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Whip challenge trophy, 194 

 Whyte, Mr. J. C, quoted, 6, 7, 



13. 19, 23 



Whyte-Melville, Major, 31 ; 

 quoted, 299 



' Wild-goose chases,' 19 



William III. founds an academy 

 for riding, 22 



William IV., his encouragement 

 of racing, 203 



William the Norman, race- 

 horses in his reign, 7 



Williamson, George, 389 



Wilson, Mr. E. P., 376 



Winchilsea, Lord, quoted, 43 



Wolverton, Lord, 377 



Worcester, racing at, 136 



INDEX. 439 



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Yearlings, buying and selling, 

 102 ; pugnacity of, in paddock, 

 122 ; natural exercise and 

 good food in training, 122 ; 

 sanitary precautions necessary, 

 124 ; breaking in, 124 ; light- 

 pressure diet for, 125 ; racing 

 birthday, 125, 126 ; prepara- 

 tion for matriculation, 127 ; 

 proper formation, 128; early 

 trials, 1 30 -1 48 



York, early racing at, 23, 29 ; 

 subscription races at, 28 ; 

 meetings, 93 ; match for two 

 thousand guineas at, in 1759? 

 240 ; ' win, tie, or wrangle,' 

 241 



Yorkshire, breeding in, 33, 34 



Yates, Mr. Arthur, 368, 377, 

 381, 384, 3S9 



Zetland, Lord, 10 



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