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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Mr. Paulott's " Molly." 

 By permission c/H.R.H. Prince Christian. 



1698, and again in 1699, His Grace was given a verdict in the Court of Common 

 Pleas by the jury against Mr. Frampton's claims " in the matter of a horse- 

 race." But in the long run it was the noble plungers who lost. In 1695 

 Frampton with 

 the King's horse 

 won the Town 

 Plate (at New- 

 market) against 

 the Earl of Scars- 

 dale. In 1698 

 Xo. 446 of the 

 " Post Man " re- 

 cords that " the 

 great match that 

 was to be run 

 this day between 

 the famous York- 

 shir e Ma re, 



backed by Mr. Bowcher, and Frampton's Turk, 10 stone, 4 miles, for .500 each, is 

 drawn by consent." At the Spring Meeting of that year Lord Ross's Peacock (being 

 lame) had to pay forfeit to Mr. Frampton's Cricket, who was also matched against Mr. 

 Lister's Gray Horse at 9 stone, for ^ 100, at 6 miles. Stiff Dick, a horse alternately 

 described as the King's and Mr. Frampton's, beat Lord Wharton's Careless at the same 

 Meeting, 5 miles, a feather to 9 stone, for .500 ; and Lord Ruthen received forfeit 

 from Mr. Frampton's Ball, as the trainer had " made two better matches to be run 

 next meeting." In 1699 Captain Tankard's mare beat a horse of Mr. Frampton's 

 called Infant in April ; and a week afterwards the gallant Captain again won, with 

 the same mare, against Mr. Frampton's Stiff' Dick, a feather to 9 stone, 4 miles. 

 In 1708 Mr. Frampton's Monkey (by the Lonsdale Bay Arabian) was matched against 

 Mr. Cotton's Snap and Sir Cecil Bishop's Quaker. Mr. Frampton's Trumpeter 

 also met Mr. Minchall's Cork. In 1709 Mr. Frampton's White Neck had a match 

 for two hundred guineas against Mr. Pullen's Slouch, and for the same sum his 

 Teller ran a colt of Lord Dorchester's at the October Meeting. 



Among other matches of his with famous horses that are recorded at about this 

 period is the defeat inflicted on Miss Worksof> in the race with Mr. Lister's Fox for 



