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accomplished roan : a Turfite, a yachtsman, a surgeon, 

 an organist, a saint, and a sinner, being partly a ' dis- 

 sipated man of fashion ' and partly a sort of domestic 

 chaplain, who undertook to read the family prayers 

 to his assembled household, including servants and 

 visitors. 



The (second) EARL of ZETLAND, who died in 1873, 

 was he who won the Two Thousand in 1857 with 

 Vedette (sire of Galopin), unable to run for the Derby 

 or St. Leger (whether entered or not), else the 

 famous Blink Bonny and the less famous Imperieuse 

 might have won less distinction. The Earl had 

 already, in 1850, won the Derby and St. Leger, and 

 beaten The Flying Dutchman for the Doncaster Cup 

 with Yoltigeur ; and he won the Ascot Cup in 1855 

 with Fandango (which horse won the Jockey Club 

 Cup by ' half a distance ' from Homily in 1856), and in 

 1857 with Skirmisher. The Earls of Zetland, of course, 

 * strain back ' to Sir Lawrance Dundas, one of the 

 earliest members of the Jockey Club, and, as we have 

 seen, one of the founders of the Jockey Club Challenge 

 Cup in 1768. 



The (third) VISCOUNT CLIFDEN is memorable for 

 ever through having ' Jacobed ' Lord G. Bentinck, 

 as it were, by winning the Derby and St. Leger 

 (the 'blue ribbon' and its pendant) of 1848 with 

 Surplice, sold by Lord George to the Hon. Mr. Mostyn, 

 and by him to Lord Clifden, who thus did at the 

 first time of asking what Lord George could not do 

 during his whole racing career. 



