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" Yes," said Godding, "but you see, my lord, the 

 owner was born blind." 



The Earl, as I have just stated, was very queer- 

 tempered, and could not stand a trainer playing a 

 joke off on him, so he ran poor old Jemmy Godding, 

 much to Mr. Payne's delight, all round the yard, 

 calling him all the "red-faced old scoundrels" he 

 could lay his tongue to. Luckily he failed to catch 

 him, or he would certainly have laid his stick about 

 him. His lordship was so annoyed at Godding's 

 jest that he removed all his horses a few days 

 afterwards, and I think they went back to Middle- 

 ham, to Mr. Thomas Dawson, for the second time. 



No one was fonder of his racehorses than the 

 late Lord Glasgow, and he spent thousands of 

 pounds trying to breed first-class ones. This he 

 eventually did, but never succeeded in winning 

 either the Derby or St. Leger, although he was 

 second with ' General Peel ' to ' Blair Athol ' for 

 both races in 1864. ' General Peel,' however, had 

 previously won the Two Thousand Guineas. Lord 

 Glasgow had some of the biggest and best-looking 

 horses in training, among them 'Rapid Rhone,' 'Make 

 Haste,' 'Tom Bowline,' 'Brother to Strafford' — after- 

 wards named ' Outfit.' These were all good hunting 

 sires, and the stoutest horses possible. This eccen- 



