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CHAPTER XVIII. 



RACING CAREER OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. 



SIR w. H. GREGORY — continued. 



I NOW approach that portion of my task which 

 brings Sir Wilham Gregory into closer communi- 

 cation than ever with Lord George Bentinck. 

 The two famous passages of Lord George's history 

 which it becomes my duty to treat are, in the 

 first place, his duel with Squire Osbaldeston ; and 

 secondly, his hurried journey to the Curragh of 

 Kildare to ascertain from Mr Thomas Ferguson, 

 the owner of the celebrated horse Harkaway, some 

 details about the animal purchased in Ireland by 

 Goodman Levy, and substituted for Running Rein. 

 Other letters of Lord George to Sir William will 

 find a place in this chapter, some of which go far 

 to confirm Mr John Kent's view of his noble 

 master's character. The light thus shed upon 

 Lord George's life will be welcomed by all who 

 recognise in him the strongest and most con- 

 spicuous Patron of the Turf that these islands have 

 produced during the present century. 



