8S LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



whilst the third, Lord Suffield's Bamboo, was a horse 

 that the Newmarket people thought could not be 

 equalled, much less beaten. The race was a memor- 

 able one. It was run at a good pace all the way, 

 Bamboo leading several lengths to the bushes and 

 across the bottom; but he tired on ascending the hill, 

 and was beat. Lord Suffield and many other people, 

 including Mr. Boyce, the trainer, said that the jockey, 

 Arthur Pavis, lost it from bad riding. Indeed, the 

 race itself was a show. Trainers were seen riding 

 wildly excited, their hats waving in the airland shouting 

 at the top of their stentorian voices, ' There he goes ! 

 There he goes ! They will never catch him !' believing 

 it impossible they should do. But he tired to nothing. 

 In the evening, Lord Suffield, not being satisfied with 

 the result of the race, challenged Lord George to run 

 again for £1,000 a side at the same weights over the 

 same course in the October Meeting. My father 

 being consulted, said : 



1 Make the match now, and we shall win ; but if 

 you wait till October, when Bamboo is .made better 

 from condition, we shall lose.' 



The match was accordingly made for the Friday, 

 for £1,000 a side — though ostensibly for £300 only 

 — as Lord George was afraid it might come to his 

 father's ears, who would not have liked his matching 

 for so large a sum. The race was run at the best pace, by 

 which the others hoped to correct the supposed error 

 made in the running of the first event, Bamboo 



