40 RECORDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



for nine or ten miles, when he was run into and 

 killed in an open field, only Tom Grant and one or 

 two others i being in at the death. Returning home, 

 Tom met the Leicestershire gentlemen, when he 

 asked them if the pace had been good enough for 

 them ; to which they replied they " never followed 

 such hounds before, and that the pack was fully 

 entitled to all the fame it possessed." 



I have often heard Grant relate many peculiarities 

 of the "Old Duke," showing what a true sportsman 

 he was, and how popular with the very large field 

 that met to enjoy the chase with him. 



His Grace established racing upon a more extended 

 scale than had previously existed at Goodwood, and 

 he formed a race-course, upon a portion of which the 

 races are now run, and built a wooden race-stand, 

 which stood not far from where the half-mile starting- 

 post is now placed. 



In the Sporting Magazine for April, 1801, is the 

 following notice : " The new race-course on the 

 Harroway near Goodwood, the seat of his Grace 

 the Duke of Richmond, is now completely formed 

 for sport, and much admired by the acknowledged 

 amateurs of the Turf" The following appeared in 

 a newspaper published at Chichester, May 5, 1802 : 

 " To the efforts of equestrian skill is to be added the 

 princely and almost unprecedented munificence of the 

 noble founder of the Goodwood Races, in providing 



