I08 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



discrediting the well-known story of barbarity which has been too often attributed 

 to the famous trainer. The mistake probably arose, as will be seen there, from a 

 confusion between Mr. May's Dragon (or Old Dragon], which I noticed in last 

 year's card, and the King's (or Mr. Frampton's) Dragon, which was a younger horse. 

 The matter is complicated by the appearance of yet another Dragon, trained by 

 Mr. Frampton at a later date, who must have belonged of course to yet another 

 King. 



The list of the matches at Newmarket, in 1681, reproduced in the "Current 

 Intelligence," for September, is worth noting for the sake of its names. There are 

 six matches at four miles, eight at six miles, and one at seven. The weights vary 

 from eight to seventeen stone : the bets from one hundred to a thousand and two 

 guineas, generally with half-forfeits. The only owners mentioned are Sir Robert 

 Gaer and Mr. Rowe. Besides the horses I have already quoted the following are 

 given : Shuffler v. Looby, Pet Lamb v. Tinker, Mackerel v. Ringtail, Robin v. White 

 Buttocks and Kick Up, Bob v. Traveller, Bull v. Woodcock, and Gage v. Parker there 

 are also Tapster, Lcadenhcels, Chopper, Madcap, and Doubtful. It may be possible to 

 trace Eastern pedigree in the names of Zhatour, Barb, and Morgan's Mare. Among 

 other owners who did much to improve English stock at this time, I have mentioned 

 a few by name who deserve more detailed notice. Philip Lord Wharton, for instance, 

 came of a. great racing family who were famous on the Turf for a century. Their 

 political proclivities in the matter of horses have been already characterised, and the 

 violent Puritanism which had distinguished them during the days of the Civil War 

 and the Protectorate only increased their zeal to beat the Tories on the Race Course 

 later on. In their stud was Othello (1712) by Greyhound who was by Chillaby out of 

 Slugey, and therefore a pure barb, also Rake by the same sire. In a different way 

 Tom Killigrew contributed a good deal to the racing of the Restoration, though 

 rather as a mighty drinker and a Master of the Revels in general than as a breeder 

 of blood-stock. But what he could not do himself he encouraged heartily in others, in 

 poor Tom Thynne, for instance, near whose white marble tomb (commemorating the 

 dastardly murder that robbed the Turf of a hearty supporter) Tom Killigrew lies 

 buried in Westminster Abbey. Of more direct value was the interest taken in racing 

 by Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury. Belonging to Monmouth's 

 party, though with considerable caution, he was committed to the Tower for contempt 

 in 1676 in the excellent company of the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Wharton, and Lord 

 Salisbury. He surveyed Audley End for the King, but the purchase-money never 



