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Elizabeth testifies), so that the present rule, which 

 certainly does rather good than harm to the inheritors 

 of bad horses, may also very often save the inheritor 

 or purchaser of good or reputed good horses from 

 disappointment or ruinous disaster. 



The year 1859 is also noteworthy in the history 

 of the Club as the year in which Admiral Eous (by 

 continuous re-election till his death in 1875) com- 

 menced his career of a sort of Perpetual President 

 (as Sir C. Bunbury is said to have been in his day), 

 during which, it is asserted, he raised the revenues at 

 the command of the authorities at Newmarket from a 

 bare 3,000Z. a year to 18,000L 



In 1860 the Jockey Club was threatened with the 

 intervention of a meddlesome Legislature in the form 

 of a Bill concerning race-horses and horse-racing, but 

 . the danger was averted by means of a petition presented 

 on behalf of the Club by Lord Derby ; in 1861 the re- 

 maining one of the originally two ' exclusive ' Jockey 

 Club Plates (of 1753) was thrown open (with an 

 augmentation of value) to the public ; in 1862 

 Admiral Pious, for the Jockey Club, debated with the 

 Vicomte Daru, for the French Jockey Club, the ques- 

 tion of running the race for the newly instituted 

 Grand Prix on some other day than Sunday, but was 

 beaten by the Sabbath-breaking Frenchmen (so that 

 some of the most eminent members of our Jockey 

 Club, such as the late Lord Falmouth and the present 

 Duke of Westminster, have abstained from running 



