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Also Mr. Stanlake Batson (the last holder of 

 the ' Eclipse Foot ') ; the celebrated ' Squire ' 

 Thornhill (of Riddlesworth, who won the One 

 Thousand with Extempore in 1843, and died in 

 1844); the renowned 'Squire' Osbaldeston (who 

 won the One Thousand with Sorella in 1844); 

 Mr. George Payne (the ' King of the Gamblers,' 

 who won the One Thousand with Clementina in 

 1847, and had little more to show for his lavish 

 expenditure upon horseflesh) ; Mr. F. Clarke (who 

 won the One Thousand with that elegantly- 

 named filly The Flea, in 1849) ; the (third of the 

 new creation) Earl of Orford (who won the One 

 Thousand in 1850 with a filly afterwards named 

 Lady Orford, and died in 1858, at the age of 

 seventy-eight) ; Mr. Sargent (winner of the One 

 Thousand in 1852 with Kate, by Auckland) ; and 

 Mr. ' Howard ' (Mr. Padwick, the money-lender, 

 ' spider ' to the Marquis of Hastings's ' fly '). 



Add the (seventh) Duke of Bedford (at whose 

 death in 1861 his ' managing man,' Admiral Rous, 

 became by will possessed of the Duke's celebrated 

 Asteroid, by Stockwell); Mr. W. H. Brook (winner 

 of the One Thousand in 1856 with Manganese) ; 

 Mr. Fleming (winner of the One Thousand with 



