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Turf and the Stud from north, south, east, or west, 

 horne-born, home-bred, home-resident, or colonial. 



Mr. Anderson, whose membership of the Jockey 

 Club is ascertained from the fact that his name is 

 appended to a Eule of the Jockey Club dated April 19, 

 1769, appears to have been identical with the Captain 

 Francis Anderson who was a great ' gentleman-jock ' 

 in his day, riding both in the North and in the 

 South, at York and at Newmarket, against such well- 

 known riders and members of the Jockey Club as 

 Messrs. Vernon, Shafto, Compton, Lord Orford, &c. 

 He probably belonged to the northern family of 

 Andersons, of whom the head (at the foundation of 

 the Jockey Club) was Sir Edmund Anderson, Bart., 

 who died in 1765. But as Mr. Anderson is not con- 

 spicuous among the owners and breeders, he cannot 

 be said to have done much for ' the cause.' 



fMr. Bladen (whose membership rests upon the 

 slender foundation of what is remembered of a state- 

 ment in an ' obituary,' and upon inference drawn 

 from the proverb noscitur a sociis, and from various 

 other indications) is he who ran against three other 

 gentlemen, all members of the Jockey Club, for the 

 Weights and Scales Plate of 1759 ; but as that race, 

 though the Jockey Club found the money for it, may 

 not have been then (its first year), and certainly was 

 not afterwards, confined to members of the Jockey 

 Club, his running for it on the occasion mentioned is 

 no evidence whatever of membership of the Club. It 



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