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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



opponent of Frampton's horses, and his movements about the country before the 

 days of vans or railways are an interesting comment on the rivalry between North 

 and South. In the same year he proved the soundness of his running at York 

 by again beating the same two opponents at Lincoln. When he went to 

 Newmarket in October, however, Mr. Frampton won. So at the Spring Meeting 

 of 1772, Woodcock arrived at Newmarket again with a bevy of strong supporters 

 from Yorkshire, all thirsting for vengeance ; and the bay ridden by Match'em 

 Timms was backed for very large sums of money against Mr. Frampton's grey 

 gelding. Once more the Yorkshiremen proved successful, and one of their number 



Mr. Pelham's " Old Partner," 

 By permission of II. R.H . 1'rincc Christian. 



who must have been as poetical as he was sportsmanlike is said to have remarked 

 that " though Woodcock had drooped like the leaves in October, yet he was as 

 sweet as violets in the spring." 



Frampton's portrait, drawn the year before he died, by Wootton, is before me as 

 I write, and though a jockey's whip is in his right hand, a game cock struts upon the 

 table near his heartland a greyhound rests its head upon his knee. He was in fact 

 as much of an all round sportsman as his times permitted, and it would be impossible 

 to omit from the shortest appreciation of his career those few details of his activities 

 beyond the Race Course which have come down to us. No. 447 of the " Postman " 

 records for instance, that on April 7th, 1698, there were " twenty-five cock matches 



