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sword in his hand, and after a few passes he had disarmed his quarrelsome op- 

 ponent, and let him go a wiser man. In 1701, Lord VVharton followed the Earl 

 of Galway as Viceroy of Ireland. To Amurath an Amurath succeeded ; for 

 " Honest Tom " was even fonder of a thoroughbred than was Henri de Massue de 

 Ruvigny who had earned his patent of nobility on the bloody field of Aughrim, 

 and after thus helping to establish the power of William, did loyal service for 

 Queen Anne in Portugal and Spain. Lord Galway returned to Ireland again with 

 the Duke of Grafton in 1715, and died some five years afterwards. "Honest Tom's" 

 son, the notorious young Duke of Wharton, was president of the Hellfire Club, and 

 with his death at an early age in 1731 the male line of that fine family disappeared. 

 The records of Queen Anne's personal interest in horse-racing are by no means 

 confined to the often-quoted meetings over Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings in 1712 and 

 1714. Luttrell's Diary relates in April, 1705, that she ordered "her house at 

 Newmarket to be rebuilt, and gave ,1,000 towards paving the town ; and bought a 

 running horse of Mr. Holloway which cost a 1,000 guineas and gave it to the prince,'' 

 that is to say to her Consort, Prince George of Denmark, who was thoroughly in 

 sympathy with everything she did in this direction. A most interesting confirmation 

 of the gift here described by Luttrell now hangs on the historic walls of the Durdans 

 at Epsom, where the portrait of Leedes, with the date and facts of this purchase 

 lecorded in one corner of the canvas, forms part of one of the finest collections of 

 sporting pictures in this country, among which is the only contemporary representa- 

 tion I have ever seen of the Byerly Turk, and both these paintings show the rtiost 

 curious " early Italian " treatment of accessories. Mr. Leedes, of the famous Yorkshire 

 family, had an Arabian at the beginning of the eighteenth century, who got this toll 

 out of a S/>aner mare bred by Lord D'Arcy about 1690 out of the Old Morocco Mure. 

 Lccdes was therefore own brother to Cream Cheeks, Highland Laddie, Betty Perc&al, 

 and that Charming Jenny who was the dam of Mr. Leedes's Bay Pigot (by Old 

 Careless}, and of Sir R. Ashton's b. c. Fox Cub by Clumsy. It was also a Leedes mare 

 from whom were bred Mr. Panton's ch. f. Molly in 1713, by the Toulouse Barb ; the 

 Duke of Bolton's Gander, by the Darley Arabian ; and Mr. Thurland's Creeping Molly 

 by Grey Crofts. Queen Anne evidently made use of her present at the stud as well as 

 for her husband's racing ; for it was out of Her Majesty's Moonah Barb Marc that 

 Leedes got a mare who was the dam of Mr. Strickland's Tarqnin (by the Hampton Court 

 Chestnut Arabian), of Mr. Naper's Lady Cow (by the same), and of Lord Godolphin's 

 Rosinantc (by Commodore Matthew's Persian). It may be added, to avoid confusion 



