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a confederate as a gambling young Turfite could have, 

 and both he and Lord Foley were such members as 

 the Jockey Club would have been, and always would 

 be, the better without. The pair, however, had some 

 excellent horses at various times (including the famous 

 Pyrrhus as well as the already-mentioned Trentham), 

 but seem to have regarded them almost entirely as 

 instruments of gaming. It was, of course, another 

 Lord Foley who won the Derby in 1806 ; we shall 

 come to him hereafter. 



Mr. Gardiner, whose membership is established 

 by the fact that he is among the signatories of the 

 first Jockey Club document (in 1758), is difficult of 

 identification ; but there is some reason to think that 

 he belonged to the family of the Gardiners of Koche 

 Court, and of Beaurepair, Southampton. As, how- 

 ever, he is not among the great owners, breeders, and 

 runners of the Jockey Club, identification is of little 

 consequence. 



Mr. Gorges, whose membership is established by 

 the horse Juniper (by Babram, son of the Godolphin 

 Arabian), winner of a Jockey Club Plate in 1760, is 

 no doubt to be identified with Bichard Gorges (mis- 

 spelt Gorge, sometimes), Esquire, of Eye Court, Here- 

 fordshire, who was High Sheriff for the county and 

 M.P. for Leominster, and died about the beginning 

 of this century. Mr. Gorges was also the first owner, 

 if not the breeder, of Sourface (by Lord Cullen's 

 Arabian), a noted horse, foaled 1753 ; but he was not 



