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have also contributed to the changes on the 
Turf. By quickening the interest of the 
people in racing, these factors have helped 
to increase the attendance on race courses, 
and at ‘‘gate money meetings,” to enhance 
the funds at the disposal of promoters, 
whereby the latter are able to offer in prize 
money sums beyond the conception of our 
grandfathers in the early years of the 
century. 
With the increase in the number of meet- 
ings, of horses running and the value of 
prizes, other changes have gradually crept 
in. The Challenge Whip remains the 
solitary survival of the old four-mile races. 
The Whip, it may be well to remind the 
reader, was originally the property of Thomas 
Lennard, Lord Dacre, whose arms are en- 
graved upon it. Lord Dacre was created 
Earl of Sussex in 1674 by Charles I].: he 
was devoted to the Turf, and it is believed 
that he left his Whip (a short, heavy, old- 
fashioned jockey-whip with hair from the 
tail of Eclipse interwoven into the ring on 
the handle) as a trophy to be run for at 
Newmarket. He died in 1715, but the first 
race for the Whip does not appear to have 
been run till 1756, when Mr. Fenwick’s 
Match’em won from Mr. Bowles’ Trajan. 
