HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



as yet, there had been no Sadowa and no Sedan, 

 no distinct German Empire on the one hand and 

 Austro-Hungarian on the other) had begun to 

 turn their attention already, in the reign of 

 George IV., to ' Pferderennung und Pferdezucht, 

 in plain EngHsh ' horse-racing and horse-breed- 

 ing.' 



They acquired from us during that reign (or 

 just before and just after as well), by the agency 

 of various companies, of the chiefs who presided 

 over the royal Prussian and Hanoverian and 

 certain ducal or grand-ducal studs, of Count 

 Hahn-Basedow, Baron Maltzahn-Cumerow, Count 

 Bassewitz-Schlitz, the Dukeof Schleswig-Holstein, 

 Counts Alvensleben and Gneisenau, the Grand 

 Duke of Mecklenburg - Schwerin, Baron Biel- 

 Zierow, Baron Hertefeld-Liebenberg, Count Hol- 

 stein-Waterneverstorff, and other noblemen and 

 gentlemen in the North ; and, in the South, of 

 Count Zichy, Prince Trauttmannsdorff, Count 

 Szechenyi, Baron Wesselenyi, the Siebenburg 

 and other companies. Count Joseph Hunyadi (of 

 ' aperient ' memory), Count G. Karolyi, Baron 

 Baldacci, Herr Bronenberg (who raced in Eng- 

 land), and Counts Esterhazy and Batthyany, a 



