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the Oaks in 1792 with Volante (by Highflyer), not 

 Volante, as it is generally given, when he was also 

 second with Trumpetta (by Trumpator). 



The LORD CRAVEN with whom we are concerned 

 here was the sixth Baron, nephew of the fifth (who 

 was much addicted to horse-racing, but does not ap- 

 pear to have been a member of the Jockey Club, 

 though he may very well have belonged to it). He 

 succeeded to the title in 1769, and died in 1791, when 

 his title descended to his son, the seventh Baron, the 

 distinguished soldier, who was created Viscount 

 Ufiington and first Earl of Craven, in 1801. The 

 sixth Baron is described (by an enemy) as a ' sot,' 

 which may have accounted for the conduct of his wife, 

 Lady Craven, the notorious personage whose ' works ' 

 were ' printed and published by Horace Walpole ' at 

 his private press, Strawberry Hill, and who, at her 

 husband's death, became by regular marriage the 

 Margravine of Anspach she is supposed to have been 

 virtually (rather than virtuously) before. The sixth 

 Lord Craven's name is appended to various reso- 

 lutions passed by the Jockey Club in 1771, and he 

 seems to have been name-father of the Craven Stakes, 

 first run for in 1771, and the first public race (bar 

 matches) in which two-year-olds were admitted to 

 run, whether against their seniors or against one 

 another, under the auspices of the Jockey Club, at 

 what thenceforward became known as the Newmarket 

 Craven Meeting. 



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