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3,000 guineas the famous horses Boningbrough, 

 Hambletonian (winner of the then imminent St. 

 Leger), and Oberon. It is noticeable that this Sir 

 Charles's widow (who seems to have become recon- 

 ciled to horse-racing, if it were she and not — as is 

 more likely — her father who had objected to it) mar- 

 ried another horse-racer (and member of the Jockey 

 Club), Mr. H. Vansittart ; just as the elder Sir Charles's 

 (we have already seen) married the great Northern 

 light of the Turf (and also member of the Jockey 

 Club), Sir T. Gascoigne. 



Sir W. Wolseley, whose membership of the 

 Jockey Club is established as early as 1755, when 

 Countess ran in his name for a Jockey Club Plate, 

 was one of the Wolseleys of Staffordshire (and of 

 Mt. Wolseley, Ireland, from which Irish branch the 

 gallant Lord Wolseley, of Cairo, is understood to be 

 descended), and is made out to have been Sir William, 

 fifth in succession from Sir Charles (created a Baronet 

 by Charles the First in 1628), whose son (Sir Charles) 

 was a Cromwellite and M.P. for Staffordshire (1654- 

 1656). Sir William seems to have succeeded his 

 uncle (Sir Henry, fourth Baronet), to have married a 

 daughter of W. Pigott, Esquire, of Doddeshall, Bucks, 

 a very 'racing' connection (if names go for anything), 

 and to have died in 1779. Sir William Wolseley's 

 Barb (whether imported by him or not) testifies to 

 the Baronet's services as a breeder, not only to the 

 English but to the French Turf ; for that Barb was 



