MR. TREGONWELI. FRAMPTON AND HIS HORSES, 



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many of that famous name), who was lame before starting and yet ran four excellent 

 heats in the ,14 Plate for aged horses at 1 1 stone. 



I have no concern to whitewash Mr. Frampton, and I express no opinion on his 

 proceedings in this notorious match against Sir \ViIliam Strickland. But he was 

 evidently not "warned off" in consequence by the public opinion of his contempo- 

 raries, for, if it be too early to quote 1705, the date when Mr. Frampton's Tliillcr 

 was beaten at Newmarket by the Prince Consort's (that is, Prince George of 

 Denmark's) Grey Barb, the year 1719 is certainly "after the event"; and in 

 that November Frampton's Nutmeg was beaten in an eight mile match at 8 stone 

 9 by the Duke of Devonshire's bay mare by Basto ; and by 1/21 we find him 

 racing in the heart of the enemy's country, when he must have been close upon 

 eighty years of age. On Monday, July 3ist, 1721, over Clifton and Rawcliffe 

 Ings, his grey gelding was favourite (with the Duke of Rutland's Proserpine) 

 for His Majesty's 100 guineas in specie for 6-year olds, 12 stone, 4 mile heats. 

 Large sums were depending between these two, but when they had run about 

 a mile they both unfortunately fell, and their jockeys were both so bruised that 

 they had to be carried 

 off in a carriage at once 

 to Clifton, where Jack- 

 son died in a few weeks, 

 and Peirson scarcely 

 survived. The race was 

 won by Mr. Raikes 

 Fulthorpe's b. h. Wood- 

 cock, brother to Mr. 

 Bethell's Can/away, by 

 lifer fin, ridden by 

 Match'em Timms. I 

 suspect this accident 

 was caused in very much 

 the same manner as that 

 with which Robert 

 Hesletine, Afcr/in's trainer in the famous match, was connected in 1714. In 

 July of that year he was riding Mr. Childers' b. m. Duchess in the race for 

 Her Majesty's Gold Cup of 100 guineas for 6-year olds, 12 stone, 4 mile heats. 



The Karl of Carlisle' s " Jinrkhuntcr." 

 By pcrmitsion of H.R.II. Prince Christian. 



