HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



closer communion and less acrimonious rivalry, 

 and whereby some sort of order was evolved out 

 of chaos, and the foundation was laid of that con- 

 trolling power which, whatever fault may be 

 found with it, has been, on the whole, of great 

 advantage to the cause of the turf and the 

 improvement of horse-breeding, not only in this 

 country, but in all parts of the inhabited world. 

 It was then that Royalty, personified by the 

 King's son, the ' Culloden ' Duke of Cumber- 

 land, who bred those famous sires King Herod 

 (commonly called Herod tottt court) and Eclipse, 

 became identified, unless we except a few years 

 in the earlier part of Queen Victoria's sovereignty, 

 with the Jockey Club, of which he was one of the 

 original members, and that the meetings at Royal 

 Ascot, which, as we have seen, had known a little 

 horse-racing in the time of Queen Anne, may be 

 said to have become a regular institution, under 

 the auspices of the ' Culloden ' Duke, when he 

 was appointed Ranger of Windsor Great Park 

 after ' the '45.' 



At that date the mischievous statute of Anne, 

 in restriction of horse-races for prizes of more 

 than ^10 each, was first of all slightly extended, 



