248 THE HORSE IN HISTORY 



that the old race stand was besieged on at least 

 three separate occasions during that long and 

 bloody conflict. 



While a certain historic race meeting at New- 

 market was in progress, Philip Rotier, the famous 

 sculptor, availed himself of an unexpected oppor- 

 tunity — an opportunity for which he had long 

 waited — to make a sketch of the beautiful Miss 

 Stuart, who was destined to become in the year 

 1667 the third wife of the third Duke of 

 Richmond. 



Miss Stuart's name was at that time in every- 

 body's mouth, the exquisite loveliness of her face 

 being equalled, so it was said, only by the mould- 

 ing of her figure and the irresistible fascination 

 of her voice and manner. It was this unfinished 

 portrait by Philip Rotier that was subsequently 

 to develop into the figure that to-day we see 

 upon every copper coin — the figure of Britannia 

 with her trident. 



"So exact was the likeness," says Felton, in 

 his notes on Waller, " that no one who had ever 

 seen her Grace could mistake who had sat for 

 Britannia." 



How rapidly the Turf must have sprung into 

 life once more upon Charles II.'s accession to 

 the throne of England may be gathered from the 

 statement that within six years after the date of 

 his coronation, " the glory of Newmarket had 

 again eclipsed itself." Yet apparently the country's 



