i6o HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



rare when intermittent attacks are made upon 

 mere excrescences instead of an unremitting eftort 

 against the centre of vitality. 



Reasons unconnected with horse-racing make 

 H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, of course, the most 

 conspicuous among the personages of the turf 

 during the present reign. As everybody knows, 

 he has his rooms at Newmarket (which, by the 

 way, has so far recovered from the neglect expe- 

 rienced by it at the commencement of Queen 

 Victoria's sovereignty, that now nearly all the 

 'dons' of the turf and nearly all the principal 

 trainers have residences either there or in the 

 vicinity, and make the place more a ' private con- 

 cern ' than Kempton Park or Sandown Park), hard 

 by the Club, in the red-brick building in which so 

 many other members find accommodation during 

 the race-meetings ; and he keeps up the practice 

 of his great-uncles, George and William, with his 

 annual Derby-dinner to his comrades of the Jockey 

 Club, of which he has been a member since 1864. 

 His colours first appeared at Newmarket — to trust 

 to memory — in 1877, when, at the July Meeting, 

 he ran his hitherto or thitherto unbeaten Arab, 

 Alep (age unknown), in a match of four miles, 



