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Cup or Purse was given to be run for at Epsom 

 from 1 741 to 1747, both years included, and that 

 Prince must, of course, have been * Fred.' And 

 when we come to inquire why his patronage 

 should have been bestowed upon Epsom in par- 

 ticular, the interesting fact is disclosed that he 

 once resided at the Durdans, a place which, 

 since his time, has been associated with the names 

 of personages so different from ' Fred,' and so 

 much more popular, as the late Sir Gilbert 

 Heathcote and the present Earl of Rosebery. 

 Of course, the house is not the same, for that in 

 which ' Fred ' had lived — and which was said to 

 have been built with materials obtained from 

 Nonsuch Palace, demolished by the Duchess of 

 Cleveland- — was burnt down and replaced by 

 another, of which a Mr. Dalbiac appears to have 

 been either the architect or the owner. 



In the next place it is by no means unusual for 

 the Derby to fall in June, as, to speak roughly, 

 all depends upon the incidence of Easter, which 

 guides the Jockey Club in the arrangement of the 

 race-meetings. The Derby was run on a day of June 

 in 1791, 1794, 1797, 1802, 1808, 1810, 1813, 1821, 

 1824, 1829, 1S32, 1835. 1840, 1859, 1862, 1870, 

 1874, 1878, 1881, 1885, 1889, 1890, and 1892. 



