11?0 TALES AND TRAITS OF SPORTING LIFE-. 



"27— with Giilnaie for tlie Oaks, liis neiglibour Fortli run- 

 ning second, and the " beaiitifid Brocard" third. They then 

 got tog-ether such a team as Hindostan, Hindoo, The 

 Alderman, Rough Robin, and Miss Craven, a company that 

 found the Boyces and Httle Mr. Pavis plenty to do. 

 Goodwood, in a word, had reached its glories. The Duke 

 laid out thousands upon thousands in improving the course 

 — the value of the several stakes was increased — and many 

 new races originated. King George the Fourth sent his 

 favourite mare Fleur-de-lis to win the Cup in 1829, 

 which she did, beating the Derb}'^ horse !Mameluke ; and 

 His Majesty won it again the year following with the 

 same good mare, with Zinganee and The Colonel, also 

 both the property of the King, the next to her. Then 

 Priam took his two years' lease of it, and in 1833 the 

 Goodwood week ran out to its four days full of sport. In 

 the year but one after that we saw the Cup day in all its full 

 splendour for the first time, when a white-legged Langar 

 colt they called Elis came striding away for the Lavant ; 

 ?ind James Robinson on the well-furnished Rockingham 

 overcame the young Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus, the 

 north-country St. Giles, and the blood-like Beiram for 

 the Cup. What a scene they made of it ! With the 

 veteran Browne, the Lewes trainer, crying for joy, despite 

 the rumoiu' that the old Stockwell stockinger had gone to 

 his last account before the race was run — with poor Beiram 

 hobbling home through the crowd again — and pic-nic 

 parties in the woods — and rougc-et-noir tables in full play 

 — and high fiishion on the Stand — and the good, brave, 

 courteous duke, with a kind word for everybody, and a 

 heart big enough to ask them all to come and stay with 

 him, if he only had house-room to match it. But there 

 were yet better times in store for Goodwood, when Mr. 



