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ROYALTY IN RACING MATCHES. Matches often were run under royal patnmage. So far back as i:i77 the prince who became Richard II. seems to have been beaten in a match against the Earl of Arundel — "owners up" — and afterward to have bongbt the victors horse for a sum equal now to 0,000. King Charles II. himself rode his horse, Woodcock, in a match at Newmarket in 1671. and was beaten. Even the austere King William III. ran a horse in a match for a stake of 0,000. while Queen Anna ran several horses in her own 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 miles in teu hours, on the same horse, as it appears.
