THE TURF. 
beating Rowton also for the Ascot cup, with the same 
mare the same year (Robinson riding against Chifney), 
after running one dead heat, was one of the grandest 
events of the season. Lucetta with eight stone nine 
pounds met the Duke of Grafton's Oxygen (a winner of 
the Oaks) with seven stone two pounds, one six years 
old, and the other four, for the Jockey Club plate, at 
Newmarket, Beacon course. Lucetta won, and the 
speed was very little short of Childers, as they were 
but seven minutes in coming to the duke's stand. 
One of the oldest sportsmen at Newmarket is 
General Grosvenor but far from being the most fortu- 
nate. Indeed it is a trite saying, " The general is 
honest, but unlucky," and this is well said in these 
slippery times. He won the Oaks, in 1807, with 
Briseis, with heavy odds against her, consequently a 
round sum besides; and, again, in 1825, by Chifney's 
fine riding with Wings, with ten to one against her. 
He likewise won, with Blue Stockings, the Riddles- 
worth of 1819, perhaps the greatest stake ever won, 
being, including his own subscription, five thousand 
guineas ! Fortune has also smiled upon him again, for 
the last year was a winning one. He bought Glaucus 
for three hundred and fifty guineas, won fourteen 
hundred pounds with him, and sold him for three 
thousand ! thus reversing the proverb. A few years 
back his winnings were somewhat unaccountable, his 
horses having been in the hands, not of a regularly bred 
trainer, but of his north-country colt-breaker, who has 
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