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ner, galloped without sinking, as her feet were very 

 large. The upset of public form which, from the 

 same causes, took place in 1888, will be fresh in the 

 memory of many of my readers. 



It is difficult to imagine to what pitch of perfec- 

 tion Lord George would have raised the Goodwood 

 meeting had he been spared to return to the Turf, 

 which, as I shall shortly state, he contemplated at 

 the time of his death. In order to demonstrate 

 what his Lordship actually effected, I have com- 

 piled the following comparative tables, showing, 

 on the one hand, what Goodwood races were dur- 

 ing the ten years prior to the removal of Lord 

 George's stud from Danebury in 1841, and, on the 

 other, what they were between 1842 and 1851, 

 inclusive : — 



TABLE I. 



