HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



tague (of Cowdray, Sussex), who was renowned 

 for his breed of horses, and especially of mares, 

 the Duke of Albemarle (better known as General 

 Monk), Mr. W. Tregonwell Frampton (of whom 

 a probably untrue tale of horror is told, and who 

 was ' keeper of the running horses ' to the 

 Sovereign from 1695 ^o ^7~^)> ^^- Felton (a name 

 of historic, though sinister, memory), Lord Godol- 

 phin (whose son was to do so much for the 

 English breed of horses with his ' Godolphin 

 Arabian '), the free-spoken Mr. Tom Killigrew, 

 and, above all, the two royal bastards, the young 

 Dukes of Richmond and Grafton, whose names, 

 when they must have been mere children, are to 

 be found among the racers at Newmarket, and 

 whose descendants have been among the most 

 eminent patrons of the turf. 



The horses that ran at Newmarket in Charles 

 II. 's reign, so far as can be discovered, did not set 

 their mark in very many cases upon the pedigrees 

 of the modern thoroughbred (though, perhaps, 

 Spanker and Brimmer were among them), and 

 consequently there is no reason why their names 

 should be recorded here. To satisfy curiosity, 

 however, it may be worth while to mention 



