CHAPTER III. 



THIRD PERIOD : GEORGE IV. AND WILLIAM IV. 



George 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 Petworth 

 Stud-farm — Tattersall's and the Spread of ' Ring-worm ' — 

 Three Great Horses — The N.S.W. Sir Hercules — Jockeys 

 in the Reign of George IV. — Plis 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 Hippodrome 

 at Bayswater — The Bentinck Benevolent Fund. 



We now come to the reign of George IV., alias 

 the Magnificent, who had been Prince Regent 



8 



