GEORGE IV. AND WILLIAM IV. 



Lye (whose figure and ' finish ' moved spectators 

 and writers to ribaldry, as they hkened him to a 

 vision of ' breeches and boots in convulsions '), 

 and, beyond all, the eccentric, humorous, and 

 foul-mouthed Bill Scott (brother of John Scott, 

 the famous trainer of Whitewall), who rode Jack 

 Spigot and Memnon, memorable winners of the 

 St, Leger in 1821 and 1825, and whose stories 

 over a bottle, rather than his prowess in the pig- 

 skin, won him his epithet of ' glorious' Bill. 



George IV,, in 1821, when he paid his visit of 

 acknowledgment to Ireland, presented to the Turf 

 Club the Gold Whip, to be run for annually at 

 the Curragh ; and in his reign the celebrated 

 jockey, Frank Buckle, sent over to Germany by 

 the hands of Mr. Tattersall in 1826, to be to the 

 Teutons what the whip of Charles II. (if the 

 Merry Monarch had anything whatever to do 

 with it) is to us Anglo-Saxons, his own particular 

 whip, bearing on its silver handle a list of five 

 Derbies, two St. Legers, and nine ' Oakses,' 

 which it had probably been instrumental in 

 enabling him to win. For the Germans (whose 

 country was then divided for stud-book purposes 

 into North Germany and South Germany, when, 



