154 THE GOODWOOD STABLE IN 1844. 



for Colonel Peel. I am one of the few survivors 

 to whom every detail of the Running Rein Derby 

 is well known, and I affirm, without hesitation, 

 that but for Lord George Bentinck, Colonel Peel 

 would never have objected to Running Rein, and 

 that but for Lord George, Mr Wood would have 

 won the case. The result of this celebrated trial 

 was to make Lord George what Mr Disraeli, in 

 his political biography of that nobleman, calls him, 

 " Lord Paramount of the British Turf." 



Such was the sense universally entertained of 

 the value of the services rendered by Lord George 

 Bentinck in this case, that a public subscription 

 was immediately set on foot with a view to pre- 

 senting his Lordship with a testimonial, expressing 

 the gratitude and admiration of the subscribers. 

 In an incredibly short space of time the sum of 

 2100 was collected; but the Hercules of the 

 Turf, having cleansed the Augean stable, refused 

 to accept anything, either in the form of plate or 

 money. It was therefore determined by a com- 

 mittee of the Jockey Club, consisting of the Dukes 

 of Bedford, Beaufort, and Rutland, the Earl of 

 Chesterfield, and Viscount Enfield (afterwards Earl 

 of Strafford), " that the amount subscribed should 

 be applied to some public institution, with a view 

 to forming the nucleus of a fund for securing in 

 perpetuity to a certain number of the children 

 of deserving trainers and jockeys enough to sup- 

 port and educate them from infancy until of an 



