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when the Earl of Cumberland won “the 
golden bell.” In 1599, the Corporation of 
Carlisle took the sport under its patronage 
and gave silver bells. According to Com- 
minius, who wrote about the year 1590, 
racing had grown out of fashion at that 
period ; the old sport of tilting at the 
quintain had been revived and was appar- 
ently a more popular spectacle. It is pro- 
bable that suspension of public interest in 
racing was of a very temporary character, 
for Bishop Hall, in one of his Satzves, pub- 
lished in 1599, refers to the esteem in which 
racehorses were then held. 
Queen Elizabeth retained her love of 
sport and the physical ability to indulge 
it to an advanced age. It is said that in 
April, 1602, being then in her sixty-ninth 
year, she rode ten miles on horseback and 
hunted the same day. 
Following the example set in Edward 
VI.’s_ reign, Sir Philip Sydney engaged 
two Italian experts named Prospero and 
Romano, to teach riding; the Earl of 
Leicester, the Queen’s Master of the Horse, 
also had among his suite an Italian horse- 
man, named Claudio Corte, who wrote a 
book on the art of riding, which was 
published in London, in 1584. Thomas 
