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nobleman, known among his intimate associates as 

 ' Peter,' who won the Two Thousand with General 

 Peel (runner of a dead-heat for the Ascot Cup with 

 Ely in 1865, but beaten in the decider), and was 

 known principally for his heavy betting (having 

 offered to lay Lord George Bentinck 90,000L to 

 30,000/., when the latter nobleman expressed a desire 

 to back his horse Gaper for the Derby of 1843 * to 

 money'), for his objection to name his horses until 

 they had deserved a name (which seldom happened), 

 for his extreme irritability, his strong language, his 

 curious dress, his ' sleeping draughts ' (notwith- 

 standing which he had lived to the good age of 

 seventy-seven, when he died in 1869), for his amusing 

 habit of anathematising his jockeys for not ' making 

 play ' with his horses according to his orders (when 

 he started animals that could not beat a jackass), 

 and for his noble and ingenuous inability, it is said, 

 even to the last day of his life, to understand the 

 trickery practised in running races in heats so as 

 to win. He was also a mighty Jehu, and drove a 

 famous match (which, of course, he lost through ill- 

 luck) with Lord Kennedy, on a night as dark as 

 pitch. 



The (third) Earl of Howth (died 1874), a great 

 judge of all matters pertaining to horseflesh, was 

 better known, no doubt, on the Irish than the English 

 Turf, but his name of St. Lawrence was given to a 

 stout horse well-known on English racecourses, and 



