90 HANDBOOK OF THE TURF. 



Bonnets o' Blue, by Sir Charles out of Reality, by Sir Arcliy. 

 Chestnut, with star, 15.2 hands high. Fine in every point 

 Mdth a wonderful muscular development. She defeated Boston 

 in the great race on Union Course, Long Island, X. Y., JNIay 

 10, 1842, in a match for 820,000 a side; four mile heats — 

 time of first heat 7:321; second heat, 7:45. 



Fashionably Bred. A term which has been rather 

 promiscuously applied to a horse whose ancestors on both sides 

 are of successful producing and prepotent blood, and of such 

 breeding that his services and progeny meet with ready sale at 

 high prices. But such a term is liable to many changes in its 

 application, and often to some disappointment. It possesses 

 little true significance. 



Faslg- Track. The kite track is often so called from 

 the name of the person who built the first track of this kind 

 in the United States, Mr. William B. Fasig of New York. 



Father of the Turf. [Eng.] A term applied to 

 Tregonwell Frampton, Esq., of Moreton, Dorsetshire, England, 

 keeper of the running horses at Newmarket, to their majesties, 

 William III, Queen Anne, George I, and George II. He died 

 March 12, 1727, aged 86 years. 



Favorite. The highest selling horse in a race; the 

 horse most likely to win, in the opinion of the talent. 



Feather Weig'ht. A feather weight is seventy-five 

 pounds. 



Fee. The percentage of a purse paid by the person 

 making an entry in such purse or race. The amount varies 

 according to the rules. On the running turf, the fee to a 

 jockey m all races not exceeding 8500 to the winning horse, is 

 85 for a losing mount, and 815 for a winning mount; and in 

 all other races in the absence of a special agreement, 810 for a 

 losing mount, and 825 for a winning mount — this rule applying 

 only to licensed jockeys. 



Felloe. The outside circle of a wheel, of wood, or iron, 

 around which the tire is fixed, and to the inside of which the 

 spokes of the wheel are fitted. In some sulky wheels they are 

 made of sheet steel, crescent in shape, to receive the tul3ular 

 pneumatic tire ; in others they are of wood, usually hickory. 



Felt. A material of which many patterns of horse boots 

 are made. It is an unwoven fabric of wool, short hair, or wool 

 and fur, matted together by pressure, heating, and beating. 

 Its close, inseparable quality is due to the uniting of the ser- 

 rated edges of the wool fibres with each other, which are then 

 compressed under heat and moisture. 



