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and others, his grace has done very well, 

 although, since the retirement of Robson, 

 the honours of the turf have not poured in 

 so thickly upon him. The duke, however, 

 has no reason to complain, having won the 

 Derby stakes four times, and the Oaks 

 eight; and, as Buckle said of himself, '-most 

 of the good things at Newmarket,' for a few 

 years in succession. Indeed, unless we 

 have made a mistake in our figures, his 

 grace pocketed the comfortable sum of 

 thirteen thousand pounds in the year 1825, 

 from public stakes alone ! But we must do 

 the Duke of Grafton the justice to say, that 

 in his stable he has marched with the times, 

 his horses having been always forward in 

 their work, the grand desideratum in a 

 training-stable. His grace also deserves 

 success, for he is a nobleman of high 

 character on the turf, and, unlike too many 

 owners of race-horses whom we could name, 

 always runs to win. The Duke of Grafton's 

 stable is, in consequence, heavily backed, 

 when it brings out good horses for any of 

 the great stakes ; and we are happy to add 

 it is at present in good force, having eight 

 or nine two-year olds in training at New- 



