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FAMOUS RACING TALES OF THE \«L."-- waster Family Library of Veterinary N/tedic<ne Cummirigs School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University 200 Westtx)ro Road North Grafton. MA 01S36 .TUFTS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 3 9090 014 561 241 [PRICE ONE SHILLING.] ^" A Little Book for Every Holder of Consols and for every Counting-House and Private Desk in the Land. TALES PLEASANT AND TRAGIC OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND, ITS FAITHFUL AND UNTKUE SERVANTS, ANCIENT FOES AND TIME-TRIED FRIENDS, CLOSE PINCHES AND NARROW ESCAPES; WITH PORTRAITS AND ANECDOTES OF THE FOUNDER OF THE BANK—THE OLD BANKERS, CITY CELEBRITIES AND MERCHANTS; GRESHAM AND THE CITY GRASSHOPPER; MARTINS, CHILDS, ROTHSCHILDS, BARINGS, COUTTS, THE GOLDSMIDS, &c. WARD'S PICTURE OF "THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE."—THE ROMAXCE OF BANKING.—THE PATTERN CASHIER. NOTABILIA OF FORGERIES.-CURIOSITIES OF BANK NOTES, &c. BY A HANDMAID THE OLD LADY OF THREADNEEDLE STREET. LONDON .—JAMES HOGG, 22, EXETER STREET, STRAND. LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. (Sn- pm/c m.) — " J FAMOUS RACING MEN WITH ANECDOTES AND PORTRAITS. By 'THORMANBY.' In life's rough tide I sank not down, But swam till Fortune threw a rope, Buoyant on bladders filled with hope." Green. ( T/te Spleen. " Nee metuis dubio Fortunte stantis in orbe Numen, et exosa- verba superba decc ? " Fearest thou not the divine power of Fortune, as she stands on her unsteady wheel, that gfoddess who abhors all vaunting words ? "--OviD. LONDON: JAMES HOGG, 22, EXETER STREET, STRAND, W.C. 1882. ^4,C^\3 WITH A FRONTISPIECE SHOWING THE HAND OF GOOD FORTUNE! Crown 8vo., price 3s. 6d. (Post free for 48 Penny Stamps), YOUR LUCK'S IN YOUR HAND; OR, The Science of Modern Palmistry. Chiefly according to the System of D'Arpestigkt and Desbakolles, with some account of the Gipsies, by A. R. Craig, M.A., Author of "The Philosophy of Training," &c. THIRD EDITION, WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON: JAMES HOGG, 22, EXETEE STREET, STRAND. In Cloth, 485 pages, price 4s. 6d. 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The Father of the Turf 9 Colonel O'Kelly 13 Sir Charles Bukbury 19 The Dukes of Grafton 24 The Earls of Derby 32 The Duke of Queensberry (" Old Q.'') ... 40 Colonel Mellish 47 eoyalty on the turf 51 Mr. John Mytton 55 Lord G-eorge Bentinck (Frontispiece) ... 63 Mr. John Gully 72 Sir Tatton Sykes 82 The Earl of Zetland ( With Porto-ait) . .88 The Earl of Glasgow 91 Sir Joseph Hawley, Bart. (With Poo-trait) . .95 Mr. James Merry (With Portrait) .... 100 Admiral Eous {Portrait on Cover) 107 Mr. George Payne {With Portrait) . 113 General Peel {With Poo-trait) 120 The Earl of Wilton 124 Price Half-a-Crown (post free on receipt of Thirty-two Penny Stamps), THE POCKET DltTIOKilM OF 01 THOllSMD iRlSTIM MMES, With their Meanings Explained and Arranged in Four Different Ways for Ready Reference : their Meanings attached. 3. 1. Masculine Names, with | Dictionary op Meanings—Masculine Names. attached. 2. Feminine Names, with their Meanings ; 4. Dictionary of Meanings—Feminine Names. 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Were we disposed to follow this example, we might go back to ages as remote as those of Athelstane in search of the origin of horse-racing in England, for Joseph Strutt, no mean authority, informs us in his Sports and PcLstimes that the aforesaid Saxon monarch was the first great man who figm-ed on the turf. We prefer, however, plunging in medias res, and without troubling om\selves to ascer- tain when and how the taste of the English for horse-racing originated, shall be content with stating when it first took definite shape. The Turf, as we understand the term, can hardly be said to have been established before the commencement of the last century, when the famous Gfodolphin Arabian, so-called from the nobleman who introduced him into England, appeared upon the scene, and became the founder of oru- best blood in horse-flesh. Little is known of this celebrated sire, beyond the facts that he measured fom-teen and a-half hands, that he was originally given by a Mr. Coke to the proprietor of the St. James's Coffee House, and that he died honourably, under the shadow of the Gog-Magog Hills, in 1753. It is possible that he was preceded by another famous sultan of the stud, the Byerley Turk, whose advent has been placed at 1689 ; but this is doubtful. Our merry monarch, Charles II., undoubtedly had a taste for horse-racing, and indulged in it to some extent at Newmarket ; but the animals which ran then were wholly different from the thoroughbreds of the next century. The reign of Charles, however, is noteworthy for having produced the man to whom immemorial tradition has assigned the proud title of " Father of the Turf." The gentleman who earned that high distinction was Tregonwell Frampton, Esquire, of More- ton, Dorsetshire, who was born in 1642, and appears to have filled the post of Keeper of the King's Eunning-Horses to William III. Anne and George I., and possibly Charles II. and James II. In an age of amateurs Frampton was essentially a professional, and matched his horses, cocks, and greyhounds against those of his contemporaries with a professional astuteness and skill which ; 10 FAMOUS RACING MEN. rendered liim almost invincible. There are two portraits of Tre- gonwell Frampton extant; and it must be confessed that his face is not a prepossessing one. It has the mean, crafty look of a miser and one can well believe the tales told of both his avarice and his cruelty. There is one horrible story narrated of him, which, if it could be proved, would stamj) him as one of the most hideous monsters that ever lived. It is related that he had a famous horse, named Dragon, who had won his master a fortune in stakes and bets, and this noble animal, so runs the tale, met with a cruel and diabolical death. He had defeated a mare of extraordinary speed in a match for 10,000 guineas, and the owner of the mare, chagrined though he was at losing the race, nevertheless, imme- diately after it, backed her to run any gelding in the world for double the sum he had just lost. Frampton took the bet, and said that he would on the morrow produce a gelding that should beat her.