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the reins, let the horses go, keeping them in at the beginning, 

 that they might not be too eager at first setting off, and their 

 strength fail them in consequence, at the more important part 

 of the race ; and the farther they advanced in the course, the 

 more they urged them, forcing them to continue it at full 

 speed. When they came to the station where the king and 

 the Duke of York, with some lords and gentlemen of his 

 majesty's court were waiting on horseback till they should 

 pass, the latter set off after them at the utmost speed, which 

 was scarcely inferior to that of the race-horses ; for the 

 English horses being accustomed to run, can keep up with 

 the racers without difficulty ; and they are frequently trained 

 for this purpose in another race-ground, out of London,* 

 situated on a hill which swells from the plain with so gradual 

 and gentle a rise that at a distance it cannot be distinguished 

 from a plain ; and there is always a numerous concourse of 

 carriages there to see the races, upon which considerable bets 

 are made. 



" Meanwhile his highness, with his attendants and others 

 of his court, stopping on horseback at a little distance from 

 the goal, rode along the meadows waiting the arrival of the 

 horses, and of his majesty, who came up close after them 

 with a numerous train of gentlemen and ladies, who stood so 

 thick on horseback, and galloped so freely, that they were no 

 way inferior to those who had been for years accustomed to 

 the manege. As the king passed, his highness bowed, and 

 immediately turned and followed his majesty to the goal, 

 where trumpets and drums which were in readiness for that 

 purpose, sounded in applause of the conqueror, which was 

 the horse of Sir — Elliot. From the race-ground his majesty, 

 being very much heated, adjourned to his house, accompanied 

 by his highness, and by the greater part of the gentlemen 

 who had come to see the race ; and having paid his com- 

 pliments, his highness departed, retiring to his own lodgings, 

 that he might leave his majesty at liberty, who, having rested 



* This reads obscure, and may be a misprint for " the town." Probably 

 the Warren Hill is the locality referred to. 



