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A H1STORF OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



By permission of H.R.II. Prince Christian. 



" Sedbury." 



By Roberts. 



a stallion, for he was the sire of King Herod, of Fanny, dam of King Fergus, and of 

 Mr. O' Kelly's famous mare the dam of Volunteer. He died at Oulston near Easing- 



wold in his sixteenth 

 At the same 

 Meeting, and 



year. 

 York 



running in the race 

 after that won by 

 Tartar, was Lord 

 March's ch. g. Whip- 

 per-in, who beat Mr. 

 Duncombe's bl. h. 

 Oroonoko, owners up. 

 This is one of the 

 earliest appearance of 

 the famous Earl of 

 March and Ruglen, 

 who became the Duke of Queensberry. I shall have more to say of him in 

 later pages, when "Old Q." is an inseparable figure in the sport of the end 

 of the eighteenth century ; but it should be remembered that he could ride 

 with the best of them in those days, and this victory over the York course 

 was repeated at the Second Spring Meeting in 1757 at Newmarket, when he 

 rode his own horse against the Duke of Hamilton. The very varied directions in 

 which his energies found satisfaction have somewhat obscured his genuine devotion 

 to the Turf in the first half of a long and extraordinary life, which lasted till he was 

 eighty-six in 1810. His celebrated carriage-match, to run 19 miles in 60 minutes ; 

 or his conveyance of a letter 50 miles within an hour, enclosed in a cricket-ball and 

 thrown from one to the other of four-and-twenty players these freaks combined with 

 a love of gambling, of what are tolerantly called "the Fine Arts," and of rare wines, 

 have rather blurred the estimate which many chroniclers have given of a career that 

 would be impossible under modern conditions. He owned some good horses too at 

 the period we have reached, for his Bajazet in 1746 beat Mr. Cornwallis's gelding 

 Russett, carrying gst. 7 Ibs., 4 miles ; in 1748 he beat Mr. Rogers' Eabraham, 6 miles, 

 12 st, at Newmarket, and in 1750 won ,50 at Winchester, weight for age, beating 

 Sir Edward H ale's Drudge and Sir Charles Goring's Tom Thumb. Bajazet was one of 

 the sons of the Godolphin Arabian, who from now onwards begin to show their excellence 



