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Bowe and Grey Momus bloomed forth into *^Lord 

 George/' and even Newmarket began to tremble at the 

 issue. All the great things were going into Sussex, while 

 all the Turf reforms and improvements were traceable to 

 the same quarter. Defaulters were to be banished, mere 

 gambling was to be abolished, time was to be kept, and 

 good conduct to be enforced by all kinds of fines and 

 penalties — and all on the system they had adopted at 

 Goodwood. Even so, that when two noble lords of high 

 degree. Lord Maidstone and Lord George himself, did 

 get to the post to ride their match, they were fined five 

 pounds each for being behindhand ! The Duke of Rich- 

 mond, however, did not confine himself and his horses by 

 any means to their own district, but had just then four or 

 five hard-wearing ones in work that he sent all over the 

 country. There was the ^^ everlasting" Confusionee, with 

 pale, tiny, little Johnny Hewlett on her, going day after 

 day all the year round ; together witli Glenlivat, the 

 King's Plate horses, Mus, and The Currier — and Tambu- 

 rini, that Isaac Da^^ afterwards turned to a good County 

 Plate horse— with Sepoy and Guava, and so on. We 

 have seen that yellow jacket and smart-tasselled cap tra- 

 velling away with nearly all of them, at Egham, Oxford, 

 and Abingdon — while Sam Rogers took the best of the 

 business, and rode himself into repute upon them. There 

 was Beggarman, too, that George Edwards had a fancy 

 for, and transported to France, but only to bring* him 

 back to win the Goodwood Cup for his Royal master, the 

 Duke of Orleans. Still, something like a return came of 

 it when Mus won the Orleans Cup for the Duke the year 

 following. And then Lord George broke with old John 

 Day, and came over bodily ten thousand strong, and the 

 glories of Goodwood get beyond all further record. 



