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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Bentinck as a two-year-old in 1835 ; but it was Mr. Kent, senior, who helped to 

 van Elis from Goodwood to Doncaster for the St. Leger, at a cost that could not 

 have been less than ^80, and may have been ,100. In the autumn of 1841, John 

 Kent had charge at Goodwood of all Lord George's Danebury horses, and it is an 

 interesting instance of the longevity of trainers that in January, 1904, John Kent was 

 able to communicate to the newspapers the details of a conversation he had with 

 Lord George Bentinck concerning a witness in the Running Rein case. The original 

 John Kent seems to have been a builder at Wantage, always a racing town, in 

 the middle of the eighteenth century, and moved to Newmarket, where he built 



the Rutland Arms Hotel and 

 the Jockey Club Rooms. His 

 grandson was certainly as hard 

 worked as any trainer before 

 or since in Lord George Ben- 

 tinck's service, and in one year 

 he actually started seventy-five 



v ,- Mil--. -''Swpf*. jP!NP3C;jl Corses in the four days of the 

 ' -' - - ' " "" -^^^^H^Bf Goodwood Meeting, and saddled 



every one with his own hands. 

 After Lord George's death, 

 Mr. Gratwicke's horses came 

 to Kent's stables from Michel 

 Grove, and among other sup- 

 porters were the fifth Duke of 



H.R.H. Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein. r>- u i iw .. T? c i i 



Richmond, and Viscount Lnfield, 



afterwards Lord Strafford. The death of the sixth Duke of Richmond during one of 

 the most fatal years the English Turf has suffered for a long while, is a reminder of 

 how much the Gordon- Lennox family have done for racing, not only by the influence 

 of the Goodwood Meeting, but in many other ways. As Lord March, the late Duke 

 himself took a more prominent part than is sometimes remembered in the racing, for 

 the card at Goodwood, on the last day of 1839, shows the following result : 



The March Stakes of 10 sovs. : each h. ft. heats. Last three-quarters of a mile of Drawing Room Stakes 



Course (29 subscribers). Gentlemen riders. 



Lord March's b. f. Guava, 4 yrs., lost ilb. ... ... ... ... (Owner) 411 



Duke of Richmond's b. f. Reel, 3 yrs., gst. 81b. ... (Colonel Bouverie) 130 



Mr. Sidney Herbert's b. g. Arctic, 6 yrs., i2St. 81b. ... ... ... (Owner) 220 



Captain Gardner's b. c. Shuffler, 4 yrs., 951. 1 2lb. (Owner) 3 dr. 



