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breeding) ; in the Earl of March (who telescopes into 

 the Duke of Kichmond, taking us back to the first 

 Duke, Master of the Horse, about 1681-82, and to 

 Old Eowley and Newmarket in olden time, and con- 

 juring up all the glories of Goodwood) ; in the Duke 

 of Montrose (as the Grahams or Graemes are almost 

 antediluvian patrons of horse-racing, and one of them 

 ran Champion against Queen Anne's ( nutmeg-grey ' 

 Mustard at York in 1713) ; in Mr. G. E. Paget (if 

 by any chance his family 'belonged to' the Paget 

 Turk, which, however, is very uncertain) ; in General 

 Pearson (if haply, which is again uncertain, he 

 ' strain back ' to the Mr. Anthony Pearson, so fre- 

 quently met with in ' Pick ' as a mighty breeder of 

 good racehorses) ; in Lord Penrhyn (who is a grand- 

 son of the Hon. John Douglas, a name prominent 

 upon the Turf, and who married, as it were, into the 

 Jockey Club, for the first Lady Penrhyn was a daughter 

 of Sir C. Eushout, a member of the Jockey Club) ; in 

 the Duke of Portland (whose family produced Lord 

 George Bentinck, which suffices) ; in the (now de- 

 ceased) Earl of Portsmouth (for a Wallop, a Viscount 

 Lymington, runs his horse Toy at Windsor as early 

 as 1744, before there was a Jockey Club) ; in Lord 

 Eendlesham, one of whose family it was, no doubt, 

 who, as Mr. C. Thelusson, was racing at Doncaster in 

 1810 (early enough when the foreign origin of the 

 ' accumulator ' who caused the * Thelusson Act ' is 

 considered), to say nothing of intermarriage with 



