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ANCIENT RACING IN ENGLAND. The "Lincoln Date Book" states that races have been held on the Carholme course, owned by * the municipality, since 1771: before then they were held on the Lincoln Heath. In April. 1017. "t! eae was a great horse race on the Heath for a cap, where his majesty King James the First was present and stood cm a scaffold the citie has caused to be set up. and withal caused the race a quarter of a mile long to be ruled and corded with rope and hoopes on both sides whereby the people Were kept out and the horses that reward were seen fairc." The fifth clause in a code, 1715. Was: "In anye of the matched horses or their riders chance to fall ia anye of the foure heats the rest of the riders shall staye in their places were they were at the tyme of the fall untill the rider so fallen have his foote in the stirrope again."
