DANEBURY AND LORD GEORGE BENTINCK 



you is £4,000, and until that sum is paid 3^ou are 

 in the list of defaulters." Again, among other 

 reforms for which he is responsible is one recorded 

 in the proceedings of the Jockey Club for 1848. 

 It may astonish the racing men of to-day to learn 

 that up to that time it was the practice for the 

 winners of great stakes to make a present to the 

 judge. The custom was a vicious one, and Bentinck 

 wisely moved the Jockey Club to abrogate it. 



Bentinck on the training ground was equally 

 indefatigable. During the severe frost of 1843 

 he turned the avenue in Goodwood Park into a 

 tan-gallop, and thus was enabled to work his horses 

 throughout the winter. He himself taught the lads 

 in the stable how to ride. He would explain to 

 the veriest midget the best method of reining-in 

 and of managing his mount. He would school him 

 until he had hands to hold and a head to judge. 

 The first time that he put up his famous light- 

 weight. Kitchener, I the weight, including saddle, 

 bridle, and other equipment of a jockey, was just 

 under 3 st. It was declared by the onlookers that 

 the boy would never sit on : but he had been well 

 taught, and he won the race in gallant style. 



Bentinck was greatly interested in the transport 

 of horses from their training grounds to the race- 

 course. He revived the system of the caravan, 

 which was due to the invention of a Mr. Territt, 

 who in the year 1816 moved his horse Sovereign 

 from Worcestershire to Newmarket in a four- 

 wheeled padded vehicle, drawn unicorn fashion by 



' In 1844 this boy rode the winner of the Chester Cup in a field 

 of twenty-six horses on what is, perhaps, the most cramped course 

 in the kingdom. He carried 4 st. 



