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property, the latter gentleman was first, third, and 

 fourth, the winner being one of Lord George's lot. 

 Scarcely was the race over before Mr Payne 

 remarked to me, with his usual bonhomie, " So you 

 have beaten me the first time you ran against me 

 after refusing to become my trainer ! " Mr Lloyd 

 was much elated at winning such a race the first 

 time of asking, and all the more so because, by my 

 advice, he backed Slander. Upon the Monday 

 following York Kaces Mr Mostyn and Mr Lloyd 

 came to Goodwood to inspect the stud they had 

 purchased, and to make the necessary arrange- 

 ments for the future. Naturally their first and 

 greatest desire was to reduce the number of 

 animals feeding at Mr Mostyn's expense, and to 

 limit the outgoings as soon as possible. Their first 

 design, and that w^hich seemed to be the most 

 prudent plan under the circumstances, was to offer 

 the whole of Lord George Bentinck's stud for sale 

 by auction, and to buy in what they wished to 

 keep ; but this did not appear to me at all the best 

 course. In the first place, I entertained strong 

 doubts whether it would be agreeable to the Duke 

 of Richmond to have a monster sale of this kind at 

 Goodwood. If his Grace objected — and I felt 

 pretty sure that he would — to such a proceeding, 

 I considered that it would be a or-reat risk to send 

 heavily engaged horses by railway to London, to 

 thread their way in large numbers through 

 crowded thoroughfares to Tattersall's. It will 



