190 'OLD q' 



he only incurred eight engagements ; though he made 

 a respectable show as to results, winning three. This 

 led him to add four the next year, 1793, as to en- 

 gagements, making twelve. Of these he won only a 

 miserable £50 plate at Epsom. 



A writer in the New Sporting Magazine of 1793 

 alludes to Lord Grosvenor's persistency in the ' sport 

 of kings,' though the following of the pursuit was 

 estimated to have then cost him £300,000 — i.e. 

 money actually lost. The Duke of Queensberry had 

 been, I should think, a winner of a similar amount 

 during his racing career. 



The subsequent year, 1794, a discussion arose as 

 to who should be called the 'Father of the Turf,' 

 since Lord George Cavendish's decease. The com- 

 petitors for this distinction were soon winnowed down 

 to two — the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Clermont, 

 who, singularly, were both ' built ' on the same lines as 

 to certain moral or immoral tendencies. However, 

 zealous a sportsman as the head of the Fortescues 

 was, he cannot be compared to ' Old Q ' for thorough 

 knowledge in the 'art and mysteries' of racing. 

 What says the poetic prescription, How to make a 

 Jockey ? — 



* Take a pestle and mortar of moderate size. 

 Into Queensberry's head put Bunbury's eyes ; 



