200 LORD GEORGE AS A LETTER- WRITER. 



Liverpool Trade Cup, and struck all the others 

 out, and have made up my mind not to send 

 Discord to Liverpool at all ; else had he been well, 

 I know of nothing- in the North to beat him for 

 the Croxteth Stake, whilst I fear St Lawrence is 

 cock-sure to beat him both for the Craven Stake 

 and Welter Stake at Goodwood. 



" I have left Lothario in the Trade Cup to take 

 the double chance of his being well by that time, 

 or else of starting him to get the 5 lb. allowance 

 in the Cup at Goodwood, by which time I imagine, 

 if he goes on well, he will be quite up to the mark 

 ag-ain. 



" There will be a great acceptance for the Trade 

 Cup. I reckon about fifty horses, many of them 

 of a good class. Pompey is first favourite, and 

 they take 6 to 1 about him : his running at Bath 

 must be all wrong ; that never can have been the 

 same form as that in which he ran at Newcastle. 



" I think it more than probable I may go down 

 to Goodwood by the mail-train to-morrow night, 

 and so spend Monday at Goodwood. 



" I have a dreadful prospect before me : my 

 stakes and forfeits at Goodwood amount to £4900, 

 I think, and at Liverpool to £670, and I doubt 

 £2000 will scarcely cover those I shall incur at 

 Doncaster, Liverpool, and Newmarket, besides 

 those all over the country, and I really scarcely 

 see where I have a reasonable chance of getting 

 through a stake. 



