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C. J. Fox, member of the Jockey Club, and runner 

 of many race-horses) ; in Sir F. Johnstone (a name of 

 early and notable distinction upon the Turf, of a family 

 whose members rode as well as ran their race-horses) ; 

 in Captain Douglas Lane (closely connected with 

 Newmarket by descent, it is understood, from the 

 Colonel John Lane, who was the intimate friend of 

 Charles II.) ; in Lord Lascelles (related, no doubt, 

 to the Eev. Mr. Lascelles, of Gilling, near Richmond, 

 Yorkshire, who is mentioned as a temporary owner 

 of the fabulous Tartar mare, dam of Mr. O'Kelly's 

 famous Queen Mab) ; in Mr. W. J. Legh (inasmuch 

 as in 1751, just at the birth of the Jockey Club, there 

 was to be run for at Newton ' a Gold Cup, value 50/., 

 given by Mr. Legh, of Lyme,' which was won by 

 Mr. Barker's Sweet William) ; in Sir W. A. Lethbridge 

 (since the first Baronet, Sir Hesketh, of that surname 

 appears to have married an Astley, and the third, 

 predecessor of the present Sir Wroth Acland, to have 

 married the only daughter of the once too well-known 

 ' Jack ' Mytton, of Halston, who verily watered the 

 Turf with his fortune) ; in the Marquess of London- 

 derry (whose name of Vane carries us back to the 

 annals of racing in 1612, to penetrate no farther into 

 antiquity, and whose compound name of Vane- 

 Tempest is eloquent of Sir Harry V. T. and the great 

 Hambletonian) ; in the Plight Hon. James Lowther 

 '(whose name is an epitome of excellent hippie 

 records, as regards both horse-racing and horse- 



