SECOND PERIOD: GEORGE III. 77 



under the auspices of the Jockey Club un- 

 doubtedly 'caught on' in the South (at New- 

 market) some years before it was openly practised 

 in the North, inasmuch as two-year-olds appear in 

 the public records of matches run at Newmarket 

 in 1769-70, and by 1771 there was established the 

 Craven Stakes, in which two-year-olds were ex- 

 pressly authorized to run, whereas no public race 

 in which a two-year-old took part in the North 

 can be discovered in the records before 1779. In 

 that year Mr. Burden's (or Mr. Coates's) Czarina, 

 two years old, defeated Mr. John Hutchinson's 

 bay colt (foaled three months later than the filly) 

 in a race over the trying distance for their age 

 of two miles at Hambleton, the filly carrying 

 8 St. 7 lb. and the colt 8 st. ; but there is very good 

 reason for thinkincr that the account is true which 

 says that two-year-old racing originated among 

 the Yorkshiremen in a match or in matches, prob- 

 ably private, between the aforesaid Mr. John 

 Hutchinson, ex-stable-boy, of Shipton, near York, 

 and the Rev. Henry Goodricke (uncle of the last 

 baronet of that name, of Ribstone Hall, Yorks), 

 a Prebendary of York Minster and Rector of 

 Sutton-in-the-Forest. 



