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for annually at the Curragh. A third famous whip was that which the celebrated 

 jockey, Francis Buckle, sent over to Germany by the hand of Mr. Richard Tattersall 

 to become a challenge prize, adding by way of commentary that " with it he had won 

 five Derbies, two St. Ledgers, nine Oaks, and all the good things at Newmarket." 

 Before me as I write is the old Race Card for August 12, 1828, headed " Mecklen- 

 burgs Pferderennen, Doberaner Bahn. Richter, Str. Konigl. Hoheit Prinz Wilhelm 

 von Preussen," wherein it is announced that at eleven that morning will be held 

 " Rennen um Francis Buckle's Peitsche, verehrt durch Herrn Richard Tattersall." 

 Those were the days when German breeding, of which I shall have a little more to 

 say later, was benefiting by such importations as Brutandorf (by BlacklocK), Plumper 

 (by Election), and Phantom (by Walton), and when Count Batthyany was about to 

 begin a career upon the English Turf which was crowned by his Derby victory with 

 Galopin. 



Yet a third relic of the real Eclipse that must be mentioned here is his gold- 

 mounted hoof, which was presented, in the year of the Great Reform Bill, by 

 William IV. at his annual dinner at St. James's Palace, on May i6th, to members of 

 the Jockey Club, an institution which is singularly poor in such historic relics. It is 

 beautifully mounted in the centre of a gold salver on a gold pedestal, with an inscrip- 

 tion recording the gift and the date of 1832. The top is covered in with gold. Like the 

 Whip, the Hoof was originally given for a challenge race, run on the Ascot Thursday. 

 The King added ^200, and there was ,100 sweepstakes between members of the 

 Jockey Club alone. The first contest took place on the same afternoon ihaA.Camarine 

 and Rowton ran a dead heat for the Gold Cup, and was run over the same course. 

 There had only been three subscribers, one scratched, and Conolly on Lord 

 Chesterfield's Priam beat John Day on General Grosvenor's Sarpedon. In 1834 

 Lord Chesterfield won again with Glaucus (Bill Scott up), beating Galiopade, who 

 had won for Mr. Cosby the year before. Twelve months later Mr. Batson challenged, 

 but there was no response, and the Hoof remains to this day in the quiet possession 

 of the Jockey Club. It may be hoped that His present Majesty may be able to 

 suggest a way in which so interesting a trophy can once more be put up for a more 

 open competition. 



In the apartment of the Jockey Club called " Number One Card-room," there 

 hangs a picture of Eclipse, presented by Lord Rivers, in the same room with that of 

 Poca/iontas (over the door), of the thirty-six-gun frigate " Pique," and a canvas by 

 Stubbs, both these last presented by Admiral Rous. It is said that Lord Rivers 



