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Captain Richard Vernon, alias Fox alias Jubilee Dicky. Vernon was blackballed at the club in the following year because of his friendship with the Duke of Bedford. Horace Walpole described him as ‘a very inoffensive, good-humoured young fellow, who lives in the strongest intimacy with all the
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Vernon bred and owned a large number of horses. He also trained and raced them, and was one of those who began the running of yearlings at
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By betting and breeding horses Vernon is stated to have converted ‘a slender patrimony of three thousand pounds into a fortune of a hundred thousand’ before quitting the turf as an owner. Vernon's name is also noted in the annals of horticulture as the introducer of fruit-forcing. His peaches at
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He is ... not distinguished either for splendour or deficiency of talents, but with a perfect mediocrity of intellectual endowments enjoys his place, breeds his horses, contrives matches, which he is said to do with more skill and success than any man on the turf, and gives a silent vote to the
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in 1796. He rode himself and took part in a gentleman-jockey race at
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on 15 February 1759. Soon after in May was given an Irish sinecure Clerk of quit rents in
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Arabian. At the first Craven meeting, held in 1771, he won the stakes with
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