88 BECORDS AND BEMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



of tlie coverts upon the estate, would fetch the game, 

 when others signally failed. 



His Grace also won the Goodwood Stakes this 

 same year (1827) with Miss Craven, a roan mare 

 which his confederate advised him to purchase after 

 she had beaten Link Boy, Stumps, and others at 

 Brighton about three weeks before. 



This roan mare perpetuated the roans for many 

 years upon the turf, through Baleine, a sister, and 

 Physalis, a granddaughter, who produced the dam 

 of Lord Glasgow's Eapid Roan, who in turn con- 

 tinued to get roans ; and from this blood the colour 

 is still propagated. 



1827 was a most successful year for his Grace, 

 who won twenty-three races, although his racing- 

 stud numbered but seven, including Gulnare, who 

 won the Oaks and some other races, not knowing 

 defeat. During the year her winnings amounted to 

 ^3705. 



She was purchased by Lord Stradbroke of Mr. 

 Wilson when a yearling, as a filly, got by Smolensko 

 out of Medora, and, being the only yearling his 

 Grace possessed, was turned alone into a paddock 

 adjoining the Yaldoe Coppice, which caused her to 

 be rather restless. When the man attending her 

 was engaged putting the rejected litter in the wood 

 through a small door which opened into the coppice, 

 the filly crept through it, and was galloping about 



