INDEX 



333 



1839 Liverpool Steeplechase, 82; Harry 



Hall's portrait of Marble Hill, 141 ; 



Laporte's portrait of Antelope, 2S9 

 Pigeon-match, episode at a, 34 

 Point-to-point matches, 277-279, 296 

 Prize-fight at St. Albans, 35 

 Proprietary race-course, first, 78 

 Punctuality, not observed in the earlier 



steeplechases, 80, 87 



Races, Flat. — Derby, the, 48, 19 vo'e, 

 86 ; Ascot, 4S ; Goodwood, 57 ; 

 Holderness Hunt, 64 ; Aintree, 73 ; 



• St. Leger, 26 



Riders' earnings, 1 1 



Rinderpest, in 1866, 272 



River, swum by steeplechaser, 12 



Roads, rules of steeplechasing and, 280, 

 282 



Ross, Captain Horatio, 5 



Running Rein fraud, the, 20 



St. Albans steeplechases, inaugurated 

 by Coleman, 17 ; first race, 22 ; Hert- 

 fordshire Steeplechases established, 24; 

 victory of Moonraker in 1832 meeting, 

 31 ; Grimaldi matched against Moon- 

 raker, 32 ; some characters at St. 

 Albans, 32 et seq. ; succeeding races, 

 38 ; difficulty of 1835 course, 49 ; poor 

 field in 1836, 51 ; Coleman contem- 

 plates dropping the meeting, 52 ; 

 benefit to the town, 53 ; opposition of 

 the farmers, 53 ; Cup given by Prince 

 Esterhazy for 1837 race, 53 ; second 

 1837 race, 56 ; 1839 meeting, 65 ; last 

 of the steeplechases, 66 



Salisbury, Marquis of, and Col. Charretie, 



4^ 

 Sandown Park course, 223, 235, 240, 



241 

 Sc 'tland, National Hunt meetings in, 



224, 237 

 Severus, Emperor, tradition of races, 209 

 .Soldiers and sport, 266 

 SoUoway, Mr. John, biography, 307 

 Stage-coach, started by Coleman, 21 

 Starting, early difficulties of, 210 

 Steeplechases. — Early : Irish match in 

 1752, 4 ; Leicestershire matches in 

 1792, ib.; "First on Record," 5-6; 

 Ballyshannon match, 6 ; Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne match, 8 ; 1S04 match, 8 ; first 

 on a made course, 10; Derby match 



of, 1812, I I ; Irish of 1813, 11 ; 

 Twelfth Day, 1818, 12; Lismore 

 "tumble-down," 13; and Dundee, ih. 

 Sterpi.kchasks. — Various— 

 Abergavenny, 155, 198, 219 

 .Aberystvvith, 304 

 Aintree, 73 et seq. 

 Aldershot, 132 

 .\mersham, 288 

 Athlone, 99 



Aylesbury, 28, 42, 58, 84, 221 

 Baden-Baden, 142, 155 

 Barnet, 42, 58, 61 



Bedford, 23 note, 154, 155, 212, 289 

 Bicester, 284 



Birmingham, 106, 130, 140 

 Blackwaler, 279 

 Brighton, 133 

 Bromyard, 147 

 Cardiff, 129, 304 

 Carmarthen, 14S 

 Charlbury, 140 

 Chatham, 154 

 Cheltenham, 90, 120 note, 61-2, 147, 



219, 301, 302, 304 

 C'llebrooke, 280 

 Coltenham, 161 

 Croxton Park, 28 

 Croydon, 141, 161, 169 

 Curragh, The, 23 note 

 Dartford, 42 

 Daventry, 61 

 Derby, 45 

 Doncaster, 285 



Dimchurch, 47, 61, 83, 99, 284 

 Dundee, 282 

 East Grinstead, 295 

 Edinburgh, 286 

 Eglinton, 237 

 Enfield, 33 

 Epsom, 132 



Finchley, 35, 42, 60, 83 

 Great Marlovv, 295 

 Hampshire, 277 

 Hampton Couit, 24, 141 

 Harlesden Green, 45 

 Harrow, 44, 283 

 Hatfield, 30, 42, 48 

 Haverfordwest, 279, 297 

 Hereford, 304, 305 

 Hertfordshire, 27S 

 Horncastle, 35, 62 

 Hounslow, 27 

 Huntingdon, 16 r 



