Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: We may now get on to the Jockey Club’s ‘ Third Period,’ from 1835 to the present day, having first remarked that a measure of the respect paid by that date to the opinion of the Club may be obtained from the significant fact that the appearance in the records from 1819 to this day of Antonio as the winner of the St. Leger in 1819, is due to a decision of the Stewards of the Jockey Club, to whom the question had by agreement been referred as to whether the Stewards of Doncaster Eaces had been right in allowing a second race to be run (on the ground that certain horses had not been ready to start in the first), and who promptly overruled the Stewards of Don- caster, and gave the race to Antonio, a non-starter for the second race. The power and influence of the, Club were still farther extended and consolidated in 1844, when, in consequence no doubt of the ‘ Sunning Eein’ case, it was arranged that the Stewards of the Jockey Club for the time being should be ex officio Stewards of Epsom; in 1857, when the like provision was applied to Ascot; and some time between 1878 and 1881, when Goodwood also was included in their (joint) Stewardship. THE THIRD PERIOD 1835?1891 CHAPTER XI DEPARTED MEMBERS From 1835 (included) to the present day the Jockey Club has comprised the following members, substantive and honorary, the same name or title sometimes representing two or three different bearers of it, generally in regular succession, as of son to father, or brother to brother, and so on, and the same Eoyal or Imperial personage occasionally being represented by two different titles. Imperial and Royal Personages.?King William the Fourth (Patron), the Prince of Orange, the King of Holland, the Prince of Wales, Prince Christian, the King of the Belgians, the Duke of Edinburgh, the…
