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undemonstrativeness. Lord George seemed to all 

 who came in contact with him, between his arrival 

 at Welbeck on Monday, the 11th of September 

 1848, and the day of his death, September 21, to 

 regard himself as in the best of health. It is cer- 

 tain that he was in excellent spirits, and also that 

 he greatly enjoyed the change of scene and the 

 freshness of the country air after his long incar- 

 ceration in London. 



On Tuesday, September 12, 1848, the first day 

 of Doncaster Kaces came round. Lord George at- 

 tended the meeting as usual from Welbeck Abbey, 

 which is twenty-five miles distant from Doncaster, 

 and was greatly interested in the success of Lord 

 Eglinton's magnificent colt, the Flying Dutchman, 

 for the Champagne Stakes, which he won in a 

 canter against four competitors. Lord George 

 watched the Flying Dutchman's grand action with 

 the closest attention, because he was the son of 

 his old stallion Bay Middleton (then the property 

 of Lord Clifden), and the best animal that ever 

 sprang from Bay Middleton's loins. In the 

 Municipal Stakes, of 300 sovereigns each, he wit- 

 nessed the triumph of another son of Bay Middle- 

 ton, Tiresome by name, whom he had himself bred 

 and sold as a foal to Mr Mostyn in 1846. The 

 Doncaster meeting was, indeed, full of attractive- 

 ness to Lord George, who had not gone down to 

 Epsom on the Derby day to see Surplice, the son 

 of his old favourite Crucifix, win the " blue ribbon 



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