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which Lord George had with Mr. Wreford, who was a 

 confederate with my father in the horses he bred. 

 The dispute occurred about the time his lordship 

 commenced to train at Danebury. The quarrel was 

 something more than a wrangle ; but Mr. Wreford 

 expressed himself unwilling to go to law, and proposed 

 that the point in dispute should be left to arbitration. 

 To this suggestion Lord George tauntingly replied, 

 with natural delicacy of feeling, in reference to a 

 domestic misfortune which had nothing whatever to 

 do with the matter in question : 



' I thought, sir, you had enough of arbitration in 

 your daughter's case.' 



I do not pretend to be so well acquainted with the 

 early part of Lord George's career, when he was con- 

 federate with Mr. C. C. Greville, as with the middle 

 and latter portion of it. But I remember that in 

 reference to certain matters which led to their separa- 

 tion, things were said of him, and allowed to go un- 

 contradicted, that were not entirely complimentary. 

 In the year 1834 Mr. Greville's Preserve won all her 

 two-year-old engagements, and was undoubtedly a 

 very good mare. Her dam was Mustard, the dam of 

 Mango, who won the St. Leger. The following year 

 she naturally became a great favourite for the Oaks- 

 To assist as much as possible in driving her back in 

 the betting, some one hit upon the following novel 

 and well-devised stratagem. Her nostrils were painted 

 inside and out with a mixture of starch, flour, and 



