n8 LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



rode his grey mare on to the downs in time to see 

 the horses at exercise at five o'clock a.m. After 

 staying the day he rode his mare back to Andover, 

 and returned by night to town. My father generally 

 travelled with him inside the carriage ; whilst I had 

 to ride (when his light-weight jockey) with Free- 

 borough, his valet, on the back seat, often half starved 

 with cold or drenched with rain. He drove always 

 at a great pace, and rode, like Lord Palmerston, 

 furiously without judgment, whether on the road, 

 across country, or on the downs. As for railways, in 

 those days many of them were not finished, and 

 some of those now completed were not even thought 

 of; and stage-coaches and posting, though costly 

 (two shillings a mile), were the most expeditious and 

 best means of travelling to and from the several 

 meetings. The Drummer and Elis had, in 1836, the 

 honour of being taken to Doncaster in a van, drawn 

 b}~ four horses, made for the express purpose by 

 Herring, of the Xew Road, London, though the fashion 

 of it was due to his lordship's inventive faculty. 



He never rode but twice in public as a jockey, that 

 I remember. In 1824 he rode and won, after two 

 dead-heats, a little race at Goodwood, on Olive, a 

 horse belonging to a Mr. Poyntz. But subsequently, 

 on Captain Cool', at the same place, over the Cup 

 course, he made such an exhibition of himself in the 

 match with Larry McHazl, having Lord Maidstone, 

 now the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, for his 



