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Lord Clermont's Markho; though, good horse as 

 Mulberry had run (and did run after), he was beaten. 

 Chifhey asserts that in this race he could not get him 

 out, but ' Hell-fire Dick,' who had been watching the 

 race, declared to several patrons of the Turf who were 

 present that Chifney had ridden his mount ' booty.' 

 This a certain James Barton, styled ' esquire,' re- 

 sented, saying he ' would ram his stick down his 

 (Goodison's) throat if he dared to say so again,' a 

 threat this esquire should have left the performance 

 of to his knight. However, Barton told Chifney what 

 Goodison had said of the performance, and the latter 

 henceforth, rightly or Avrongly, never missed an op- 

 portunity of abusing Chifney. 



Most of his grace's races in 1787 were won by 

 Mulberry, four out of seven being placed to his 

 winning record out of fifty-one engagements. The 

 four events won by the latter horse amounted to 

 some seventeen hundred pounds, out of about two 

 thousand pounds m the aggregate. Next year, 1788, 

 the Duke reduced his racing engagements to thirty- 

 five ; though he showed a far better record, winning 

 seven events, value over three thousand pounds. It 

 was in this year that his celebrated horse. Dash, first 

 ran. 



During 1789 the health of his Majesty King 



