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sand with Idas in 1845, and was for a time con- 

 federate with the Duke of Richmond ; and he paled 

 before his brother, the Admiral, with whom he had 

 originally been associated. Not that the ' Great 

 Twin Brethren ' were all their lives altogether at one 

 on all questions connected with the Turf. They were, 

 no doubt, both equally anxious for the improvement 

 of its morality, as well as of its business and the 

 accessories thereof, but they differed often, not to say 

 generally, and voted on opposite sides. The Admiral, 

 for instance, was very angry with people who said 

 that the English racehorse had degenerated ; the 

 Earl agreed with them. The Admiral and the Earl, 

 moreover, voted on opposite sides on Sir J. Hawley's 

 proposal in 1869 to limit the racing of two-year-olds, 

 the Earl being for the limitation and the Admiral 

 against. When two such honest experts differ on 

 such questions it seems almost hopeless to arrive at 

 the true conclusion. 



Lord Suffield is a title which covers two single 

 gentlemen ; the first is he who married the co-heiress 

 of the Earl of Buckingham, and was well known on 

 the Turf as Mr. Harbord before he aired his lordship 

 at Ipswich in 1810, which was eleven years before he 

 ran Vandyke Junior for a Jockey Club Plate in 

 1821, in which year he disd ; and the other (? son of 

 the former) is he who was ' obliged to decline the 

 Turf ' in 1839, but had already deserved honourable 

 mention for joining those members of the Jockey 



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