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not undistinguished in the senate. He was also a 

 patron of art. It was a proof of the high estimation 

 in which his abilities and character were held that he 

 was sent on a mission to America at the time of the 

 rebellion of the colonies ; and it was probably not his 

 fault, but that of others and of the times, that the 

 mission was fruitless. Moreover, he was at one time 

 Viceroy or Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. That he 

 should have had a hereditary tendency towards horse- 

 racing, and should have been a member of the Jockey 

 Club, was only in the nature of things ; for not only 

 has there always been even more connection between 

 Howard and horse (at any rate since the days of Charles 

 the Second and the great Turfite Bernard Howard, 

 hereinbefore mentioned) than between Macedon and 

 Monmouth, but his own family had introduced into 

 this country, or at any rate owned, the Carlisle Turk 

 and the Carlisle Barb (otherwise called ' a foreign 

 horse of Sir C. W. Strickland's '), and had bred the 

 Wharton mare and the celebrated Buckhunter, better 

 known as the Carlisle gelding, a horse which must 

 have been running until he was eighteen years of age, 

 if, as the records say, he was foaled in 1713, and the 

 following account of him is correct : ' When running 

 for a Plate at Salterley Common, Buckhunter broke a 

 leg (after winning the first heat), which deprived him 

 of his life, and he was buried near to the Pails 

 [palings] of Stilton Churchyard, where he happened 

 his misfortune, in the year 1731.' It must not be 



