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having been a ' tout ' and the defendant a trainer, in 

 1869) was an outrage upon the tenderest feelings of 

 the Jockey Club to which he belonged. The Earl won 

 the Two Thousand with Diophantus in 1861, the One 

 Thousand with Lady Augusta in 1863, the Oaks with 

 Geheimniss in 1882, and the Ascot Cup with Eupee 

 in 1860, and was especially notable for having pur- 

 chased (when he saw that the French were coming to 

 the front) the French horses Armagnac, Brick, and 

 Le Marechal in 1862 in a lump for 6,OOOZ., and for 

 having been the first Englishman to run for the 

 French Derby (as he did with Armagnac in 1863, 

 thus showing his countrymen how to dispense with 

 ' Eeciprocity '). That the Earl was a great shot and 

 a great cricketer, and, in fact, a great ' all round ' 

 sportsman, is to his credit as a member of the Jockey 

 Club. 



The (second) EARL of STRAFFORD was apparently 

 the eldest son of the first Earl (Field Marshal Sir J. 

 Byng, q.v. in the * Second Period '), and was George 

 Stevens Byng, a Lord of the Treasury, &c., who died 

 in 1886, and, as Viscount Enfield, won the Two 

 Thousand with Hernandez (bred by the Hon. Col. 

 Anson, and imported into France in 1853) in 1851. 



The (twelfth) EARL of STRATHMORE and KINGHORNE 

 (whose ancestor the tenth Earl was the father of 

 the celebrated Mr. John Bowes, of Streatlam, 

 and who not improbably was himself a member of 

 the Jockey Club, when he won the St. Leger with 



