RICHARD, SEVENTH EARL OF EARRYMORE 189 



his racing energies, as well as some of his Turf 

 acumen. 



I have therefore to chronicle a blank as a winning 

 record for his grace's stable in the year 1791, though 

 he incurred twenty-one engagements. 



But, among other shrewd owners, there existed at 

 this period perhaps the best racing Proteus New- 

 market had seen, Richard, seventh Earl of Barrymore,^ 

 who intuitively possessed as much racing knowledge 

 as Queensberry, without having served so long an 

 apprenticeship as the Duke had. Here the com- 

 parison ends, as the qualities that made his grace 

 one of the authorities of the Turf — forethought, 

 calculation, and judgment — were entirely lacking in 

 the Irish Earl. Nevertheless, his grace's deep-red 

 with black cap went down many a time before the 

 blue-and-yellow jacket of Barry more. On the other 

 hand, when Queensberry thought he had the slightest 

 chance, neither he nor his racing factotum, Goodison, 

 left any means unused to secure success if they could 

 not command it. 



The result of the Duke's racing in 1791 seems to 

 have had a chilling effect on his ardour — (at nigh 

 threescore years and ten) — for the sport, as, in 1792, 



^ See The Last Earls of Barrymore, by John Robert Robinson, 

 Sampson, Low and Co.: London, 1894. 



