264 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



17,000 in fees alone, and of Duchess. Through Mr. Fenton, a Yorkshireman, 

 the blood of Engineer (who lost the Jockey Club Plate of 1763 to Dorimond} was 

 transmitted through Mambrino and Messenger to the United States, where it formed 



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the foundation of the greatest family of trotters. Sir John Moore, of Fawley Court, 

 in Berkshire, is another famous name for all time in the annals of bloodstock, for he 

 bought King Herod at the Duke of Cumberland's death, and refused 2,000 guineas 

 for him from the King of Poland. It was from Sir John that Trent ham (a horse 

 of many owners) was purchased at ten years old by Sir Charles Sedley, who won the 

 Jockey Club Plate of 1776 with this game horse three years later. The name was 

 well known at the Court of Charles II., and the family representative in the reign of 

 George III. was no less before the public, though in a far more creditable light, tor, 

 without counting the Sedley Grey Arabian, Sir Charles owned many valuable sires 

 and racers which have only been less prominent in history than they might be, 

 because Sir Charles Sedley died in 1778, before the classic races had fairly begun. 



Another staunch supporter of the Jockey Club was Mr. John Warde, of 

 Squerries, owner of Habit, Fairplay, and Cleaver, by Warde s Arabian. His son, 

 " Glorious John," took to the road instead, and became a veritable Jehu with his 

 mail coach, besides being a Master of Hounds. Sir John Shelley entered his bay- 

 filly, Everlasting (dam of Skyscraper, who won the Derby in 1789), for the Jockey 

 Club Plate of 1774. But his son, the fifth baronet, was a far greater Turfite, and 

 won the Derby with Phantom and with Cedric. More famous, both for his stud and 

 for his deep knowledge of everything connected with racing, was Mr. Wastell, a 

 Yorkshireman who had emigrated to Bury St. Edmunds. He bred Conductor, 

 Aindcrby, and Alfred, all by Matcliem, out of a Snap mare bought from the Duke of 

 Kingston, and he won the Oaks in 1802 with Scotia by Delpini. As he was one of 

 the few supporters of the eighteenth-century Turf whom knowledge or good fortune 

 enabled to make money by it, a certain Mr. Pigott took great pains to blacken his 

 character, but without much success. This Mr. Pigott came of a family of three 

 brothers, delicately distinguished as " Shark," " Louse," and " Black" Pigott, though 

 Mr. Robert Black propounds the appalling hypothesis that these three names were 

 but variously descriptive of a single personality. If so, it was Charles Pigott who 

 deserved this unenviable combination of qualities. He began well, as a friend of Fox, 

 a gentleman-rider against such jockeys as Sir John Cade or Mr. Walker, and the 

 owner of the famous Shark ; but whether owing to shady conduct, or to the vitriolic 

 character of his libellous publications, he certainly sold his stud and had to leave the 



