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for that valuable prize), and in the same year the 

 Club again established (against * Argus ') its right to 

 * warn off ' ; in 1863 the Jockey Club opened to 'the 

 horses of members of the Booms at Newmarket, as 

 well as to members of the Jockey Club,' the old ex- 

 clusive Jockey Club Challenge Cup, which has been a 

 failure almost from the first ; in 1864 the Club, which 

 had ceased to bask in the smiles of Royalty (with the 

 exception of Dutch representatives thereof), revived, 

 with the Prince of Wales to give it fresh vitality and 

 lustre ; in 1865 the Club had to thank Mr. Blenkiron 

 (of Eltham Stud Farm) for the institution of the Middle 

 Park Plate (with 1,OOOZ. 'added'), touching which in 

 1869 (when the Club took it over with the substitution 

 of 500/. for 1,OOOL) there was a somewhat ungracious 

 proposal (defeated by a majority of the Club, it is 

 pleasant to relate) made that * as the money is added 

 by the Jockey Club, it shall be called the Jockey Club 

 Plate ' ; in 1866 the Jockey Club paid the French the 

 well-deserved compliment of making M. de Lagrange, 

 M. Lupin, and the President, Vice- President, and three 

 Stewards of the French Jockey Club, honorary 

 members of the English; in 1867 it was resolved 

 that the Master of the Buckhounds for the time 

 being should be ex qfficio a member of the Jockey 

 Club ; in 1869 the Club determined to enlarge the 

 Betting Enclosure for the convenience of persons 

 engaged in that of which the Club is supposed to 

 ' take no cognisance,' as the excellent Mr. Tatter sail 



