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age to earn their own living." Lord George 

 Bentinck ultimately expressed a wish that the 

 money thus subscribed " should be appropriated 

 for the advantage of trainers and riders of good 

 character." His Lordship's wish was respected, 

 and out of it sprang the " Bentinck Benevolent 

 Fund, for the benefit of the widows and children 

 of deserving trainers and jockeys." Furthermore, 

 it was resolved at a general meeting of the Jockey 

 Club, held on Saturday, July 6, 1844, ''That the 

 thanks of the Jockey Club are eminently due, and 

 are heartily offered, to Lord George Bentinck, for 

 the energy, perseverance, and ability which he 

 displayed in detecting, exposing, and defeating 

 the atrocious frauds which have been brought to 

 light during the recent trial respecting the Derby 

 stakes in 1844." ^ 



That same year his Lordship distinguished him- 

 self by the courage with which he confronted what 

 seemed likely to prove — and was in fact — a fraud 

 of a not less flagitious kind than the attempt on 

 the part of Mr A. Wood and Goodman Levy to 

 win the Derby with a four-year-old. 



In 1843 Mr Crockford had a two-year-old called 



1 Mr W. H. Langley, who witnessed the Derby of 1844 and its six 

 predecessors, adds : " Before taking leave of the memorable Derby in 

 question, I cannot resist recording the remarkable coincidence of 

 Leander, a German-bred five-year-old, belonging to Herr Lichtwald, 

 and trained by Forth at Michel Grove, being galloped into by the 

 other ' old 'un ' in descending the hill, whereby Leander's off hind 

 fetlock was so badly smashed that he ran home on the exjDosed bony 

 stump ! 



