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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



deliberately wished to shield a guilty man. " You have been an honest and good 

 servant to me," he said, when Sir John Lade brought the jockey to Carlton House 

 to be told that he should be paid two hundred guineas a year for the rest of his 

 Royal master's life. The Stewards' threat was answered by the Prince's personal 

 withdrawal from the Turf, followed by the sale of his bloodstock two stallions, 

 eleven blood mares, and fourteen horses in training. He kept a few which he used 

 as hacks or hunters ; and three of these, painted by Stubbs, including a portrait of 

 Gascoyne, the groom mentioned by Chifney, I have the privilege of reproducing in 



How to "Escape" losing. 



this volume by the kindness of His Majesty the King and H.R.H. Prince Christian, 

 whose dining-room at Cumberland Lodge they now adorn. 



The sight of them recalls a vivid memory of that time when the Prince and Sir 

 John Lade were the central figures of every smart race-meeting, and the curious 

 association of the latter with so different a man as Dr. Johnson, deserves a short 

 explanation, though the Doctor's sympathy with the Turf needs no further proof 

 than the fact that Sir Charles Bunbury was one of his pall-bearers. The attention of 

 racing men generally appears to have been drawn to Sir John at Waxy s Derby, 



