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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



hardly be a Loates alive who does not know all there is to know about his 

 profession ; for there was H. Loates with The Rake and Friponnier ; Ben Loates 

 with a promising son ; T. Loates with Isinglass ; and S. Loates with Harvester 

 and Sir Visto. I do not know whether Abdale left a son ; but I am certain that 

 he never forgot as long as he lived his connection with Lord George Bentinck, for 

 the spell that noble owner left upon his generation is not forgotten yet. 



In the pages of those memoirs which reveal as much of his own character as 

 of the weaknesses of his companions, Greville describes his quarrel with Lord 

 George as having begun over "the first good racehorse he possessed, Preserve, 

 which I bought for him in 1833. ... It was evident that our turf connexion could 



no longer subsist, and 

 accordingly it was in- 

 stantly dissolved, and 

 other arrangements were 

 made for his stud." The 

 situation improved when 

 Greville had Mango in 

 the St. Leger. "John 

 Day told me he was sure 

 Lord George would gladly 

 try him for me. I pro- 

 posed it to him, and he 

 instantly assented. We 

 went down together and 



tried the horse. Mango won his trial, won the St. Leger, and George won .14,000 

 on the race." 



The amazement of the Duke, Lord George's father, at "seeing a great number 

 of horses running in the names of men whom he never saw or heard of," was 

 only equalled by his indignation on learning that all those horses belonged to 

 Lord George, who had promised "that he would not bet any more on the Turf." 

 It was only the efforts of the Duchess which at last brought about reconciliation, 

 and even pleasure in news of his son's doings. The quarrel with Greville was 

 only temporarily made up. They became completely estranged, and irrevocably 

 so, over Crucifix. The two cousins were as different as possible, and should never 

 have been so closely associated in a pursuit as to the conduct of which they held 



