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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



the sire of Herod), the dam of the Duke of Cumberland's Crab, Mr. Shafto's Snap, 

 Swiss, and others. He beat the Duke of Wharton's horses Stripling and Swallow, 

 Lord Lonsdale's Pay Jack (in 1719), the Duke of Ancaster's Blacklegs, Lord 

 Hillsborough's Witty, and Lord Drogheda's Snip (in three matches), besides 

 winning the King's Plate at Lewes, and two King's Plates at Newmarket. 



The two-year-old scurries, and the short races so familiar to the modern 



Racing man, are due to 

 conditions at which I 

 have no space to hint as 

 yet. They were known 

 and thought of long ago ; 

 for the old Duke of 

 Oueensberry, in the mid- 

 dle of the eighteenth 

 century, was especially 

 fond of snapping up 

 short, quick races with 

 the help of his jockey 

 Richard Goodison of 

 Newmarket, familiarly 

 known as Hell Fire Dick 

 from his skill in winning 

 such matches for his 

 crafty employer ; and Mr. 

 John Hutchinson of 

 Shipton, who was Miss 

 Westerns boy in 1751, 

 when he was only fifteen, 

 and afterwards became 



trainer to Mr. Peregrine Wentworth and Lord Grosvenor, and bred such fine 

 animals as Overton and Ilambldonian, is said to have been responsible for the first 

 suggestion of two-year-old racing, which he instituted at York after a match under 

 those conditions with a sporting parson named Goodricke. 



But neither the Duke nor the famous trainer were able to bring into fashion the 

 innovations connected with their names. Though the Royal Plates were not yet 



Peregrine Bertie, third Duke of Ancaster 



