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grace was a great loser, and probably retired 

 in disgust. Charles Fox was also deep in 

 the mysteries of the turf, and a very heavy 

 bettor. The father of the present Prince 

 (the trainer) trained for him, and South 

 and Chifney were his jockeys ; but the dis- 

 temper in his stables ruined his stud. These 

 were also the days of the then Dukes of 

 Kingston, Cleveland, Ancaster, Bridgewater, 

 and Northumberland; Lords Rockingham, 

 Bolingbroke, Chedworth,B anymore, Ossory, 

 Abingdon, and Foley; Messrs. Shafto, 

 Wentworth, Panton, Smith Barry, Ralph 

 Button, Wildman, Meynell, Bullock, and 

 others, who were running their thousand- 

 guinea matches, and five hundred-guinea 

 sweepstakes, most of them over the Beacon 

 course, and with the finest horses perhaps 

 the world ever saw; and also, considering 

 the difference in the value of money, for 

 nearly as large stakes as those of present 

 times, a few only excepted. 



Another of the noted turf characters of 

 those days was the Honourable Richard 



shire, where, perhaps, is the best ground in 

 England for the purpose, trained those celebrated 

 horses. 



