CONTENTS OF CHAPTERS. 



VOLUME I. 

 DEDICATED TO THE FIRST DUKE OF WESTMINSTER. 



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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. I. 



PREFACE. 



Changes and Developments Lord William Beresford William Byron Meeting at Brocket Hall Lord 

 Leconfield Crabbet Park Old and New Vitality and Value of Racing King Edward VII. 

 Goodwood in 1830 The Sandringham Stud Bend Or St. Simon Society and the Turf Artists 

 and Instantaneous Photography Art Collections reproduced in this Book Mr. A. F. B. Portman ... ix 



CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. 



Racing Career of King Edward VI 1. as Prince of Wales The Triple Crown Ambush II. Persimmon and 

 Diamond Jubilee American Jockeys St. Simon's Stock Development of the English Thoroughbred 

 Arabs in Greece, Rome, Italy, England Some Authorities on Turf History ... ... I 



CHAPTER II. THE HORSE IN ENGLAND TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



Boadicea at Newmarket Severus at Netherby Athelstan's Running horses Arabs in the Twelfth Century 

 William I.'s Arab Richard I.'s Horses Sir Bevys of Southampton FitzStephen's " Racing "- 

 Edward 1 1 I.'s Barbs Gambling Lord Arundel's Match Argentines and Alingtons at Newmarket 

 Prices in the Fourteenth Century Irish " Hobbies" The Sporting Abbot Black Saladin1\\e. 

 Ferrara Stud Margaret of Anjou Governatore and Altobello Diirer's "Small White Horse "- 

 Henry VI I I.'s HorsesThe Duke of Northumberand's Horses Tudor Racing Charles Brandon 

 Henry VI I I.'s Racing Stable The Chester Cup Tudor Legislation Edward VI.'s Horses Holin- 

 shed's Accounts Queen Elizabeth at Croydon Races And at Salisbury Sir Walter Hungerford 

 The First "Steeplechase" at Huntingdon The Carlisle Bell Elizabethan Horses The Greenwich 

 Stud ... ... ii 



CHAPTER 111. THE TURF UNDER JAMES I. 



James I. The Markham Arabian Evolution of Thoroughbred Type Gervase Markham "Hunting 

 Matches" Barnaby FitzPatrick's Stud Race on Gatherley Moor The Duke of Newcastle 

 Michael Barrett Henry, Prince cf Wales The Royal Stud Importations of Eastern Stock First 

 Duke of Buckingham Gambling "Horse-Bread" Ancient Ideas of Training Croydon Enfield 

 Chase Doncaster Leasowe Castle Chester Salisbury Richmond Woodham Moor Nicholas 

 Assheton ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 44 



