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between his lordship's horse Gimcrack and the Earl of 

 Abingdon's Cardhial York. By the aid of Mr. Elwes, 

 the notorious miser, who lent Lord Grosvenor a sum 

 of £3,000 to make up the stakes, his horse was en- 

 abled to run the match. It is related that Elwes, on 

 returning home from seeing the race run, scrambled 

 over the Devil's Dyke at Newmarket to avoid paying 

 a toll of sixpence, and nearly broke his neck in doing 

 so. The Earl died on xVugust 5rh, 1S02. 



Lord Clermont, wlio won the Derb}^ in 1785, died 

 in November, 1805, at the venerable age of eighty- 

 four, having begun his racing career in 1751. At his 

 death he was ' father of the turf,' and was at one 

 time, in conjunction with Lord Farnham, the possessor 

 of a considerable stud of excellent horses. He was 

 much abused, and was once denouncad as * a hardened 

 veteran in every kind of iniquit}'.' A good story is told 

 about his lordship and the Prince: 'On one occasion, 

 shortly before his death, the Earl accompanied the 

 Prince of Wales to Pagshot, and it being winter, and 

 his lordship being at the time much indisposed, had 

 wrapped his head in a sort of flannel hood. Thus 

 equipped the Prince and his companion pursued their 

 journey, the passengers remarking what an excellent 

 young man he was thus to go out an airing Avith his 

 old aunt, the Princess Amelia.' 



Lord Egremont was an ardent and honest folloAver 

 of the ' sport of kings.' This nobleman died in the 

 year 1837, in the eighty - sixth year of his age, 

 having held an enjoyable position on the tiu-f for 

 a period of half a century. At one time there were 

 in his stud nearly seventy thoroughbred brood-mares, 



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