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would try them again the next morning, notwith- 

 standing that some of them were engaged the same 

 day, and made to fulfil their engagements just the 

 same. As a natural result, his horses were often run 

 stale, and many of them broke down. But nothing 

 would prevent his running them, if sound, in any and 

 all of the stakes in which they were engaged, if he 

 thought he had the remotest chance of winning, and often 

 with no chance of doing so whatever. Except on one 

 occasion with the Duke of Portland, I never knew his 

 dividing a stake after a dead-heat, no matter whether 

 the tie had been, so far as his horse was concerned, 

 due to the merest accident, and the odds anything 

 ao'ainst his winning the deciding; event. 



Lord Exeter's retirement from the turf, in I860, 

 was reported to be in consequence of the heavy loss 

 he sustained in making the Essendine Railway from 

 Peterborough to Stamford. He sold his horses 

 privately to Mr. Padwick. It was through the latter 

 I became possessed of some of them, the best of which 

 were Blue Rock and Flying Duchess, afterwards sold 

 to Lord Anglesey. She was in my stud at Alvediston, 

 and ultimately became the dam of Galopin, as I have 

 related. But I omitted to say that I bought Blue 

 Rock as unbroken, but afterwards learned that he had 

 been ridden, and turned out again. I do not for a 

 moment suppose his lordship knew of this, or that he 

 had any recollection of it if he did. But others could 

 not have been ignorant of the fact, and should have 



