260 SALE OF LORD GEORGE'S STUD. 



Anson and Mr Francis Villiers built the highest 

 expectations, ran several times. He was beaten 

 by a neck at Doncaster by Mr B. Green's Assault 

 (another Touchstone colt, out of Ghuznee, winner 

 of the Oaks), after meeting with a great disap- 

 pointment in the race, the general opinion being 

 that Loadstone ought to have won. Next day 

 he won the Produce Stakes in a canter, beating 

 Colonel Anson' s Contessa. At Newmarket he ran 

 for the Prendergast, which he won easily by two 

 lengths, beating Lord Albemarle's Kangaroo, Lord 

 Exeter's Tisiphone, Sir J. B. Mill's Deerstalker, 

 and Field-Marshal Grosvenor's Sir Oliver. At the 

 Houghton Meeting he won the Criterion Stakes, 

 cleverly carrying 6 Ib. extra and beating Lord 

 Exeter's Tisiphone, Mr B. Green's State Anchor, 

 Mr Pedley's Lady Mary, Duke of Rutland's 

 Palamine, and Mr Hargreaves's Sunnyside. Later 

 in the same week he won the Glasgow Stakes, in a 

 canter, by four lengths. 



Into the running of these two fine colts I have 

 entered more fully than I should otherwise have 

 done, because of the extraordinary occurrences in 

 connection with them which the coming winter 

 and spring were destined to bring to pass, affecting 

 Lord George Bentinck, Mr Francis Villiers, Colonel 

 Anson, and the noble family at Goodwood, and in 

 a humbler degree myself, most materially. Here I 

 may add that, disregarding Admiral Rous's opinion 

 expressed before the House of Commons' Select 



