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the running geldings, their maintenance, 
and that of the boys retained to ride them. 
There is mention of ‘“rewardes” to the 
keeper of the running geldings, to the 
“children of the stable,” and also to the 
“dyatter” of the running geldings. This 
last functionary’s existence is worth notice, 
as it indicates some method of training or 
dieting the horses. Nearly seventy years 
later—in 1599—Gervaise Markham _pro- 
duced his book, ‘‘ How to Chuse, Ryde 
and Dyet both Hunting and Running 
Horses.” 
In the year 1514, the Marquis of Mantua 
sent Henry VIII., from Italy, a present of 
some thoroughbred horses; these in all 
probability formed the foundation stock of 
our sixteenth-century racehorses. The Prevy 
Purse Expenses quoted above refer to ‘‘the 
Barbaranto hors” and ‘the Barbary hors,” 
which are doubtless the same animal. A 
hint that it was raced occurs in the mention 
of a payment to Polle (Paul, who as previous 
entries show, was the keeper of this horse), 
“by way of rewarde,” 18s. 4d., and on the 
same day (March 17, 1532), ‘paid in re- 
warde to the boy that ran the horse, 
18s. 4d.” 
That curious record, The Regulations of 
