240 GAINS IN 1844 AND 1845. 



when he stood to wm more than £100,000 upon a 

 horse hke Gaper, whose chance he thought as good 

 if not better than that of Cotherstone, the first 

 favourite and winner. Under every test to which 

 nerve and courage could be put, whether at two 

 o'clock P.M. or two o'clock a.m., Lord George Ben- 

 tinck, who, as Mr Greville said of him, " was afraid 

 of no man," never quailed, and was never found 

 wanting. 



