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This latter, before the race (which, it must be 

 remembered, was not at that time a P.P. race, other- 

 wise a ' Pay or Play ' race, otherwise a race in which 

 bets laid against a horse which did not start were not 

 won), was ' ridden past the Eing with Chifney on his 

 back and a stable-boy on Cwrw,' which was, of course, 

 as much as a ' declaration to win ' with the Eemem- 

 brancer colt. But ' at the starting-post, Chifney 

 changed his mount, Cwrw became the first favourite 

 and won an immense stake,' and ' the Eemembrancer 

 colt did not start, by which the Eing lost a great 

 portion of their field-money.' Yet this Lord Dar- 

 lington was so far the very soul of honour, that when 

 he became Marquess of Cleveland he, mounting upon 

 the table at the Subscription Eooms, Doncaster, in 

 the ' Ludlow ' year (1832), denounced * horse-cheats ' 

 with a fervour worthy of Peter the Hermit, and 

 declared that thenceforth ' no gentleman could have 

 anything to do with the Turf, at Doncaster at any 

 rate.' His conduct in the case of Cwrw was, to say 

 the least of it, ' shady,' but has been defended on 

 the ground that the Eing had very often ' had ' him. 

 It should be recollected, however, that ' noblesse 

 oblige ' ; and that, if you condescend to be an ex- 

 ample of ' diamond cutting diamond,' you become a 

 * diamond.' To this may be added the instance re- 

 corded of the great reformer but gigantic bettor, Lord 

 George Bentinck himself, when he threatened to have 

 Elis scratched for the St. Leger of 1836, unless the 



