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his challenge being unaccepted, had the trophy handed 

 over to him (to be transferred eventually to the Jockey 

 Club), and whose horse Plenipotentiary created BO 

 great and painful a sensation by winning the Derby 

 in a canter and being 'nowhere' for the St. Leger, 

 though the easy explanation (if any were needed in 

 the case of so honourable a gentleman) has since been 

 given, that the horse met with an accident (of which 

 even his owner knew nothing till long afterwards) 

 on his way to Doncaster. Mr. * Tom ' Bullock is, 

 of course, the plebeian member who (according to 

 Pigott) outfisticuffed the redoubtable Colonel Hanger 

 at the Jockey Club Kooms at Newmarket, and from 

 whom the Americans obtained Messenger (foaled 1780, 

 by Mambrino), their famous ' Father of Trotters.' 

 Mr. Cookson (who had a share in a bank at New- 

 castle, and was at one time an officer of the Guards) 

 was Mr. James Cookson, a great * Northern light,' 

 winner of the Derby with Sir Harry in 1798 and of 

 the St. Leger with Ambrosio in 1796, and is notable 

 as one of the few members of the Jockey Club who 

 have been publicly stated * by strict attention to busi- 

 ness on the Turf to have won a large fortune.' Mr. 

 (Thomas) Douglas, of Grantham, Lincolnshire, won 

 the Oaks with Tetotum in 1780, and appears to have 

 died (at a comparatively early age) on December 22, 

 1787, and to have been a brother of the Eev. Mr. 

 Douglas who was chaplain to the Prince of Wales 

 (George the Fourth), and who was an author of some 



