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Mrs. Horton) synchronises and is apparently identical 

 with the Mr. Maynard who won the cruel match at 

 York Spring Meeting, 1788, against the celebrated 

 Mr. Baker, of Elernore Hall, with his bay mare 

 against a grey horse, one mile, thirty stone each 

 (owners up, apparently), when it was ' 2 to 1 on 

 the horse,' and the ' bay ' mare proved the better. 

 Mr. O'Kelly is very remarkable as the nephew 

 whom the adventurer Denis O'Kelly (owner of the 

 famous Eclipse) made his heir, with the express 

 stipulation (cf. the case of the fifth Earl of Chester- 

 field and his godson the sixth, to whom the ' Letters ' 

 were written) that he should forfeit vast sums if he 

 took to the Turf, and who, nevertheless, managed to 

 evade the forfeits, owned, bred, ran, and rode race- 

 horses, and was — what his uncle could never manage 

 to become — a member of the Jockey Club. Whether 

 old O'Kelly ' got religion ' at the end of his life is not 

 stated ; but his nearest approach to it during his 

 active career appears to have been that he kept a 

 wonderful parrot which whistled the 104th Psalm, 

 the only religious service old O'Kelly is known to have 

 countenanced. As for Mr. Mellish (the celebrated 

 Colonel), whose name should have preceded that of 

 Mr. O'Kelly, junior (who, by the way, unlike his uncle, 

 won none of the ' classic ' races), he ' illustrated ' the 

 Jockey Club not only as a good soldier (being com- 

 mended in despatches by the Duke of Wellington 

 himself), but as a racer, for he won the St. Leger with 



