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those days there was a race called the Black Duck 

 Stakes at York, 500 sovs. each, half forfeit, and for 

 several years Lord Glasgow and Mr. Merry were 

 the only subscribers, his lordship frequently having- 

 four or five nominations ; but he was generally beaten. 

 He won it once with an unnamed colt, and he named 

 him directly afterwards ' The Drake ' — a very appro- 

 priate name. Very seldom did he name his horses, 

 and this practice used to be very misleading, as there 

 were very often three or four animals bred exactly 

 alike all runninor at the same time. There were two 

 Brothers to ' Strafford,' and several out of ' Physalis ' 

 and ' Physalis' ' dam, so that it got rather confusing. 

 I remember a filly belonging to John Nightingall, of 

 Epsom, winning the two-year-old race at Harpen- 

 den, and being disqualified for being wrongly 

 described. Her dam was by one of the brothers to 

 * Strafford,' but they had not put in the year he was 

 foaled. It was a very hard case, with no fraudulent 

 intent, but the stewards decided it was an insufficient 

 description. Lord Glasgow had a great many 

 trainers in his time, having Thomas Dawson twice, 

 John Dawson, Joseph Dawson, John Scott, J. 

 Godding, and one or two others I quite forget. 

 His irritability was no doubt owing to his afflic- 

 tion. On one occasion he called Aldcroft out 



