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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



who as " Pavo " had been widely read and respected in the sporting world; and 

 Earl Fitzwilliam, who was racing in 1837 with Mulatto, and ran Ignoramus fifth in 

 Imperieuses St. Leger. His annual Post Match with Lord Falmouth at Doncaster 

 was quite a popular institution, and the rivalry grew all the keener after Lord 

 Falmouth 's second son had married Lord Fitzwilliam 's third daughter. The last 

 race he won was the New Nursery at the Houghton Meeting with Spring Jack, who 

 was by Springfield from Lord Falmouth's Dutch Oven. In the same year we lost 

 John Watts, who steered Foxhall in the Cambridgeshire ; won the Derby on Merry 



" Volodyovski" (1898) by " Florizel //." 



Hampton, Sainfoin, Ladas, and Persimmon ; the Oaks on Bonny Jean, Miss Jitmmy, 

 L Abbesse de Jouarre, Memoir, and Mrs. Butterwick ; and the St. Leger with Ossian, 

 The Lambkin, Memoir, La Fleche, and Persimmon. The day following Watts' 

 death, Lord Gerard breathed his last. He had been elected to the Jockey Club 

 in 1876, but sold Pilgrimage before her victories in the Guineas, and owned 

 Sweetbread, Crafton, S/. Medard, and Macaroon, among others. Mr. R. H. Fry 

 died at the end of the year, one of the best-known and most respected bookmakers 

 in England, who paid out ,40,000 over Alicante s Cambridgeshire, and ,45,000 



