The Earl of Glasgow. 2 7 



in tumblers to the passers-by. Old racing men first 

 remember the pupil jumping on the table at the Star 

 in Stonegate, when Mr. Gully entered and offered 25 

 to I in hundreds against Brutandorf for the St. Leger, 

 and repeating the offer in thousands. Having once 

 begun to " plunge," he won I7,ooo/. on Jerry, and lost 

 27,ooo/. on Mameluke at Doncaster ; and trusting in 

 Bay Middleton, and Bay Middleton alone, he offered 

 9O,ooo/, to 3O,ooo/. against Venison for the Derby, 

 " each man to post the money." Of late years he had 

 made some big bets, and offered bigger, but be the 

 issue what it might, no one could tell by his features 

 whether he had won or lost. It was dangerous for a 

 trainer or jockey to advise his lordship to put ioo/. 

 on a horse, as he was sure to multiply the advice by 

 five. Very often he would take no advice, and with a 

 colt at least two stone better in the stable he charac- 

 teristically enough backed Dare Devil to win 5O,ooo/., 

 and put his first jockey on him in the St. Leger. 

 Combined with all this off-hand daring, there was the 

 fine, simple faith of a Jack Tar, and the most rugged 

 honesty. Finesse or generalship, such as letting the 

 worst horse finish first in the trial when a good "taste" 

 had been taken a quarter of a mile from home, was a 

 thing he could not understand. Hence, he never 

 fairly mastered the fact that Actseon was much better 

 than Jerry ; and Purity's hollow defeat in the first two 

 heats out of five at Doncaster, despite Croft's assu- 

 rance that " the fun of the fair is only beginning, my 

 lord," seemed a purely Chinese puzzle to him. 



As Lord Kelburne, when his racing aspirations did 

 not often range further south than York and Don- 

 caster, he lived a good deal in Scotland, at his seat of 

 Hawkhead, near Paisley. That daring soul, Lord 

 Kennedy, was then in his zenith, ready to shoot (at 

 grouse or pigeons), or walk, or drive, against any 

 mortal man, for any conceivable sum, and, as may 

 be i inagined, his lordship found a foeman, with a long 



