42 TALES OF THE TURF AND THE CHASE. 



heat ; the owner of Foxhunter on the ground that Duchess, 

 having been once disqualified by the ' Tryers,' was not entitled 

 to run again. There were mutual charges of foul riding and foul 

 play, and a challenge passed between the owners of the two 

 horses, while the two jockeys had another set-to, this time on 

 foot, which ended in the discomfiture of Hesselteine. 



The end of it was that there was a law suit, and all bets were 

 withdrawn, the cup meanwhile being invested in trust with Mr. 

 Redman, Lord Mayor of York. The decision of the Court was 

 a curious one. It was that all horses that had been placed in 

 the different heats had an equal right to the prize, which must 

 therefore be divided between them. Three of the owners sold 

 their shares for twenty-five guineas each, and they were bought 

 respectively by the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Carlisle, and 

 Sir William Lowther, who agreed among themselves that the 

 cup should be run for at the York Summer Meeting of 17 19, 

 which it accordingly was, and was won by the Earl of Carlisle's 

 chestnut gelding Buckhunter. The decision of the Court, by the 

 way, was founded on these grounds. It was proved that the 

 jockeys both of Duchess and Foxhunter had been guilty of foul 

 riding, and that, therefore, the other two horses who ran third 

 and fourth should have been awarded the heat. As they did not 

 make the claim at the time, however, the Court decided that the 

 third heat was null and void, and consequently, as only two 

 heats had been run, the prize must be divided among the four 

 horses which were placed in those two heats. We have been 

 unable to find whether this remarkable decision was ever ap- 

 pealed to as a precedent. 



But to return to the meeting of 17 14. Such were the inci- 

 ■ dents of the first day. On the second day Queen Anne scored 

 her first victory at York with her brown horse Star (afterwards 

 Jacob). It was a very popular win, and numerous congratula- 

 tions were sent by express to her Majesty ; but they arrived too 

 late. On the very morning on which Star won her her first great 

 victory on the Turf (Friday, July 30), the Queen was seized with 

 apoplexy. She remained in a state of unconsciousness till seven 

 A.M. on Sunday, August i, when she died. An express was 

 despatched at once from London to York; for among the sports- 

 men there were many distinguished nobility and gentry who 

 must be seriously affected by her death. After thirty-two hours' 

 hard riding the express reached York about three o'clock in the 

 afternoon of Monday, August 2, just after the first race had been 



