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Excerpt from Gentlemen Riders: Past and Present
I wonder how many of our readers are aware that the first person to give a fillip to amateur jockeyship was that merriest of monarchs, King Charles the Second, who, not content with merely looking on, frequently rode himself in races of his own promotion? He it was who founded a race meeting at Burford' in Oxfordshire, in reality the origin of the Bibury Club, which, afterwards transferred to Stockbridge, became the favourite battle-ground of all the best gentlemen riders in the kingdom, and though still in existence, is, alas! But a shadow of its former self; thanks to the disappearance of the Old-time meeting at Stockbridge, for which Salisbury is but a sorry substitute. Another favourite meeting, too, long since done away with, was that of the Liverpool Hunt Club at Hoylake in Cheshire, at which all our best amateurs over a country invariably sported silk.
Then, again, there was Lord Wilton's own meeting at Hooton Park, where he himself, one of the finest horsemen of his or any other time, riding as Mr. Clarke, was always very much en evidence.
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