14 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



sources, including Swift's letters (Swift to Stella, 

 date August lo, 171 1), and horses of hers, to wit. 

 Pepper, Mustard, and Star (afterwards Jacob), 

 ran at York in 171 2, 171 3, and 17 14 (a day or 

 two before her death in August). Her Majesty 

 was of oreat service to the turf and to horse- 

 breeding, as may be inferred from the single 

 instance of her Moonah Barb mare, from which 

 descended, ^rfr les fennues, Shuttle, Charles XII., 

 Physician, The Doctor, and other celebrities, in- 

 cluding the American horse, Brown Prince. A 

 disinterested visitor to Newmarket in Queen 

 Anne's reign has left a by no means favourable 

 account cf what he witnessed there during the 

 races, mentioning especially ' Mr. Frampton, the 

 oldest and, as they say, the cunningest jockey in 

 England,' who ' made as light of throwing away 

 ^500 or ^1,000 at a time as other men do of 

 their pocket-money,' and ' Sir Robert Fagg, of 

 Sussex' (a member of an enthusiastically Royalist 

 family), ' of whom fame says he has the most in 

 him and the least to show for it, relatinp; to 

 jockeyship, of any man there.' 



To these two might have been added, as promi- 

 nent performers at Newmarket in Queen Anne's 



