98 REMOVAL FROM DANEBURY. 



market, and especially upon the circumstances 

 connected with Mr Etwall's Melody colt, who 

 was heavily backed for the Cambridgeshire Stakes 

 and ran second, having been trained by John 

 Day, who also trained Lord Palmerston's Ilione, 

 the winner of the Cesarewitch during the Second 

 October Meeting. Rather than submit to what 

 he deemed an injustice, Lord George thought no 

 sum of money too great to sacrifice, and showed 

 his indomitable spirit by leaving Danebury, where, 

 as was often stated at the time, he was " literally 

 walking on gold laid out by himself." 



When I went to Danebury I found five or six 

 horses in training, a large number turned out, and 

 several yearlings. It was his Lordship's wish that 

 all of them should be conveyed in vans to Good- 

 wood ; and as the yearlings were unbroken, the 

 carrying out of this plan was attended with 

 no little anxiety, trouble, and risk. From the 

 unusual circumstance of the yearlings not having 

 been broken, I fully believe that Lord George 

 contemplated this great change some months 

 previous to effecting it, as it was his custom 

 to have his yearlings broken early in the year, 

 and to try them before the closing of the 

 Stakes after the Houghton Meeting. He told 

 me he did not desire to have them broken 

 at Danebury, in order to avoid any estimate of 

 their merits being formed there. Four of these 

 yearlings Farintosh, Gaper, Bramble, and Fore- 



