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Sir T. Sebright (who ran the dun colt Creampot 

 for a Jockey Club Plate in 1759, when dun was not 

 at all an uncommon colour for a racehorse) was 

 apparently Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, the fifth 

 Baronet, who died unmarried in 1761 at the early age 

 of thirty-eight, and was succeeded by his brother, 

 Lieutenant-General Sir John Saunders Sebright, 

 which accounts for the fact that Creampot is assigned 

 in the ' Stud Book ' to Sir John, though Heber 

 distinctly states that the colt was run by ' Sir Thomas 

 Seabright.' The name of Saunders came from the 

 heiress who brought the property of Beechwood, 

 Herts, into the family by her marriage with Sir 

 Thomas (the fourth Baronet, who died at the early 

 age of forty- four in 1736, and whose younger brother 

 was murdered, whilst travelling hi France, at the 

 still earlier age of twenty-five). The family con- 

 tributed to the common cause of the Turf a ' Sebright 

 Arabian,' whose influence appears in the pedigree of 

 the aforesaid Creampot, which horse became the 

 property of Mr. ' Jockey ' Vernon, the oracle of New- 

 market. 



Sir Charles Sedley (or Sidley, for this seems to 

 have been the old original form), whose membership 

 of the Jockey Club is attested in many ways, notably 

 by the mention made of him (as one of the kindest 

 and most genial members of the Club) by ' Jemmy ' 

 Boswell in * The Cub at Newmarket,' and by the fact 

 that he won a Jockey Club Plate in 1776 (with the 



