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one think of doing such a thing nowadays ? He 

 rarely bought or sold a horse ; and, in order to make 

 room for his annual number of yearlings, he would 

 shoot all he considered useless at the end of the 

 Houghton Meeting. He objected to name his horses, 

 and there was no end to the confusion caused by the 

 endless Barbatus and other colts, and Miss Whip 

 fillies. He was by no means a heavy better, though, 

 when Lord Kelborne, he lost a large stake over the 

 St. Leger — £27,000 — in Mameluke's year ; and this 

 loss, it may be, gave him a distaste to heavy wagering 

 in later days, when he kept horses of his own. 

 Though, when Lord George Bentinck had Gaper for 

 the Derby, and wanted a large bet, he accommodated 

 him by offering £90,000 to £30,000 against him ; 

 which bet, however, his lordship knew better than 

 accept — probably feeling at the time ' the old complaint 

 coming on again,' as the returned convict who had 

 been transported for theft remarked, in reply to the 

 inquiries as to whether his health had been benefited 

 by change of air and foreign scenery, when pocketing 

 his friend's silver snuff-box, which had been politely 

 handed to him for the use of its contents. 



Lord Glasgow was hasty in temper, and when 

 irritated was not particular in his choice of words, 

 having, indeed, his own special vocabulary of peculiar 

 expletives. But his temper may have been largely 

 due to the fact that he was a martvr to acute neuralgia 

 in the back of his neck, which he was alwavs seen 



