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beth rode on a pillion behind her Master of 

 the Horse when she went in state to St. 

 Paul's ; but when hunting or hawking she 

 seems to have ridden her own palfrey. 

 Coaches increased so rapidly towards the 

 end of Elizabeth's reign that a bill was 



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brought into the House of Lords (1601) to 

 check their use. The measure was lost, the 

 Lords directing the Attorney-General to 

 frame a new bill to secure more attention 

 to horse-breeding instead, but if this was 

 done the bill never passed into law. 



The Queen was an ardent supporter of 

 the Turf and kept racehorses at Greenwich, 

 Waltham, St. Albans, Eaton, Hampton 

 Court, Richmond, Windsor and Charing 

 Cross. Racing had become a popular 

 amusement in the earlier years of Eliza- 

 beth's reign, and her participation in the 

 sport was probably clue in great measure 

 to her conviction that it must prove bene- 

 ficial to the breeding industry. The Roodee 

 at Chester appears to have been one of the 

 first public racecourses ; the townspeople 

 gave a silver bell to be run for. Racing 

 was well established in Scotland at an 

 earlier date ; in 1552, during Edward VI. 's 

 reign, there were races with bells as prizes. 



There were races at Salisbury in 1585,. 



