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Ascot Cup : Mr. C. C. Greville (the Clerk of the 

 Council, and owner of Mango and Alarm) ; Major 

 Yarbrugh (whose horse Charles XI I. ran the 

 famous dead heat with ' Squire ' Thornhill's Euclid 

 for the St. Leger of 1839) ; Mr. Wrather (whose 

 Nutwith defeated the great Cotherstone for the 

 St. Leger of 1843) ! Mr. E. J. Irwin and Mr. 

 Watts (the Irish heroes, whose horses, Faugh-a- 

 ballagh and The Baron, have had scandal spoken 

 of them and their age, whether from English 

 jealousy or some more reasonable cause) ; Mr. 

 Morris (bookmaker, owner of the eccentric Knight 

 of St. George) ; Mr. T. Parr (jockey, trainer, and 

 owner, the ' Talleyrand of the turf,' of ' Fisher- 

 man ' renown) ; Sir Charles Monck (who died at 

 nearly ninety, and won the St. Leger at the age 

 at which Cato is fabled to have begun Greek) ; 

 the (second) Marquis of Ailesbury (a Master of the 

 Horse, owner of the famous brothers St. Albans 

 and Savernake) ; and the (third) Viscount St. 

 Vincent (another of Mr. Padwick's 'flies,' and 

 owner of Lord Clifden and part-owner — ^10,000 

 worth, by report — of the unfortunate Klarikoff, 

 that met with the fate of Phaethon). 



Also Mr. T. V. Morgan (a sometime clerk in 



