48 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750— 



concluded— as it well might — from this that the race 

 was run in the churchyard ; but the writer, like 

 Thucydides and other high authorities, gives his 

 readers an opportunity for the exercise of that com- 

 mon sense which Mr. Washington Moon and other 

 low authorities will not employ or allow to be employed 

 in dealing with the Queen's English. The said writer 

 adds : * Though Buckhunter was in a very high form, 

 yet there were horses of his time that would beat him ; 

 but he had rarely an equal, and hardly ever a 

 superior, with relation to those principal points of 

 being capable of running with all degrees of weight, 

 of supporting repeated heats, of travelling and run- 

 ning often, and continuing the whole for so great a 

 number of years, and to the age that he did. The 

 excessive spirits of his youth rendered him almost 

 ungovernable, and caused him to be castrated, which 

 lost to breeders a promising English stallion.' But 

 for this the Howards of Carlisle, perhaps, might have 

 bred a race of horses whereof the descendants at the 

 present day would ' whip creation,' including Ormonde, 

 St. Simon, Barcaldine, and hoc genus omne. 



The Lord Chedworth of the list was John Thynne 

 Howe, second Baron, who succeeded to the title in 

 1742, died s.p. in 1762, and was succeeded by his 

 brother, H. F. Howe, who died unmarried in 1781, 

 and was succeeded by his nephew, at whose death, in 

 1804, the title became extinct. This Lord Chedworth 

 (whose father had bred the famous Begulus, sold at 



