MR. TREGONWELL t HAMPTON AND HIS HORSES. 



Donovan. In any case, if the shade of Frampton ever revisits his old haunts, 

 he will admit that a progress has been made which must be astonishing even 

 to himself. But he began there well ; and we may be sure he left no stone 

 unturned in furthering his Royal patrons' interests and his own. As " supervisor 

 of the Race-Horses at Newmarket" he was paid ^"1,000 a year (of that money, 

 remember), " for the maintenance often boys, their lodgings, &c., and for provisions 

 of hay, oats, bread, and all other necessaries for ten race horses." He evidently 

 began as a trainer only, for the stud farm was at Hampton Court, and Thomas 

 Fullen who had managed it for James II. was succeeded in the reign of William III. 

 by Richard Marshall, who was appointed master to the " private stud," in July, 1700, 

 and very greatly increased its 

 value by bringing over nine , 

 Barbary horses and five mares 

 from Tripoli. At Welbeck 

 Abbey is preserved a minia- 

 ture of Louis XIV., set in 

 diamonds, presented to the 

 ancestor of the present Duke 

 of Portland, who took nine 

 " English race horses " from 

 this stud as a present to the 

 French King ; and the com- 

 pliment was returned with in- 

 terest by the gift from the 

 " Roi Soleil," of a barb from 

 Algiers, which Lord Portland describes as " handsome, tall, young, one of the 

 strongest I ever had, and excellent for breeding." 



It was the pick of the Hampton Court stud, no doubt, which was sent to New- 

 market to be trained in Frampton's racing stables, and to be run eventually against 

 the horses of such excellent sportsmen as Tom Wharton, Sidney Godolphin, the 

 1 Kike of Devonshire, Lord Cutts, Lord Ross, Sir J. Lowther, Lord Lovelace, or 

 Sir John Parsons, who was twice Lord Mayor of London, so that his Totiluuse Barb 

 and the still more famous Ryegate Mare are really links between the Mansion House 

 and the English Turf, of which both have every reason to be proud. The 

 Duke was occasionally too much even for the wily west countryman ; for in 



Sir William Morgan's " Old Cartouch." 

 Bv ptrmiuio* of Mr. Somerville Tattcrtall. 



