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I do not suppose Mr. Etwall won much on the race, 

 for he very shortly afterwards had to give up racing and 

 coursing, and left England heavily in debt. He lived 

 many years in seclusion in France, only running over to 

 visit some old friends occasionally, and then in strictest 

 incog. He outlived his brother William, the breeder of 

 Andover, winner of the Derby, who died a young man in 

 straitened circumstances, and who had led a life of 

 celibacy. Mr. E. Etwall paid me a visit at Cholderton 

 Lodge in 1882 ; the chief object in doing so was to tell 

 me of a letter that he had written anonymously to the 

 papers, saying how much he liked 'The Racehorse in 

 Training' a letter I never saw. He was then in 

 straitened circumstances. He lived till over eighty, 

 earning his livelihood by his pen, as a contributor to the 

 papers. He came of a long-lived family, his mother 

 dying a few years before him, at the patriarchal age of 

 ninety- eight. 



Lord Dorchester had but few horses. He bred, in 

 1841, the celebrated Little Bed Eover mare, who, for 

 want of being christened, remained nameless to the day 

 of her death, in 1858. She was out of Eclat, by Edmund 

 out of Squib, by Soothsayer. Her first produce, The 

 Chase, by Venison, won his lordship a race at Ascot. 

 Then came the celebrated Cruiser, who ran second in the 

 Criterion to the Duke of Bedford's Para in 1854, and 

 Bracken and Buccaneer. Of these two, his lordship sold 

 Bracken to Mr. Gully, and Buccaneer to Lord Portsmouth. 

 The latter, by Wild Dayrell, was a real good horse ; and, 

 after winning the Two-year-old Stakes at Stockbridge, 

 the July Stakes at Newmarket, and the Molecomb at 

 Goodwood, became a favourite for the next year's Derby. 

 He was, however, beaten easily ; and rumour asserted 

 that he had been poisoned, many people believing that 



