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familiar sounding Lady Di Beauclerc, wife of Dr. 

 Johnson's fashionable friend Topham Beauclerc, he 

 was one of the most typical among the early Fathers) 

 is abundantly testified. Suffice it to say that he was 

 among the subscribers to the Jockey Club Challenge 

 Cup, and he won Jockey Club Plates in 1769 and 

 1770. He is the ' Bully ' (as has been mentioned 

 already) so often spoken of in Jesse's ' Selwyn,' who 

 was 'thought to be too much in the graces of the 

 beautiful Coventry.' He owned the celebrated Pay- 

 master (son of Blank), and the still more celebrated 

 Highflyer (son of Herod). The latter was bred by 

 Sir Charles Bunbury and sold by him to Lord Boling- 

 broke, who gave the name which has become so 

 famous, and sold the horse in 1779 to Mr. Tattersall, 

 who thus acquired a four-legged gold-mine. Lord 

 Bolingbroke, whilst in partnership with the Hon. Mr. 

 Compton (a member of the Jockey Club, a great gentle- 

 man-rider, and owner of the noted Compton Barb, 

 otherwise called the Sedley Grey Arabian) had con- 

 siderable success upon the Turf, but it is to be feared 

 that, on the whole, he found it ruinous. He owned 

 the useful sire called indifferently the Coombe Arabian, 

 the Pigot Grey Arabian, and the Bolingbroke Grey 

 Arabian ; and he owned, if he did not actually import, 

 the Bolingbroke Bay Arabian, which won an interest- 

 ing race, injudiciously omitted from some of the 

 abbreviated ' Calendars.' The race was run at the 

 Second October Meeting, Newmarket, in 1771. It was 



