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weight being for the Whip lo St., while for the Cup four-year- 

 olds carry 8 St. 7 lbs., five 9 st. i lb., six and aged 

 9 St. 4 lbs., the pecuniary liability of 200 sovs. p.p. 

 attaching to each nomination. 



The Cup may be challenged for but once, the 

 Whip twice, yearly ; neither can be won out and out, 

 or is allowed to leave the United Kingdom ; and 

 the contests for the former are confined to horses the 

 property of members of the Jockey Club, or of the 

 Jockey Club Rooms at Newmarket. The Cup, which 

 was purchased in 1768 by a subscription amongst 

 members of the Club, has since its inauguration been 

 productive of a race only on seven occasions ; it 

 was not even challenged for from 1867 to 1881, when 

 Mr. H. C. Vyner reclaimed it from oblivion. The 

 following year it passed into the hands of the Duke 

 of Beaufort, who still retains it, no challenger having 

 appeared since his Forio in 1886 defeated the Duke 

 of Hamilton's Escamillo. 



The W^hip — a short, heavy, old-fashioned jockey 

 whip, with a lock of Eclipse's hair attached to the 

 handle — is of much greater antiquity, and though 

 there is no record of its origin, the coat-of-arms 

 engraved on the gold mounting proves it to date 

 back as far as the time of Charles 11. The late 

 Canon Jackson, a celebrated antiquary and Rector 

 of Leigh Delamere, gives the following description 

 of this blazonry. 



' The coat-of-arms is, without much, or any, 

 doubt, that of Thomas Lord Dacre, created by 

 Charles IL in 1674 Earl of Sussex. He mar- 

 ried Lady Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, a natural 

 daughter of Charles H. and the Duchess of 

 Cleveland. He was a young gentleman " of 

 that period," lost his money gambling, and sold 



The Whiir^ much of his estates. He held an office at 



