FIRST PERIOD: CHARLES 11. TO GEORGE II. 45 



Belgrade, son of the Belgrade Turk, which came 

 to Sir Marmaduke by way of France), and Volun- 

 teer (by Y. Belgrade). 



Towards the close of this reign of George II. 

 were established the two Jockey Club Plates (in 

 1753) at Newmarket, and the Great Subscriptions 

 (in 1 751) at York, so that- if we cast our net 

 round the winners, human and equine, of those 

 races which were of the greatest account in those 

 days, from their establishment to the date of 

 George II.'s death (October, 1760), we shall have 

 immeshed pretty nearly all the chief celebrities, 

 human and equine, of the turf during that reign. 



In the South, then, the winners were, among 

 the bipeds: Lord Gower, Mr. 'Jockey' Vernon, 

 the Duke of Cumberland, the (Duke of Devon- 

 shire) Marquis of Hartington, the Duke of 

 Ancaster, Mr. Fenwick, Lord Portmore, Lord 

 Chedworth, Sir James Lowther, Mr. Anthony 

 Langley Swymmer, Mr. Fulke Greville, Mr. 

 Naylor, Mr. Panton, and Mr. Gorge or Gorges 

 (for there is an irritating duplicity in the spell- 

 ing) ; and among the quadrupeds, omitting 

 such as have been mentioned already : Beau 

 Clincher (by the Gower Stallion), Marsk (sire 



