366 THE JOCKEY CLUB 



difficulty, as regards horse-racing, is in dealing with 

 the curse of betting, will so far stultify itself as to 

 bestow upon the Jockey Club, whose members are 

 (some, not to say most, of them) among the greatest 

 offenders, the charter which is so self- complacently 

 claimed for it by Lord Suffolk and Berkshire. 



The Club, collectively, may not have been notice- 

 able for a desire to promote the pleasure, comfort, 

 and advantage of the public ; but individually they 

 have many of them at different times deserved well 

 of the community, either by establishing race-meetings 

 on their property, as, for instance, the Dukes of Bich- 

 mond at Goodwood, the Earl of Egremont (previously) 

 at Petworth, the Fetherstons at Uppark, the Lambs 

 (Lords Melbourne) at Brocket Hall, the Brands at 

 the Hoo, the Earls of Eglinton at Eglinton Park, 

 the Earl of Wilton at Heaton Park, the Earls of 

 Verulam at Gorhambury, &c., or, as for instance Lord 

 G. Bentinck, by improving the spectacle and in- 

 creasing the means of enjoying it. 



