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rubbing with one hand or the other. It is said 

 that when he won, he on several occasions gave the 

 stakes to Aldcroft, his favourite jockey ; but this, I 

 should think, wants confirmation. He left Mr. Scott 

 in an unmanly way, saying he did not want ' a 

 brougham trainer;' an inapt reflection, which probably 

 no one but his eccentric lordship could have con- 

 ceived. He was occasionally condoled with by some 

 ol his compeers on his extraordinary run of ill-luck ; 

 to which he would reply by saying, ' No one could 

 be unlucky that had £150,000 a year.' He had a 

 great number of named and unnamed brood-mares and 

 stallions, foals and yearlings at the time of his death, 

 besides his horses in training. These he bequeathed 

 to liis friends, the late General Peel and Mr. George 

 Payne, with a certain reservation that they were not 

 to be sold, but raced. They ran in the latter gentle- 

 man's name ; but, out of compliment to the donor, 

 always in the deceased nobleman's colours — red and 

 white. 



Another notable personage was the late Lord 

 Exeter. He was a rather small man, and always 

 dressed in black. He was unfashionable enough to 

 wear a shirt- collar, and round this a necktie stiffly 

 starched was wound several times. The result was, 

 that it was impossible for his lordship to turn his 

 head without moving his whole body — a kind of 

 artificial severe stiff-neck. He would walk from one 

 end of the Newmarket Street to the other; and no 



