354 THE FIFTH DUKE OF RICHMOND, K.G. 



out, as so many do, that the race had been lost 

 by the jockey, or by wrong orders, or because of 

 something wrong in the state of the ground " I 

 suppose we met a better horse." 



Red Hart, who was his Grace's most successful 

 race -horse, was a big overgrown yearling, and 

 evidently needed time to develop him, which, by 

 turning him out and letting him run about as a 

 two-year-old until the month of October, his noble 

 owner took care that he should not want. The 

 result was that, in 1847, he won eight races as a 

 three-year-old, including the Welcome Stakes at 

 Ascot, in which he beat Sir Joseph Hawley's 

 Miami, who had won the Oaks ; the Gratwicke 

 Stakes at Goodwood ; the Grand Duke Michael 

 Stakes at Newmarket, in which he beat Sir 

 Robert Pigot's Conyngham, who had won the Two 

 Thousand ; and the Royal Stakes at Newmarket. 

 Altogether Red Hart won 6405 in stakes in 1847. 

 The Duke greatly preferred to breed his own race- 

 horses, having a great objection to purchasing (as 

 happened to him more than once) " an orange 

 which," as he phrased it, " some one else had 

 already squeezed." Among the animals that he 

 bred, and took the greatest delight in, were Refrac- 

 tion, Picnic, Red Hart, Red Deer, Officious, Cuckoo, 

 Red Hind, Ghillie Gallum, Harbinger, Pharos, and 

 Homebrewed. Most of the above-named horses 

 won races at Goodwood, which meeting his Grace 

 always moved heaven and earth to make more 



