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of Oatlands, near Weybridge, he is said to have lost 

 by gambling, not on the Turf but at play, whether at 

 Cheveley with the Duke of Rutland or elsewhere with 

 other nobles and gentles. Indeed, he was an invete- 

 rate gambler ; and, though he won a fair amount of 

 money by his successes on the Turf, it was but a 

 drop in the ocean compared with the stupendous 

 debts which he left behind him, and which, we are 

 told, the Government of the day ceded Cape Breton 

 to his creditors to discharge. He is said to have 

 been a good judge of a horse, and he won the 

 Derby twice, in 1816 with Prince Leopold, and in 

 1822 with Moses ; and the Ascot Cup twice, in 1815 

 with Aladdin, and in 1821 with Banker (w.o.). 

 Neither he, however, nor his elder brother, can be 

 regarded as model-members of the Jockey Club or 

 model-patrons of the Turf. 



The DUKE of CLARENCE, the Prince's next brother, 

 afterwards known familiarly as the ' Sailor King,' was 

 notoriously indifferent to horse-racing, though he 

 seems to have run about twice in his life before his 

 brother's death ; after which, as King and ' Patron ' of 

 the Jockey Club, he ran his brother's colt by Mustachio 

 for the Derby of 1831, and was first, second, and 

 third with his brother's Fleur-de-lis, Zingance, and 

 The Colonel, for the Goodwood Cup of 1830 (August 

 George the Fourth, having died in June of the 

 same year), upon which occasion he gave the sailor- 

 like order to ' start the whole fleet.' He agreeably 



