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the Eoyal Stables,' but is often wrongly confused with 

 Mr. Gascoigne (whose original name was Oliver), 

 winner of the St. Leger in 1811 and 1824; Mr. 

 (General, or even Field-Marshal) Gower is he who 

 ran second with Pelisse to Mr. Lake with Nymphina 

 for a Jockey Club Plate in 1808 ; Mr. (General and 

 also Field-Marshal) Grosvenor is he who won a 

 Jockey Club Plate with Defiance in 1813 ; Mr. Hale, 

 of King's Walden, Herts, High Sheriff, uncle of Lord 

 Verulam, having married a Miss Grimston in 1777, 

 is he who ran for Jockey Club Plates with Dromedary 

 in 1787, and previously with Camel in 1785, and died 

 at a great age in 1829 ; Mr. Hallett is he who ran 

 third for a Jockey Club Plate with Stickler in 1797, 

 was second with Stickler for the Derby of 1796, and 

 second for the Oaks in 1800 with Wowski (bred, how- 

 ever, by Sir Ferdinando Poole), the illustrious dam of 

 the great Smolensko, winner of both Two Thousand 

 and Derby in 1813 ; Mr. (Colonel) Hanger is he who 

 ran Columbine for a Jockey Club Plate in 1776, and 

 was the Hon. George, youngest of three brothers 

 successively Earls of Coleraine ; Mr. Howorth is he 

 who ran Vole and Plantagenet for Jockey Club Plates 

 in 1800 and 1806, and was confederate for a time 

 with the * Pha.ntom ' Sir John Shelley, and is believed 

 to be identical with the gentleman who (having the 

 celebrated Colonel Mellish for his second) stripped to 

 the ' buff' to fight a duel with the Earl of Barrymore, 

 lest any particle of clothes should get into any wound 



