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matrimonial incident, who won the One Thousand 

 with Eepulse in 1866, the Grand Prix de Paris with 

 that mysterious horse The Earl in 1868, the Ascot 

 Cup with Lecturer in 1867, the Goodwood Cup with 

 The Duke in 1866, who paid 6,000 guineas or more 

 for the impostor Kangaroo, in the hope of winning 

 the Two Thousand and Derby won by Gladiateur, who 

 was the owner of the sensational Lady Elizabeth, who 

 was ' fly ' to Mr. Padwick's ' spider,' and who, having 

 commenced racing when he was barely twenty years 

 of age in 1862 with a ' plater ' called Consternation, 

 before the end of 1868, at twenty-six years of age, had 

 finished his career and his life — ' all out.' It is only 

 fair to add, though, that the ruin of his fortunes has 

 been attributed, not without reason and credibility, 

 rather to the ' bones,' the cards, and generally extra- 

 vagant expenditure, than to his losses, enormous as 

 they were — more than 100,000/. on Hermit's Derby — 

 on the Turf. 



The next ' warning ' is the (seventh) Earl of 

 Aylesford (one of the ' black funereal Finches '), who 

 was born in 1849, and, having been for some years a 

 member of the Jockey Club after the kind to which 

 the ' Cripplegate ' and ' Newgate ' Earls of Barymore 

 belonged, but not having gained so much distinction 

 as the former of that noble pair of brothers on the 

 Turf, was constrained to leave his country (perhaps 

 for that country's good) for Texas, where he died (not, 

 it is understood, in the odour of sanctity) on his 



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