ISO HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



rider Frank Butler (nephew to William and 

 Samuel Chifney, jun.), of whom it was said in 

 after-times that he could have won the Derby of 

 1852 with any one of the first three (Daniel 

 O'Rourke, Barbarian, and Chief Baron Nicholson) 

 and that he, and not the horse he rode, should be 

 recorded as the winner of that race. 



As for the ladies — who, as we have seen, lent a 

 peculiar grace to the sport of horse-racing by 

 running or allowing to be run in their names 

 their own or others' horses, or by giving a plate 

 out of their own purses or out of collections made 

 by them — almost the last flash of the brilliancy 

 which they communicated was seen at the 

 Houghton Meeting at Newmarket in 1833, when, 

 for the appropriately named Boudoir Stakes, the 

 Hon. Mrs. Grosvenor, Lady Alice Peel, and the 

 Countess of Chesterfield ran each, appropriately 

 enough, a filly, pour encourager les autres. And, 

 as for the nomenclature of horses, there was little 

 or nothing by this time that ' would make a door- 

 plate blush for shame, if door-plates were not so 

 brazen,' as Thomas Hood wrote, though purists 

 and puritans might still find some term that savours 

 of impropriety or profanity. This has been the 



