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that was the dam of Belle-de-Nuit (by Y. Emilius), 

 that was the darn of the celebrated French sire 

 Ventre-Saint-Gris. All this is stated because the 

 dam of Ventre-Saint-Gris has been confounded very 

 often with an ' Arabian ' Belle-de-Nuit (in a French 

 stud), and Ventre-Saint-Gris himself has consequently, 

 but erroneously, been called 'more than half an 

 Arab.' 



Mr. Calvert is the John Calvert whose name is 

 appended to a Resolution of the Jockey Club in 1767, 

 and had already run Fly (by Merlin) for a Jockey Club 

 Plate in 1764. He bred the three grey sisters, Her- 

 mione in 1753 (sold to Mr. Vernon), Young Hermione 

 in 1759 (sold to Lord March, ' Old Q.'), and again 

 Hermione in 1763 (sold to Mr. Vernon). He may or 

 may not have been the * John Calvert, Esq., junior, 

 secretary to the Lord Chamberlain's Office,' of that 

 date or thereabouts ; but he was, no doubt, a cadet 

 of the family of the Lords Baltimore, whose title is 

 closely connected with horse-racing, travelling, colo- 

 nising (witness Baltimore, Maryland), fisticuffs, im- 

 morality, and eccentricity in general. 



tMr. Cell, whose name has been obelisked in order 

 to bring posthumous obloquy upon him, may have 

 been the pearl of the Jockey Club, whereof his member- 

 ship is attested by attachment to the document of 

 1758, but whether he has been the victim of a mis- 

 print or of something worse, his identification defies 

 detection. Let him be anathema maranatha. 



