DANEBURY AND LORD GEORGE BENTINCK 



old, tramped from one race-course to another to 

 win no less than eleven races between the Epsom 

 and Doncaster meetings. On the other hand, 

 *' the ambulatory horse-box " proved its value 

 in an emergency. For example, at an autumn 

 meeting at Newmarket, Bentinck, finding that 

 Grey Momus was not well enough to run, dispatched 

 an express to Danebury on the Tuesday for a horse 

 of his named D'Egville. On the Thursday after- 

 noon D'Egville arrived at Newmarket in his caravan, 

 and, none the worse for the long journey, won his 

 race on the following day. 



A striking incident in Bentinck's career on the 

 Turf was his part in the famous case of Running 

 Rein.^ In the Derby of 1844 a horse came in 

 first described as Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein 

 by the Saddler out of Mab. This horse had been 

 suspected of being a year older than his descrip- 

 tion in the previous year, and bets had been paid 

 under protest. Immediately after the Epsom race. 

 Colonel Peel, the owner of Orlando, who ran second, 

 lodged an objection, and obtained an order of the 

 Court of Queen's Bench restraining the stake- 

 holders from parting with the stakes until the 

 issue had been decided in a court of law. It 

 was alleged by Colonel Peel that Running Rein 

 was not the three-year-old as described, but a 

 four-year-old horse named Maccabaeus (afterwards 

 Zanoni) by Gladiator. Bentinck at once devoted 

 himself to the affair with extraordinary industry 

 and enthusiasm. He hunted up evidence in Ire- 

 land and in all parts of the country. He even 



I This case is developed under the title " The Fraud of a Derby " 

 at page 126. 



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