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ROYALTY IN OLD-TIME MATCHES. Matches often were run under royal patronage. So far back as 1377 the prince who became Richard II. sei-ms to have been beaten in a match against the Earl of Arundel — "owners up" — and afterward to have bought the victors horse for a sum equal now to g20,0w. King Charles II. hnsneU rode his hots. Woodcock, in a snatch at Newmarket in 1071. and was beaten. Even the austere King William HI. ran a betas in a match for ■ stake of 2.000 guineas, while Queen Anne ran several horse* in her owu name in matches at York and at Newmarket. The future George IV. ran a memorable match against time when twenty-two years of age. riding from Brighton to London and back 112 miitsi in ieii bean, on the same horse, as it appears.
