GEORGE IV. AND WILLIAM IV. in 



Duke of Richmond (winner of the Oaks with 

 Gulnare in 1827), Mr. Scott Stonehewer (winner 

 of the Oaks with Variation in 1830), and the Earl 

 of Darlington (afterwards Duke of Cleveland, said 

 to have been at one time in racing confederacy 

 with ' the true Prince '). 



Add to these the Hon. Mr. Petre (four times 

 winner of the St. Leger, and yet brought to 

 ruin), Mr. T. Orde Powlett (of 'Jack Spigot' 

 memory), Mr. Richard Watt (of Bishop Burton, 

 Yorks), Lord Scarborough (who won the St. 

 Leger with Tarrare), Mr. Christopher Wilson (of 

 Oxton Hall, near Tadcaster, Yorks), and, among 

 more or less ' common fellers,' Mr. Rogers (whose 

 unique fortune it has been to win a great race — 

 and, in fact, two great races, the Two Thousand 

 and the Newmarket Stakes — with a ^zm7i, as he did 

 with Nicolo, by Selim, in 1823), and the brothers 

 William and Samuel Chifney, jun. (who won the 

 Derby with Priam in 1830. and would undoubtedly 

 have got the 3,500 guineas they wanted for the 

 horse from the King had he lived, or, perhaps 

 more correctly, from the nation against its will). 



There was also Mr. Forth, jockey and trainer, 

 who actually won the Derby of 1829, riding Fred- 



