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A HISTORF OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Sir R<ilfih Gore's " Of hello." 

 By permission of H.R.H. Prince C/itistian. 



discovered, at just about the same time as the fatal stroke of apoplexy had fallen on 

 the Queen. It may be noted, in passing, that the sad event did not have the effect 

 of wrecking all sport during this August meeting on the Yorkshire moors, which 



had been attended by so 

 great a concourse of no- 

 bility and gentry that no 

 less than 156 carriages 

 were counted in one day 

 upon the field ; for on 

 the Tuesday, August 3rd, 

 Sir William Blackett's 

 ch. h. Bagpiper, by the 

 Toulouse Barb, won a ^40 

 Plate, four mile heats, 

 against Lord Lonsdale's 

 Algier (stakes 8gs.), Lord 

 Derwentwater's Creeping 

 Kate, Sir R. Milbank's 

 Charlotte, Lady Savile's Fearnought, Mr. Mutton's Surley, Mr. Thompson's Old 

 Tuner, and Mr. Graeme's Champion ; and this list is a good example of the sport 

 that went on so gaily, well outside the charmed circle of Newmarket. 



It will be as well to add here, from the records preserved by Mr. Orton, the 

 names of a few more of these northern horses and owners before Queen Anne's 

 death. In 1709 Lord Molineux ran Captain, Darccy, Harmless, Mixbury and Recluse. 

 Other horses were Wart, Stout, Whitenose, Merryman, Mr. Place's Pcndragon, Mr. 

 Graham's Brisk, Button, and Milkmaid. In 1710 the prominent owners were Mr. 

 Stapleton, Sir H. Bellassis, Mr. Scarborough, Mr. Sunderland, Lord Irwin, and 

 Mr. Scroope ; and Mr. Hutton's Miss and Spark, and Mr. Curwen's Dancing-Master 

 and Blackfoot were running. In this year died " Old True Blue," as his friends called 

 Mr. William Lambton, of Lambton, who sat in the House of Commons for Durham 

 County at frequent intervals during the long period between 1685 and 1710. He 

 dressed in the plain grey homespun made from the wool of his own sheep, and was 

 one of the most independent members in the Lower House. He was one of the 

 Justices who subscribed their wages for the purchase of a Plate to be run for on 

 Durham Moor, and the name of his descendants in those parts is even more 



