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though he and his father before him were better 

 known (as so many members of the Jockey Club have 

 been) as M. F. H., agriculturists, cattle-breeders, and 

 patrons of cricket, yet deserves special mention here 

 as a recipient of property, and probably of descent, 

 from the Stradlings of St. Donat's, Glamorganshire, 

 to one of which family the famous Stradling {alias 

 Lister) Turk is considered by some persons to have 

 owed one of his distinguishing, or rather confusing, 

 designations. 



Mr. A. Goddaed, who is taken to have been 

 Mr. Ambrose Goddard, of The Lawn, Swindon, 

 "Wilts, distinguished himself by winning the Ascot 

 Cup in 1819 with Anticipation (Mr. ' Eiddlesworth ' 

 Thornhill's). 



Mr. T. Houldsworth, winner of the One Thousand 

 with Destiny in 1836, and the hero of the match 

 between Filho da Puta and Sir Joshua (North v. 

 South) in 1816, bore a name which has been connected 

 with the Turf from very early times, and, as we shall 

 see presently, is still prominent in the list of horse- 

 racers and members of the Jockey Club. He belonged, 

 of course, to the great manufacturing interest, to the 

 ' men of business,' with one or two of whom the 

 Jockey Club, much to its advantage, has had its aris- 

 tocratic exclusiveness leavened from the very first. 

 Great patron of racing as he was, however, Mr. 

 Houldsworth, it is said, was by no means the man to 

 let his hobby run away with him to the neglect of 



