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accept the position of private trainer to the fifth 

 Duke of Bichmond, at Goodwood. 



Mr Prince soon adopted the habit of intrusting 

 the entire management of his stable and paddocks 

 to my father, who took the greatest interest in his 

 work, and was always a very conscientious and faith- 

 ful servant to his employers. He was constantly 

 sent away from Newmarket in charge of horses 

 which had to run for provincial engagements far 

 away from headquarters. Among the distin- 

 guished patrons of the Turf for whom Mr Prince 

 then trained were included Lord Foley, the Eight 

 Honble. Charles James Fox, Sir Frank Standish, 

 Sir Sitwell Sitwell, and many lesser luminaries. 

 Lord Foley and Mr Fox were racing confederates, 

 and their success during the early years of their 

 connection with Mr Prince's stable was pheno- 

 menally great. It was a very heavy betting 

 stable about that time, and in the opinion of many 

 observant judges the first impulse towards reck- 

 less speculation was administered to the Turf by 

 Lord Foley, who in the end was so hard hit by 

 gambling that his noble estate, Witley Court in 

 Worcestershire, had to be sold for nearly a million 

 sterling to the grandfather of the present Lord 

 Dudley. While the success of these two confed- 

 erates was at its height, their horses were always 

 great favourites, a fact which led, in one instance, 

 to that well-known and most disgraceful transac- 

 tion with which Dan Dawson (an ill-omened name) 



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