RACfKG LADIES, AND A FOUNDER OF THE JOCK EV CLUB. 



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upon the Turf. Lath was the first of them, as has been recorded already. He was 

 the Duke of Devonshire's, and was reputed to be the finest horse ever seen since 

 Childcrs at Newmarket, where he won the Great Stakes of a thousand guineas for 

 four-year-olds in April, 1737. That October he beat Mr. Vane's Little Partner, and 

 the next year beat the Earl of Portmore's Squirt. At His Grace's stud he was the 

 sire of Hector, Miss Redcap, Duchess and others. To these great names I ought also 

 to add those of Lord Weymouth's Conqueror, who beat the Duke of Bolton's Looby 

 in 1735 ; Mr. Neale's Second, who beat Lord Lonsdale's Sultan, and Mr. Grisewood's 

 Partner in 1737; Lord Massareene's mare Sportley, who beat Lord Portmore's 

 Moorcock in 1745 ; Mr. Curzon's Silverleg (by Young Cartouch, his dam by Old 

 Cartouch, his grandam by the Darley Arabian) who beat Lord March's Chance in 

 1749 ; Sir Ralph Gore's Othello (by Crab out of Miss Slamerkin, got by True Blue) 

 who beat Lord March's Bajazet in 1751 ; and Mr. Robinson's Sampson (by Blaze, his 

 dam by Hip] winner of the King's Plates at Winchester, Salisbury, Canterbury, 

 Lewes, and Newmarket. 



And so we come, in 1 748, to the birth of Matchem, whose pedigree is given else- 

 where, a name that brings us, with those of King Herod (1758) and of Eclipse (1764), 

 to the series of the first classic 

 winners, and to records that 

 leave far less uncertainty than 

 those with which the greater 

 part of this First Volume has 

 necessarily been concerned. 

 By the last part of this reign, 

 not only in the genealogy of 

 the thoroughbred, but in the 

 history of men and manners, 

 we seem to have reached a 

 point where it is convenient for 

 more reasons than one to make 

 an arbitrary division in our 

 chronicles that may correspond 

 with the natural cleavage in 

 affairs. We need delay but little on the contemporary progress of the realm, for neither 

 politics nor the Wesleyan movement had much practical effect on Racing in the years 



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William, Fourth Duke of Queen sherry, " Old Q." 



From a drawing by Jane E. Cook. 



