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though they are still regarded not uncommonly 

 with suspicion — and to be a sire of sires ; Mr. T. 

 Orde Powlett, who won the Oaks of 1837 with 

 Miss Letty (by Priam) ; Lord Chesterfield (the 

 sixth Earl of), who won the Eclipse Foot as well 

 as the Ascot Cup, both with Glaucus, in 1834; 

 and, above all, the Agamemnon or king of men (of 

 the turf), Lord George Bentinck, who won the 

 One Thousand with Chapeau d'Espagne (by the 

 celebrated Dr. Syntax) in 1837, having already, 

 in Lord Lichfield's name, won the St. Leger of 

 1836 with Elis (after teaching unaristocratic 

 owners to follow the example of an aristocrat in 

 'putting on the screw' — to the tune of ^12,000). 

 Lord George's zenith, however, was not to be 

 attained until the reign of Queen Victoria and the 

 advent of Crucifix, either as a racer or as a 

 reformer of abuses, or a detective, or a dictator of 

 the turf, notwithstanding the improvements he 

 had already introduced. 



But, besides these nobility and gentry, the 

 number of more or less 'common fellers' among 

 the stars of the turf had greatly increased, and 

 included, not Pulwar Craven (for he belonged to 

 the aristocratic family of that name, though he did 



