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is a proof that he possessed that certain intuitive 

 good sense which looks after pounds, shillings, and 

 pence ; and the possession of this he again showed in 

 the bargains he made in the horse-dealing line, in 

 which, as a rule, he could make a few pounds go as 

 far as most people could. He commenced racing as 

 far back as the year 1843, in which he had a couple 

 of horses, Nelly and Mallard. Old Mr. Joseph 

 Rogers trained for him at Newmarket, and Sam, his 

 son, rode his horses, and after the death of his father 

 trained them till he died. Lord William seldom 

 kept more than half a dozen horses in training at 

 the same time, and often not so many, though he 

 may have exceeded the number at times. He was 

 singularly unlucky ; for though he would give any 

 price for a horse, he never had one that did him any 

 good except Tim Whiffler, which he bought of 

 Jackson for £2,500, and won with him the Good- 

 wood and Doncaster Cups, and other races. 



My first introduction to him was at Bath in 1857 ; 

 and as this was in relation to one of the two or three 

 deals I had with his lordship, in which perhaps he 

 did not come off with quite his usual good fortune, I. 

 may relate the circumstances. I had then in un- 

 stable Cedric, bought by Mr. Parker at Tattersalls' for 

 50 guineas, when Lord Anglesey gave up racing. 

 He was a clever horse, but a bad one. However, 

 as a three-year-old he won the Somersetshire Stakes, 



