188 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1773- 



of the Koyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 10 Ked 

 Lion Square, Holborn, London. 



The Due d' Orleans (formerly Due de Chartres, 

 under which title also he ran racehorses in England) 

 was, of course, the notorious ' Egalite,' guillotined in 

 1793, who had voted for his illustrious relative's 

 (Louis XVI.) death, when even the notorious ' Tom ' 

 Paine (one of two Englishmen elected to the National 

 Assembly) voted against it, and whose membership of 

 the Jockey Club is not only well attested in various 

 publications, but certified by the fact that he was 

 running his horse Conqueror for a Jockey Club Plate 

 at Newmarket (where the site of his stables is pointed 

 out even to this day) in 1790, on the very eve, as it 

 were, of Madame de Pompadour's famous ' Deluge,' 

 which was so soon to swallow him up. He does not 

 seem to have been very popular ; but he ran freely, 

 both English horses and horses ' bred in France ' 

 (some of them two-year-olds), such as Eouge, Vert, 

 and Petit-gris. In his nomination ran Cantator for 

 the Derby of 1784 and Orleans for the Derby of 

 1786 ; but he has left little more than an ill savour 

 behind him as regards both the Turf and the Jockey 

 Club and history. 



The Duke of Bedford was Francis, the fifth Duke 

 (born 1765, died 1802), who won half a dozen Jockey 

 Club Plates (one in 1789, one in 1790, two in 1791, and 

 two in 1792), whose ' horsey ' qualifications are com- 

 memorated in the ' Eeceipt to make a Jockey,' and 



