CHAPTERS FROM TURF HISTORY 



In his diary Greville ^ records that Bentinck ran 

 a number of horses in various ahases at Newmarket. 

 The Duke of Portland was much puzzled, and asked 

 his friends who these invisible personages were. 

 At last, as it was evident that the Duke would 

 find out the truth, Greville advised his cousin to 

 make a clean breast of it. Mustering up his courage, 

 Bentinck told his father that all those horses were 

 his. The Duke was greatly incensed and at once 

 left Newmarket. For a long time he would not see 

 the offender, but he was ultimately pacified, and 

 afterwards became much interested in his son's 

 racing interests. 



Bentinck's first good horse was Preserve, an 

 animal Greville had bred in 1832, and which he 

 states that he bought for Bentinck in the following 

 year. Preserve was an own sister to Greville's 

 famous horse Mango by Emilius (winner of the 

 Derby of 1833) out of Mustard. This reference 

 to Mango recalls an incident of the Stockbridge 

 race-course in June of 1837. The races were in 

 progress on the Friday, and when the time set 

 for a sweepstakes of ;fioo had arrived, the owner 

 of Mango had not appeared. The race was delayed 



» Mr. Greville's career on the Turf began in 182 1 — the year of 

 liis appointment as Clerk of the Council — and closed in 1855, when 

 he sold his horses. In racing affairs his judgment was so highly 

 respected that, in 1822, he became the manager of the Duke of 

 York's stud on the retirement of Mr. Warwick Lake. Subsequently 

 Lord Egremont's stud was under his direction. He enjoyed a fair 

 measure of success on the Turf. He would have won the Derby 

 in 1845 — and according to his own account ;^20,ooo in bets — had 

 not his horse, Alarm, been driven over the rails by the Libel at 

 the starting-post. Alarm, though badly injured, took part in the 

 race. Later on Alarm won several engagements of importance 

 ^{Grevilh Memoirs, vol. v. p. 290). 



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