CONTENTS 



CHAPTER II. 



SECOND PERIOD : GEORGE III. 



George III. and the Turf — Royal Patronage of Horse- 

 racing — ■ Establishment of the ' Classic ' Races — 

 Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, and Epsom Races 

 — Questions concerning the Derby and the other 

 ' Classic ' Races — Ascot — Brighton — Lewes — Good- 

 wood—York — A Royal Duke pushed into a Fish- 

 pond — The Racing of Two-Year-Olds and of Yearlings 

 — The Story of Blacklock — The Collapse of the 

 Arabian — The Rise of the Betting Ring — -Foreigners 

 on the English Turf — The Tattersalls and the 

 Weatherbys — The Practice of 'Nobbling' — New- 

 market Meetings increased from Three to Eight — 

 Ladies on the Turf — Seven Notable Horses : Dr. 

 Syntax, Sir Joshua, Copenhagen, Beeswing, Selim, 

 Castrel, Rubens — Colours and Heights of Race- 

 horses — Nomenclature — American Importations of 

 English Horses — Castianira, Dam of Sir Archy — 

 Diamond or Duchess and Alice Carneal — Lexington 

 and Umpire — The Cub Mare, Dam of Old Slamer- 

 kin — A Sensitive Bookmaker — Some Celebrated 

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CHAPTER III. 



THIRD PERIOD : GEORGE IV. AND WILLIAM IV. 



(ieorge IV. and the Turf — Virginia Water — Ascot — 

 George IV. 's Race-horses and Jockeys — Prominent 

 Turfites in his Reign — The Right of ' Warning-off ' — 

 Curious Plague at Petvvorth Stud-farm — Tatiersall's 

 and the Spread of 'Ring-worm ' — Three Great Horses 

 — The N.S.W. Sir Hercules — Jockeys in the Reign 



