SOME EARLY VICTORIAN OWNERS. 



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of a great career, if sentiment went for anything. And sentiment that most 

 neglected, and most powerful, factor in the world's work and play has much to say 

 with horse-racing. Fortune, at any rate, soon smiled upon Lord Jersey, for he won 

 the Derby three times, with Middleton, with Mameluke, and with Bay Middleton. 

 After scoring the Two Thousand with Riddleswortk in 1831, he won it four times 

 running from 1834 onwards ; and he never ran any of his horses as a two-year-old. 

 He died in 1859, and in spite of his splendid successes he was nearly half a million 

 out of pocket by his stud, for he very rarely betted, and never in high figures. 

 Luckily he was able to enjoy, and to improve, the Turf, without it. Twenty 

 years later there passed away, at Marble Hill, Twickenham, another upright 

 supporter of the Turf, 

 General Peel, the firm 

 friend of Admiral Rous, 

 Lord Glasgow, and 

 George Payne. Brother 

 of the famous Prime 

 Minister, the General 

 made almost as con- 

 spicuous a figure in the 

 racing world as Sir 

 Robert did in politics. 

 He began in 1823 with 

 John Kent, who trained 

 his horses with those of 

 the Duke of Richmond 



and Lord Stradbroke at Goodwood ; and his greatest successes were with Archibald 

 in the Two Thousand, and Orlando in the Derby of 1844, a race which will always 

 be memorable for the scandal about Running Rein, to which I have already referred. 

 His trainers later on were Coope and Joseph Dawson, and his favourite jockey was 

 Nat Flatman; and his last win was the Middle Park Plate at the Newmarket 

 Second October meeting with Peter, the appropriately named son of Hermit, who 

 also recalled his owner's friendship with Lord Glasgow. 



We have met with some lucky men, and we have heard of many rich men in these 

 pages. But for a man to take to racing who is both, and that in large measure, 

 is somewhat extraordinary even in the moving History of the English Turf and 



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; Beadsman " by " Weather bit" (1855). 



