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NOTED DAY FAMILY A friend wrote me recently from the United States as follows: "I am anxious for some information about the Day family. Is it possible that old John Day, who used to ride for the Duke of Grafton and was up on five winners of the One Thousand Guineas had two sons, William, and another John? In other words, was the John Barham Day, who was the master of Danebury when the ! Marquis of Hastings had Lecturer, Lady i I Elizabeth. The Earl, and so forth, the former jockey who rode for the Duke of Grafton, ! or was he a son of that man? And if so, was Alfred Day a nephew of William Day, and who was Sam Day? So many men of the same family name are connected with English racing that it is difficult for an American to tell them apart.* John Day of Houghton Down Farm, near tockbridge. was born in 1767 and died in 1 28. His son Sam won the Derby of 1821 on Gustavus, again in 1830 on Priam, and in 1846 on Pyrrhus the First. In the latter year Sam also secured the One Thousand and Oaks on Mendicant dam of the 1858 Derby winner, Beadsman. Another son, John Day, was a most excellent jockey and later on a , successful trainer at Danebury, he being the I father of John Barham Day, Alfred Day ; one of the finest riders ever seen, and ! ,; William Day. The last-named was living at Shipton, Marlborough, when he acted as private . trainer to James R. Keene, and had the : great Foxhall under his charge, but he had [ his most successful time at Woodyates, near Salisbury. William Days son, Alfred, trained 1 many a winner at Fontwell, near Arundel in i I Sussex. — Audax, in Horse and Hound. » I
