n6 THE TURF 



sented by him to George iv. when he com- 

 menced breeding race-horses at Hampton 

 Court. The present Lord Stradbroke and 

 his Grace of Richmond were confederates 

 on the turf. 



The Earl of Oxford took the field a few 

 years back as usual, with a tolerably large 

 string of horses ; and, to use his own words, 

 when he won the Great Produce stakes at 

 Ascot, with his Muley filly, and the Clear- 

 well stakes with his Clearwell colt (a clear 

 thousand by the way, and the other five 

 hundred), ' got out of his place/ which had 

 generally been a good second. He ran 

 second, indeed, with Ascot, for a Derby ; 

 and good judges say his horse ought to 

 have won. His lordship, however, takes 

 all this with perfect good humour, and is 

 himself always a favourite at Newmarket, 

 should his horse not prove to be so. The 

 noble earl is considered a very liberal 

 match-maker ; but he has lately been run- 

 ning so forward as to be considered able 

 to take care of himself. Of the Earls 

 Verulam, Warwick, and Clarendon, we now 

 hear but little, although the first-named 

 lord is rather an extensive breeder. Lord 



