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was always instructed to travel in a first-class 

 carriage, wherein I was frequently the only 

 passenger. 



I will now bring to a conclusion a chapter which 

 might be indefinitely extended were I to include 

 in it further specimens of the numerous letters 

 which Lord George Bentinck wrote to my father 

 and myself. It was his custom thoroughly and 

 fundamentally to exhaust every subject and every 

 detail upon which he touched ; and as a further 

 evidence of his untiring industry, I have now be- 

 fore me ever so many letters which he wrote upon 

 a new system of ventilation which he desired to 

 apply to some stables he was building at Good- 

 wood. The perusal of these and other letters 

 from his active pen recalls to my mind a few 

 words spoken to me not long ago at Newmarket 

 by my old friend the ex-racing Judge, Mr J. F. 

 Clark, who was well acquainted with the Good- 

 wood stable when in its prime. " I do not think," 

 exclaimed Mr Clark, " that any of the present lot 

 of trainers in England would have long kept the 

 situation of trainer to Lord George Bentinck, which 

 would have worn any of them out in less than a 

 year." To prepare a hundred horses for their 

 engagements is under any circumstances a labori- 

 ous undertaking, but to do so fifty years ago was 

 almost more than one man could long sustain. I 

 am quite sure that I should not be here now to 



