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still more famous Yellow Filly or Yellow Mare (bred 

 by Mr. Tatter sail) that won the Oaks for Sir F. 

 Standish in 1786. As for Phenomenon, he was 

 imported into America some time between 1798 and 

 1803 (in the latter year, according to Brace's ' Amer- 

 ican Stud Book '), and died (in 1803, according to the 

 same authority) ' soon after landing ' in New York. 



Sir J. Lowthee, if there be no mistake, is the 

 Sir James who was called ' the little tyrant of the 

 North ' by ' Junius,' and was afterwards better known 

 by the flattering title of ' the bad Lord Lonsdale.' 

 At any rate Sir James was created Earl of Lonsdale in 

 1784. He was one of the ' West Indian ' members (of 

 whom we shall see more) of the Jockey Club ; that is 

 to say, he was the son of Eobert Lowther, Governor 

 of Barbadoes. He was * horsey ' by hereditary right, 

 paternally and maternally; for his mother appears 

 to have been Catherine, daughter of the very ' horsey ' 

 Sir Joseph Pennington and of Margaret Lowther 

 (daughter of the first Viscount Lonsdale, whose family 

 were all ' horsey ' and imported or owned the ' Lons- 

 dale Bay Arabian,' the ' white-legged Lowther Barb ' 

 [chestnut], &c). Sir James, who was M.P. for 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland before he became a 

 peer (and is said to have put the great William Pitt 

 in for Appleby), is understood to have inherited the 

 estates of his granduncle, the third Viscount, who 

 died in 1750. In 1761, it seems, Sir James married 

 a daughter of the Earl of Bute, but had no children, 



