152 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



CHAPTEE VI 



FIRST PERIOD (concluded) 



WE have seen that, away from Newmarket, the Club 

 (or a quorum thereof) would meet in the earliest days 

 at the Star and Garter, Pall Mall, or at the Clarendon, 

 Bond Street, or at the Thatched House, St. James's 

 Street, or at one another's houses, whether in town or 

 country, as in 1768 at the Duke of Grafton's at 

 Euston ; but they, of course, wanted headquarters at 

 Newmarket, which was not so accessible as it is now, 

 and where members of the Jockey Club would stay for 

 the whole duration of a meeting, and where, not 

 having houses of their own (as many, if not most, of 

 them have now), they would naturally look out for 

 some place of their own, to save them from the 

 necessity of being intruded upon by all and sundry 

 who, if only they had the necessary money at com- 

 mand, would be as free as the members of the Jockey 

 Club themselves of the public hostelries, assembly 

 rooms, &c. Now at Newmarket the Club, at its 

 incipience, did not possess a single inch of ground (in 

 its aggregate capacity, whatever may have been the 



