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Vernon), from whom he could not get a divorce for 

 the reason already mentioned. He is said to have 

 lost 300,OOOZ. by a thirty years' connection with the 

 Turf; but his family do not appear to have come to 

 the workhouse in consequence, to judge from the 

 figure made upon the Turf and elsewhere by his 

 descendants, the Marquesses and the present Duke of 

 Westminster. Lord Grosvenor won the Derby in 

 1790, 1792, and 1794, with Ehadamanthus (when he 

 was also second with Asparagus), with John Bull, 

 and with Daedalus (own brother to Khadamanthus) ; 

 the Oaks in 1781, 1782, 1783, 1797, and 1799 with 

 Faith, Ceres, Maid of the Oaks, Nike, and Bellina ; 

 several Jockey Club Plates, the Jockey Club Cup and 

 the Newmarket Challenge Whip, two or three times 

 each of them ; and besides the horses mentioned (to 

 say nothing of a Grosvenor Arabian and Barb) he 

 either bred or owned at one time or another such 

 celebrities as Violante (so called after a famous dancer 

 of the day, and bred before the Earl's death in 1802), 

 Mambrino (sire of Messenger, the ' father of American 

 trotters'), Trajan, Cardinal Puff, Pot8os, Gimcrack, 

 Sweet William, Sweet Briar, &c. When the members 

 of the Jockey Club chose ' colours ' in 1762 (and 1770) 

 he selected the ' orange and black cap,' which, in the 

 modified hue of ' yellow and black cap,' we identify 

 with the Grosvenors (unless a Mostyn or a Merry 

 intervene) to this day. 



LORD SPENCER HAMILTON is made out to have been 



