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LORD SATE and SELE (twelfth Baron, died 1847) is 

 remarkable among members of the Jockey Club rather 

 as the bearer of a family name (Fiennes) which, in the 

 form of Fines or Fynes, is found as early as the reign 

 of Henry VII. (Thomas Fynes, who died 1534) among 

 patrons of horse-racing, than for notable performances 

 upon the Turf. 



LORD JOHN SCOTT (of the Cawston Stud) was the 

 very popular nobleman who bred (from Touchstone's 

 daughter Phryne) the brothers Elthiron, Windhound, 

 and the once celebrated Hobbie Noble (the horse that 

 came to the whistle like a dog, that was to have won 

 the Derby of 1852, that Queen Victoria admired so 

 much at Ascot, and that is said to have cost Mr. 

 James Merry 6,500 guineas, but that sum apparently 

 included other horses), who was the ' universal ' 

 sportsman (including a little ' bruising '), and who 

 once for a bet rode his old charger Helen (by Octavian 

 or Octavius out of Lady of the Lake) up the steps of 

 the Bank of Dublin and down again, having duly 

 cashed a cheque. 



LORD SUFFIELD is a title which apparently covers 

 three members of the Jockey Club namely, the second 

 Baron (William Assheton), who died in 1821 (in which 

 year he ran for a Jockey Club Plate with a colt or 

 filly by Vandyke, Jim.) ; his brother Edward, the 

 third Baron (who is on the published list for 1836), 

 and the fourth Baron, who was the son of the third, 

 and who died s.p. in 1853, when he was succeeded by 



