50 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



(Lord Leigh's, own sister to his Diana). No 

 doubt the ladies had only followed the fashion — 

 as they would be sure to do — set by her Majesty 

 Queen Anne, who had already in the previous 

 reign been imitated by Lady Savile, Mrs. Lay ton, 

 and Mrs. Betty Savile, to say nothing of Lady 

 Gainsborough. 



Nowadays, of the very {q\n ladies who race, 

 one or two seem to think it necessary to exhibit 

 ostrich-like precaution by adopting a style and 

 title sometimes as transparent as glass, such as 

 ' Mrs. Manton ' (the Duchess of Montrose) or 

 ' Mrs. Jersey ' (the ' Jersey Lily '). 



As for the colours of the horses, which up to 

 1727 had frequently been nutmeg-gray, dun, sorrel 

 (which is only a particular shade of chestnut, the 

 term being sometimes used still, especially in 

 America), and yellow, with an occasional 'bald' 

 (whether 'pie* or 'skew'), and, with many a roan 

 and gray, they remained very much the same up to 

 1 760 ; for, at that date, we still find not only the 

 ordinary bay, black, chestnut, and gray, but white, 

 dun, sorrel, pied, yellow, mouse-coloured, cream- 

 coloured (such as is now confined principally to 

 the circus, and secondarily to the riding 'tailor' 



