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Second), as became a relative of the Thomonds ; 

 and when he slept with his fathers (November 

 11, 1837, in his eighty-sixth year), he had bred 

 Gohanna (the Ney of racehorses, the gamest of the 

 game, though Waxy was one too many for him), and 

 had won the Derby five times (1782, 1804, 1805, 

 1807, 1826, with Assassin, Hannibal, Cardinal Beau- 

 fort, Election, and Lapclog), and the Oaks — oddly 

 enough — exactly the same number of times (1788, 

 1789, 1795, 1800, and 1820, with Nightshade, Tag, 

 Platina, Ephemera, and Caroline), as well as the 

 Goodwood Cup (in 1825 and 1826, with Cricketer and 

 Stumps), a specially appropriate trophy for him, as 

 Goodwood races were the successors, as it were, of the 

 races which had been held by Lord Egremont at 

 Petworth, where, it may be remarked in passing, a 

 most mysterious murrain (in 1825) raged not only 

 among the blood-stock but among the cart-mares and 

 even the asses, causing great mortality and never 

 traced to any ascertainable source. It is related of 

 this Lord Egremont that he was by natural constitu- 

 tion so disinclined for a legitimate alliance with the 

 other sex as to declare his honest conviction that, if 

 he were to marry, he should inevitably hang himself, 

 and yet of so benevolent a disposition that he for 

 many years spent 20,000L annually in relieving dis- 

 tress and contributing to charitable institutions. 



Lord Exeter, who by family name ' strains back ' 

 to the very early days of horse-racing (for we find the 



