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and Glenara did him good service. Yet he thought 

 that breeding did not pay, and it is, indeed, 

 reported that he once pithily, if severely, said, ' If 

 yon wish to do your bitterest enemy an injury, give 

 him a brood-mare well engaged in produce stakes, 

 with the promise to keep it, and in a few years his 

 ruin will be complete.' But I don't know about this 

 myself. I do not think that Mr. Batson, for instance, 

 who bred Plenipotentiary at Horse Heath, or Mr. 

 Thornhill, of Riddlesworth, who had Emilius and 

 Euclid, and other breeders in 'those days ; or, more 

 recently, Sir Joseph Hawley and Lord Falmouth ; 

 or Mr. Chaplin in the present time, would be in- 

 clined to agree with him in this opinion. 



Lord Jersey, I should say, in conclusion, was well 

 served by his jockey, Mr. James Robinson, and by 

 his trainer, Mr. Ransom. The latter, after his 

 lordship's death, became the stud-groom at the Royal 

 Paddocks, Hampton Court, where he lived many 

 years, respected by all who knew him, and retaining 

 his primitive style of dress to the end. 



