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hurt, and it was a very serious matter. His lordship 

 turned quietly round, and said : 



" Put him in the bill, no matter what it is." 

 Lord Glasgow was very fond of match-making 

 with his racehorses, but he generally had the worst 

 of it, as he never would have his animals run down 

 or considered worse than anyone else's. In fact, he 

 would make a match and give weight away rather 

 than have his horse insulted, as he thought they 

 would be if favourably handicapped. On one occasion 

 he had a colt engaged in a race at Newmarket to be 

 handicapped the night previous, and as Lord Glasgow 

 had not won a race for a long time the weight allotted 

 was a very light one. Directly his lordship saw the 

 weights he sent round to the Rooms and scratched 

 him, saying he would not allow one of his animals to 

 be slighted in that way. There are not many of his 

 sort about now. He was a very aristocratic, gentle- 

 manly-looking man, and always wore a blue cloth 

 dress-coat with gold buttons, buff waistcoat, white 

 trousers, with a slit at the bottom, low shoes, and a 

 short-crowned, broad-brimmed beaver hat. His 

 favourite places of sport were Newmarket, Ascot, 

 York, and Doncaster. He occasionally ran a horse 

 in the Derby at Epsom, but never patronized the 

 Surrey meeting as much as the other places. In 



