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and passed right under the judge's chair without 

 attracting Mr Greville's observation, which was 

 concentrated on VitelHna and The Ghost on the 

 opposite side of the course — the latter hanging so 

 much upon the former that she was in great 

 danger of being forced against the rails. The 

 jostling race between these two animals absorbed 

 Mr Greville's field of vision, and he saw nothing of 

 Dandizette ; but the oversight was so apparent 

 that Lord Verulam offered the stakes to the Duke 

 of Richmond, stating he was quite convinced that 

 Dandizette had won easily enough. His Grace 

 thanked Lord Verulam for his honourable proposal, 

 but declined to receive the stakes, stating that, 

 whatever his own private opinion and that of 

 others might be, the judge's decision was irrevo- 

 cable, and must be obeyed. The Earl of Burling- 

 ton was also present on this occasion, it being the 

 only race meeting at Goodwood that his Lordship 

 was ever known to attend. He said to the Duke, 

 " So you have won the race ; but it has been 

 given against you by a judge who is above all 

 things a Newmarket man ! " Again, in the year 

 1837, the Duke of Richmond's Skillygolee, three 

 years old, ran for the Gold Cup at Southampton, 

 which he won easily enough the first time ; but 

 the judge gave it a dead heat between him and 

 Mr Sidney Herbert's Bulbridge, three years old. 

 It was so glaring an error that I felt compelled to 

 remonstrate with the judge, whose reply was, " I 



