INDEX. 



473 



Cocked Hat Stakes at Goodwood, 

 Lord George Bentinck winning 

 jockey of the, in 1824, 53. 



Coelebs, attempted poisoning of, 36. 



Colombo, statue to Sir W. H. 

 Gregory at, 422. 



Conservative party, Lord George 

 Bentinck assumes leadership of 

 the, 225, 432 resigns leadership 

 of the, 236, 330, 434. 



Cooper, Abraham, pictures of Miss 

 Elis painted by, 180 et seq. 



Cornopean, running of, 199. 



Coronation, notice of, 313. 



Cotherstone, winner of the Two 

 Thousand, 108 of the Derby, 

 110, 198, 394. 



Cowl, winner at Ascot, 233. 



Craven Meeting, Newmarket Bien- 

 nial Stakes, Kangaroo winner of, 

 in 1865, 132. 



Crockford, Mr, owner of Ratan, 

 155. 



'Croker Papers, 'the, 430 quoted, 

 431 et seq. 



Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, 

 letters from Lord George Ben- 

 tinck to, 236, 330, 428, 430 et 

 passim. 



Crozier, Flatmaii's jockeyship of, at 

 Ascot, 145. 



Crucifix, purchase of, by Lord 

 George Bentinck, 130 descrip- 

 tion of, 204 offer for, 253 foul 

 designs to defeat, 308 ruin of, 

 in a false start, 309. 



Cyprian, racing feats of, 69. 



Dandizette, running of, for Good- 

 wood Stakes, in 1824, 301 

 notice of, 343. 



Danebury, formation of Lord George 

 Bentinck's stud at, 57 et seq. 

 removal of Lord George Ben- 

 tinck's horses from, to Good- 

 wood, 97 et seq. 



Danebury paddocks, the, 187, 314. 



Danebury stables, varied fortunes 

 of the, 59. 



Dawson, Dan, race-horses poisoned 

 by, 34 et seq. trial and execu- 

 tion of, 39. 



Day, Isaac, 96, 201, 313 et passim. 



Day, John Barham, 57, 98, 104, 

 108, 185 et passim. 



Day, John, jun., 193, 201. 



"Derby Dilly," the, 5. 



"Derby of 1844, the memorable," 

 152 et seq., 408 et seq. 



Derby of 1848, backing of Surplice 

 for the, 270 account of the, 272 

 et seq. gains of Lord George 

 Bentinck on the, 286. 



Dieting of race-horses, the, 101 et seq. 



Discord, winner of Northampton- 

 shire Stakes, 166 of Granby 

 Handicap and Cup, 169. 



Disraeli, Right Hon. B., Political 

 Biography of Lord George Ben- 

 tinck by, 2, 9, 154, 329, 430 

 estimate of Lord George Bentinck 

 as a statesman by, 185, 329 

 visits of, to Harcourt House, 329, 

 428, 437, 447 as a patron of the 

 Turf, 427 influence of, on Lord 

 George Bentinck, ib. Lord 

 George Bentinck's estimate of, 

 as a politician, 428 et seq. be- 

 comes leader of Conservative 

 party, 435 Lord George Ben- 

 tinck's last letter to, 455. 



Dixon, Henry ("The Druid"), ex- 

 tract from * Silk and Scarlet ' by, 

 13 n. on death of Emilius, 130 

 lines on Lord George Bentinck's 

 funeral by, 463. 



Doe, John, trainer to Lord Lich- 

 field, 56, 58 notices of, 62, 64 

 et passim first trial of vans for 

 race-horses by, 65. 



Doncaster, Lord George Bentinck's 

 stud at, 56, 72 race-horses con- 

 veyed to, in vans, 61 et seq. 

 accident to Epirus at, 393. 



Doncaster St Leger, the, of 1848, 

 289 et seq. 



Dorling, Mr, clerk of Epsom race- 

 course, 297. 



Drawing-Room Stakes, the, won by 

 Elis, 62. 



Drumlanrig, Lord, 390, 391 and n. 



Dublin, political contest for, be- 

 tween Sir W. H. Gregory and 

 Lord Morpeth, 370 et seq. 



Dunwich, Lord. See Stradbroke, 

 Earl of. 



