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Nightshade, Tag, Platina, Ephemera, and Caroline. He also ran Claret for a Jockey 

 Club Plate in 1787, and with Cricketer and Stumps \\e won the Goodwood Cup of 

 1825 and 1826, at races which legitimately succeeded to those meetings he had held 

 in the park at Petworth. He is worthy of special commemoration, not merely because 

 he recognised in time that marriage was not an institution which could ever recommend 

 itself to his disposition, nor merely that he died worth nearly double the income he 

 inherited, after spending almost ,20,000 a year on charitable institutions, but 

 for his patronage of art in a sense even more extended than that of the house of 

 Grosvenor which gave its first real encouragement to the brush of Stubbs. The 

 Turners and Constables Lord Egremont collected may still be seen at Petworth, and 

 a small anecdote may be told of him which shows that racing can never corrupt a fine 

 taste that is inherent. In old age, and being ill, he put up a monument to his Percy 

 predecessors at Petworth, and inscribed it simply " Mortuis Moriturus." Whatever 

 Horace Walpole may have thought of him, Lord Egremont was a splendid man, and 

 one whose devotion to the Turf is a lasting credit to it. 



It was the third Duke of Richmond under whose auspices the races given up by 

 Lord Egremont at Petworth were transferred to Goodwood in 1802, where the sport 

 that was already known was at once solidified and improved, though of course it is to 

 Lord George Bentinck in a later day that we owe the meeting so popular at the 

 present time. The third Duke of Richmond succeeded to his title in 1750, and ran 

 Bounce for the Jockey Club Plate eleven years afterwards. But the third great breeder 

 in the trio placed with the Duke of Cumberland was Lord Clermont, a great friend 

 of the French Royal Family, by one of whom his Cantator was nominated for the 

 Derby of 1784. His intimacy with the Prince of Wales was equally well-known, 

 and his Royal Highness once got a great deal of easy credit for kindness to an aged 

 relative by driving out Lord Clermont on the Heath, who was so carefully wrapped 

 up that people mistook the gay old peer for Princess Amelia, an error which was as 

 great in morals as in sex. But whether " the hoary profligate " he is sometimes 

 described or not, Lord Clermont did much for the Turf when he bred the great 

 Trumpator. He also owned Conductor and Mark Antony, won the Derby of 1785 

 with Aimivell, the only classic winner who is a direct descendant of the Alcock 

 Arabian, won the Oaks the same year with Trifle, and got first and second in the 

 Oaks of 1792 with Volante by Highflyer, and Trumpetta. 



I have mentioned that in 1762 certain members of the Jockey Club announced 

 the adoption of more or less permanent racing colours. Among them was the 



