or him at Manchester. The following
year Adine did a good thing for him by winning the Goodwood
Stakes, and two years afterwards he again won that race with
Quince.

'Between Adine and Quince's years came Mr. Greville's last good
horse, Muscovite, whom he thought impossible to lose the
Metropolitan, and backed him accordingly. He was much put out,
however, by old John Day telling him he had no chance with his
mare Virago. At first Mr. Greville was incredulous at what John
told him, and made him acquainted with the form of Muscovite.
This made not the slightest impression on the old man, who merely
went on repeating Mr. Greville must back Virago for L500, and the
value of the advice was proved by the mare beating the horse very
easily. Muscovite's career for a time was a very unfortunate one,
for when in Dockeray's stable he was so "shinned" that his chance
for the Goodwood Stakes was completely out, and his trainer, who
could not discover the offender, and who was terribly annoyed at
the circumstance, begged he might be transferred to William
Dilly's, at Littleton. While there he was betted against for the
Caesarewitch in the same determined manner as he had been for his
other races, and when he arrived at Newmarket, and stood in Nat's
stables, which were perfectly impregnable, there was no cessation
in the opposition to him, although his trainer told everybody
that unless he was shot on the Heath, which he could not prevent,
he would walk in. This he did, and the crash he produced is still
fresh in the public recollection; but it is creditable to the
bookmaker who laid the most money against him to state that out
of L23,000 which he lost, he paid L16,000 down on the spot, an
act which procured him time for the remainder.

'Since Muscovite, who is now at the stud at Newmarket, Mr.
Greville has had no animal that has done a really good thing for
him, though Anfield made another determined attempt at the
Goodwood Stakes this year; and having, at Lord Ribblesdale's sale
of General Peel's horses, purchased Orlando, and added him to his
establishment at Hampton Court, he has turned his attention
perhaps more to breeding than racing. For some time his returns
were very large, but of late, from the age of Orlando, and from
getting some of his stock so small, they have diminished in
amount, although the old horse looks as fresh as a four-year-old,
and preserves all that fine symmetry for which he was remarkable
both in and