DANEBURY AND LORD GEORGE BENTINCK 



for half an hour, when Lord Chesterfield ^ and 

 the Clerk of the Council came rattling over the 

 hill in an open barouche and four. The carriage 

 had hardly reached the stand before the noble 

 lord offered 6 to 4 in thousands on his friend's 

 horse Mango to beat his solitary opponent, Wisdom. 

 It was a desperate race, the horses entering the 

 straight almost level, Mango on the inside. They 

 ran neck and neck under the whip to the winning- 

 post, the judge awarding the race to Greville's 

 horse by a head. 



" Punch " Greville gossips interestingly about 

 Mango. Bentinck and he had quarrelled over the 

 former's purchase of Preserve, and matters were 

 not made better by Greville's interference in an 

 affaire de conur — at any time a perilous operation ; 

 but in about two years' time they began to jumble 

 into intimacy again, and at length their friendship 

 was almost re-established under the following cir- 

 cumstances. Greville wanted to try Mango for 

 the St. Leger. Bentinck's trainer told him he 

 was sure that his master would arrange this at 

 Danebury. Greville and Bentinck went down to 

 Stockbridge together and tried the horse. Mango 

 won the trial, and subsequently won the St. Leger ; 

 Bentinck, according to his cousin's journal, re- 

 ceiving £14,000 over the race. 



Preserve was a useful purchase for Bentinck. 

 She took the Clearwell and the Criterion, and as 

 a three-year-old won for her owner his first classic 



I Lord Chesterfield made his first appearance on the Turf under 

 the guidance of Charles Greville, with whom he trained his horses 

 at Newmarket under Prince. The connexion was dissolved in 1832, 

 when Chesterfield removed his horses to John Scott's care at 

 Malton. 



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