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of Le Sang, Dux, &c.) ; and his name was one to 

 conjure with upon the Turf from the days of his 

 ancester, Sir John Fenwick, a great Turf-man in the 

 reigns of James I. and Charles I. 



Mr. Fettyplace (whose name is appended to a rule 

 of the Jockey Club in 1770) was Eobert Fettyplace, 

 Esq., of Earl's Court, Lambourne, Berkshire ; and 

 Lambourne is almost as redolent as Newmarket of 

 the Turf. He was aided and abetted in his Turfish- 

 ness by his wife, the Hon. Mrs. Fettyplace (who was 

 Charlotte Howe, daughter of Lord Chedworth, a very 

 horsey and racing strain, as we have seen), but they 

 have not left very notable traces either in the Calendar 

 or in the Stud Book, though their horse Nabob (? alias 

 Flambe, alias Young Drudge) is pilloried for all time in 

 the records as running for and coming in first for the 

 Silver Bowl at Salisbury, in 1770, contrary to his 

 Worship the Mayor's express ruling, who refused to 

 hand over the ' objet d'art ' on the ground that Mr. 

 or the Hon. Mrs. Fettyplace had not entered their 

 horse in time. What was the end of the dispute — 

 whether adhuc sub judice lis est, or whether iEacus, 

 Ehadamanthus, Minos, and the rest of the ' Infernal 

 Bench ' have settled the case is not to be discovered. 



Messrs. Foley and Fox (of whom the former won 

 a Jockey Club Plate with Trentham in 1772, and of 

 whom the latter's membership of the Jockey Club, 

 though notorious, is less self-evident, because he raced 

 chiefly in the name of his friend and partner, Mr. 



