26 8 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



" Lord Eglinton who has, you know, 

 A little dash of whim or so, 

 Who thro' a thousand scenes will range 

 To pick up anything that's strange, 

 By chance a curious cub had got 

 On Scotia's mountains newly caught . . 

 . . . Newmarket Meeting being near, 

 He thought 'twas best to have him there." 



The only reference of any kind to horses, which I remember in Boswell's " Life," 

 consists in a question he asked " the great Lexicographer" in 1783,35 to what 

 should be done with "old horses unable to labour," and the omission seems all the 



Mr. Jcnison Shafto's " Cardinal Puff" 

 by " Bahrain." 



stranger because Dr. Johnson's friend, Sir John Lade, was in later years a real 

 member of the Club which Boswell visited. 



In speaking of the early races run by members, I should not have omitted the 

 name of Lord Gower (owner of the Gower Stallion, son of the Godolphin Arabian], who 

 won the first Jockey Club Plate in 1753 with Beau Clincher a year before his death. 

 The second Earl ran Clio in the same race unsuccessfully, and was Lord President of 

 the Council, as another famous owner is to-day. For the Plate of 1754 Lord 

 Strange's celebrated horse Sportsman competed unsuccessfully. The same owner's 

 Jenny, Gift, and Kitty were on the Turf about the same time ; and his son was 

 the twelfth Earl of Derby, who more than lived up to the sporting reputation of his 



