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Sancho and Staveley in 1804 and 1805, and, in fact, 

 was so good a judge of horses and horse-racing that, 

 it was said (as was said of the unfortunate young 

 Marquess of Hastings, another member of the Jockey 

 Club in after times), he might have retrieved his 

 heavy losses on the Turf and kept his property intact 

 if only he could have 'kept his elbow still' and avoided 

 the ' bones.' He was a gallant gentleman, but scarcely 

 a ' model ' member of the Jockey Club. Mr. Parker 

 (afterwards Lord Boringdon, founder of the Earls of 

 Morley) was a very notable member of the Jockey 

 Club, not only for his intimacy with the Prince of 

 Wales (whom he supplied — not gratis — with Anvil 

 and other horses), but also as winner of the Derby 

 with Saltram (by Eclipse) in 1783, and of the ' Whip' 

 with Anvil in 1784, and as owner of the famous 

 brood-mare Virago (dam of Saltram), and of a 'Parker ' 

 or ' Boringdon ' Arabian. Saltram, by the way, was 

 imported into the United States in 1800 by Mr. 

 Lightfoot, of Virginia. Mr. Parker was M.P. for 

 many years before he became Lord Boringdon and 

 versed in Parliamentary matters ; but it was his suc- 

 cessor, the second Lord Boringdon, who advocated a 

 Compulsory Vaccination Act in 1813-14, and was so 

 far in advance of his age. The name of Shakspear 

 is, of course, very tempting, but our Mr. Shakspear, 

 the member of the Jockey Club, was Arthur, not 

 William, and though he bought Lord Egremont's 

 Cardinal Beaufort, winner of the Derby in 1805, did 



