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though he is in the ' Stud Book ' (where the flaw in 

 his pedigree is pointed out), though he ran and won 

 several races (some at two years of age), and though 

 his statue (which was not taken from him at all) 

 opposite Apsley House has been pointed out to ' a 

 young man from the country ' by an equally ignorant 

 cicerone, cockney-born, as that of a horse that ' won 

 the Derby,' was not thoroughbred (though it is often 

 asserted that he was), but was the son of Lady 

 Catherine (herself ridden by General Grosvenor 'in 

 the wars '), daughter of the Eutland Arabian and of 

 * a hunting-mare not thoroughbred.' As for Mr. 

 (Colonel) George Hanger, he was a very strange 

 character, not only an owner, breeder, runner, and 

 rider of racehorses, a bruiser, and a bully (with a 

 club, which he playfully christened ' The Infant'), a 

 ' hanger '-on of the Prince of Wales (so long as His 

 Koyal Highness affected Newmarket), and in his 

 advanced years an Earl of Coleraine, but also a lite- 

 rary gentleman, who is believed to have been the 

 author of ' Military Observations on the Attack and 

 Defence of London,' and is understood to have written 

 and published in two volumes his own * Memoirs,' 

 with a frontispiece representing himself sus. per coll., 

 in sardonic allusion, it is supposed, rather to the 

 family name than to the fate which he contemplated 

 for himself. Mr. Maynard (who no doubt belonged 

 to the family whereof a certain Lord Maynard is said 

 to have married the notorious Nancy Parsons, alias 



