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CHAPTER IV. 



FOURTH PERIOD : VICTORIA. 



Queen Victoria and the Turf — Sale of the Palace at New- 

 market — The Royal Stud at Hampton Court — Prince 

 Albert — Her Majesty and the Prince at Epsom — Ascot — 

 The Prince of Wales and the Turf — His Match with Lord 

 Strathnairn — Conspicuous Owners and Runners of Race- 

 horses during the Reign of Queen Victoria — Lord Palmer- 

 ston, Lord Derby, Lord G. Bentinck, Sir J. Hawley, 

 Admiral Rous — ^Mr. C. D. Rose and Mr. Blenkiron — 

 'Nobbling' — Running Rein, Leander, Ratan, Old 

 England, Bloodstone — Messrs. Goodman, Lichtwald, 

 W. Day, Bloodsworth, Stebbings — Tontine and Herodias 

 — Bend Or or Tadcaster ? — The Chetwynd-Durham Case 

 — Madame de Goncourt — Big Prices for Horses — Pre- 

 cariousness of Horse-racing and Race-horse-breeding — 

 Mr. Brodrick - Cloete with Paradox and Mr. Chaplin 

 with Hermit — Distinguished Horses exported and re- 

 tained at Home — The Old Times and the New, as 

 regards Stud-horses and their Fees — Ladies on the Turf 

 — Ascendency of the Jockey Club — Lnmunity of the 

 'Tout' — The Betting Nuisance — The Sporting Press — 

 Tattersall's — The ' Jockey Ring ' — The Glorification of 

 the Trainer — The Apotheosis of the Jockey — ' The Druid ' 

 on Betting — Successful Bookmakers — Fordham, Archer, 

 and Charles Wood — Other noted Jockeys of the Reign 

 — The ' John Osborne Testimonial ' — Trainers of the 



