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in the Trial Stakes at that meeting, and was nowhere. 

 The next day he was started for the Cup, and a gentle- 

 man was put on to get all the House money, whilst 

 another commissioner was equally busy at Manchester. 

 From ten to one, Rush came down in the betting to two to 

 one, the starting price. As the Squire was walking the 

 horse down to the post, Lord George Bentinck cried, ' two 

 hundred to one hundred against Rush.' Osbaldeston 

 took the bet, and Rush won in a canter. This was a 

 very suspicious improvement upon the previous day's 

 form, and provoked a good deal of unparliamentary 

 language. The Squire left immediately after the 

 race was over, for cub-hunting, and did not meet Lord 

 George again till the Craven meeting at Newmarket. 



On asking his lordship for the money, Osbaldeston 

 was surprised to see Lord George draw himself up 

 very stiffly, and still more surprised to hear him say, 

 ' I am amazed that I should be asked for it ; the affair 

 was a robbery, and the Jockey Club considered it so.' 

 The Squire kept his temper, but firmly insisted on being 

 paid. ' Can you count ? ' asked Lord George in his most 

 insolent tones. ' I could at Eton,' retorted the Squire ; 

 whereupon Lord George flung him a bundle of notes, 

 which the Squire very carefully and slowly counted ; 

 then, looking his lordship full in the face, said, ' You shall 

 hear from me again.' A challenge of course followed, but 

 Lord George said, ' I will not go out with the fellow ! ' 

 and would send no other answer. Whereupon the 

 Squire sent back the fierce reply : ' Tell him that I will 

 pull his nose at Tattersall's, and those who know me are 

 aware that I always keep my word.' Lord George 

 could not stand that, so they met one morning at Worm- 

 wood Scrubs. Osbaldeston was told that he must not 



