CONTENTS 



of George IV. — His Presentation of a Gold Whip to 

 the Irish Turf Club —Frank Buckle and his Whip, 

 presented to the Germans— Foreign Importations of 

 English Horses — Count and Prince Batthyany — 

 Galopin — Ladies and the Turf — Messrs. John Mytton, 

 Mellish, and Apperley — ' Peter ' — William IV. and 

 the Turf — ' Patron ' of the Jockey Club — His Race- 

 horses and Jockeys — The Fifth Duke of Richmond 

 — The King insulted at Ascot — Celebrities of the 

 Turf in the Reign of William IV. — Lord George 

 Bentinck — Change of Age-taking for Race-horses — 

 Foreigners on the English Turf — Their importation 

 of English Horses — A Lordly Ascot Cup Field — 

 Iroquois and Foxhall — ■' Antipodeans ' — Legislative 

 Enactments — Jockeys — Ladies — Nomenclature — 

 Attempts to revive the 'Arab' — Lord Cleveland con- 

 demns the Turf— Gate-money Meetings — The Hip- 

 podrome at Bayswater — The Bentinck Benevolent 

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CHAPTER IV. 



FOURTH PERIOD : VICTORIA. 



Queen Victoria and the Turf — Sale of the Palace at 

 Newmarket — The Royal Stud at Hampton Court — 

 Prince Albert — Her Majesty and the Prince at Epsom 

 — Ascot — The Prince of Wales and the Turf — His 

 Match with Lord Strathnairn — Conspicuous Owners 

 and Runners of Race-horses during the Reign of 

 Queen Victoria — Lord Palmerston, Lord Derby, Lord 

 G. Bentinck, Sir J. Hawley, Admiral Rous — Mr. C. D. 

 Rose and Mr. Blenkiron — 'Nobbling' — Running 

 Rein, Leander, Ratan, Old England, Bloodstone — 

 Messrs. Goodman, Lichtwald, W. Day, Bloodsworth, 

 Stebbings — Tontine and Herodias — Bend Or or 



