THE TURF TO THE RESTORATION. 



(X) 



A browne bay with a Starr .25." "lot 69. A 

 bright bay horse with a black list and one white 

 foote, ,25." Sir John Fenwick's Arabs are re- 

 presented by Soncll Fenwick's daughter, " lot 25. 

 One Sorrell mare with a blaze, nine yeares old. 

 with a mire foal ,18." Finally the Duke of 

 Newcastle's stud is traceable in lots 2, 3, 6, 18, 22, 

 26, 59, 61, 96, 98, and 99, and the stallions men- 

 tioned by name are tiav, (in v, and Browne 

 .V,;>i-/is//t, the others being simply referred to their 

 breeder. In the total hundred lots, there are 

 twenty-three mares with foals at foot, twenty- 

 three horses of 4 year old and upwards, and 139 



in all. which were valued at / 1,982. The horses Statue modelled from a I/orse in Charles I.'i 



Stables. 

 in the Royal Stud may be fairly pictured from 



two sources. The first is an original drawing by Van Dyck in the British Museum, 

 which was evidently done from life in the Royal Stables. The second is the 

 equestrian statue of Charles I. at Charing Cross, which everyone passes and few 

 notice, standing on its pedestal of the finest stone carving in high relief in London. 



By a direct order to that effect, it was modelled 

 from the horses in His Majesty's stables, and the 

 Domestic State Papers for 1630 have preserved 

 the agreement between the Lord Treasurer ami 

 Hubert Le Soeur, who cast the horse in brass. 

 Further details of this interesting work \\ill be 

 found in the List of Illustrations. 



To the Duke of Newcastle's book I have 

 already referred. But in view of the influence his 

 stud had upon breeding, in spite of the fact that 

 he did not care for racing himself, it will be in- 

 teresting to record something further of his 

 opinions. " The Barbes," he writes, "are the 

 gentlemen of the horse kind, and Spanish horses 

 J-: V u,-siri,ni siat ut / Cli,,ri,- s /., c.ist ty the princes." He owned four of the first and 



Hubert Is Sm-ur in 1633, trcittit ,it 



five of the second even during his "poor" exile 



