346 HISTOEY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS AND ASCOT EACES. 



Gentlemen Subscribers, for Hunters, for which six horses were 

 entered, resulted thus : — 



Mr. Walker's bay gelding, Orphan 



Sir Charles Ledley's grey gelding, Richmond 



Col Bosca wen's bay gelding, Poker 



Lord Bury's black stone horse. Little Blaze . 



H.B.H. Duke of Cumberland's chestnut gelding, 



Button ........ 5 dis. 



Wednesday, the 12th, for Weight for Age Plate, Josiah 

 Marshall's chestnut horse, Diver, and Mr. Bowie's bay horse, 

 Johnny Armstrong, ran, which the former won. " These two 

 Heats were exceeding good ; but an Accident happened to Mr. 

 Bowie's Horse at the End of the second Heat, after coming in, 

 by a Man's being in the Way ; whereby the Horse was flung 

 down, and it is believed will die. The rider saved himself." 



On Thursday, the 4th, for the Give and Take Plate, Captain 

 Shaftoe's chestnut horse. Silver Legs, and Mr. Sparrow's grey 

 gelding were entered ; and the 50/. Plate for the keepers 

 and yeomen prickers of Windsor Forest obtained an entry of 

 three : Mr. Kennedy's brown gelding, Rat ; Mr. Ricard's bay 

 mare, Cat ; and Mr. Ives' bay mare, Betsy-Feel-the-Tap. The 

 results of the last two events are not recorded. No member of 

 the Royal Family was present on this occasion. Lords Anson, 

 Montfort, and Monson were mentioned as having attended the 

 meeting on the second day. 



In connection with this meeting we obtain the following 

 additional information in a letter from Mr. Rigby to the Duke 

 of Bedford, dated (London) August 13, 1752: "And now to 

 send you what little news I have been able to pick up yester- 

 day ; for the day we landed, Ascott Heath races had engaged 

 the few people that remained in town, and I could find no 

 soul to dine or sup with. In short, I have seen but three 

 intelligent beings. Lord Waldegrave, Fox, and Harris. The 

 first . . . was at the above mentioned races on Tuesday, 

 where the Duke of Cumberland's horse ran, and would have 

 been distanced " [in the first heat] " if his master had not 



