Royal Ascot 



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Augustus by a head, Le Rot est mort, Vive le Rot. The 

 meeting was an important one, in that it was the first 

 after the accession of William IV. The course, too, was in 

 excellent condition, every part equally good, with order 

 and exact regularity enforced by the new Master of the 

 Buckhounds, Lord Anson, there was no riding down of the 

 people, no disturbance on the course, no cracking of whips, 

 and no accidents. 



Although not much of a sportsman the King became 

 patron of Ascot Race Course, and at the annual ante-Derby 

 dinner of the Jockey Club, presented the Eclipse Foot, 

 with ^200, to be raced for annually by horses the property 

 of members of the Club. The first race for this trophy 

 was contested at the 1S32 meeting. Lord Chesterfield's 

 b. h. Priam (Conolly) coming in a winner by two lengths 

 from General Grosvenor's b. c. Sarpedon (Day), who had 

 held premier place as far as the distance. 



There was considerable sense in not throwing open 

 this race to the public, in that, as this beautiful relic had 

 to be competed for annually, on some occasion it might 

 have fallen into hands from which there would have been 

 difficulty in recovering it. With the Cup it was different, 

 and the King saw the sense of the feeling expressed, and 

 liberally allowed any one to run for it that conformed to the 

 rules, the consequence being that the enthusiasm on Cup 

 day, 1832, was intense, A dead heat was run on this 

 occasion by Sir M. Wood's Camarine and Mr. Chifney's 

 Rowton, which, in the second heat, resulted in a victory 

 for the former by two lengths. 



Immediately after the first race on the Tuesday, an 

 unpleasant incident occurred. The King and Queen had 



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