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erick for Mr, Gratwicke, when his own horse, The 

 Exquisite, was second, and won — not as jockey, 

 but as owner — the Oaks of 1826 with LiHas, 

 afterwards called Babel, whose peculiarity it was 

 that she, being a daughter by Interpreter of Fair 

 Ellen, by the Wellesley Grey Arabian, was, with 

 her relatives, Dandizette and The Exquisite, 

 about the last instance on record of any good 

 coming out of near ' Arabian ' relationship, though, 

 in point of fact, the Wellesley, it is said, was no 

 ' Arabian,' but a ' Persian.' 



It was in the reign of George IV. that, by the 

 instrumentality of the ' Tiresias ' Duke of Port- 

 land, the right of the Jockey Club to ' warn off' 

 people from Newmarket Heath was established 

 by extant legal decision (in 1827) ; that the once 

 famous Chester Cup was first run for (in 1824) ; 

 and that the Goodwood Cup (which is said to have 

 been instituted in 18 12, when and for some suc- 

 ceeding years there certainly was a Gold Cup at 

 Goodwood, but apparently a precarious fixture, 

 of no stability until 1825, when it was won by 

 Lord Egremont, and when the star of young 

 Lord George Bentinck began to rise upon Good- 

 wood) may be said to have become permanent, as 



