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to be acquired by Charles Fox. At Brooks's they were betting ^500 to ten guineas 

 that he would never be worth ,100,000 clear of debts. They betted, in fact, on 

 everything on the Colonies, on the French, at Macao, at Quinze, at Hazard, on 

 deaths, on births, on appointments, on elections ; but it is significant that the first 

 wager recorded is Lord Bateman's ten guineas to General Conway on Lord Boling- 

 broke's colt (1771). Four years afterwards Mr. Codrington laid a hundred guineas 

 even money against Priestess in the match with Bacchus. In 1776 Mr. Panton has 

 another hundred with Mr. Pigot on Bellerophon. Two years later Lord Derby bets 

 Mr. Hanger fifty on his filly by Herod out of a Snap mare. Lord March's wagers were 

 chiefly connected with the stud. He wagers, for instance, in 1773, that the Godolphin 



Mr. Wilson's ' ' Creeper "by" Tandem "out of 

 "Harriet" by "M<i/c/iem." (1786.) 

 By permission of Mr. Somerville Tattersall. 



Arabian and not Bay Bolton was the sire of Mogul, and, with a curiously persistent 

 suspicion, that Bay Bolton was not the sire of Whistlejacket. In August, 1750, his 

 lordship netted (among many other hauls) fifty guineas which Colonel Waldegrave 

 (with whom Lord Anson went halves) laid against the famous Chaise match, at 

 White's ; and a month later Mr. Taafe is trying to get some of his money back by wager- 

 ing two hundred that " the horse Mr. T. bought of the D. of Richmond's groom 

 by the name of Silverlocks wins two plates of 50 value or upwards in three years." 

 In 1751, also at White's, for his lordship is quite impartial in his favours, Lord March 

 takes fifty guineas from Colonel Vane that the horse to which Mr. Vernon gives a 

 stone in October, in the match with Lord Trentham, wins, play or pay ; and another 



