MR GRATWICKE. d57 



Gratwicke is dissatisfied with the management of 

 the Goodwood stable, and thinks his horses can be 

 better trained and better managed elsewhere, by 

 all means let him make the experiment at once, 

 and take them away. We can do very well 

 without them." It was once remarked to me by 

 a great friend of his Grace, " The Duke of Rich- 

 mond is always the Duke and never the Duke." 

 The slightest intentional liberty or indignity offered 

 to him was resented at once ; but, on the other 

 hand, it was his natural impulse to wound no one, 

 and to abound in considerate and thoughtful kind- 

 ness to all, and especially to the humblest. 



The result of what I have just stated was that 

 Mr Gratwicke soon removed his stud from Good- 

 wood to Newmarket, leasing his horses to the 

 Duke of Bedford, upon terms suggested by Admiral 

 Rous, who managed the Duke of Bedford's stable, 

 and exercised great influence upon Mr Gratwicke's 

 rather weak nature. Next year the Duke of 

 Richmond's Pharos and Mr Gratwicke's Sitting- 

 bourne met as two-year-olds at Goodwood in the 

 Bentinck Memorial Stakes. Admiral Rous backed 

 Sittingbourne for £100 — the largest sum that he 

 ever staked upon a horse — and to his great amaze- 

 ment, and also to that of William Butler the 

 trainer, and of his brother Frank Butler, the famous 

 jockey. Pharos won very cleverly. A few weeks 

 later Sitt ingf bourne won the Convivial Stakes at 

 York, beating fourteen others, and wound up at 



