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A gentlemen who visited Newmarket in the 

 reign of Queen Anne, and afterwards pabUshed his 

 remarks, gives the following account of the doings 

 there in his day. 



*' Being there in October, I had the opportunity 

 to see the horse races, and a great concourse of the 

 nobility and gentry, as well from London, as all 

 parts of England ; but they were all so intent, 

 so eager, so busy upon the sharping part of the 

 sport, their wagers, their bets, that to me they 

 seemed just as so many horse coursers inSmithfield ; 

 descending, the greatest of them, from their high 

 dignity and quality, to the picking one another's 

 pockets, and biting one another as much as 

 possible, and that with so much eagerness, as it 

 might be said, they acted without respect to faith, 

 honour, or good manners. 



'* There was Mr. Frampton, the oldest, and as 

 they say, the cunningest jockey in England ; one 

 day he lost 1000 gs. the next he won 2000, and so 

 alternately. He made as light of throwing away 

 £500 or £1000 at a time, as other men do of their 

 pocket money, and was perfectly calm, cheerful and 

 unconcerned when he had lost a thousand pounds, 

 as when he won it. On the other side, there was 

 Sir F. Ragg of Sussex, of whom fame says, he has 

 the most in him and the least to shew for it, relat- 

 ing to jockey ship, of any man there ; yet he often 

 carried off the prize. His horses they say were all 



