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of York was on the turf what the Duke 

 of York was everywhere good-humoured, 

 unsuspecting, and confiding; qualifications, 

 however creditable to human nature, ill 

 fitted for a race-course. It is therefore 

 scarcely necessary to say, that his royal 

 highness was no winner by his horses, nor 

 indeed by anything else ; and we much fear 

 that his heavy speculations on the turf were 

 among the chief causes of those pecuniary 

 embarrassments which disturbed the latter 

 years of one against whose high and chival- 

 rous feelings of honour and integrity no 

 human creature that knew anything of him 

 ever breathed a whisper. In 1825, we find 

 the duke with sixteen horses to his name, 

 and with the exception of two, a most sorry 

 lot-, but, previously to that period, he had 

 incurred severe loss by persevering in breed- 

 ing from Aladdin and Giles. The stud 

 usually ran in Mr. Greville's name ; were 

 trained by Butler, of Newmarket, now de- 

 ceased; and chiefly ridden by Goodison, 

 who did the best he could for them. 



The late Earl of Fitzwilliam was dis- 

 tinguished by the princely way in which 

 he conducted his stud, and the magnificence 



