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to it in case they should ever run down, and need 

 it ; and it was invariably given after a severe race 

 or after running heats — es^Decially after a dead 

 heat — in which we were seldom beaten when it 

 was run off. Whether the result was due to the 

 support afforded by the flour or not, I cannot say ; 

 but it was a matter of common remark that de- 

 ciding heats were almost invariably won by the 

 Goodwood stable. Some of the old horses enjoyed 

 the flour so much that it was with difficulty the pails 

 containine: it could be removed from them until the 

 contents were entirely extracted by aid of the 

 tongue, which often amused Lord George greatly. 



In 1842 (the first year in which all his Lord- 

 ship's horses were trained at Goodwood) he ran 

 twenty-one, and was more successful than he ex- 

 pected, many of them being very infirm either in 

 their limbs or wind, — a great failing in the Bay 

 Middletons, by whom many of them were sired. 

 John Day, indeed, had such an objection to them, 

 that he said, when Lord George's stud left Dane- 

 bury, he would never train another Bay Middleton. 

 Certainly they were not very desirable animals to 

 have in your stables. The two finest yearlings 

 brought from Danebury — viz., Farintosh by Bay 

 Middleton, out of Camarine's dam, and Gaper by 

 Bay Middleton, out of Flycatcher — were so infirm 

 that it was a great anxiety to a trainer to have to 

 do with them. Farintosh, one of the finest horses 

 ever bred or seen, was a very bad roarer indeed ; 



