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power on the racecourse in his day. The authority 

 from which I have quoted says of him : 



' The most astute customer in the Red Book to 

 deal with of late years on the turf was, out-and-out, 

 the late Duke of Cleveland. He had, as they say in 

 Yorkshire, " money for ever," and so did nearly as 

 he pleased on the turf.' 



This command of unlimited means apparently led 

 his grace to become one of the earliest magnates of the 

 sport to pay big prices for racehorses. It is said, as a 

 matter of considerable interest, that he had given as 

 much as £3,675 for two horses, Trustee and Liverpool ; 

 and the same authority tells us that, at a subsequent 

 period, he had paid for four racehorses — Swiss, Swab, 

 Barefoot, and Memnon — the large sum of £12,000, 

 which, though dwarfed by comparison with the prices 

 paid in recent years, was, I need hardly say, an enor- 

 mous sum in those days. His grace had an extensive 

 stable, and amongst his notable horses, other than 

 those above enumerated, were Pavilion, with which 

 in 1806 he made the great match at Newmarket 

 against Saneho, the property of the celebrated Colonel 

 Mellish ; Emancipation, by Whisker; Muley Moloch; 

 and last, but not least, Chorister, the winner of the 

 St. Leger in 1831. 



My own knowledge of ' the old Duke's ' proceedings 

 on the turf is confined to a little incident in connection 

 with the last-named event — the victory of Chorister in 



