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be paid to the vendor, but the vendor reserves to himself 

 the right of striking the horse out of any race in time to 

 save a minor forfeit or discount, unless the purchaser shall 

 give notice that he wishes to run for any particular race, 

 when he will become liable for half the stake or forfeit. 

 Horses purchased under Lord Exeter's conditions cannot 

 be resold under the same conditions without the written 

 consent of the original vendor. 



These conditions are now officially recognised by the 

 Jockey Club and inserted in the Kules of Eacing. 

 Briefly, they exempt the purchaser from all vexatious 

 liabilities. 



Lord Foley (though his father, the confederate of 

 the Hon. and Eight Hon. C. J. Fox, overlaps into this 

 period, since he died in 1793) is, of course, William 

 Thomas, third Baron of the second creation, who ran 

 Duenna for the Jockey Club Plate won by Lord 

 Grosvenor with Labrador in 1817 ; and that is as 

 much as need be said about him. 



Lord Jersey, who won a Jockey Club Plate with 

 Cannon-ball in 1818, is the fifth Earl (succeeded 1809, 

 died 1859), who was twice Master of the Horse. He 

 was perhaps the most conspicuous member of the 

 Jockey Club and patron of the Turf in his time. It 

 was he who was for a time confederated with the great 

 Turfite Sir J. Shelley (sixth Baronet, of Phantom and 

 Cedric celebrity), and he kept an excellent stud at 

 Middleton Stony (whence the name of two famous 

 horses), Oxon, and, so far as his family name of Villiers 

 goes, he carries us back in memory to the Duke of 



