BEGINNINGS OF REAL RACING AND GENEALOGIES Of HLUOD STOCK. \ \ i 



If this generation already needs a reminder that these spirited lines are by Sir 

 Francis Doyle, there is none who will dispute the fidelity with which they reflect the 

 spirit that has animated Yorkshiremen in one of the oldest centres of racing in this 

 country. " A blood horse has always been their idol " ; and few can tell you more 



Lady Margaret Cecil, Countess of Ranclagli. 

 By Sir Godfrey Kneller. 



about his pedigree. Even within the memory of those now living this feeling was 

 acute enough to produce unpleasant results ; the northern jockey loved to " win, 

 tie, or wrangle," and south country men, with horses trained in Cambridgeshire, 

 Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, or Sussex, had scant mercy when they met men from 



