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his death in 1702, included Turk (whether a real 

 name or merely an indication of breed), Cricket, 

 Stiff Dick, and Cupid, as well as several un- 

 named ; and he did his duty towards the English 

 breed of horses by the introduction of his white 

 Barb, Chillaby (sire of Old Greyhound), his black 

 Barb ' without a tongue,' and the gray Barb that 

 he presented to Mr. Hutton, and that was known 

 as Button's Gray Barb, for all three have left their 

 mark on the pedigrees. The King would some- 

 times make a match for as much as 2,000 guineas, 

 as he did in 1698 with the Duke of Somerset. 



Among the noblemen and gentlemen (including 

 Sir Roger Mostyn, a well-known name on the 

 turf) who ran with him at Newmarket, one of 

 the most remarkable was Thomas, Lord Wharton, 

 more or less ironically called ' Honest Tom,' who 

 was one of the famous ' Whig Junto ' (consisting 

 of Russell, Wharton, Somers, and Montague), 

 who became successively Viscount, Earl, and 

 Marquis, who was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 

 1708- II, and whose son, Philip, Duke of 

 Wharton (with whom the family became extinct 

 in the male line in 1731), himself a great runner 

 of race-horses in his turn at Newmarket, was 



