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grace having been the best buyer of the 

 present century. He gave three thousand 

 five hundred guineas for Trustee and 

 Liverpool, and but a few years back, no 

 less than twelve thousand pounds for four 

 horses, namely, Swiss, Serab, Barefoot, and 

 Memnon, the two last winners of the St. 

 Leger for Mr. Watt. The Duke of Cleve- 

 land never won the St. Leger till 1831, with 

 Chorister, nor was he ever winner of either 

 of the great Epsom stakes ; but in the days 

 of Agonistes and Haphazard his stable was 

 the terror of the north, and his grace was a 

 great winner of cups, though he afterwards 

 flew at higher game. His match with 

 Pavilion, against Colonel Mellish's Sancho, 

 at Newmarket, in 1806, was one of the 

 greatest races of modern days, as to the 

 extent of betting ; and immense sums were 

 lost on Agonistes, when he was beat by 

 Champion, for the St. Leger, in 1800. His 

 grace has had good horses in his stable 

 of late years ; among them Trustee, and 

 Emancipation by Whisker, who had the 

 honour of receiving forfeit from Priam, 

 receiving nine pounds : likewise Muley 

 Moloch, the winner of the York Derby 



