Kings of the Turf. Memoirs and Anecdotes of Distinguished Owners, Backers, Trainers, and Jockeys who Have Figured on the British Turf with Memorable Achievements of Famous HorsesHutchinson & Company, 1898 - 378 עמודים |
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Admiral Rous Archer Ascot Baron Bay Middleton best horse betting Blue Riband bred brilliant Cesarewitch Charles Chifney colours colt course Custance Danebury Dawson death Derby winner Doncaster Duke Earl England English Epsom fame famous father favourite filly Fordham fortune Fred Archer gallop gentleman George Fordham George Payne Glasgow Goodwood Grafton Grand Greville Gully's hand Handicap head Hermit honour House Jockey Club John Day John Gully John Scott Kingsclere Lady Leger Lord Derby Lord Eglinton Lord Falmouth Lord George Bentinck Lord Glasgow Lord Jersey Lord Palmerston lordship mare Marquis master match Merry mount never Newmarket Oaks once Ormonde owner Peel Plate popular Prince race race-horses ridden riding rode saddle Sir Joseph Hawley Sir Tatton sport sportsman stable Stakes stud success Thormanby Thousand Guineas took trainer triumph Turfite two-year-old victory whilst winning won the Derby Yorkshire young
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עמוד 96 - There are some hereditary strokes of character, by which a family may be as clearly distinguished as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First lived and died a hypocrite. Charles the Second was a hypocrite of another sort, and should have died upon the same scaffold. At the distance of a century, we see their different characters happily revived, and blended in your Grace. Sullen and severe without religion...
עמוד 53 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
עמוד 124 - The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...
עמוד 132 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
עמוד 177 - Ah Ben! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun, Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
עמוד 231 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
עמוד 96 - The character of the reputed ancestors of some men has made it possible for their descendants to be vicious in the extreme, without being degenerate. Those of your grace, for instance, left no distressing examples of virtue, even to their legitimate posterity, and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality upon record to insult or upbraid you.
עמוד 249 - Charles Grey, Duke of Grafton, Lichfield, and Stanley's brothers. It passed off very well — racing all the morning, an excellent dinner, and whist and blind hookey in the evening. It was curious to see Stanley. Who would believe they beheld the orator and statesman, only second, if second, to Peel in the House of Commons, and on whom the destiny of the country perhaps depends ? There he was, as if he had no thoughts but for the turf, full of the horses, interest in the lottery, eager, blunt, noisy,...
עמוד 9 - ... and a courtly breeding. He had them both; and though the black-leg might quail before the awful scrutiny of his piercing eye, there never was a man so scrupulously polite to his inferiors as Lord George Bentinck. The turf, too, was not merely the scene of the triumphs of his stud and his bettingbook. He had purified its practice and had elevated its character, and he was prouder of this achievement than of any other connected with his sporting life. Notwithstanding his mighty stakes, and the...
עמוד 249 - ... in it ; besides this there is an abundance of grass and shade. It has been for thirty or forty years the resort of all our old jockeys, and is now occupied by the sporting portion of the Government. We had Lord Grey and his daughter, Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Lord and Lady Errol, Althorp, Graham, Uxbridge, Charles Grey, Duke of Grafton, Lichfield, and Stanley's brothers. It passed off very well—racing all the morning, an excellent dinner, and whist and blind hookey in the evening.