CHAPTER IX. 



MEN OF PAST DAYS. 



The Bentinck family— The old Duke— Proud but liked— Races 

 with Mr. Greville — Tiresias's Derby— The Duke offended — 

 Incident at Newmarket — A needful correction — Newmarket 

 then and now — Lord Henry as a sportsman — An adventure on 

 the moors — The late Duke as Lord Titchfield — Curious dress 

 in summer — Monastic seclusion of Welbeck — Lord George and 

 the fair sex. 



Mr. Fulwar Craven; oddity in dress — Deception; in the Oaks 

 and Derby — The jockey interviewed; a neat rejoinder — Addicted 

 to Ioav company — Mr. Ramsay — Curious stories told of the two 

 — Anecdote of his trainer, Mr. Dilly : ' the dead alive ' — 

 Sagacious dogs : a terror to tramps ; a home-comer ; the signal- 

 dog at Porchester Station — Drawing a bear. 



Lord Glasgow's oddities — General Peel before the Two 

 Thousand — His indifferent stud — Delight in reckless matches 

 — Handicaps himself — Offers £90,000 against Gaper — Temper 

 and ill health — Bequeaths his stud. 



Lord Exeter's personal peculiarities — His racing — Insistence 

 on trying and running his horses — Blue Rock proves not un- 

 broken — Sale of his Newmarket property — Sir Gilbert Heath- 

 cote ; Amato's Derby ; a racehorse as ' a heriot ' — Baron J. de 

 Teissier — Lord Jersey's successes — His view of breeding. 



I closed my last chapter with an account of the 

 lamentable death of Lord George Bentinck. I cannot 

 do better in this one, than set down some of my 



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