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and no matter how many heads were uncovered on his 

 approach, he would notice or acknowledge no one a 

 manner which had the appearance, at least, of a haughty 

 contempt for his social inferiors. As was the fashion in 

 those days with gentlemen who kept racehorses, he bred 

 most of his, and with fair success. He began racing 

 about the year 1817, and had the following good horses, 

 amongst others : Bed Gauntlet, Green Mantle, Marinella, 

 Sultan, and Abydos. In later years he did not do much 

 good until he bought Stockwell of Mr. Theobald. 



He kept his horses at Newmarket, and Mr. Harlock 

 was his trainer till he gave up racing about the year 

 1866. He lived during the meetings at Foley House, 

 and his trainer at Exeter House. Joined to each estab- 

 lishment was a long covered ride, in which he used to 

 exercise his horses in wet or frosty weather, and was 

 thus enabled to watch them unmolested by the touts, of 

 whom he had a great abhorrence. In racing he was ex- 

 tremely peculiar too fond of running and trying his 

 horses, much against his trainer's wishes ; but he was 

 obdurate, and would have his own way. 



As a rule his stable-boys rode his horses in their trials. 

 One of them, Norman, was his jockey who gained the 

 unenviable sobriquet of ' The Post Boy.' If his horses 

 were beat in their races, Lord Exeter would have them 

 all tried over again the same evening ; and if the result 

 was not to his satisfaction he would try them again the 

 next morning, notwithstanding that some of them were 

 engaged the same day, and made to fulfil their engage- 

 ments just the same. As a natural result, his horses 

 were often run stale, and many of them broke down. 

 But nothing would prevent his running them, if sound, 

 in any and all of the stakes in which they were engaged, 

 if he thought he had the remotest chance of winning, 



