The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-24
A FAST PEER.
The ExtravagRnce and Public Gambling
of the Late Marquis of Hastings.


the desth of its leading actor. The spider and
the fly drama is ended. That poor coroneted
youth who had crowded into six years more
COriDtblan eXlitemen and weightier turf cares,
than many last men" know in a lifetime, has
LAID down his weary load He was only twenty
Elk IN July, aud he had FILTERED away two fine
family estates. Betting is said 10 be the touch
slope OF the Englishman's sincerity, but with the
Marquis craving for the odds had really
become disease. He worsLipped chance with
all the ardor OF fanatic. His wits were, he
considered, %orth 10 him in the betting ring at
least f20, 600 year, and he sometimes threaded
his way through the mazes of trials aud public
running with all the sagacity of q wizard.
His public coupS were often so brilliant,
that 1t was hardly to be wondered at that
he believed in his own destiny and his po wer
TO break the ring. He cared little whether the
draining or other improvements on his Doning-
ton estate were stopped, II he only got fresh
supplies for another Newmarket campaign.
The ring, on the other hand, had marked him
for their own, and never left him. They would
cluster beneath the Jockey Club balcony at
EPSON. holding up their hands to claim his
attention, and catching at his replies like a
foCk OF hungry hawks, There he would stand
smiling at the wild tuuult below, wearing his
hat jauntily on one side, red flower in his
button-bole, aud his colors round his neck, and
cool and calm while "the talentn made his
horse a 'hot fayorite" at once, and a few
| slipped back to the ring 10 follow his lead. For
time he was perfect Cocker; but he fell at
last in the unequal strife, and the men who had
drawn" him most copiously were among those
when he wished to see the Heath once again.
The Marquis taste for the turf was not an
hereditary one. His fathers heart was with the
hound and horn. He loved to haIloo "the red
rascal" over the rides far better than watching
the LeRer horses close up round the Red-house
turn. The men of the Midlands will speak OF
Hmm as quite representative sportsman with
Will Goodall and the Sir Harry" whom they
lost 80 early. He would hardly have stepped
aside to see a race; but a scarcity of foxes in
Charnwood Forest, or finding himself above
twelve stone on the scales, would have soreiy
yexed his soul. His son cared for none of these
things. Still he could DOT bear to see the Quorn
without master, and he stepped boldly into
the breach when Mr.. Cloves resigned in &C. He
wore the horn at his saddle bow for conformity's
sake, but he never blew it, aud he let the field
go its own way, and hunted the country on no
system. bit OF gallop,, check, and then
a fresh iox, jumped much more with his humor
than an old-tashloned hunting.run, where
hounds bad to puzzle it out. Often, when his
hounos had 70 reacn the meet ten or twelve
miles away, he was hardly out of bed, and he
would turn up ION Wheels" and occasionally
from London by special train, and give Wilson
the word to draw when half the field had gone
home. No wonder that caricatures were drawn,
and squbs flew gay about, and that even
Lelcestershire said it would rather be bled in
the purse-vein than have the country hunted
gratis in such fashion. satirical verses failed
to sour hln. He took the sting out OF their tail
by reprinting them at his own private press,
and posted them far and wide. On the last day
OF Dls nlaSlersllp he SlppeQ quietly away to the
station, and when they looked for him to give
him parting cheer he had been gone well.nigh
an hour.
The honor of being 'the man who belongs to
the Duke, or the Earl, or Little Lecturer" was
no burden to him. He took quite naturally to
the turf from the first, entolded under the wing
OF Dauebury. In 1862 not six people at New.
market knew who the slim lad was on the grew
cob; but the ring soon saw that he was a verita-
BILE Hampshire ambassador when he put down
the money so unflnchlngly on Danebury pot.
To John Days suggestion that in his position he
! was morally bound to have a nice yearling or
| two Of his own, he lent no ungracous ear.
| When the rivalry round the Hampton court and
| Middle park rings almost foamed into madness,
and 2500 guineas and 1000 gulneas were among
| the yesrlng prices OF one afternoon he was
never tempted beyond 1850 guineas for King
| Charles and 1900 gulneas for Robespierre. Tue
| former would have been dear at 90 guineas, and
other. His two best horses, the Duke $500
guineas) and the Earl (450 Ruiueas) were
among his cheapest purchases. The late
Alfred Day frst wore his coors on Garotter in
| the Althrop Park stakes at Northampton, and
Sam Rogers won maiden plate on that colt
few weeks afterwards. The first great victory
| for the 'red and white hoops" was the CAM
bridgeshire of 1864, with Ack worth, which had
been esteemed a dear two thousand purchase.
Gradually his stable swelled to upwards of
thirty and about f700OO we're the spoils of six
| seasons. Catalogue was great pet of his lord
| ships, and he did not care how much he backed
her for in selling sweepstakes, and how dearly
he redeemed her. A cycle of barrenness fol-
lowed one OF profusion, and Mr.. Pad wick
| praciously allowed him, in 1855, to have Kan
garoo at, ii was said, fl2, 900, and he never won
as many halfpence, while The Duke was useless,
| from influenza, till halt the season was over.
| In 1866, which produced him One Thousand
Guinea winnerin Repulse, and Good wood Cup
one in The Duke, the stable was once more at a
| dead lock for a Cesarewtch horse but Little
Lecturer, a ioal from the Sledmere sale, carried
| stone lbs, and won, it was said Gao, ,0e0 for
| the bennington party.
| A winters reflection convinced his lordship
that Hermit could never win the Derby, and
| Gl03 900 was the price he paid for his thoughts
| People were once won't 10 tell, almost below
their breath, that "Davis, the Leviathan," had
| been known to pay away 100000 on the Derby.
The present age is capable OF greater efforts as
before the Monday the bankers and solicitors
| had consulted, and the whole OF the Marc uis'
lOsings were found for him. Thus the panic
was averted from "the corner" but the fair
lands of Loudoun passed from his hand. At
| Ascot his lucky star rose once more. Lady
| Elizabeth and Lecturer were both in form aud
| his lordship kept backing them, and piling on
the winnings again by sort of geometrc pro.
gressiop, gambling till he had won nearly half
"his ain again" 1t was now the turn tor
| reyerses. His lordship rather fancied The Earl,
| but the stable everrued him in favor of Lady
| Elizabeth. The flying flly came back with a
| sadly chequered fame, bad nth for the Middle
| Park Plate, and yet the victress Is one of the
most wonderful of modern matches at pound
| with the three year old julius.
The Marquis had now fallen back again to
nearly the same "agony point" in fnauce as
| when he saw the "all.rosen handed home for
the Derby: A weary winter followed, and he
was SO driven from pillar to post by money
| troubles and turf creditors that he lost his
! interest in turf matters aud his head for
calculations with 1t. The irritable Lady Eliza
beth wasted TO q shadow in her training; and
how the Earl was scratched, and then became