728 CONTENTS OF CHAPTERS. 



CHAPTER IV. THE TURF TO THE RESTORATION. 



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Wagers in Hyde Park Dr. Michael Hudson Harry Verney Colonel Harewood's Pessimism The Digby, 

 Villiers, Fenwick, and Newcastle Studs The Royal Stud at Tutbury Statue of Charles I. The 

 Astleys The Bowes Family Racing in Yorkshire, Northampton, Salisbury, Winchester, Stamford- 

 Oliver Cromwell Lord Fairfax Charles II. and his Court levels at Newmarket The Ladies of 

 Honour Frances Stuart and the Penny Piece Tom Thynne The Duke of Monmouth Fire in the 

 Royal Stables Nell Gwynne Her Banking Account Sporting Wagers Gambling ... 64 



CHAPTER V. THE BEGINNINGS OF REAL RACING AND THE FIRST GENEALOGIES OF BLOOD STOCK. 



The King's Jockeys The Grand Duke of Tuscany Races at Dorset Ferry The First Grammar School 

 at Newmarket Eastern Sires Racing in 1666 Lord Suffolk's Whitefoot Bernard Howard His 

 Banking Account The Second Duke of Buckingham Tregonwell Frampton's First Bet Spring 

 Meeting of 1680 Matches in 1681 The First Earl of Shaftesbury Yorkshire Thoroughbreds 

 Racing at Northampton, Burford, and Epsom William III. at Cambridge The Duke of Somerset's 

 Stud Mr. Leedes's Careless Famous Horses of the Seventeenth Century Mr. Pulleine's Thorough- 

 breds Eastern imported Sires ... ... ... ... ... 91 



CHAPTER VI. MR. TREGONWELL FRAMPTON AND HIS HORSES. 



His Bets in 1675 The Untruth about his Dragon Dr. Hawkesworth's Inventions Other Dragons His 

 Snorting Bess Heath House in 1689 Trainer to the King The Turf and the Mansion House 

 Death of Molly Bay Bolton The Famous Match between him and Sir William Strickland 

 Disastrous Victory of Merlin Matchem Timms Buckhunter The Hobby Mare Cock-fighting Sir 

 R. Fagg The Father of the Turf ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 125 



CHAPTER VII. ARABIAN, TURK, AND BARB. 



The Moonah Barb Mare What is meant by the "Figure System" Pure Descent and the "English 

 Thoroughbred" Flaws in Pedigree of Eclipse, Matchem, and Herod Original Mares of Modern 

 Racing Genealogies Tregonwells Natural Barb Mare The Black-legged Royal Mare The Dam 

 of the True Blues The Godolphin Arabian The Fortunate Moment of the Eighteenth Century 

 Arab Blood and Arab Breeding Points of an Arab The Darley Arabian More Valuable Importa- 

 tions Legends of the Godolphin Arabian His Stock Lord Rosebery's Pictures of him ... ... 145 



CHAPTER VIII. THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE AND HER INFLUENCE ON RACING. 



Lord Wharton and the Racing Politicians The Hellfire Club Leedes Queen Anne's Stud Races at 

 Black Hambleden, Datchet, and Ascot Queen's Plates The Duke of Marlborough and Lord 

 Godolphin "Seven Thousand a year, girls, and all for us !" Robert Walpole Ladies on the Turf 

 Pallampores and Byrampants The Exquisites of St. James's Newspapers in 1712 Racing in 1703 

 and 1704 Basto Mr. Pelham's Brocklesby Betty Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings in 1714 -Victory of 

 Queen Anne's Star Northern Racehorses St. John Paulet The Konigsmarcks George I. 

 Swift and Addison The South Sea Bubble Birth of Flying Childers Legends about his Pace 

 Lord Portmore's Fox Parson Goodricke Race Meetings in England before 1765 Bonny Black 

 Miss Neasham ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 173 



CHAPTER IX. RACING LADIES, AND A FOUNDER OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. 



George II.'s Accession Mrs. Carr The Routh Family Queer Nomenclature Lord Portmore's Crab 

 Mr. Mann's Sedbury York Races in 1739 Lor d March Death of Queen Caroline And of Marske 

 The Grosvenor Family and Estates Mary Davies Her London Property Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 

 Third Baronet, of Eaton The First Earl Grosvenor His Pottos His Racing Successes ... ... 205 



