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moter of ' short distance races ' he owes to his hu- 

 manity. It is noticeable, too, that his name has sur- 

 vived to this day in connection with Bunbury's Mile 

 at Newmarket, not, as might have been expected had 

 he been the accepted inventor of two-year-old racing, 

 with a T.Y.C. He shares, of course, with the rest of 

 the Jockey Club the blame for having allowed year- 

 lings to run at Newmarket, and for having established 

 a regular Y.C. ; but he is again conspicuously absent 

 from among the runners of yearlings, the prominent 

 innovators being Mr. ' Jockey ' Vernon, my Lords 

 Grosvenor, Foley, Clermont, Egremont, Derby, Barry- 

 more, Messrs. C. J. Fox (the distinguished orator), 

 Panton, and Ladbroke, and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 

 So much it has been thought right to say, because 

 Sir Charles's memory has incurred a great deal of 

 odium on the ground that he was a promoter of ' young ' 

 as well as of ' short ' races. There is no intention 

 here, however, of condemning two-year-old racing, if 

 kept within due limits. The youngsters are said by 

 very high, if not the highest, authorities to be all the 

 better for an early training ; and, if they are to be 

 trained, they must be exercised, and the exercise may 

 as well take the form of a public race (if exertion be 

 not overdone), on the principle on which the old 

 trainer John Osborne decided that ' if horses must 

 sweat, they might as well sweat for the brass,' that is, 

 for public stakes. Sir Charles was a Father, not only 

 to the English Turf but also to the American, for to 



