118 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



preliminary to introducing the Vice Chancellor and heads of Colleges. The Duke 

 of Somerset's stud will always be famous, for in it was bred Cinnamon in 1722 by 

 Wind ham -the Ryegatc Marc, by the Toulouse Barb Sir John Parson's Cream 

 Cheeks, by Spanker Hautboy ; Cinnamon got the Ancaster Creeper, Brisk, and 

 Dismal. Another famous animal from the same breeder was Greylcgs (1725), 

 by Windham, out of a Barb mare. The Duke's son, Algernon, inherited his 

 father's tastes for the Turf with the title, and went a-racing harder than 

 ever. On the first day of the races, in this April 1698, a match between Mr. 

 I'rampton's Turk and Mr. Bowcher's Yorkshire Mare was by consent drawn, and a 

 brilliant company arrived, comprising, among others, the Dukes of Grafton, Rich- 

 mond, and St. Albans, the Earls of Essex, Scarborough, Marlborough, Macclesfield, 

 Burlington, Kingston, Albemarle, Jersey, Argyle, Orkney, Oxford, with Lords 

 Godolphin, Ross, and Lucas, and enough fashionable gentry besides to crowd out the 

 exiguous columns of the "Post Man." The ladies did not desert the Turf when 

 Charles II. died, and the Court of William and Mary had its beauties too. I may 

 choose as typical that "frisky and juvenile, curly and gay" Lady Margaret Cecil, 

 who became Countess of Ranelagh and was the joy of the whole Court. The 

 painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, which I reproduce from the Hampton Court 

 Gallery, seems to have given Fielding his ideal of Sophy Western, and the Lord 

 Lansdowne of her own day was equally impressed with the fascinations of the fair 

 original. 



There was hawking and cocking galore as well and Mr. Frampton appears in 

 them all but the racing was " the thing." Lord Wharton's Snail was stopped by 

 the spectators in finishing for a heat of the Plate, which was won by Sir John Parsons, 

 and Mr. Rowe's Quainton in a match at 8st., for three heats of four miles, 200 guineas 

 a-side, beat Mr. Harvey's Hautboy, who was bred by the Darcy family, by the White 

 Dairy Turk, out of a Royal Mare. As is recorded in the stud-book this horse got 

 Grey Hautboy (sire of Bay Bolton), Windham, the dam of Snake, and the dam of 

 Almanzar, Terror, and Champion. At the same meeting Lord Wharton's Careless 

 ran Mr. Frampton's (that is, the King's) Stiff Dick, five miles, a feather to gst., for 

 ,500, and was beaten, though the odds against Stiff Dick were 7 to 4. Another 

 favourite was beaten when Mr. Maynard's Creeper (tour miles, 8st.,^4OO a side) came 

 in second to Lord Sherwood's Primrose, who was hard-held all the way. Of these 

 horses Careless was from the stud of the famous Mr. Leedes, whose Arabians were 

 so important to English thoroughbred stock, and was by Spanker, out of a Barb 



