THE TURF. 
Moses ; the former bred by Lord Durham, the latter by 
himself. His racing career may be said to have com- 
menced at Ascot, where he established the Oatland 
stakes, which at one period were more than equal in 
value to the Derby, being a hundred-guinea subscrip- 
tion. Indeed, we have reason to believe, that when 
they were won by his late majesty's Baronet beating 
eighteen of the picked horses in England, his own 
Escape amongst the lot there was more money depend- 
ing than had ever been before, excepting on two 
occasions. His majesty won seventeen thousand pounds 
by the race, and would have won still more had Escape 
been the winner. We wish we could add to this trifling 
sketch a long list of his royal highness's winnings ; but 
the Duke 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 there- 
fore 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 chivalrous 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 perse- 
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