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England), Forester (by Dionysius), Ragamuffin (by 

 Northumberland), &c, &c. ; and he is credited with two 

 ' Arabians ' at least — a grey and a chestnut. He ran 

 Amaranthus unsuccessfully for the Jockey Club Plate 

 won by the Hon. Mr. Foley with Trentham in 1772, 

 and was a very notable member of the Jockey Club. 



Mr. Stapleton, a subscriber to the Jockey Club 

 Challenge Cup in 1768, was Thomas Stapleton, Esq., 

 of Carlton, near Snaith, Yorkshire, one of the Northern 

 lights of the Turf and of the Jockey Club. He has 

 already been mentioned in connection with Sir Thomas 

 Gascoigne, whose confederate he was upon the Turf, 

 and with whose family he was allied by marriage. It 

 was in his name (not Sir T. Gascoigne's) that Tommy 

 (by Wildair) won the St. Leger of 1779 ; and it was in 

 his name that Parlington (so named after Sir T. 

 Gascoigne's place in Yorkshire) ran for the Jockey 

 Club Plate won by Lord Sherborne's (Mr. Button's) 

 Spectre in 1784. Mr. Stapleton was an ancestor of 

 the Lords Beaumont of our day, if he was not the 

 very gentleman who established his right to the title 

 after a period of abeyance. 



Mr. Strode, whose membership, no doubt, com- 

 menced at an earlier date than 1775, when it is 

 established by his running Bon Yivant for a Jockey 

 Club Plate, is described in the records as Edward 

 Strode, Esq., ' of Berkshire,' and sometimes as ' Cap- 

 tain ' Strode (with customary orthographical varia- 

 tions, such as Stroud). He was a great owner and 



