112 (^UKi:.\ i)i- TliHMPS. 



QUEEN OF TRUMPS. 



WINNER^OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, AND THE DONCASTER ST LEGER, 1885. 



The Queen of Trumps, a fine, spanking, dark brown mare, 

 with a white star, and three white legs, was bred in 1 832 

 by her owner, the Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn, M.P. She was 

 got^by Velocipede, out of Princess Royal, byCastrel, out of 

 Queen of Diamonds, her dam by Sir Peter, out of Lucy, 

 by Florizel — Frenzy (Phenomenon's dam), by Eclipse; her 

 dam by Engineer, Lass of the Mill, by Traveller — Miss 

 Makeless, &c. 



The Queen of Trumps' first appearance was at the Holy- 

 well Hunt Meeting in 1834 when she won the Champagne 

 Stakes, beating Sir T. Stanley's Peter Simple, Sir R. Bul- 

 keley's Borghese, and Mr Price's The Juggler, in a canter; 

 a performance which gained her many friends in the North 

 and West, although it had but little influence in her favour 

 with *' the Knobs" at "' the Corner." 



In 1835, her first race was for the Oaks, which had been 

 already booked as a tit bit to be '' preserved^^ for Mr Greville's 

 pocket; but on the day, when all the fillies were parading 

 in the Warren, many a five-pound man shifted his fancy 

 bet from the favourite to the Queen — vowing " Preserve to 

 be all gammon, and the Queen of Trumps the mare." In 

 fact, to any judge, or even to one fond of horses, the supe- 

 riority of the form, shape, and action, of " the Queen," were 

 so apparent, as to admit but little doubt, excepting to the 

 prejudiced, of Preserve being left in a pickle; and of " the 

 Queen" being a real trump. 



To make a long story short, the following started, and 

 to avoid repetition we have placed them as they came in : — 



