Horse racing, at Chester, 208-209, 245, 247; at Croydon, 210; at Newmarket, 124, 175, 205-209, 217, 222-224, 247, 248, 254, 258, 259, 263-265; at Salisbury, 177; at Smithfield, 113; at Winchester, 262; attack on judge of, 219; between Duke of Suffolk and the Seigneur Nicolle Dex, 154-156; Charles II.'s love for, 246-257; Commonwealth suppresses, 241-242; denounced, 180-181, 211, 212, 219, 241-243, 265, 266; Philip of Macedon's devotion to, 27; excess of, 176, 179; first allusion to wagers on, 11; first authentic record of, 75, 76; first taught to the Romans, 37; fixtures abandoned under Commonwealth, 219; Hengist and Horsa's interest in, 91; in Athens, 51; in France, 255, 256; in Holland, 226; in Hyde Park, 224, 225; in Ireland, 252; in Scotland, 172-174; in fourteenth century, 133; in time of the Romans, 76, 172; in time of Wolsey, 144-145; inaugurated, 16; James I.'s love for, 202; Mongols fond of, 290; on the ice, 211; popular pastime, 52, 53, 210, 219, 251, 264, 290; Queen Anne's love for, 267; revival of, 246; ruins breeding of “great horses,” 232, 233; rules revised, 270; under Edward II., 124; under Elizabeth, 144; Henry III., 116, 117; Henry VIII., 154-160; Richard I., 113; Richard II., 133; under William III., 263, 264 Horse rearing, 52, 114, 125, 130, 143, 144, 148-154, 165-166 Horses, ailments of, 146, 213-214, 221; annual charge for Charles II.'s, 257; antiquity of, 1; at Crecy, 125, 126; average life of, 53; bleeding of, 221; breeds, 62; vicious and gentle, 104; commandeered by kings, 119, 126; courage of 105, 106; cream white, 289; dapple, or dun-coloured, 15, 17, 24, 67, 95, 96, 137, 138; declining interest in, 182, 183, 291-292; defects of, 47; divination of the future attributed to, 78; English, the best, 230; exportation of, forbidden, 149, 150, 152; eyes, 55, 139, 214; flat-nosed, 24; fleabitten, 50; food of, 54, 156, 178, 179, 245, 246; fossilised remains of, 4, 51; “great horses,” 111, 127, 141, 206, 232-237; Herodotus on, 24, 31; Homer on, 7-18, 28, 122; Horace on, 72; ill-treatment of, 104-105, 129, 271, 272; influence of on history, 96-97, 103, 104, 183, 281-284; in romance, 161-164, 178, 189, 190, 194-196, 276-278, 280; in the sixth century, 82; Joan of Arc's, 137, 138, 279; likes and dislikes of, 129; “leeching,” 221; longevity of, 102; management and care of, 14, 215; Mary, Queen of Scots', 192; monuments erected to, 32,61; mythological, 10, 62, 94, 97-100, 136; naming, 157, 194; North-American Indians' terror at sight of, 171; of Abraham, 1, 2; Acheans, 15-17; Agrigentum, 32; Anatolia 196, 281; Anglo-Saxons, 88-90; Armenia, 31; Athenians, 24;