46 THE HOUSE. 



classified them as professional race- 

 horses." 



At this epoch public races were for- 

 mally gazetted, and meetings were held 

 at Garterly in Yorkshire, at Croydon, and 

 Theobald's Enfield Chase ; horses were 

 trained. u Ten stone was the standard 

 weight " for riders, who were weighed 

 before and after a race, as at the present 

 day. 



During James I.'s reign racing began 

 to be somewhat extensively cultivated, 

 which led to the necessity for the crea- 

 to tion of fleeter horses than those destined 



the breeding 



of fleet to draw the carriages of the rich and to 



horses. 



carry on a pillion a man and his wife. 

 The coach and racing saddle as years 

 rolled on demanded active horses, and it 

 was soon discovered that the type required 



