CONTENTS 



Tadcaster ? — The Chetwynd-Durham Case — Madame 

 de Goncourt — Big Prices for Horses — Precarious- 

 ness of Horse-racing and Race-horse-breeding — Mr. 

 Brodrick-Cloete with Paradox and Mr. Chaplin with 

 Hermit — Distinguished Horses exported and re- 

 tained at Home — The Old Times and the New, as 

 regards Stud-horses and their Fees — Ladies on the 

 Turf — Ascendancy of the Jockey Club — Immunity of 

 the 'Tout' — The Betting Nuisance — The Sporting 

 Press — Tattersall's — The ' Jockey Ring ' — The Glori- 

 fication of the Trainer — -The Apotheosis of the Jockey 

 —'The Druid 'on Betting — Successful Bookmakers 

 — Fordham, Archer, and Charles Wood — Other noted 

 Jockeys of the Reign — The ' John Osborne Testi- 

 monial ' — Trainers of the Winners in the Great Races 

 — Colour, Height, and Nomenclature of Race-horses 

 — General Condition of the Turf — George IV., 

 Escape, and Mr. John Kent - - - - 153 — 274 



CHAPTER V. 



SOME MEMORABLE MATCHES. 



Some Preliminary Remarks about ' Clocking ' — The Prince 

 of Wales (Richard II.), Charles II. and William HI., 

 and their Matches — Messrs. Lepton, Calvert, and 

 Norden ?'. Time — Honeycomb Punch — Mr. Sinclair 

 and Mr. and Miss Pond ?'. Time — Prince George of 

 Denmark — Queen Anne — Mr. Frampton and Sir J. 

 Lade and Mule z'. Horse — First recorded ' Tipping ' 

 of a Successful Jockey — First recorded ' Dead Heat ' 

 — Long Distances — Big Wagers — Heavy Weights — 

 Epigrammatic Matches — Mr. Cooper Thornliill v. 

 Time — Lord March's Carriage-match — A Stupid and 

 Cruel Match — A Thousand Miles in a Thousand 

 Successive Hours on the same Horse — Two Thou- 



