Eclipse (46 page)

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Authors: Nicholas Clee

A race meeting at a country course, where the spectators find their own vantage points, by Rowlandson.

Rowlandson's The Betting Post, with the Prince of Wales (pointing) on the left, and Dennis O'Kelly (blue coat and crutches) on the right.

Left:
the bloodstock auctioneer Tattersalls was at this time based near Hyde Park Corner in London.

Main picture: Rowlandson's caricature shows Dennis O'Kelly (in the portrait on the right wall)
as the presiding genius over the scene of intrigue and despair at the subscription club room at Tattersalls, where bets were struck.

Below:
Richard Tattersall, standing before a portrait of his beloved Highfl yer.

Left:
The Derby Jig, danced by Lord Derby and his mistress, the actress Elizabeth Farren, in the year when they married.

Below:
a fête champêtre at Derby's house The Oaks; on one such occasion, the Derby Stakes was conceived.

J. N. Sartorius's painting of the Derby in the 1790s, before it became the race that stopped the nation.

Below:
a scene that might be from Evelyn Waugh or P. G. Wodehouse, at Tattenham Corner in the 1920s.

Left:
Vera Willoughby's 1932 poster advertises the bus service of one's dreams.

Eclipse relics (
clockwise from top
): the Jockey Club whip, reputedly containing hair from Eclipse's tail; a framed portion of his chestnut hide; three details of his hoof; and his skeleton. The skeleton is at the Royal Veterinary College, and the other bits of his anatomy are at the Jockey Club Rooms.

Index

Numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Abingdon Racecourse
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Abingdon, Earl of
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Adam, Robert
(i)

Adonis
(i)

Agua Caliente Handicap, Mexico
(i)

Alamanza
(i)

Alcock's Arabian
(i)

Allabaculia
(i)

Alleged
(i)

American Eclipse
(i)

American races and racehorses
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Ancaster, Duke of
(i)

Andrews, Charles
(i)

Anmer
(i)

Anne, Queen
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n

Annette
(i)

Annual Register
(i)

Antinous
(i)
,
(ii)

Antiochus
(i)

Anvil
(i)

Arabs
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n

Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von
(i)
,
(ii)

Archer, Fred
(i)
,
(ii)

Ard Patrick
(i)
,
(ii)

Arkle
(i)
,
(ii)

Arundel, Earl of 44 Ascot Racecourse
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Gold Cup
(i)
,
(ii)
;
1866
(iii)
,
(iv)
;
1884
(v)
;
1897
(vi)

King George VI Stakes
(i)
,
(ii)

Noblemen and Gentlemen's Plate (1769)
(i)
,
(ii)

Oatlands Stakes (1791)
(i)

Queen Alexandra Stakes
(i)

Queen Anne Stakes 46 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Atkinson, William
(i)
n

Augusta
(i)
185
and n
,
(ii)

Austen, Jane 140 Authorized
(i)
n
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)

Bahram
(i)

Baker, Nanny
(i)

Baronet
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

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