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of races had been run, exclaiming, ' Well, after all, 

 Greville is very contrite for his misconduct to us 

 both, and I have consented to forgive him. It all 

 comes of illness : he has a terrible fit of gout 

 coming on, which makes him miserable. Indeed 

 I think it is through grizzling about you that the 

 gout is sent to punish him. There he stands, dying 

 to speak to you, but afraid to do so, knowing what 

 kind of man you are. After all, there is not a 

 warmer-hearted fellow in existence, but when his 

 gout is coming on, he is not accountable for what 

 he does.' At this explanation Drumlanrig was 

 mollified ; and Greville, having been beckoned to 

 by Payne, hobbled up, shook hands, and was duly 

 forgiven. How it would have ended had Mus- 

 covite won the Cup, instead of being almost last 

 for it, I will not undertake to say." 



The letter upon which my eye happens next to 

 fall bears the date of "Milan, October 15, 1885," 

 and has reference to one of the most successful 

 and least generally known patrons of the Turf that 

 has existed in my time. I allude to Mr John 

 Bowes, of Streatlam Castle, near Barnard Castle, 

 in Durham, who won the Derby four times, and 

 owned, in West Australian — the last of his four 

 Derby winners — perhaps the best three-year-old 

 ever known upon the English Turf Such, at 

 least, was the opinion of John Scott who trained, 

 and of Frank Butler who rode, that wonderful son 



