46 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



' for African and Arabian horses ' ; B.C. ; 8 stone, 7 lbs. 

 Three ran, and they came in as follows : Lord Boling- 

 broke's Bay Horse, 1 ; Mr. Vernon's Jerusalem, 2 ; 

 Duke of Ancaster's Bay Horse (not the 'Ancaster 

 Egyptian'), 3. However, none of these horses be- 

 came very noted at the stud. Altogether, Lord 

 Bolingbroke seems to have been one of those members 

 which the Club, especially in these latter days, is 

 better without ; brilliant, no doubt, and energetic, but 

 flighty, and disposed to use the race-horse, however 

 good he may be, as a mere instrument of gambling ; 

 ready to buy him or sell him, but not caring much to 

 keep him and breed from him. 



The Lord Carlisle of the list is Frederick Howard, 

 the fifth Earl, born 1748, succeeded to the title 1758, 

 died 1825. His membership of the Jockey Club is 

 easily proved, if only from the fact that he appears in 

 1770 (when he was but two-and-twenty) among those 

 members of the Club who agreed to adopt ' colours.' 

 He was one of the most worshipful of all the person- 

 ages who have ever been members of the Club. For 

 although he had been, up to the age of twenty-nine or 

 thirty, a great gambler and ' macaroni,' insomuch 

 that he became grievously crippled in his pecuniary 

 affairs, he then began to mend his ways, and to think 

 of retrieving his fortunes. As is well known, he was 

 nearly allied in blood to the illustrious poet Lord 

 Byron, whose talents he shared ; for he, too, was a 

 poet and letter-writer of no mean order, and he was 



