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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Of an allied family to the Earl of Suffolk was the Hon. Bernard Howard, a 

 younger brother of the Duke of Norfolk, who owned a winner at this Spring Meeting 

 in 1666. His love of racing made him a constant attendant at the Court at New- 

 market, though he was not always so successful, for in October, 1672, he lost ^"225 



The Second Duke of Buckingham. 

 By Sir Peter Lely. 



over a match. In the Spring Meeting of 1680, his name occurs three times in the 

 list of engagements, to be given in a later page, and his reputation had extended so 

 far by 1683, that, during that visit of James, Duke of Monmouth, to Paris to which 

 I have already alluded, Bernard Howard's coach was allowed to enter the Louvre 

 itself, a very rare distinction to one not a Prince of the Blood. He was a trustee 



