184 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1773— 



and had not yet been sold to His Koyal Highness, who, 

 by the way, when George the Fourth, seems to have 

 instituted the annual dinner to the members of the 

 Jockey Club, continued by William the Fourth, and 

 resumed by the present Prince of Wales. George the 

 Fourth also presented to the Irish Turf Club in 1821 

 the Koyal Whip run for at the Curragh. 



The Duke of York, next brother to the Prince of Wales , 

 who was born in 1763 and died in 1827, three years 

 before his elder brother, does not seem to have run for 

 a Jockey Club Plate, but the evidence of ' Louse ' Pigott 

 that he was a member of the Club is supported by so 

 much of tradition and circumstance as to leave no 

 room for doubt. It is supposed to have been in the 

 Coffee-room at Newmarket that His Koyal Highness 

 most delighted to show with what inimitable grace he 

 could propose the famous toast, ' I drink to Cardinal 

 Puff,' accompanied by gestures and contortions beyond 

 the attainment of less gifted beings. He is under- 

 stood to have been even greater when proposing this 

 toast than when commanding our army, of which he 

 (assisted by his fair associate, Mrs. Clarke) was so 

 long Commander-in-Chief. He was perhaps the only 

 Bishop who ever belonged to the Jockey Club ; for he, 

 at the tender age of six months, was declared (Prince) 

 Bishop of Osnaburgh, with the accumulated revenues 

 of which unlaborious office, it is said, was purchased 

 for him the estate of Allerton, in the West Biding of 

 Yorkshire, which, as well as his well-known property 



