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trained for the Goodwood Cup. He was then the 

 property of the Earl of Chesterfield, whose horses 

 were tramed by Richard Prince at Newmarket. 

 Prince also trained for the Duke of Portland and 

 Mr Charles Greville, with each of whom, as son to 

 the first and cousin to the second, Lord George 

 was intimately connected. Being so favourably 

 impressed with the advantages of Goodwood as a 

 training-ground, Lord George persuaded Lord Ches- 

 terfield (then a young man of twenty-six) to send 

 Priam there from Ascot, instead of allowing him to 

 travel on foot to Newmarket, and thence to walk to 

 Goodwood. It was Lord George's admiration for 

 Priam which induced him to purchase at Tatter- 

 sail's, as a foal, the most extraordinary animal 

 that he ever possessed. I well remember that when 

 Octaviana and her filly foal by Priam were put up 

 for sale in 1837, the foal was as weak, narrow, 

 and puny a thing as could well be seen. But 

 in her veins there coursed the blood of Priam, 

 Emilius, and Orville on the father's side, and of 

 Octavian, Shuttle, Delpini, and King Fergus on 

 the mother's. Always a firm believer in good 

 blood. Lord George purchased Octaviana when she 

 was twenty-two years old, because by her side there 

 ran a filly foal got by Priam. The price he paid 

 for the pair was 65 guineas. It was in this man- 

 ner that he became the owner of the celebrated 

 Crucifix. 



Let me conclude with two other instances of Lord 



