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impossible to start The Earl with winning orders, as it was hopeless to attempt 

 to get back the money laid against him. This was why he was scratched at the 

 last minute and reserved for the Grand Prix, which he won, and then rushed over 

 to Ascot, where he won three more races within the five days. This broke him 

 up so much that when John Day, contrary to Enoch's wishes, put Tom Cannon 

 on to him for a good stripped gallop the Thursday before the Leger, he pulled 

 up lame and never saw a racecourse again. Before the year was out Lord Hastings 

 was dead. He had not reached the age of twenty-eight, yet he had shown himself 

 one of the cleverest tacticians on the Turf, one of the finest judges of racing, 

 and a master in the art of trying horses, as indeed he was bound to be, for the 

 enormous bets he made 

 in his chimerical deter- 

 mination to "break the 

 Ring " necessitated leav- 

 ing as little as possible 

 to chance, even if ex- 

 tremely severe tests were 

 therefore requisite. The 

 Earl (450 guineas) had 

 been one of the cheapest 

 of his purchases. With 

 Ackworth (supposed to 

 be dear at 2000 guineas) 

 the "scarlet and white 

 hoops " won their first 



great victory in the Cambridgeshire of 1864. In 1866 little Lecturer, a foal from 

 the Sledmere sale, won ,40,000 for the Donington party in the Cesarewitch. 

 That winter the Marquis made up his mind that Hermit could never win the 

 next Derby. His opinion cost him .103,000 and the estates of Loudoun. Lady 

 Elizabeth and Lecturer got back some of this at Ascot, defeating a field of ten 

 for the Gold Cup, including three Oaks winners Regalia, Tormentor, and Hippia 

 after a splendid finish by Fordham. But Lady Elizabeth's match at gibs, with the 

 three-year-old Julius had done her no good. The Derby of 1868 followed, and at 

 the First October Meeting the Marquis was- 'on the Heath in a basket carriage, 

 putting "a pony" on Athena, "which was once a mare of mine." "All the wheels 



" Macaroni" by "Sweetmeat" (1860). 



