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Sondes, of Lees Court, Kent, in 1760, and died in 

 1795. In 1764, soon after he began to air his title, 

 he is found running second with an unnamed bay 

 colt (by Tarquin) to Lord Northumberland's Csesario 

 (by Matchem), for a Jockey Club Plate, which suffi- 

 ciently establishes his membership ; but for all that, 

 and though he married a niece of the Duke of New- 

 castle (whose family name suggests the Pelham Barb, 

 the Curwen Bay Barb, Alcock's Arabian, alias Pel- 

 ham's Grey Arab, and the Brocklesby Stakes at Lin- 

 coln), he is not among the most prominent Fathers 

 of the Jockey Club, or improvers of the thorough- 

 bred. 



The Lord Strange of the list is James Stanley, 

 son and heir of the eleventh, and father of the wonder- 

 fully popular twelfth Earl of Derby, and he died before 

 his father (so that he never succeeded to the earldom) 

 in 1771, having established his membership of the 

 Jockey Club, as early as 1754, by running the cele- 

 brated Sportsman (winner of five King's Plates) un- 

 successfully for a Jockey Club Plate. He raced like- 

 wise with Jenny, Kitty, Gift, &c, and well seconded 

 his father (who had run Brown Betty for the King's 

 Plate for five-year-old mares as long before as 1723), 

 as well as paved the way, as it were, for his son, who 

 was to ' belong ' to the never-to-be-forgotten Sir Peter 

 (Teazle). Lord Strange insisted upon bearing that 

 title (if not from the cradle to the grave, at any rate, 

 as soon after leaving the cradle as could be expected), 



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