INDEX. 



415 



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Prince George, 22, 23 ; racing 

 legislation in the reigns of the 

 first three Georges, 22 ; early 

 records, 23 ; owners of cele- 

 brated racehorses, 24, 25 ; 

 Tregonwell Frampton and his 

 horse Dragon, 25-27 ; Framp- 

 ton's match against Sir Wil- 

 liam Strickland's Merlin, 28 ; 

 legislation consequent on the 

 result, 29 ; turf chicanery in 

 Queen Anne's time, 29 ; sub- 

 scription races at York, 30 ; 

 royal plates, 31 ; racing in 

 Scotland, 32 ; Galloways, 32 ; 

 breeding in Ireland, 33, 35, 

 37, 40 ; list of stallions in 

 1794, 34; the turf in 1793, 

 34 ; cocktails, 35, 36 ; con- 

 veyance of horses to their 

 engagements by road, 43 ; 

 Lord George Bentinck and 

 Elis, 44 ; turf espionage, 45 ; 

 touts, 46 ; interested journal- 

 ism, 46 ; qualities of a turf 

 writer, 47 ; a journalist's 

 strange code of turf ethics, 

 48, 49 ; gate-money meetings, 

 51, 74, 90; Sandown Park, 

 52 ; the Education Act and 

 the * Infant Phenomenon,' 53 ; 

 increase of Welter handicaps, 

 54 ; suburban racing, 54 ; 

 temperance societies' tinker- 

 ing, 54 ; history of the Jockey 

 Club, 56-59 ; duties of racing 

 officials defined, 61-73 '> re * 

 trospective sketches of racing 

 at Newmarket, 74-89 ; racing 

 in the provinces, 90 ; Ascot, 

 91 ; Epsom, 92 ; Doncaster 

 and Goodwood, 93, 94 ; New- 

 market no longer an open 



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meeting, 95 ; Danebury, 95- 

 97 ; Stockbridge, 95-97 ; the 

 old and new style of racing 

 servants, 98; the old-fashioned 

 groom, his manner, and his 

 belongings, 97-100; the new- 

 style trainer and his surround- 

 ings, loo-in ; jockeys' bet- 

 ting and its evils, 105-107 ; 

 plans and arrangements of 

 model training stables, 108- 

 iii ; the crossing of indi- 

 genous English with Eastern 

 blood, 112-115; the PJnglish 

 climate and nurture in horse- 

 breeding, 115, 1 20; treatment 

 of yearlings, 121; Gladiateur's 

 pugnacity in the paddock, 

 I2 3 '> goats as disinfectors in 

 stables, 124 ; breaking in, 



125 ; the Calendar birthday, 



126 ; points requisite in a 

 racer, 129 ; early trials of 

 yearlings, 131 ; the Jezabel 

 squabble, 136 ; Lord Lyon, 

 136-138 ; the Phenix riot at 

 Epsom, 141 ; weight for age 

 the basis of trials with old 

 horses, 145 ; 'The Lop-eared 

 Colt,' a story illustrating a 

 two-year-old trial, 146 ; three- 

 year-olds, 1 54 ; < sixpenny 

 five-furlong races,' 154; three- 

 year-old training, 155 ; trials 

 of The Palmer, 158-160; Sir 

 Joseph Hawley's theory of try- 

 ing three-year-olds at weight 

 for age, 162 ; Sir Joseph's 

 moment of weakness, 162 ; 

 hint on starting horses in trials 

 on short courses, 163 ; epi- 

 sodes culled from the Roth- 

 schild stables, 164; clever 



