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Leonard Hartley's, a great breeder), by Cartouch ; 

 Bashful, by Cartoucli ; Tawney (not the famous horse 

 that ran in Lord March's 'carriage match'), Gran- 

 tham, Warhawke, &c. ; and he ran his filly Black 

 Eyes, by Blaze, for a Jockey Club Plate in 1756. In 

 fact, he ran both in the North and the South, at 

 Durham, at Ascot, at Newmarket, at SwarTham. 



Mr. March, who ran the grey colt Drummer (son 

 of Driveler or Driver) for a Jockey Club Plate in 

 1771, can be almost certainly identified as John 

 March, Esq., of Horsley Park, Huntingdonshire, 

 whose daughter married in 1785 the Hon. Pdchard 

 Howard (Secretary to Queen Charlotte), brother of 

 the Earl of Effingham. Mr. March was also a sub- 

 scriber to the Jockey Club Challenge Cup in 1768, 

 and signed a Jockey Club ' agreement ' in 1771 ; but 

 he does not seem to have left a very deep mark upon 

 the Turf or the pedigrees, though he was temporary 

 owner of Holyhock (son of Cypron, clam of King 

 Herod), bred by the ' Culloden ' Duke of Cumberland. 



Mr. Meynell, who was a signatory of Jockey Club 

 1 Piesolutions ' of 1758 and 1767, and among the sub- 

 scribers to the Jockey Club Challenge Cup in 1768, 

 was Hugo Meynell, Esq., the never-to-be-forgotten 

 ' Father of Foxhunting.' He was the second son of 

 Littleton Poyntz Meynell, Esq. (who married Miss 

 Judith Alleyne, of Barbados), of Bradley, Derbyshire. 

 Mr. Hugo Meynell was High Sheriff of the county of 

 Derby in 1758, and was M.P. for Lichfield. He 



