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the Devonshire Blacklegs), Ceres, Kosebud (dam of Mr. 

 Wentworth's Myrtle), Indicus, Patch-Buttocks, &c. ; 

 and his membership of the Jockey Club is hereditarily 

 reflected in the person of his descendant, the present 

 (first) Earl of Feversham, who is by no means an 

 indifferent or inactive member of the Club, notwith- 

 standing his advancing age and the unconspicuousness 

 of his colours upon the Turf. 



Mr. Fenton, whose membership of the Jockey 

 Club was established at least as early as 1763, when 

 his great horse Engineer (son of Sampson) was beaten 

 by Mr. Fulke Greville's Dorrimond for a Jockey Club 

 Plate, was William Fenton, Esq., of Glasshouse, 

 Leeds, Yorkshire, who would be immortal among 

 breeders of horses if he had done no more for the cause 

 than he did when he bred Engineer ; for that horse 

 was not only a great runner and a greater sire (of 

 Mambrino, and a host besides) in this country, but 

 in America his name is treasured as the grandsire of 

 Messenger (son of Mambrino), the 'father of American 

 trotters.' 



Mr. Fenwick (one of the subscribers to the Jockey 

 Club Challenge Cup in 1768) was "William Fenwick, 

 Esq., of By well, Northumberland, and was, like Mr. 

 Fenton, one of the great Northern lights of the Turf 

 and of the Jockey Club. He owned (but did not 

 breed) the celebrated Matchem (by whose services he 

 is said to have cleared 17,000/., a huge sum in those 

 days), and the celebrated brood-mare Duchess (dam 



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