92 RECORDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



His success with his unequalled advantages for 

 training race-horses upon the downs and in the 

 park, at all seasons of the year, attracted the atten- 

 tion of many of his sporting friends, and with his 

 usual kindness he permitted some of them to share 

 those advantages with him, by sending some horses 

 to be trained at Goodwood, by my father. Those 

 who enjoyed this favour were — in addition to the 

 Earl of Stradbroke — Colonel Peel, the Earl of Ux- 

 bridge (a brother of the Duchess), Sir John Byng 

 (afterwards Earl of Strafford), Captain Byng (after- 

 wards third Earl of Strafford), Mr. Houldsworth, 

 Sir James Graham. 



As a consequence of this arrangement, the horses 

 in training numbered about twenty-five or thirty 

 under my father's charge. Amongst them were some 

 good winners, two of which especially attracted the 

 attention of Lord Georoje Bentinck. One of these 

 was Rubini, who won the Gold Cup at Goodwood 

 in 1833 (running in my father's name, although the 

 property of the Earl of Uxbridge), beating Mr. 

 Greville's Whale, which, as a matter of fact, was 

 the property of Lord George Bentinck, who backed 

 him heavily for this race, attributing his defeat to 

 the excellent condition of Rubini. 



Again when Elizondo won the Port Stakes at 

 Newmarket in 1836, beating General Yates's Sylvan 

 and Mr. Sowerby's Bodice (really Lord George's 



