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has won for him a sort of immortality, had not 

 much (except the ' mistresses ') in common with 

 his not very excellent father, beyond neglect of 

 the turf and all that appertained to the practical 

 encouragement of it in his own person. But he, 

 like his father, had a ' keeper of the running horses 

 at Newmarket,' who was still, for a brief period, 

 Mr. Tregonwell Frampton, and afterwards Mr. 

 Thomas Panton, father of the ' polite Tommy 

 Panton ' (winner of the Derby with Noble in 1786, 

 a member of the Jockey Club, and brother of the 

 lady that became Duchess of Ancaster, and was 

 Mistress of the Robes to Queen Charlotte), and, 

 with Messrs. R. Marshall and T. Smith for stud- 

 grooms, tolerated rather than fostered the royal 

 stud at Hampton Court, which he (unless it were 

 his father, as is not unlikely) augmented, if he 

 did not greatly enhance in value, by the contribu- 

 tion of a 'one-eyed gray Arabian.' 



Yet it was in this King's reign that the pro- 

 gress of the turf, and all that is connected with it, 

 began to show symptoms of extraordinary de- 

 velopment. In his reign (1750-51) was instituted 

 the Jockey Club, whereby the racing nobility and 

 gentry of North and South were brought into 



