LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



he did not object to such an appeal, we have proof in 

 the Ridsdale affair; and therefore we may suppose 

 that he would have had recourse to the same remedy, 

 had he thought himself in the right. One thing 

 appears certain, that if his lordship could not win or 

 run a dead-heat, he could always raise a wrangle — in 

 which art he was more an adept on the racecourse 

 than at college. 



There is a wide belief that his lordship was 

 generous, and I am not going to contravene the 

 truth of the conclusion. Indeed, he has been repre- 

 sented as the most liberal of patrons. His last 

 trainer might possibly put a different complexion 

 on the matter, and I have my own personal 

 experience on the point. I certainly do not blame, 

 but rather commend him, in that he was not so 

 lavish and indiscriminate in his gifts as more recent 

 owners of racehorses have been. I certainly was 

 never the recipient of his bounty, in all the trials I 

 rode and the many races I won for him. Nor do I 

 remember having heard that anyone else received 

 munificent gifts from him. No doubt it should be 

 recorded that he gave a few presents to the lads in the 

 stable and to others when Crucifix won the Oaks, and 

 Chapeau TJEspagne and Ratsbane won two races at 

 Exeter. Nor should I forget to relate that on the 

 second day of the same meeting, when my brother 

 John entered the last-named horse for the Gold Cup, 

 value 50 guineas, and won it, his lordship was 



