SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



5 guineas with 50 added was carried off by the 

 Duke of Richmond's Roncevalles. 



From this time forward the Brighton Meeting 

 usually provided three days of fair racing. In 

 1840 it was again reckoned a fashionable gather- 

 ing, and some well-known owners ran horses. 

 Lord Chesterfield's Gambia, for example, won the 

 Brighton Stakes, Her Majesty's Plate was taken 

 by the Duke of Richmond's Mus, while Captain 

 Rous, afterwards the famous ' Admiral ' of the 

 Jockey Club, won the Old Steine Club Plate 

 with Nicholas. The prizes at this time were 

 of no great value, the Brighton Stakes, a sweep- 

 stakes of 25 guineas with jiOO added, being the 

 most important. By the year 1850 two meet- 

 ings were held ; one of three days in August, 

 the other, a two-day affair, in October. The 

 stakes were of no great importance. The Brighton 

 Cup now appears for the first time ; it was worth 

 100, with a sweepstakes of ^10 each, and was 

 won by the Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalia. The 

 third day of the August Meeting was now de- 

 voted to the racing of the Brighton Club, which 

 took over the sport on the last day of the summer 

 meeting for many years to come. In 1860 

 Brighton had declined again to one meeting, the 

 old summer fixture with the club racing on the 

 last day. By the 'seventies the lost ground had 

 been recovered and two meetings were again held. 

 In 1876 the last races of the Brighton Club, 

 which had existed and shown good sport during 

 a quarter of a century, were held. The last 

 Brighton Club Stakes were won by Sir George 

 Chetwynd's Chypre, a useful horse, ridden by 

 Mr. Crawshaw, an experienced gentleman jockey. 

 In the following year, 1877, the American horse, 

 Preakness, by Lexington, walked over for the 

 Brighton Cup. The Marine Stakes were won 

 by Lord Rosebery's Bras de Fer, ridden by 

 Constable, who died not long afterwards. By 

 1880 the value of the stakes showed an increase, 

 as at other meetings. The Brighton Stakes, won 

 this year by Mr. R. Jardine's Humbert, was 

 worth 500, with a sweepstakes of 10. The 

 cup, won by Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Bay Archer, 

 was worth 300, with 100 to the second, and 

 j5O to the third horse. The Stewards' Cup, 

 won by Prince Batthyany's Cannie Chief, was 

 of the value of ^300, with a sweepstakes of jTiO 

 added. Three days' racingcontinued to be provided 

 at the summer meeting, notwithstanding that the 

 club races were defunct. 



In 1890 a spring meeting was substituted for 

 the autumn fixture, and thenceforth Brighton 

 racing has consisted of six days in each year, di- 

 vided between the spring and summer meetings. 

 The summer meeting, as of old, has always been 

 the more important and attractive gathering. At 

 the August meeting in 1900 the Brighton Stakes, 

 worth 4.37 to the winner, were taken by Lord 

 Farquhar's Japonica ; the Brighton 'Cup, of the value 

 of 485, by Mr. G. S. Edwardes's Santoi ; while 



the Brighton High Weight Welter, worth ^442, 

 was won by Mr. A. Stedall's La Lune. In 1906 

 the Brighton Stakes, worth ^437, fell to Mr. L. 

 de Rothschild's Chicot ; the Brighton Cup, value 

 ,485 (the actual trophy being reckoned at j^ioo) 

 was won by Lord Howard de Walden's His 

 Eminence, a good horse, ridden by M. Cannon. 

 The Sussex Plate, of 374 value, was taken by 

 Major J. D. Edwards' Shy Lord ; and the 

 Brighton High Weight Handicap, worth ,442, 

 by Lord Derby's Glucose. The meeting was a 

 good one, and fair fields were attracted. 



The Goodwood Meeting is, and has been foi 

 the better part of a century, the best in the county. 

 Though not so ancient as the Lewes gathering 

 nor that of Brighton, it quickly attracted the 

 attention of the racing public, and thanks to its 

 aristocratic support, magnificent local advantages, 

 and the generosity with which it has always 

 been supported by the Dukes of Richmond, it has 

 long taken its place as one of the most important 

 meetings of the racing year. The history of Good- 

 wood begins with the year 1802, when, on 28, 29 

 and 30 April, three days' racing took place in 

 the ducal park. The meeting, however, at this 

 time, partook more of the character of hunt races 

 than a purely flat-racing affair. It was organized 

 for the recreation of neighbouring landowners and 

 hunting folk. The first event consisted of a 

 Hunting Club subscription of 20 guineas each, 

 two-mile heats, the horses to be ' rode by sub- 

 scribers'; it was won by Mr. Newbury's Panta- 

 gruel. Then followed a sweepstakes of 10 

 guineas each, for maiden horses carrying 10 st. 

 gentlemen riders, the distance two miles. 

 This was won by the Duke of Richmond's Cedar, 

 with Mr. Byndloss's Bread second, and Lord 

 Egremont's Jess third. A Hunters' Plate of ^50 

 was won by Mr. Gage's Elevator. On the 

 second day the principal events were the City of 

 Chichester Plate of 50, for three-year-olds, 

 two-mile heats ; a sweepstakes of IO guineas, 

 another of 2O guineas, and the Ladies' Plate of 

 IO guineas. On the third day were contested 

 another City of Chichester Plate of ,50, and a 

 Hunters' Plate of 50, won by the Duke of 

 Richmond's curiously-named ' You Know Me.' 

 Then followed a match for 100 guineas, in which 

 the Prince of Wales's Rebel beat the Duke of 

 Richmond's Cedar. Another match and a 

 maiden plate wound up what seems altogether 

 to have been a most successful meeting. 



The Sporting Magazine of 1801 has a brief 

 notice of ' the New Racecourse on the Harrow- 

 way, near Goodwood, the seat of His Grace the 

 Duke of Richmond, which,' it remarks ' is now 

 completely formed for sport and much admired 

 by the Amateurs of the Turf.' The third Duke 

 of Richmond, though nearly seventy years of 

 age, was apparently determined to establish 

 Goodwood racing on a firm basis. He built a 

 wooden stand, which was placed not far from 



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