Sir Charles Assheton-Smith, tho owner of the Grand National winner, is a prominent Welsh landowner and a sportsman whose luck at Liverpool races has become proverbial. The King conferred a baronetcy on him last Julya sequel, it is believed, to Sir Charles's generous action in connection with the Prince's Investiture, when he demolished a number of houses which would have obstructed tho view of some 50.000 spectators at Carnarvon Castle, a sacrifice of property which cost him £12.000. For many years ho was known to the racing public as Mr. Charles Duff, his present name being taken on inheriting the famous Vaynol estate, with its huge slate quarries, near Bangor. Besides winning the Grand National twice, with Cloister and Jerry M. Sir Charles has been twice second in the great steeplechase ; he has won the Grand Sefton no fewer than four times, the Valentine.twice, the Stanley once.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15002, 25 May 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)
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