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the sixth Earl of Derby, was then in possession, and it 

 is recorded not only that King James the First attended 

 Wallasey Races, but that the Duke of Monmouth won 

 a £60 Plate there on the I2th of September in the year 

 mentioned, the Mayor of Chester, with a troop of forty 

 horsemen, riding over to witness the sport. What we 

 should now call " the card " was much mixed, amongst 

 other items "the Duke had two foot races with Mr. 

 Cutts of Cambridgeshire, the first stripped, and after in 

 his boots, both of which he won." At that period, or 

 at least early in the eighteenth century, the most con- 

 siderable stake in the kingdom was contested on the 

 Wallasey course. The Dukes of Devonshire and 

 Bridgwater, the Earls of Derby and Barrymore, 

 Viscount Molyneux, Lord Gower, Sir William 

 Williams, Sir Richard Grosvenor, Mr. Cholmondeley 

 of Vale Royal, and Mr. Berkeley Mackworth then 

 agreed to subscribe twenty guineas each annually for ten 

 years successively to be run for on the course at 

 Wallasey on the first Thursday in May in each year. 

 There were races also at Preston, one of which the Lord 

 Derby of the period carried off with his bay gelding 

 Looby, who, after finishing last of the four starters in 

 the first heat, won the other two. This, however, refers 

 exclusively to the flat. When steeplechasing was intro- 

 duced to this district I have been unable to ascertain. 

 It appears that there had been races at Aintree, though 

 precisely what sort of races cannot certainly be stated, 



