FAMOUS RACING STUDS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS. 



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In 1842 Lord March rode three winners in succession, being of the same age 

 and the same weight as John Kent, who recalled these facts when his old master 

 died. The Duke was at his death the senior member of the Jockey Club, a 

 position in which he was succeeded by the late Lord Alington, and no better man 

 of business ever presided over the deliberations which were sometimes held at 

 his town house in Belgrave Square. A pillar of agriculture, a practical states- 

 man, and as genial a sportsman as ever breathed, the Duke's death was felt as a 

 loss wherever the honourable record of his public and private life was known 

 and valued. 



Racing at Goodwood in its first anniversary of 1802 (the year of Lord George 

 Bentinck's birth) came third on the annual programme, which was opened by the 



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Craven at Newmarket ; and the first event in its hundred years' record is the 

 Hunters' Plate of ,50, for horses carrying i2st., ridden by gentlemen only, won 

 by Mr. Newbery's brown gelding Pantagenel. Since 1804 there have always been 

 more than one day in the meeting. The grand stand was opened in 1830, when 

 the hero of Waterloo was entertained by his A.D.C., the fourth Duke of Richmond. 

 Jealous for the reputation of Ascot, King George started a second meeting there, 

 which did not succeed, though there seems no good reason why it should not do 

 so if properly managed at the right time. But in spite of Sandown, Kempton, Hurst 

 Park, Gatwick, Lingfiekl, and many other modern attractions, Goodwood has held 

 its own, though the railway journey is long, and the course is a long drive uphill 

 from the station ; for there is a characteristic charm about the beauty of the spot 



