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plaintiff, however, lost his case from failing to prove 

 that Lord George made the bet with John Barham 

 Day, as Mr Gully, with whom Lord George betted, 

 deposed that he took the bet on his own account. 



In the following volume it will be made ajDparent 

 that the scoundrels who sought, in revenge for 

 their banishment from Goodwood and other race- 

 courses, to administer a death-blow to the British 

 Turf by making it impossible for betting, which 

 was then and is still its necessary concomitant 

 and adjunct, to take place any longer, found a 

 formidable antagonist in Lord George Bentinck. 

 At his instance the " Manly Sports Bill," by w^hich 

 the obsolete statute of Queen Anne was repealed, 

 and its penalties abolished, w^as read for the first 

 time in the House of Lords on Februarv 1, 1844, 

 on the motion of the Duke of Bichmond. Follow- 

 ing upon the Duke of Bichmond's bill, it was 

 resolved that the whole subject of Betting and 

 Gaming should be referred to Select Committees 

 of both Houses of Parliament, and even at the 

 present day their two Beports may be studied 

 with interest and advantage. I have thought 

 it desirable to recapitulate in the fewest possible 

 words the circumstances under which Lord George 

 Bentinck became, in 1843, the acknowledged Dicta- 

 tor of the British Turf. Long before that year. 



