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in contact. When in the full vigour of health, he would 

 walk to the starting post for every race, and, if time per- 

 mitted, return to the weighing room as soon as he had 

 dispatched his horses. In 1884 his health prematurely failed, 



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and he was prevented keeping his engagements. He died 

 in 1885, at the age of 44, and was succeeded by Lord 

 Marcus Beresford, the fourth son of the Marquis of 

 Waterford, who is, like so many of his family, a capital 

 sportsman and an excellent rider. From his early years 



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