I30 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



Mr. Mytton and his confederate disputed the 

 decision which gave the race to Cetus, and brought an 

 action against the stewards for the recovery of the 

 stakes, but in this they were again worsted. 



A summary of Mr. Mytton's actual racing career 

 may be comiDrised in a few words. He had too many 

 horses in the iirst place, and too many of them not 

 good enough to pay their way. It is evident he was 

 anxious to have good ones in his stables by the prices 

 he gave ; but he bought several of that sort a/ler 

 their day was gone by : for example, Comte d'Artois, 

 Banker, Longwaist, &c. &c. He had, however, 

 several good winners, old Euphrates at their head ; 

 and Whittington, Oswestry, and Halston, were 

 esteemed very " smart " horses in the racing world. 

 Indeed, it is believed that in some hands the}- would 

 have been trump cards. As for himself, as a 

 racing man, he was too severe upon his horses ; 

 they rarely came out fresh, after Chester and one or 

 two other places ; and therefore, this fact admitted, he 

 had, I think, as much success as he could have ex- 

 pected. He seldom backed his horses to any serious 

 amount; generally not at all. 



His stables were, as has been before stated, upon 

 Delamere Forest, in Cheshire, and he had at difterent 



