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of which, or nearly the whole, I think he won, and 

 man)* of them more than once, except the two first 

 named, and these he might have carried off if Wapiti 

 had remained sound. Wahah won the Buckingham 

 Stakes, 300 sovereigns each, at Newmarket, beat- 

 ing Lord Exeter's Abydos, after running a dead-heat 

 for it ; and he also won this race another year 

 with Free Will. Most of his best races he won with 

 his two- and three-year-olds. He did little in handi- 

 caps ; though he won the Goodwood Stakes with 

 Franchise, and the Cesarewitch with Wit's End, 

 and many other minor events. Besides the races 

 enumerated above, he usually entered for the Produce 

 Stakes, which in those days were always the best 

 races at Stockbridge, Bibury, Winchester, Bath, and 

 other provincial meetings. He often won most of 

 them, up to the time he gave up racing. I do 

 not think anyone for so many years consecutively 

 won so many races of the like value with so small a 

 stud. 



But if successful on the turf, Mr. AVreford was 

 fated to be unfortunate in his private affairs, through 

 no fault of his own. His son caused him a great deal 

 of trouble. He betted contrary to his father's wishes, 

 and lost large sums. He also played cards, of which 

 he was very fond, though he did not understand 

 them, and more than once came to srief in doing: so. 

 As an instance of his folly in this way, it may be 

 stated that he used to play with Mr. George Payne, 



