DANEBURY AND LORD GEORGE BENTINCK 



was subscribed in honour of his exertions. This 

 he refused to accept : but he desired that the 

 money might be apphed to the estabUshment of 

 a fund for the benefit of decayed and distressed 

 servants of the Turf. It is known at this day 

 as the Bentinck Memorial Fund, and is a most 

 valuable institution, and one that is admirably 

 administered by the authorities of the Jockey 

 Club. 



Bentinck was no easy owner for a trainer to 

 serve. He had his way in every detail of stable 

 management. His letters to his Danebury trainer 

 were in the nature of State papers, and were as 

 long and argumentative as a Foreign Office memor- 

 andum. He worked out the most elaborate schemes 

 for winning races with particular horses, and, if 

 Greville is to be believed, his ardour, industry, 

 and cleverness led him into courses which would 

 have incurred public reproach had they been 

 generally known. 



But this testimony, though corroborated by the 

 Days, who never forgave him for removing his 

 horses from Danebury, rests mainly upon the 

 memoir of his cousin. Greville admits that he 

 was not a fair judge of Bentinck's character and 

 behaviour. Nor was he. Reference has already 

 been made to their quarrel ov^er Preserve, and 

 though, after the Doncaster victory of Mango in 

 1837, Greville protests his own spirit of recon- 

 ciliation, he questions the sincerity of Bentinck. 

 Crucifix became the occasion of a new difference, 

 and of their final estrangement, Greville remarking 

 with some naivete that he perceived that Bentinck 

 intended to keep all the advantage of the mare's 



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