346 THE FIFTH DUKE OF RICHMOND, K.G. 



certain that his Grace would not have enjoyed 

 the Goodwood Meeting of to-day half so much as 

 he did those which came to pass between 1830 

 and 1860. I have already stated that, through 

 the joint exertions of the Duke of Richmond and 

 Lord George Bentinck, Goodwood soon rose to be 

 the best and most fashionable meeting in the 

 world. The training-grounds on which the race- 

 horses of the two noble confederates were pre- 

 pared for their engagements were as perfect as 

 money and ingenuity could make them. I re- 

 member the time when Goodwood Park, in front 

 of the house, and in other parts, w^as studded with 

 innumerable ant-hills, which were pared down and 

 burnt, producing many hundreds of cart-loads of 

 ashes. The Duke soon became so enthusiastically 

 attached to the Turf that he determined to get 

 hold of a domicile at Newmarket. With this ob- 

 ject in view, he purchased, in 1828, a house and 

 stables on " The Terrace " at Newmarket, which had 

 been the property of the Hon. Charles Wyndham, 

 whose death took place in that year. This house 

 his Grace put under the charge of his old and 

 faithful servant, Peter Soar,^ who had been coach- 

 ,man, while his wife had been cook, to the fourth 

 Duke, who was father to the subject of the pres- 

 ent memoir. It was the fourth Duke who was 

 residing at Brussels when the battle of Waterloo 



1 Peter Soar drove his master, the fourth Duke of Eichmond, over 

 the field of Waterloo the morning after the battle. 



