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Gretton (the distillers, owners of Isonomy); Lord 

 W. Powlett (whose Tim Whiffler ran a dead 

 heat for the Ascot Cup with Mr. Merry's Buck- 

 stone in 1863); M. Delamarre (member of the 

 French Jockey Club, and winner of the Ascot Cup 

 with Boiard in 1874) : Mr. Keene (an Ameri- 

 can gentleman ' in business,' but not in the way 

 of mustard, who won the Ascot Cup in 1882, 

 which was detained by the New York Custom 

 House for an unconscionable time on a question 

 as to payment of the 1,100 dols. duty); the 

 English-Russian, or Russian-Englishman, Prince 

 Soltykoff; and the (fifth) Earl of Rosslyn, who 

 won the Ascot Cup of 1892 with Buccaneer. 



Even so, one does not manage to include the 

 names of the celebrated Lord Palmerston (who 

 thought to have won the Derby with Mainstone, 

 and whose mare Iliona caused a controversy re- 

 specting the pronunciation of Greek words and the 

 effect of quantity and accent, and elicited a surpris- 

 ing amount of ignorance under the guise of learn- 

 ing), of Lord Portsmouth, of Admiral Rous (who 

 did not affect the big races at all), of Colonel 

 North (the 'Nitrate King'), of Captain Machell, 

 of General Byrne (of ' Amphion ' memory), and of 



