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Colvill, or Colvil, or Colvile, is caught running Smiling 

 Molly at Newmarket, as early as 1733, with Lord 

 Gower and the rest of the ' quality ') ; in the Earl of 

 Cork (connected by marriage with the great racing 

 family of the Marquesses of Halifax, whose name is 

 conspicuous in the early Calendars) ; in Messrs. Craven 

 (a name redolent of the noble lord from whom came 

 the designation of the Craven Stakes, in 1771) ; in 

 Mr. Harvey Combe (a relation, no doubt, of the Mr, 

 Harvey Combe who, in 1838, had a controversy about 

 his horse Cobham, a favourite for the Derby, with his 

 trainer, John Scott) ; in Mr. Ambrose Crawley (if he 

 be maternally descended from Mr. Christopher Mus- 

 grave, of Kempton Park — which has become a very 

 centre of horse-racing — and he be connected with the 

 Ambrose Crawley, alderman of London, whose daughter 

 married the Earl of Ashburnham, one of the early 

 members of the Jockey Club, and who himself seems 

 to have done a little racing in 1753) ; in Lord Dor- 

 chester (whose predecessor, or one of whose predeces- 

 sors, in the title bred the famous horse Buccaneer — 

 once the property of Lord Portsmouth, but sold to 

 happy Austria-Hungary in 1865 — and whose possible 

 ancestor, Sir John Carleton, did the first bit of recorded 

 ' warning-off ' from Newmarket Heath in 1636) ; in 

 Viscount Downe (belonging to a very old horse-racing 

 family of Danby Lodge, Yorkshire, of whom one ran 

 a match at Newmarket as early as 1748, against the 

 Lord March, better known as 'Old Q.') ; in the Mar- 



