1937-06-10 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 10, 1937.

WHAT ENGLAND'S KINGS HAVE DONE

To Make Turf National Institution

TRIUMPHS OF EDWARD

THE SEVENTH

HIS MAJESTY GEORGE VI CARRIES ON

ROYAL RACING HISTORY TRACED

(By "Warrawee").

Sydney, May 6.

such thoroughness and abandon that many individuals were ruined. This was said to be due largely to the prevalence of private matches, and heavy betting on the results.

BRITISH WOMEN'S

GOLF TITLE

Mrs. Holm Herself Defeated

Turnberry (Ayrshire); To-day. Jessie Anderson beat Mrs. Holm,

James I had a great passion for sport, despite the fact that he lived for so many years in Scotland. He of Troon, by 8 and 1 in the fourth became a regular visitor to New-round of the British Women's Golf market. It was James I who im-Championship yesterday.

In the third round Mrs. Holm

ported the Markham Arabian and

he did much to further the develop- had caused considerable surprise ment of the Turf. Charles I car-by beating the holder, Pam Barton, ried on the good tradition, as did by 5 and 3.-Reuter. Charles II, one of the most brainy and dashing members Royal line.

of

that

and Won 2 Plate by thoroughly competent horseman-

Yamagishi Beats Kent Player

Beckenham, To-day.

ROYAL JOCKEY THE announcement that King George VI intend-

Charles II is reputed to be the

In the quarter-finals of the Men's ed to continue the Royal interest in racing and only King of England to take part Singles in the Kent Tennis Cham- breeding must have given satisfaction throughout Newmarket. It is recorded that, in (Japan) beat S. Hayes (the Kent

in racing contests, which he did at!

pionships yesterday, Yamagashi the British Empire and in other parts of the world. one day, he rode three very severe county player) 6-1, 7-5-Reuter. It was taken as a matter of course that the ex-King, heats, the Duke of Windsor, would maintain the sporting ship.

berland Lodge he bred horses traditions of the family, for he had long been per- However, his best service to the which have made history-horses bloodstock industry was his adopt-whose influence on the bloodstock sonally associated with racing.

ion of the policy to import Eastern industry of the world continues to BUT HIS YOUNGER BROTHER HAD NOT BEEN PROMIN-horses and mares to mate with the function right up to the present ENT IN THIS RESPECT. SO MANY PEOPLE WERE APPAR-native breeds, so that these might time.

be improved. Many highly-bred -These horses included Eclipse and ENTLY IN DOUBT AS TO WHAT ATTITUDE HIS MAJESTY WOULD TAKE UP ON THIS QUESTION WHEN HE CAME TO stallions and mares were imported Herod, who, with Matchem,

by his direction.

stitute the ancestry of all modern THE THRONE.

James II was not much

horses of the thoroughbred lines. THOSE WHO KNEW HIM MOST INTIMATELY HAD NO "sport," and racing did not flourish He has come down to us with the DOUBT THAT HE WOULD CARRY ON IN THE TRADITIONAL in his reign, but in the reign of reputation of being the greatest he SPIRIT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.

the policy matchmaker of his time, and DEAL FOR THE TURF AS A NATIONAL INSTITUTION, AND of importing horses FOR THE BLOODSTOCK BREEDING INDUSTRY OF THE EM-was continued. It was in the reign £500 to £1000.

of Queen Anne that The Darley Arabian was imported. This horse been was the ancestor of Eclipse. An- (and other of

PIRE.

of a

con-

THIS MEANS A GREAT William (III) and from abroad commonly ran for stakes of from

Almost from time immemorial the Turf and Royalty have closely associated in the British Isles. Probably few people

those only students of general history) realise how much has been was Th the foundation stallions active part in breeding bloodstock

done by the monarches of Britain in the matter of developing the Matchem. bloodstock industry and improving the breed and the standard of the racehorse. ·

our

..

Godolphin, ancestor of

QUEEN ANNE

KING EDWARD'S SUCCESS

Of all the Monarchs who took an

and in racing, the utstanding figure, after Charles II was King Edward VII. His mother, Queen Victoria, carried on the inherited Queen Anne had a large stud at breeding establishments and many If it had not been for the keen

Hampton Court, and was one of the good horses were bred in the Royal and sustained interest manifested

most spirited patrons of racing, studs during her time. in bloodstock by Kings and Queens

George I succeeded Queen Anne, But the member of the family of England the standard of

but took no interest in racing or who took the most spectacular part bloodstock would never have at-

blood-horse breeding, nor did his in the Turf life of the day was tained its level of merit since the

son, George II. The latter's son, the then Prince of Wales days before racing was a regularly

Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, did Edward organised institution open to the Wales (later Richard II) and the

not live to ascend the Throne, but Earl of Arundel took part in a his brother, the Duke of Cumber Derbies and public.

As b

of Wales, he won two with won - another The association of the Royal match. Horse racing went down

land became one of the most suc-Minoru while he was King. When Family with the Turf and blood-during the long drawn-out Wars of

cessful breeders of his period:

Minoru (a son of Cyllene) won the stock breeding goes back to beyond the Roses, and the sport was at a the beginning of the Christian era. low ebb until conditions improved He raced many horses at New-Derby for King Edward in 1909, It would seem that racing in some with the coming to the Throne of market. He became the leading there was a scene of unparalleled form was carried on when Julius Henry VIII 1509. In the inter- breeder of the day, and is general- enthusiasra at Epsom, for, ́apart Caesar invaded England in 55 B.C.ludes between the grim business of ly credited with having established from the fact that he was King, Even as early as that stallions had having wives beheaded, Henry VIII what has become known as Royal his colours had won widespread been imported from the East to did much to foster sport of every Ascot, the most fashionable racing popularity on the racecourse. mate with native mares, few of kind. During his reign regular en- rendezvous-in the world. At Cum-

which were more than ponies, or closures in which to conduct sports would be regarded as such to-day.

came into vogue. This was doubt- less the beginning of the race- CAESAR'S APPRECIATION

course as we know it now. Caesar and his Romans evidently When the nobles became-im- appreciated these hardy native poverished through incessant war- ponies. They had a number with fare, many o

of their best horses

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them when they returned to Italy. were sold to foreign buyers, Henry Fleecy Cotton

It is recorded that the Emperor VIII prohibited this traffic, as his Severus held race meetings in Eng-father had done. He established land about 250 years after the Royal studs at Hampton Court and landing of Julius Caesar.

Eltham. Henry VIII took drastic directions than in There is no doubt that King John steps in other

the removal of unwanted wives, (12th century)⠀⠀⠀ imported race- horses, and he founded a stud. He made efforts to improve the na-

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should be

exter

brought back Eastern horses they a law that all which were under a had obtained when abroad. In that certain height, far-off time breeding and racing minated. were almost exclusively the busi- ness of Kings and the nobility.

HEAVY BETTING Edward VI (who followed) did FIRST RACE-MEETING

little to foster horse-racing and One of the first race-meetings Queen Mary also had no time for properly recorded, took place in the Turf In Elizabeth's time, how- 1877, when the then Prince of ever, racing was carried on with

(later

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