_Mistress Caroll._ ‘Tis but a paire of gloves. _Julietta._ Still it holds. [_Enter my Lord._ How ha you sped, my Lord? _Lord Bonvile._ Won! won! I knew by instinct, The mare would put some tricke upon him. _Mistress Bonavent._ Then we ha lost; but, good my Lord, the circumstance. _Lord Bonvile._ Great _John_ at all adventure, and grave _Jockey_ Mounted their severall Mares, I sha’ not tell The story out for laughing, ha! ha! ha! But this in briefe, _Jockey_ was left behind, The pitty and the scorne of all the oddes, Plaid ‘bout my eares like Cannon, but lesse dangerous. I tooke all, still; the acclamation was For _Venture_, whose disdainefull Mare threw durt In my old _Jockey’s_ face, all hopes forsaking us; Two hundred pieces desperate, and two thousand Oathes sent after them; upon the suddaine, When we expected no such tricke, we saw My rider, that was domineering ripe, Vault ore his Mare into a tender slough. Where he was much beholding to one shoulder, For saving of his necke, his beast recovered, And he, by this time, somewhat mortified, Besides mortified, hath left the triumph To his Olympick Adversary, who shall Ride hither in full pompe on his _Bucephalus_, With his victorious bagpipe.” Newmarket, hitherto, a royal hunting place, was made into a race course in 1640, and we get a peep of what it was like in an old ballad (said to be of about this time) called “Newmarket,” published by D’Urfey, in his _Pills to purge Melancholy_. “Let cullies that lose at a race, Go venture at hazard to win, Or he, that is bubbl’d at dice, Recover at cocking again. Let jades that are foundered, be brought; Let jockeys play crimp to make sport; Another makes racing a trade, And dreams of his projects to come, And many a crimp match has made By bubbing[49] another man’s groom.” Oliver Cromwell kept “running horses,” but there is no mention of his having used them in racing: It is more probable that he bred from them. With the Restoration, horse racing was revived, and was much encouraged by Charles II. who appointed races for his own amusement at Datchet Mead, when he resided at Windsor. Newmarket, however, became the principal locality for this sport, and the round course was made in 1666. The King attended the races in person, established a house for his own accommodation, and kept and entered horses in his own name. Instead of bells, he gave a silver bowl or cup, value 100 guineas, on which prize the exploits and pedigree of the successful horse were generally engraved. The times of James II. were too troubled for him to amuse himself with horse racing, and William III. had no leisure for the sport, although he added to the plates, and founded an academy for riding, but, under Anne, the turf was again under royal patronage.