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Of the present members, hereditary tendency 

 towards Newmarket, the Turf, and the Jockey Club 

 is most pronounced in Lord Alington (both through 

 the Alingtons, to whom the manor of Newmarket 

 came by marriage from the Argentines, and through 

 the Humphry Sturt who was connected with the Turf 

 at the birth of the Jockey Club) ; in Sir J. D. Astley 

 (whose name is of great antiquity on the Turf, and 

 in the records of it) ; in Mr. Hedworth T. Barclay 

 (descended maternally from the winner of the Derby 

 1 in a trot ' in 1803) ; in the Duke of Beaufort (whose 

 ancestor, Edward Somerset, Earl of Worcester, was 

 Master of the Horse to James I., of Newmarket renown); 

 in the Earl of Bradford (descended maternally from the 

 racing family of Sir David Moncreiffe) ; in Lord Cadogan 

 (whose name is recorded in ' Pond ' before the Jockey 

 Club was known) ; in Lord Calthorpe (who ' strains 

 back ' maternally to the Dukes of Beaufort, Noachian 

 patrons of the Turf) ; in Lord Cawdor (connected 

 maternally with the Thynnes, a noted racing family 

 as early as 1669) ; in Mr. H. Chaplin (one of whose 

 ancestry it probably was who ran as long ago, at least, 

 as 1719 Smiling Nanny for a Gold Cup at Newmarket; 

 and one of whose ancestry it obviously was who ran 

 his grey colt, Blankney, at Grantham and Stam- 

 ford, Lincolnshire, in 1765) ; in Lord B. Churchill 

 (who strains back to a Duke of Marlborough, a member, 

 as we have seen, of the Jockey Club in its earliest 

 days) ; in Lord Colville of Culross, very likely (as a 



