THE TURF. 
another of his horses, and a good one too (Laborie by 
Delpini) wins a fifty-pound plate the same year at 
Winchester ; the best of three four-mile heats ! Were 
the Duke of Dorset on the turf now, he would have 
something better to do with such horses as Expectation 
and Laborie ! 
The present Duke of Grafton has been a great 
winner, having inherited, with his domains, the virtues 
of old Prunella ; but owes some of his success to his 
late brother, Lord Henry Fitzroy, whose judgment in 
racing was equal to any man's. With the assistance 
then of Lord Henry, the training of Robson, and the 
good riding of the late Frank Buckle, John Day, 
William Clift, 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 
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