86 Silk and Scarlet 



and Sir Harry Vane Tempest, who brought the thril- 

 ling news in person, at last, to the more aristocratic 

 haunts of the Cocoa Tree, rode the winner in the Park 

 next week, and drew the Prince of two thousand 

 on a prize-fight, almost beneath the gibbet of Jerry 

 Abershaw. 



The nineteenth century found Betts and Hilton in 

 office on the Heath ; Lord Sackville the best rider 

 at Bibury, and Jonathan Bray the door-keeper at 

 Tattersall's. The Duke of Queensberry's green vis- 

 a-vis, with its long-tailed blacks and its shrivelled 

 mufif-wearing tenant, was an object of interest to 

 every gazer in the Ring, and eight years more went 

 by before 



"The jockey boys, Newmarket's crew, 

 Who know a little ' thing or two,' " 



sang mock dirges over that " Star of Piccadilly.** 

 Although in obedience to his vow, the Prince's eye was 

 no longer kept in practice at Newmarket, he could still 

 see through a horse like a hoop ; but his colts, which 

 ran within the rails of St. James's Park before going 

 up to Aldridge's, did little towards clearing off the 

 seventeen thousand odd, which he incurred with his 

 farrier in seven years. 



TheSanchoz/. "^^ 1804, the great Mellish constellation 

 Pavilion Match arose with Sancho and Staveley ; and 

 at Lewes. Brighton and all its Steyne joys were 



made still more delightful on that July afternoon, 

 when he appealed for the second time against the 

 result of the New Claret Stakes, in the three thousand 

 guinea a-side match over Lewes. Sir John Lade, 

 whose cook-bride had once challenged a fair rival to 

 drive four horses eight miles at Newmarket for 

 500 p.p., sat behind six greys on the royal barouche, 

 and the Colonel followed with his four to match, in 

 charge of the Countess of Barrymore, who might or 

 might not have been cognizant of the fact, that her 

 v/hip was to act as second to her husband at day-break. 



