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phin's scale of betting. It was the second who 

 owned the * Arabian.') 



''^A.D. 1705 : The Prince Consort's (Prince 

 George of Denmark's) gray Barb won a match 

 (conditions and stake unknown) at Newmarket, 

 April 12, ac>ainst Mr. Tregonwell Frampton's 

 Thiller. (Notable because authentic cases of the 

 Prince's horse-racing are rare, though the general 

 fact that he did race at Newmarket is well known ; 

 and also because a ' Son of the Desert ' won the 

 match.) 



"^'a.d. 1709 : Her Majesty Queen Anne's Gray 

 Peg was beaten at Newmarket on October 7 by 

 Lord Ryalton's unnamed mare, 10 st. each, four 

 miles, 200 guineas. (Notable as the only dis- 

 coverable recorded instance in which Queen 

 Anne ran a horse in her own name ai Newmarket, 

 though there are several instances of her so 

 running at York.) 



A.D. 1713, 1715, 1723, and 1726 saw Mr. 

 Tregonwell Frampton running matches at New- 

 market with mules, sometimes a ' lesser ' and 

 sometimes a * bigger ' mule, against horses, distance 

 six miles (the mules not always obtaining any 

 allowance) ; a style of racing which was revived 



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