76 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



kind in this country (though the racing of year- 

 Hngs has recently been introduced, but not 

 officially, in the United States) was run at 

 Shrewsbury, when Lord Stamford, a member of 

 the Jockey Club, and Mr. William Day, the once 

 eminent trainer, ran first and second for the 

 Anglesey Stakes. After this the racing of year- 

 lings ior pziblic stakes was prohibited, but it was 

 not until 1S76 that 'yearlings shall not run for 

 any race ' was inserted in the rules. 



Who was or were responsible for the institution 

 of two-year-old racing has been disputed. The 

 responsibility seems to have been attributed, with- 

 out sufficient evidence, to Sir Charles Bunbury,who 

 appeared upon the turf for the first time in 1763, at 

 the age of twenty-three, and died in 182 1 (one year 

 after George III.), having acquired the title, 

 whether actually conferred by his compeers or popu- 

 larly bestowed on mere hypothesis, of ' perpetual 

 President of the Jockey Club,' and having occupied 

 for many years the prominent position on the turf 

 ascribed before him to the Hon. Bernard Howard 

 in the days of Charles H., and after him to Lord 

 George Bentinck and to the never - to - be - 

 forgotten Admiral Rous. Two-year-old racing 



