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some influential noblemen and gentlemen, that had 

 not the Duke of Richmond, at the intercession of 

 Lord George, stipulated with Mr Mostyn that the 

 horses in training should remain at Goodwood till 

 after the Derby, Surplice, after Lord Clifden had 

 purchased an interest in the stud, might not have 

 been allowed to run for that race, any more than 

 for the Two Thousand, but have been withdrawn 

 in favour of Loadstone. Such would certainly have 

 been the case had Mr Villiers's baneful influence 

 prevailed with Lord Clifden and Mr Mostyn. 



After the Derby the Duke of Richmond gave 

 his consent to the horses remaining under my 

 charge until the Goodwood Races were over. Lord 

 Clifden immediately purchased the remainder of 

 Mr Mostyn's interest in the stud, and everything 

 went well with the horses until the deep ground 

 at Goodwood interfered with Surplice's long stride, 

 and made him quite helpless in the mud. I can 

 scarcely doubt that my old and honoured master 

 the Duke of Richmond was not sorry when the 

 time came for this large stud of horses to leave 

 Goodwood. Although his Grace was on friendly 

 terms with Mr Mostyn and Mr Lloyd, and also 

 with Lord Clifden and Mr Villiers, he was not so 

 much at his ease with any of them as he had been 

 with Lord George Bentinck between 1841 and 

 1846. The Duke enjoyed beyond measure his 

 almost daily visit to the Goodwood stable, when 

 it was filled with his own and with Lord George's 



