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tnrf, it is said, he always went straight ; and his 

 career on the race course Avas of great length, lasting 

 till he died, December 23rd, 1810, aged eighty-six 

 years. Some of his achievements on horseback were 

 wonderful, and his matches were the talk of the time ; 

 liis judgments, both of horses and men, were pene- 

 trating and acute ; no man was more difficult to 

 deceive in any matter connected with the sport of 

 horse-racing, and he became a match for all the 'legs' of 

 the turf, many of whom tried their best to ' have ' him. 



Lord Egremont has been already referred to in a 

 preceding page. In the years 1788-89 that nobleman 

 took the ' Garter of the Turf,' by the aid of his lillies 

 Nightshade and Tag; in 1795 he won the same race 

 with riatino, in ISOO with Ephemera, and again 

 in 1820 with Carolina. His Derby victors were : 

 Assassin in 1782, Hannibal in 1803, Cardinal Beaufort 

 in the following year. Election in 1807, and Lapdog in 

 1826. His lordship lived till he attained the great age 

 of eighty-five, and for sixty years of that time he was 

 a patron of the turf, spending tens of thousands on his 

 stables, horses, and stable retainers ; and there are 

 man}^ who will think he Avas well rewarded by winning 

 the Derby and Oaks so often. Lord Egremont was 

 the possessor of a very large income, and was exceed- 

 ingly benevolent and charitable. 



Sir Tatton Sykes was born on August 22nd, 1772, 

 and died in March, 1803, at the veneraMe age of 

 ninety- one. Than Sir 'J'atton no man better de- 

 serves a record in the annals of the turf, and such 

 was the esteem in which he had been held during his 

 lifetime that 3,000 persons assembled to see him laid 



