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personality it will be enough to state that at a 

 certain trial, when the question of ' warning off ' 

 was discussed, the Mr. Weatherby called for the 

 Jockey Club was described as ' the solicitor, treasurer, 

 and agent for the Club, keeper of the match-book, 

 and publisher of the " Calendar." Perhaps 'stake- 

 holder ' might also have been added ; in any case 

 the ' stakeholdership ' at Newmarket and elsewhere 

 became hereditary in the family. 



We have now reached the point at which the 

 Jockey Club had their own ' organ ' (the ' Calendar ') 

 played by their own Weatherby, which marks con- 

 veniently the beginning of the second period in the 

 existence of the Club. But before we deal with that 

 it will be convenient to point out that, about the 

 time at which the ' Weatherby era ' began, it seems 

 to have occurred to the members of the Club that it 

 would be a good thing to have a few more permanent 

 officials of their own, such as judge, starter, &c. Up 

 to that date the judging and starting had been per- 

 formed in the most casual manner, as we read of 

 jockeys ' calling one another back,' of the 'judges not 

 having arrived,' and of some baker or linendraper or 

 man-in-the-street (if only they would swear that they 

 had no bet on the race) being raised to the judicial 

 bench for the occasion. We do (in 1754} read of 

 ' Mr. Deard, the judge,' at Newmarket, as if he were 

 a regular official, whether appointed by the new 

 Jockey Club or by the stewards of Newmarket races, 



