94 . LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



Goodwood, when she astonished everyone by winning 

 the Stakes and Cup, beating Weatherbit, who was 

 always 7 lb. better than Old England and other 

 good horses. I think if horses belonging to anyone 

 else had run in such a suspicious way as these and 

 many others that I could mention which belonged to 

 his lordship, he would have been the first to have 

 caused a searching inquiry into all the circumstances ; 

 and if the least doubt had appeared to exist as to the 

 honesty of the purpose for which they were started, 

 all connected with the matter would have been 

 mercilessly condemned. For the sake of the reputa- 

 tion of Danebury, it must be remembered that all 

 this conflicting running took place when his horses 

 were trained at Goodwood, except in the cases of 

 Tripoli and Naworth, the former of which I have 

 accounted for, as the latter readily can be. For 

 Naworth, in order to qualify, was castrated, and ran 

 shortly after, whilst smarting from the unhealed 

 w T ounds caused by the painful operation, only to lose, 

 the race he started for. This incident calls to mind 

 another which has been duly recorded in the follow- 

 ing words : 



' Tregonwell Frampton was an accomplished 

 scoundrel and thorough rogue, although a wealthy 

 man and Master of the Horse in several reigns ; and 

 has all the appearance of villainy in his features, if 

 a portrait we have seen of him in an old mansion in 

 Yorkshire at all resembles the original. The old 



