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yet he managed for the Duke of Bedford who had a fair-sized 

 one. Also, as is well known, he made all the principal 

 handicaps, or the most of them, for a number of years, without 

 winning any of note that I remember. Yet he did not lack 

 the materials for achieving success, having, besides many 

 others, two such good horses as Asteroid and Weather- 

 gage. The latter, after leaving the hands of this consummate 

 master of weights, in spite of him, won the Goodwood and 

 Csesarewitch Stakes, besides other good races ; although but a 

 few months before, under the guiding hand of the Admiral, he 

 could not win a Selling Plate at Northampton and was, on his 

 return to Newmarket, disposed of privately for ^40. 



Mr. Greville, considering all things, may be said to have 

 been equally unfortunate ; for he not only kept a large string 

 himself, but was confederate with the then Duke of Portland, 

 and was also consulted on the management, if he had not the 

 absolute control, of one of the largest establishments in 

 England. Yet withal, he failed to carry off many of our best 

 trophies. It is true he won the St. Leger with Mango, and 

 among other of his victories may be mentioned the Goodwood 

 Stakes, over which I believe he did little or no good, and the 

 Ca^sarewitch Stakes, which may be said to have been, at one 

 and the same time, his greatest coup and the most gigantic 

 mistake. 



On this memorable occasion he unwisely intrusted his com- 

 mission to one Perkins, a man of straw (as many commis- 

 sioners are) who, after receiving the money, as might have 

 been suspected, decamped with the whole of it without paying 

 a shilling of the losses, which had to be paid afterwards. This 

 affair Mr. Greville took so much to heart that nothing could 

 drive it from his memory ; and one day, whilst looking over the 

 Admiral's stud, in reply to a question thrice repeated, " What 



