118 Sporting and Rural Records of tlie Chevelcv Estate. 



Saxton Hall. 



Tregonwell 

 Frampton. 



1727. March 10. — Job, gst., paid forfeit in a match against Lord 

 Milslntown's gr. c. Costly, lost., 6 miles, for 2oogs., h. f. 

 March 24. — Mortimer, gst., paid forfeit in a match against 

 Captain Collyer's Costly, gst. lolb., 6 miles, for i50gs., h. f. 



Besides the preceding matches and races, Mr. Frampton ran : 



I 72 1. July 31. — York. Grey mare ran unplaced in the King's Plate. 

 August 2. — York. Dark chestnut colt ran second in a plate 

 of £40. 

 1722. August 6. — York. Hij) ran unplaced in the King's Plate. 



His 

 Eccentricity. 



His Critic? 



Mr. Frampton is said to have been considered a very 

 eccentric person, remarkable for a peculiar uniformity in his dress, 

 the fashion of which he never changed, and in which, regardless of 

 its uncouth appearance, he would not unfrequently go to Court 

 and inquire in the most familiar manner for his master or mistress, 

 the King or the Queen ; and that Queen Anne used to call him 

 Governor Frampton. He certainly was a conspicuous personage 

 at Court on Twelfth Day, upon which festival the apartment of 

 the Groom Porter was the scene of excessive gaming, and on 

 those occasions "the Governor" was invariably "the greatest 

 gainer" (the Flying Post, No. 573). 



It is unfortunate that all Mr. Frampton's critics were so 

 palpably ignorant of racing laws and customs. One of these, in 

 bearing testimony to his perspicacity in horseracing lore, says he 

 could tell if a horse had broken knees or if it were broken winded ! 

 Another, after describing the nobility and gentry at Newmarket 

 races, descending " from their high dignity and quality to the 

 picking of another's pocket, and biting one another as much 

 as possible, and that with so much eagerness, it might be said 

 they acted without respect to faith, honour, or good manners," 

 designates Mr. Frampton as the oldest and cunningest jockey 

 in England, who one day would lose 1000 guineas and the next 

 day win 2000 guineas and so alternately. " He made as light 

 of throwing away ;^5oo or ^1000 at a time as other men of their 



