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Title: A great year Lord Glanely's horses
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas, 1849-1922
Subjects: Glanely, Lord, 1868-1942 Horses Horse racing Horses
Publisher: (London) : Printed for private circulation by Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London Fourth Avenue & 30th Street, New York Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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os and Wellington in 1868 ;while the races, big and little, usually filled well, andit is needless to add were the medium of the heaviestof betting. The tale has doubtless lost nothing in the telling,and sums are wont to be magnified by tradition, butthe thousands landed at seven to four on Historian(who lost several lengths start) in a Handicap Plate,half a mile, in the year 1865 did, we believe, reallyamount to what was complacently spoken of by thoseTitans of speculation as a very nice little stake. It was, however, as far back as 1 860 that the largestfield there recorded turned out for the Amport Stakesof a mile and a half. Twenty-one runners, comprisinga goodly number of previous (or subsequent) winners,would nowadays be esteemed no unworthy array toface the starter for the Cesarewitch. The failing health of John Day, most generous,genial and hospitable of trainers, and the death orretirement of many of his chief supporters, soondimmed the lustre of the once powerful stable, and
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DANEBURY AND THE MARES latterly a squadron of cavalry might have been stalledwhere but a few years ago there was scarcely sparestanding-room for a hack. So, merged in the fortunes of Danebury, wanedthe renown of the Stockbridge meeting, till, with theexception of the two events above referred to—theHurstbourne Stakes and Stockbridge Cup—or whennow and again a two-year-old of good report cameforth for the Mottesfont, Troy, or Champagne, theraces sank to the merest plating level ; but, let theracing be good or bad, what man is there who, havingonce experienced the indefinable charm of Stockbridge,does not long to go there again ? For there you cansee races as you can nowhere else. Stands there are,one for the use of the general public and one (builtby private subscription from a fund started in 1866 bySir John, then Colonel, Astley), the property of theBibury Club ; but stroll on to the course, and take upyour place where you will, either within or without theenclosures, there is so

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