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SECTION XXII. 



STRATAGEMS OF THE COURSE. TREGONWELL FRAMPTON, ESQ. AND HIS 



HORSE DRAGON. — FA5I0 US CROSS I N MERLIN's MATCH. SUPERIOR MORA- 

 LITY OF MODERN SPORTSMEN. THE DUKE OF QUEINSBURY, KATHER OP 



THE TURF, ANECDOTE OF. DISQUISITION ON A PREVALENT TURF MA- 



NCEUVRE, AND AN ATTEMPT TO SETTLE THE POINT ON TENABLE 



GROUND. — AN EXAMPLE. ANECDOTE OF RIDER AND MAD HANNAH. 



OF THE SPORTING CHIMNEY-SWEEPER. 



I SHALL next endeavour to entertain the sporting reader Math 

 examples of stratagems, both fair and unfair, of the course ; the extra- 

 ordinary performances of Racers, both of early and latter days; and of 

 other curious and memorable events, which have occured in the annals 

 of the turf 



With respect to stratagem and manoeuvre in the business of the 

 course, the name of Frampton has always stood conspicuous. Tre- 

 gonwell Frampton,Esq. who had been keeper of the Running-Horses to 

 King William III. Queen Anne, George I. and II. died in 1727, at the 

 age of eighty-six, father of the turf. He was, during the latter part of 

 his life, and in succeeding times has been, familiarly styled Old Framp- 

 ton, and always esteemed a shrewd and extraordinary character. The 

 story of this gentleman having cut his favourite Horse, Dragon, upon 

 the course, in order to run him a gelding, has been universally received 

 as a fact, yet resting only on tradition, and a tale in No. 37, of the Ad- 

 venturer. In my Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses, I 

 had made some severe, and indeed harsh remarks, on the character of 

 Mr. Frampton, on which several friends to his memory, signified to me 

 their desire, that I would publish what could be said in his defence 

 •which, in their opinion, stood u^n an authority at least equal to anj'^ 



which 



