CHAPTEE VII. 



LORD GEORGE BENTINCK (continued). 



The Derby of 1839— Objection to Mr. Eidsdale's Bloomsbury— 

 Lord George's defiance of the Jockey Club ; brought into court ; 

 result — Lord George's motive (?) — Exposure of the Running 

 Rein swindle; his interest therein — Scourges minor faults of 

 the turf — Levanters — Conduct towards Glen the baker — -His 

 wagering on Bay Middleton for the Derby and on Elis for the 

 St. Leger contrasted — False trial of Cherokee — Behaviour to 

 Mr. "VVreford — Difference with Mr. Greville — How Preserve 

 simulated influenza — A coughing-bridle — Wins £2,000 from 

 Wm. Scott on Red Deer — Solicitude for morality of trainers not 

 always carried out — A race in a fog, and curious decision — ■ 

 Am asked to swear to what I do not know — Accuses ' The 

 Squire ' of swindling — Episode of the duel ; reflections thereon 

 —Reputed munificence, but faint proofs thereof — Takes back a 

 gift. 



It will now, perhaps, not be amiss to examine some 

 of the laudable actions by which Lord George Bentinck 

 aimed to benefit the turf, and to see if such a con- 

 struction can be put upon them as will fairly entitle 

 him to be considered entirely disinterested in what he 

 undertook to do. I may begin with a prominent 

 case, in which, entirely at his own expense and risk, 

 as should be well known to his contemporaries, he 



