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by so doing was liable under tbe Act to one of the 

 penalties and tlie forfeiture of the horses, and tbe 

 Earl of Albemarle, Master of the Horse, to another 

 penalty. 



The bill, unopposed, was read a first time, and 

 passed through its respective stages ; the royal assent 

 being given by commission. 



Again in 1844 the Duke moved the second reading 

 of the bill to repeal penalties on horse-racing, the 

 object of which was to destroy fraudulent betting, 

 and to restrict considerably all other betting. " He 

 did not bet himself, and he objected to a great deal 

 of the betting which took place upon the turf at 

 present, which if not checked, the turf would soon 

 be deserted." It is somewhat remarkable that two 

 such noblemen as the fifth Duke of Richmond and 

 Lord George Bentinck should have been such intimate 

 friends, and closely associated as confederates in their 

 racing, so diametrically opposite as they were in 

 their views of it, the former objecting to betting, 

 whilst Lord George speculated on the grand scale. 

 By dint of great perseverance, his Grace's motion in 

 the House of Lords was passed, and at a meeting of 

 the Jockey Club, held at Newmarket on Tuesday in 

 the Second October Meeting, 1845, it was resolved : 

 " That the unanimous thanks of the Jockey Club be 

 rendered to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G., 

 for his Grace's indefatigable exertions and eminent 



