HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



brated match at 15 st. each, over the Beacon 

 course, owners up, and won by the Duke, in 1792 ; 

 Lord A. (ninth Dul<e of) Hamilton's Creeper (by 

 Tandem), that belonged to the Prince of Wales 

 in 1 79 1, and was second for the Great Subscrip- 

 tion at York in that year, being ridden by Chifney 

 senior, whose riding of him and of Traveller at 

 the same meeting, combined with the same jockey's 

 riding of Escape in the South, threw suspicion on 

 Chifney, and brought about the quarrel between 

 the Prince and the Jockey Club, which induced his 

 Royai Highness to forswear Newmarket for ever. 

 The Duke of Grafton's Dare Devil (by 

 Magnet), was imported by Colonel Hoomes 

 in 1795; Sir C. Turner's De Bash (by King 

 Fergus), foaled 1792, into Massachusetts by 

 a Mr. Jones after 1796; and Sir Charles Bun- 

 bury's Diomed, winner of the first Derby in 

 1780, into Virginia at the age of twenty-two 

 in 1799, where he died, the property of Colonel 

 Hoomes, in 1808, aged thirty-one, having begotten 

 the famous American sire Sir Archy, among other 

 good horses. The Prince of Wales's Don Quixote 

 (bred by Mr. Taylor in 1784, dam Grecian Prin- 

 cess), and afterwards Mr. 'Counsellor' Lade's, is 



