l08 Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Tregonwell 

 Frampton. 



The King's 



Racehorses at 



Newmarket. 



Saxton Hall, asserted that " the plate was run for on Saturday last, at New- 

 market, and the King's horse won it ; " but if the race was run on 

 October 24, that day would have been the third Friday in that 

 month. It seems, however, that in consequence of the King's 

 visit the race came off on Saturday, October 19 ; that it was won by 

 one of his horses, and that Mr. Frampton probably rode the winner. 



At the Spring Meeting of 1698, Mr. Frampton won the 

 following matches with his horses : April 8, Cricket beat Lord 

 Ross's Peacock, gst. each, for loogs., 4 miles; April 1 1, Stiff Dick, 

 a feather, beat Lord Wharton's Careless, 9st., for 5oogs., 5 miles ; 

 April 23, Turk beat Lord Carlisle's Spot, 9st. each, for 5oogs., 4 

 miles. On April 18 he paid forfeit in a match to Lord Ruthen, and, 

 although it was said to have been made " to divert his Majesty," 

 Mr. Frampton did not run his horse (Ball) because he had made 

 two better matches with it to be run at the next meeting. In one 

 of the contemporary accounts of this Spring Meeting, Stiff Dick 

 is said to have belonged to William III., who may have bought 

 that horse before the race. He was, however, entered and run in 

 Mr. Frampton's name. There is no doubt that in the following 

 year (1699) the King bought Cricket and another horse called 

 Bruce from Mr. -Frampton for £10"] los.; also some other horses 

 from him and other persons, so that William III. seems to have 

 had from six to ten racehorses in training at Newmarket about 

 this time. Nevertheless, no horses were entered or run in his 

 name at the Spring Meeting there in 1699, when Mr. Frampton 

 won a match with Cupid, and was beaten in two other matches in 

 which he ran Infant and Stiff Dick. 



During the five years from the accession of Queen Anne in 

 1703 to 1708 the contemporary information relating to current 

 sporting affairs in general, and to horse racing in particular, is so 

 rarely to be met with that very little news of Mr. Frampton's 

 proceedings on the Turf at this period can be ascertained. Some 

 of his horses — Sobriety, Thiller, Monkey, Hopeful, Trumpeter, 

 and others — are mentioned to have been matched at Newmarket, 



