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sovereign (6 Anne, cap. 56) enacted that 
not more than six horses or oxen might 
be harnessed to any vehicle plying on the 
public roads except to drag them up hills; 
and this latter indulgence was withdrawn 
three years later (1710), leaving the team 
of six to negotiate hills as they might. 
Hackney coachmen evidently displayed a 
tendency to evade their legal obligations 
in the matter of size in their horses; for in 
1710 another Act (9 Anne, c. 16) was passed 
to the same effect as a former law, requiring 
hackney-coach horses to be not less than 
14 hands in height. 
GEORGE I. (1714-1727). 
During the first seventy years of the 
eighteenth century Eastern horses were 
imported in large numbers; there is in 
existence a list of 200 stallions which were 
sent to this country, but that number does 
not represent a tithe of the whole. The 
event of George I.’s reign, from a Turf 
point of view, was, of course, the arrival, 
in 1724, of the Godolphin Arabian, the 
sire to which our racers of to-day owe so 
much. George I. appears to have taken 
little personal interest in the Turf, though 
