i28 LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



in his favour ; but, unfortunately, it is a fiction. Ill- 

 success in racing; drove him from the turf, and de- 

 stroyed his peace of mind — if he ever had any after 

 leaving Danebury. The successes of the stable he 

 had abandoned dealt the blows that destroyed him. 

 The victories of Pyrrhus the First, Mendicant, and 

 Hero, in all of which my father was deeply interested, 

 first undermined his self-confidence, followed up as 

 they were by Cossack's triumph in the Derby of next 

 year ; whilst the final stroke was given by the success 

 of Mathematician, which was also my father's horse. 

 This latter event drove him broken-hearted from the 

 turf, and hastened his death, if it were not the absolute 

 cause of it. 



The scene was at his favourite Goodwood, in a 

 race for a 200 sov. sweepstake, all the money or 

 P.P. Lord George ran two horses — Crozier, out of 

 his prized mare Crucifix, and King of Morvin, the 

 latter being run to assist the other, which was thought 

 the better of the two and good enough to win, and 

 heavily backed. My father had Mathematician, brother 

 to Euclid, in the race, a horse he had bought at Mr. 

 Thornhill's sale, when a foal, for 400 guineas; nothing 

 very good, though thought well of, the Danebury 

 stable being at that time powerful, so that the weight 

 of money made him favourite, in spite of the heavy 

 sums that Lord George had piled on his own choice. 

 Mathematician and Lord George's horse ran a dead- 

 heat — but with the wrong animal, so far as his lord- 



