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quess of Drogheda (whose ancestor would run horses at 

 Newmarket in the days before the fact that Queen 

 Anne was dead was so generally known as it now is, 

 with names, varying from the gentle Tom Tit to the 

 tremendous Hell Fire, which would scarcely pass 

 muster nowadays) ; in the Earl of Durham (who, as a 

 Lambton, connected with the Curwens, of Curwen 

 Bay Barb celebrity, bears a name which carries us 

 back to horse-racing at York some time before Queen 

 Anne died) ; in the Earl of Eglinton (one of whose pre- 

 decessors introduced l Bozzy ' to the Jockey Club in 

 1765, and another ' belonged to ' the Flying Dutch- 

 man) ; in the Earl of Ellesmere (who is positively 

 saturated with Jockey Club, so to speak, inasmuch as 

 he is connected in family with the Duke of Bridge- 

 water, who, as we have seen, was an original member 

 of the Club ; he married a daughter of the second 

 Marquess of Normanby, a member of the Club, and the 

 first Earl of Ellesmere married a daughter of Mr. 

 C. C. Greville, a member of the Club, who himself had 

 married a daughter of the Duke of Portland, a member 

 of the Club) ; in the Marquess of Exeter (who, by his 

 name of Cecil, takes us back in the history of the Turf 

 as far at least as 1713 and 1714, when the Hon. W. 

 Cecil's Creeper ran, in company with Queen Anne's 

 Mustard and Star, at York) ; in the Earl of Feversham 

 (whose family name of Duncombe has been shown to 

 have appeared in the records of horse-racing before 

 the foundation of the Jockey Club) ; in the Fitzwil- 



