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Eowe, since so well known as a brood mare, he beat Lord Eglinton's 

 Black Diamond, and with Jagger he defeated Cardinal Pufif, 

 Potentate, Prizeflower, and seven others, for the Manchester 

 (rold Cup. The celebrated Touchstone he rode in all his races, 

 in which he was permitted to do so: and strange to say, that 

 althougli he pulled with John Day harder than any horse he ever 

 rode, Lord Wilton could hold him almost with a pack thread ; 

 and had he (Touchstone) not broken down just prior to the 

 Goodwood Cup, it was the intention of his lordship to have ridden 

 him in that race. In September, 1839^ the Heaton Park Meeting 

 was removed to Liverpool, to the great regret of the Manchester 

 people, who regarded the anniversary as the pleasantest gathering 

 of the year, aftbrding them the same sport and amusement as Good- 

 wood furnishes to the Chichester folks." Before Lord George Ben- 

 tinck had set the seal of fashion upon " glorious Goodwood," and 

 when Bibury was no longer the favourite tryst of gentlemen riders, 

 this meeting, within Lord Wilton's park, was for a short time the 

 best of its kind in England. " Earl Wilton," says " The Druid," 

 "had the cream of the Whitewall riding, and Whitewall then meant 

 the Westminster and Chesterfield lots. His lordship walked over 

 twice at Heaton on Touchstone, and won upon Hornsea and vScrog- 

 gins. Don John came over from Doncaster to run there ; Slash- 

 ing Harry and jNIiss Eowe ran the most slashing of dead-heats ; the 

 beautiful Vanish was great in Gold Cups ; and the dam of Orlando 

 did one of those short, sharp, decisive things at which, for half-a-mile, 

 she has, perhaps, never had a rival." It was about this time that 

 Lord Wilton bestrode a vicious horse belonging to Lord Eglinton, 

 called Dr. Caius, upon whom those crafty and skilful horsemen, 

 Tommy Lye, Job Marson, and Cartwright had tried their prowess 

 in vain. So exquisite was his lordship's manipulation of the un- 

 generous brute's mouth, that, when he had steered him to victory, 

 Tom Dawson declared that there was not such another jockey in 

 England. 



Lord Wilton's career as an owner of racehorses began with his 

 purchase from Mr. Batson of Mystic, by Hedley out of Cecilia, 

 who won the Newmarket Stakes, and ran in the Derby of 1822. 

 Considering the vast numbers of high-bred and carefully-selected 

 yearlings and horses of all ages that he bought, it cannot be said 

 that his success was great, seeing that but three really good 

 animals ever carried his colours — to wit, Gladiator, Wenlock, and 

 See-Saw. The first^named started but once, and then had the 

 misfortune to encounter a mighty opponent when he ran second 

 to Bay Middleton for the Derby of 1836. Gladiator was sold by 

 Lord Wilton for £'1,500 as a stallion, and, not turning out a suc- 

 cess, was parted with, in 1846, to go to France, where he begat 

 the dam of the celebrated Gladiateur, "the avenger of Waterloo." 

 It is the blood of Gladiator which gave stoutness to Sweetmeat, 

 his son, and to Macaroni, Cremome, and Favonius, his grandsons. 



