File:How To Escape Winning (BM J,4.66).jpg
- Published by: S W Fores
Hand-coloured etching
- Height: 271 millimetres
- Width: 376 millimetres
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Native name | British Museum | ||
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Coordinates | 51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W | ||
Established | 1753 | ||
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A companion print to BMSat 7919. A satire on the Newmarket sensation of Oct. 1791: on 20 Oct. the Prince's horse Escape, reputed the best horse on the turf, was beaten by two horses of inferior reputation. The odds therefore changed heavily against him, but on the next day Escape won. The Jockey Club decided that if the Prince did not dismiss his jockey Chifney, no horses should be run against him. The Prince, it is said, then gave up the Turf, but allowed Chifney £200 a year. Chifney, 'Genius Genuine', 1804, pp. 67 ff. Huish, 'Memoirs of George IV', 1831, i. 273-84; he exonerates the Prince, but says that the incident damaged his reputation as a man of honour more than any other event of his life. (The Prince, though he never revisited Newmarket, did not give up the Turf ('D.N.B.'), but had temporarily done so in 1792. Malmesbury, 'Diaries and Corr.' ii. 450, 452-3.) See BMSats 7919, 8071.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 297. Reproduced, Paston, pl. cxl.(Reusing this file)