HORSE. Class I. 



his estate than any of his ancestors ; and chiefly 

 by his extreme love for horse-races, tiltings, and 

 other expensive diversions. It is probable that 

 the parsimonious Queen did not approve of it, 

 for races are not among the diversions exhibited 

 at Kenelworth by her favorite Leicester. In the 

 following reign, particular places were allotted 

 for the sport : Croydon in the South, and Gar- 

 terly in Yorkshire, were celebrated courses. 

 Camden also says, that in 1607 there were 

 races near York, and the prize was a little golden 

 bell. 



Not that we deny this diversion to have been 

 known in these kingdoms in earlier times ; we only 

 assert a different mode of it; gentlemen being 

 then their own jockies, and riding their own 

 horses. Lord Herbert of Cher bury enume- 

 rates it among the sports that gallant philoso- 

 pher thought unworthy of a man of honor. 

 " The exercise, (says he), I do not approve of, 

 " is running of horses, there being much cheat- 

 " ing in that kind ; neither do I see why a brave 

 " man should delight in a creature whose chief 

 " use is to help him to run away."* 



* The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, published 

 by Mr. Walpole, p. 51. 



Jarvis Markham, who wrote on the management of horses in 

 1;">99, mentions running horses; but those were only designed 

 for matches between gentleman and gentleman. 



