68 LORD GEORGE BENTINCK 



career, I may now offer some interesting particulars of 

 individual races. When Grey Momus won for him the 

 Two Thousand, riddsn in straw-coloured satin, Mr. 

 Thornhill's Sainfoin was second, whilst the third, Lord 

 Sumeld's Bamboo, was a horse that the Newmarket 

 people thought could not be equalled, much less beaten. 

 The race was a memorable one. It was run at a good 

 pace all the way, Bamboo leading several lengths to the 

 Bushes and across the bottom ; but he tired on ascending 

 the hill, and was beat. Lord Suffield and many other 

 people, including Mr. Boyce, the trainer, said that the 

 jockey, Arthur Pavis, lost it from bad riding. Indeed, 

 the race itself was a show. Trainers were seen riding 

 wildly excited, their hats waving in the air, and shouting 

 at the top of their stentorian voices, * There he goes ! 

 There he goes ! They will never catch him !' believing 

 it impossible they should do. But he tired to nothing. 

 In the evening Lord Sumeld, not being satisfied with the 

 result of the race, challenged Lord George to run again 

 for 1,000 a side at the same weights over the same 

 course in the October Meeting. My father being con- 

 sulted, said : 



' Make the match now, and we shall win ; but if you 

 wait till October, when Bamboo is made better from 

 condition, we shall lose.' 



The match was accordingly made for the Friday, for 

 1,000 a side though ostensibly for 300 only as Lord 

 George was afraid it might come to his father's ears, who 

 would not have liked his matching for so large a sum. 

 The race was run at the best pace, by which the others 

 hoped to correct the supposed error made in the running 

 of the first event, Bamboo leading to the Bushes, when 

 he again stood still from the severity of the pace, and 

 Grey Momus won much more easily than he did before 



