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judge of racing, and advised his Grace to purchase 

 Hampden from the Duke of Grafton, and Dandi- 

 zette from Mr Walker. Hampden proved to be a 

 bad-tempered horse, and had evidently lost his 

 form prior to the Duke of Grafton's selling him. 

 He turned out a very bad purchase, and Lord 

 Dunwich was greatly annoyed, as he imagined that 

 some misrepresentations had been made to him 

 about the horse, who was five years old when he 

 purchased him for the Duke of Richmond. Hamp- 

 den was taken out of training, and being a son of 

 Rubens, was put to the stud, where, again, he was 

 very unsuccessful, as he generally imparted his own 

 vicious temper to his progeny. With Dandizette, 

 on the other hand, the Duke was very successful. 



In 1825 his Grace purchased a yearling filly, by 

 Smolensk© out of Medora, whom he named Gul- 

 nare, and with whom he won the Oaks at Epsom in 

 1827, together with some other good races. In 

 fact, she won eight times as a three-year-old with- 

 out ever sustaining defeat. His Grace was greatly 

 encouraged by Gulnare's success, and thencefor- 

 ward he entered more fully into racing engage- 

 ments. The Goodwood stable was also reinforced, 

 after 1828, by horses belonging to the Earl of 

 Stradbroke, the Earl of Uxbridge, Colonel Peel, 

 Captain Byng (afterwards Lord Enfield, and finally 

 second Earl of Strafford), Sir James Graham, and 

 others. Among the new supporters of the stable 

 were included Mr Charles Greville, Mr Houlds- 



