HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



royal residence there sent the brothers prema- 

 turely away, and so defeated the concocters of 

 the Rye House Plot in 1682, and after his exile 

 is gazetted as having attended a horse-race held 

 in France ' au has du Pecq,' near Vesinet, in 

 1700, the year before his death. His illegitimate 

 son, however, the able and gallant James Fitz- 

 james, Duke of Berwick, whose name of Fitz- 

 james is distinguished in the annals of the French 

 turf even to this day, had introduced into 

 England, on returning from the siege of Buda 

 in 1687, a horse known indifferently as the 

 Stradling Turk or the Lister Turk, whose 

 influence upon the pedigrees is very noticeable ; 

 for he was the sire of the Hobby mare that was 

 the dam of Brocklesby and Brocklesby Betty, 

 and from her descended in the female line such 

 distinguished horses of the last half-century as 

 Chanticleer, Solon, Xenophon, and Barcaldine. 



King William HI, not only held Court, like 

 Charles H,, though with a very notable differ- 

 ence, at Newmarket, but greatly promoted both 

 the sport of horse- racing and the business of 

 horse-breeding. The horses that he is known 

 to have run at Newmarket, between 1695 ^^^ 



