that time Master 

 of the Holderness hounds, in a big shoot of forest and moor in 

 Scotland, where the three spent many happy months each year. 

 Lord Henry Bentinck used to concern himself with the deer in 

 the forest while parson King and Mr. Hall busied themselves 

 with the grouse on the heather. The parson died in 1875. 



