80 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



America went his Derby winner Diomed, and there 

 the horse died in 1808, aged thirty-one, having be- 

 gotten the famous American sire, Sir Archie, or Sir 

 Archy, sire of Timoleon, sire of Boston, sire of Lex- 

 ington. Of course, Sir Charles had his Bunbury 

 Arabian, but it did not do much for the pedigrees. 



Sir Nathaniel Cuezon (and previously Mr. Curzon 

 in the annals of the Turf), of Kiddlestone, Derbyshire, 

 is he who, having previously been M.P. for Derby- 

 shire, was created Baron Scarsdale in 1761, and his 

 membership of the Jockey Club is attested in many 

 ways, and among them by his running for a Jockey 

 Club Plate in 1757. He was a noted breeder, owner, 

 runner, and rider ; and the name of himself or of his 

 father, who seems to have set him a racing and breed- 

 ing example, or of one of his family, was attached to 

 at least one of the ' Sons of the Desert ' imported to 

 improve the breed of the English horse, under the 

 style and title of ' the Curzon Grey Barb.' As for his 

 title of Scarsdale, there was an Earl of Scarsdale 

 (probably not a Curzon, however), who ran for the 

 Newmarket Town Plate in 1695, and was beaten by 

 the famous or notorious Mr. Tregonwell Frampton 

 with * the King's horse.' He or his father was at one 

 time owner of the Beaufort Arabian mare that was 

 the dam of Jason (by Standard) a.nd Y. Jason (by 

 Y. Standard). 



Sir Lawrance Dundas (who is, no doubt properly, 

 included in the more trustworthy lists of subscribers 



