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came to the front, with Lewes in tow, and seemed 

 little likely to be eclipsed by Goodwood, which, at 

 Lord Eofremont's cessation of racincj at Petworth 

 (in 1802), had come to the birth, but remained a 

 very poor weakling until the advent of Lord 

 George Bentinck ; that York August meeting was 

 honoured and encouraged by the presence (1789) 

 of George P. (afterwards George IV.) and his 

 brother ' the Bishop,' a/zas Duke of York ; and 

 that these two royal brothers, with the eloquent 

 but extravagant Charles James Fox and other 

 distinguished worthies to aid and abet them, held 

 'high jinks' at Newmarket, before the unfortu- 

 nate 'Escape affair,' and pushed a royal Duke 

 and a member of the English Jockey Club (the 

 Due d'Orleans, a/ias Egalite) into the fish- 

 pond. 



In the reign of Georj^e III. were established, 

 whether for good or for evil, those two-year-old 

 races about the usefulness or mischievousness 

 whereof the very highest authorities differ ; and, 

 as if to test Nature to the utmost, those yearling 

 races which, though condemned in course of time 

 by general opinion, were in vogue from 1786 to 

 1859, in which latter year the last race of the 



