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horses at Goodwood — viz., ten on the first day, 

 nine on the second, thirteen on the third, and six- 

 teen on the fourth. This year his stakes and for- 

 feits amounted to £4580. 



It was not to be expected that the enormous ex- 

 penses incurred by Lord George in connection with 

 his stud, including the training of about sixty 

 horses, the maintenance of three stud-farms, the 

 cost of travelling, of stakes and forfeits, and a hun- 

 dred other charges, could be defrayed, or half de- 

 frayed, by the races he won in days when owners 

 ran almost exclusively for each other's money. It 

 was necessary for him to bet, and it must be added 

 that he took the greatest delight in it, so long as 

 he could devote all his enero^ies to watching the 

 running of his own and of other horses, to compar- 

 ing their respective forms, and to gaining informa- 

 tion on all sorts of subjects germane to the Turf, 

 in which respect I never knew his equal. I can 

 well imagine what an effort it must have cost, and 

 what a wrench it must have been to him, to dis- 

 pose of his stud, and to tear himself away from the 

 Turf, to which his attachment was so unmistak- 

 ably genuine ; for success in connection with which 

 he was exceptionally adapted ; and which, in addi- 

 tion to affording him great pleasure, contributed 

 materially to the preservation of the robust health 

 which, until he took to politics in earnest, he al- 

 ways enjoyed. It was, indeed, impossible to wit- 

 ness the zest and appetite with which he invariably 



