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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH 1URF. 



By 1818, the year when Plambletonian died, the long peace that followed Waterloo 

 sent many more people to the Turf than had ever gone racing before ; and the ranks 

 of Dandies, Exquisites, and Ruffians who met at Tattersall's as at a club, were swelled 

 by the numbers of sportsmen who had been out at the front, a state of things very 

 much like that noticeable in 1902 and 1903 after a much larger army had come back 

 from South Africa. In 1818, Mr. Thornhill, of the famous Riddlesworth stud, was 

 a prominent figure He won the Derby of 1818 and 1820, and the Oaks of 1819, and 



" Reveller " (1815) by " Com us." 



the blood he preferred was Whisker, Merlin and Orville. The son of the original 

 " Old Tattersall " had died in January, 1810, but Mr. R. Tattersall and his brothers 

 had succeeded to the business and his voice, and the sharp knock of his hammer was 

 to be heard above all the din and bustle. In 1817 there was an especially vivacious 

 meeting which deserves more particular mention, for it was caused by the downfall of 

 a mighty champion 



One of OmUle's sons, Mr. Peirse's Ebor, won the St. Leger of 1817, and beat the 

 mighty Blacklock by half a neck, " wide of all the rest," when John Jackson was 



