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Barefoot and Memnon, sold by him to Mr. Watt, 

 unfortunately, just before they won the St. Leger) ; 

 and he is credited with the excellent remark that he 

 1 bought the best horses he could get for money, and 

 had too much respect for them to run them in 

 handicaps.' He won the Ascot Cup in 1818, 1823 

 (Mr. Dilly's Netherfield being disqualified), and 1827, 

 with Belville, Marcellus, and Memnon (repurchased 

 from Mr. Watt). He was a Vane, connected in some 

 far-off way with his earliest predecessors (whether 

 Fitzroys or Vanes), and therefore had racing bred in 

 the bone and bound to come out in the flesh ; and 

 his immediate predecessor in the Dukedom (not in 

 some of his other titles), the Duke of Cleveland and 

 Southampton (a Vane-Fitzroy), may very well have 

 been a member of the Jockey Club, though there is 

 no proof of it, his great racing-ground having been 

 the North, where he was very prominent (especially 

 in Give-and-Take Plates) with Charon, Dainty Davy 

 (winner of the Bichmond Gold Cup five years in suc- 

 cession, from 1759 to 1763), Meaburn, Baby, &c. 

 The Duke of Cleveland, created in 1833, married a 

 daughter and co-heir of the last Duke of Bolton 

 (Powlett), whence the name of Powlett adopted by 

 the third Duke. 



The Duke of Grafton is a title which covers two 

 persons, the third Duke (who lived into this period, 

 but has already been dealt with), and the fourth Duke, 

 who (born 1760, died 1844) did not ' cross and jostle ' 



