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horses were always run on strictly honest principles, and those 

 in his name were all his own, until his health gave way and 

 put an end to his short and extraordinary career. It may fear- 

 lessly be averred that during this brief time, he revelled in his 

 favourite amusement, spending enormous sums yearly, only to 

 have them repaid with a good amount over, by way of in- 

 terest. His gigantic expenses were all met and discharged, 

 with most praiseworthy and business-like promptitude ; and 

 his liberality was unbounded. And yet all this was done 

 without the aid of a princely fortune ; for as I have before 

 said, his means were limited and he started with a borrowed 

 purse. And I am told by one of his lordship's most intimate 

 friends (in whose arms he died) that he was richer when 

 retiring from the turf than when he commenced racing. 



I shall now, by way of comparison, say a few words on the 

 racing career of the late Earl of Derby ; a fearless and upright 

 sportsman, as well as a justly celebrated statesman and orator. 

 Two noblemen so thoroughly dissimilar as were these two 

 in all that concerns racing, except in their unflinching in- 

 tegrity, can scarcely be found. The Marquess hardly ever 

 bred a horse, but bought his yearlings and old horses, of which 

 he had not a few. The Earl bred, and never bought any 

 young or old, keeping only a small stud. Moreover, he seldom 

 ran them except at Goodwood, Doncaster, Epsom, and a few 

 other places, and backed only his own, and then only for 

 small sums. The Marquess did just the opposite. He backed 

 his own often, and other people's, for very large stakes; and 

 no place was too distant, nor race too small, for him to run 

 a horse in it. Again, whilst the Earl was a millionaire, and 

 the Marquess comparatively speaking poor, both raced with 

 success. I can vouch for the fact, on the authority of a noble- 

 man well known to the late Earl, that his stud never cost him 



