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dignified bearing are still a pleasing memory, and 

 who was afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England, 

 led for the plaintiff. The defendant, Colonel Peel, 

 was represented by the Solicitor-General, Sir 

 Frederick Thesiger. As Lord Chancellor, some 

 years later, he sat in Cabinet with his client in 

 Lord Derby's Administrations. The judge was 

 Alderson, Baron of the Exchequer. ^ For fourteen 

 years he had been an ornament of the Judicial 

 Bench. A judge of humane character and of some 

 literary taste, he combined a strong Churchman- 

 ship with the religious sentiments of a liberal and 

 enlightened mind. He had some acquaintance 

 with the business of racing, for at times he had 

 been the guest of John Scott, the famous trainer 

 at Whitewall, at whose hospitable board he had 

 put questions about the art of riding, the condition 

 of horses and the supply of stable-boys. 



The pleadings were opened to the effect that 

 an issue had arisen between the plaintiff and the 

 defendant in which the former maintained the 

 affirmative of the question whether a certain 

 horse called Running Rein, who had won the 

 last Derby Stakes at Epsom, was a colt by the 

 Saddler out of Mab, foaled in 1841. Cockburn 

 then addressed the jury in the familiar style 

 of those days. He pledged himself to establish 

 a case in his client's favour as clear as ever was 

 done in a court of justice, and boldly asserted 

 that the truth was with the plaintiff. He pro 

 ceeded to give the history of Running Rein. He 

 said that Abraham Levi Goodman, a trainer, 



' Thirteen years later Baron Alderson 's daughter became the 

 wife of the late Lord Salisbury. 



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