86 LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



whilst Foozool, Seth, Mulberry Wine, and Ratsbane 

 were all winners. For several years success followed 

 success, for we find his lordship with Crucifix winning 

 seven of the best two-year-old races, and dividing the 

 eighth, the Criterion Stakes, with General Yates's 

 Gibraltar, after running a dead heat. Grey Momus 

 followed his success of the previous year by winning 

 the Post Stakes. Capote, Sal Volatile, and D'JEgville 

 were also winners. Grey Milton ran in two races, 

 which were won by his lordship's other horses. 

 Dormouse was the only horse that ran once and was 

 beat ; but with this exception every other horse was 

 either a winner or was only beaten in races in which 

 the winner was some other horse in the same interest. 

 Such luck year after year seems almost incredible, 

 and too good to last. Yet the following year may 

 almost be said to have eclipsed its predecessor. The 

 Two Thousand, One Thousand, and the Oaks fell to 

 Crucifix, making eleven races in which she had 

 not suffered defeat, and her winnings alone over 

 £11,000. Whilst of his remaining ten horses only 

 two were beat, or, I should more correctly say, were 

 not winners. Success, however, had only the effect 

 of making his lordship utterly impatient of defeat, 

 and next year caused him, on almost his earliest 

 reverses, to leave Danebury for Goodwood. But the 

 change was not satisfactory, and must have reminded 

 Lord Georg-e of a certain ' discontented little fish 

 which jumped out of the frying-pan into the fire.' 



