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the four days' racing at Goodwood in 1846, there were 

 thirty-one races, besides three walks-over. In these 

 races his lordship had horses in twenty-eight — the 

 three exceptions being the Queen's Plate, the Orange 

 Prize, and a small sweepstakes. In the twenty-eight 

 races he started as many as forty-four times, three 

 horses sometimes running in one race — in the Good- 

 wood Stakes to wit, where none of them were placed. 

 He won eight races only. And I think I may affirm 

 that no man ever ran so many horses in four days in 

 so many races with much worse success. 



The following little relic is merely given as a 

 most curious specimen that, as in everything else 

 he undertook to do, he gave that deep study which 

 enabled him to master all difficulties, even to the 

 intricate matter of finding names for his horses. They 

 are but a few selections, but sufficient, I hope, to 

 indicate the general elegance of the nomenclature : 

 Black Gentleman, Coal Black Rose, Devil to Pay, Put 

 on the Pot says Greedy Gut, Devil-me-care, Nightcap, 

 Such a Getting up Stairs, Here I go with my Eye out, 

 Stop awhile says Sloiv, To bed to bed says Sleepyhead, 

 and All Round my Hat. 



Few will be of opinion that Lord George may have 

 been an indifferent judge of racing. I confess I have 

 long been amongst the suspicious minority. He was 

 certainly far off the mark when he thought that 

 Gaper, as a three-year-old, had the slightest chance 

 of winning the Derby with Cotherstone in it. My 



