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to Lord Grosvenor some time since. At foot it is marked as received by Thomas 

 Tyrwhitt on i6th April, 1799, and it is therefore a statement to the effect that the 

 Prince of Wales owed Earl Grosvenor 945 guineas, between July, 1795, and April, 1799. 



GUINEAS. 

 Tuesday, May Meeting, 1795. Forfeit to the Irish Stakes, won by Lord 



Grosvenor's colt by Rockitigham . . . . . . ... .95 



Tuesday, ist October Meeting, 1795. Forfeit on the 1,400 guineas won by Lord 



Grosvenor . . . . . . .? . . . . .100 



First Spring Meeting, 1796. Two forfeits to the 1,200 guineas won by Lord 



Grosvenor's Capsicum . . . . . . . . . .200 



Produce Stakes at York forfeit in 1796 J0 o 



495 



April, 1798. For a bay colt got by Meteor out of Leveret ... -5 



June 28th. For Antaeus . . . . . 400 



945 

 Signed 16 April, 1799. 



ABRAHAM MOORE, Auditor to the EARL GROSVENOR, No. 4, Lamb's Buildings, Temple. 



Those who are curious to discover further details of the betting of the period 

 should consult the "Sporting Magazine," vol. xl., p. 70 (1812), for a digest of a 

 betting book; and vol. xli., p. 3, for an account of Joseph Eland's transactions over 

 the Pavilion Stakes, at Brighton, one of the races in which Sir John Lade helped to 

 ruin himself. Not all the Prince's associates were quite of this stamp, and many of 

 them showed that it was perfectly possible not only to support the Turf, but also to 

 be a first-class horseman, without absolutely riding post-haste to the devil. The 

 Duke of Dorset, Lord George Germain, and Delme Raclcliffe, when they rode 

 before the Prince of Wales, in his club uniform of green coat, buckskins and top- 

 boots, at a Bibury Meeting, were as good as any trio of jockeys in the kingdom, and 

 with the addition of Mr. Hawkes were considered by so good a judge as " Nimrod" 

 to be " within two pounds of any quartet of professionals." They went down to the 

 start on their hacks in most businesslike style, with their racing saddles strapped 

 round their waists, while " Nando " Bullock rode alongside " Splitpost " Douglas, 

 explaining to him how he had " turned the last post snug as murder; now, said I 

 to myself, the pantomime is going to begin and I think I shall beat Mr. Merryman." 

 If Mr. Hawkes had extraordinary judgment of pace in riding a waiting race, young 

 Tatton Sykes, who rode eleven stone and scored his first win for the " orange body, 

 blue sleeves and cap " of Sledmere up at Beverley, was equally celebrated for his 

 beautiful hands, and for such courage and skill as he once displayed in a match at 

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