UGLY BUCK. 201 



" Tripoli had better go over to Winchester. I 

 daresay I shall be able to get my stake back to 

 run. He can walk to Fareham the day before the 

 race, and thence go on by the train. — I am, yr. 

 obed. servt., G. Bentinck. 



" Lord Chesterfield says the Ugly Buck is the 

 finest horse he ever saw. Colonel Anson says he 

 is a very clever horse, and one that must run, but 

 thinks him rather small in the middle-piece. Lord 

 Maidstone thinks him a clever horse, but not of 

 sufficient scale to please him. Isaac Day says, to 

 his mind he is just the size he would choose for a 

 race-horse — in fact. Venison on a larger scale. 



"G. B." 



Before quitting the year 1843 I should add a 

 few words about the year which preceded it, as 

 on many occasions horses trained at Goodwood 

 in 1842 beat great pots from Danebury, which 

 John Day, father and son, and their party backed 

 heavily, because Lord George's horses which op- 

 posed them had been trained in 1841 at Dane- 

 bury, and their form was therefore supposed to 

 be well known to the owners and masters of that 

 great racing establishment. Perhaps the most 

 notable instance of this occurred at the Bath 

 Meeting, of which I give the subjoined account, 

 so far as concerns two races in which Lord 

 George defeated the Danebury stable. The fol- 



