I 50 MY HORSE ; MY LOVE 



the fashionable horse from the Darley Arabian blood, the 

 better winner he is, and the more often he has won. 



It was to Tregonwell Frampton, who is still known as 

 the 'Father of the Turf,' that the middle of the eighteenth 

 century owed the art of training horses, and making the art 

 what it was. He also reduced the practice of the sport 

 of racing to orderly rules and methods. Before his time, 

 in 1 7 18, twenty-three matches were decided on New^market 

 Heath, the distance being four miles. In 17 19 the race 

 over Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings was won by the Earl of 

 Carlisle's chestnut gelding Buckminster (by the Bald 

 Galloway), ridden by Matchem Timms, who won her late 

 Majesty's (Queen Anne) gold cup, the value of which 

 was one hundred guineas. 



Another race for a Royal cup of the same value, 

 presented by George the First, was run on the 8th of 

 August in the same year. The distance was four miles, 

 and the race was won by the Duke of Rutland's black filly 

 Bonny Black, the best performer of her day. She was by 

 Black Hearty, son of the Byerly Turk, her dam by a 

 Persian horse. Bonny Black won the cup for the Duke 

 of Rutland the next year also. 



York races were run on Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings until 

 1 73 1, when, owing to better condition of the ground, they 

 were run over Knavesmire, and have continued to be 

 decided there ever since. 



The first Derby was won by Diomed, a compact, well- 

 formed chestnut colt, the property of Sir Charles Bunbury. 

 Bred by Mr Panton, and foaled in 1763, he was got by 

 Florizel out of a Spectator mare, and counting among his 

 ancestors, on the dam's side, Flying Childers, the Paget 

 Turk, and the Leedes Arabian. 



