188 THE RACE AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. 
yet he managed for the Duke of Bedford who had a fair-sized 
one. Also, as is well known, he made all the principal 
handicaps, or the most of them, for a number of years, without 
winning any of note that I remember. Yet he did not lack 
the materials for achieving success, having, besides many 
others, two such good horses as Asteroid and Weather- 
gage. The latter, after leaving the hands of this consummate 
master of weights, in spite of him, won the Goodwood and 
Czesarewitch Stakes, besides other good races ; although but a 
few months before, under the guiding hand of the Admiral, he 
could not win a Selling Plate at Northampton and was, on his 
return to Newmarket, disposed of privately for £40. 
Mr. Greville may be said to have been, considering all 
things, equally unfortunate ; for he not only kept a large string 
himself, but was confederate with the then Duke of Portland, 
and was also consulted on the management, if he had not the 
absolute control, of one of the largest establishments in 
England. Yet withal, he failed to carry off many of our best 
trophies. It is true he won the St. Leger with Mango, and 
among other of his victories may be mentioned the Goodwood 
Stakes, over which I believe he did little or no good, and the 
Cesarewitch Stakes, which may be said to have been, at one 
and the same time, his greatest coup and the most gigantic 
mistake. 
On this memorable occasion he unwisely entrusted his com- 
mission to one Perkins, a man of straw (as many commis- 
sioners are) who, after receiving the money, as might have 
been suspected decamped with the whole of it without paying 
a shilling of the losses, which had to be paid afterwards. This 
affair Mr. Greville took so much to heart that nothing could 
drive it from his memory ; and one day, whilst looking over the 
Admiral's stud in reply toa question thrice repeated, “ What 
