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{{Main|Horse racing in Levantia#Burgundie}} | {{Main|Horse racing in Levantia#Burgundie}} | ||
[[Maritime Dericania]] engaged in horse racing to varying degrees until the 1790s when steeple chasing became ubiquitous across the [[Kingdom of Dericania]]. Minor, informal races had occurred across the Kingdom prior to this but it become an unofficial sport of the kingdom around this time. As feudalism fell and professional armies rose across the southern portions of Dericania, young professional cavalry officers sought ways to train and compete. By the 1810s in the few principalities that could afford a professional cavalry corps were requiring forms of flat racing and steeple chasing as part of military training. This became associated with the dashing appearance of cavalry officers and became associated with the officer class and civilian landowners took up the sport as a demonstration of status. By the 1830s, nobles and generous landowners would gives days off to their tenant farmers on race days and it became a joyous communal holiday. | |||
The later half of the 19th century, the[[Southern Levantine Mediatization Wars]] saw the dissolution of the aristocracy and as such their grand estates. This coincided with the industrial revolution in [[Burgundie]], which when combined saw workers flooding into the coastal cities. Horse racing became a rare phenomenon and was typically was a game played between wealthy friends rather than a spectator sport. For nearly 20 years horse racings prominence waned and almost disappeared. | The later half of the 19th century, the[[Southern Levantine Mediatization Wars]] saw the dissolution of the aristocracy and as such their grand estates. This coincided with the industrial revolution in [[Burgundie]], which when combined saw workers flooding into the coastal cities. Horse racing became a rare phenomenon and was typically was a game played between wealthy friends rather than a spectator sport. For nearly 20 years horse racings prominence waned and almost disappeared. | ||
However, in the 1890s the ''New Stud Movement'' revived horse racing in [[Burgundie]]. In [[1892]], future [[Imperator]] of[[Caphiria]] [[Magasevetus|Juvano Baldolianti]], was granted patriarchy of House Tervarinus by [[Imperator]] [[Arieri II]]. As part of an austerity plan he sold off his father's race horses. The {{wp|Landed gentry|gens des mejans}} looking to demonstrate their wealth, but separate themselves from the aristocrats of old, flocked to the various auctions and formed Burgoignesc Breed Registry to maintain records of the new studs they were creating. Of the approximately 1,000 horses in the Tervarinus stables, 629 were brought to [[Burgundie]]. Horse racing renewed itself as a spectator sport for the working classes who were lucky enough to have a benefactor who owned horses. For the {{wp|Landed gentry|gens des mejans}} it was an all out competition, not just on the race track, but who could bring bigger crowds, build bigger and more opulent race tracks, and who could breed faster horses. Concurrent with the rise in the interest in human eugenics, equine eugenics became a craze in the early 1900s. Studding fees became astronomical as the pseudo-science purported to become more exacting. The Burgoignesc Breed Registry's recording fees also sky rocketed and the industry of horse racing and its affiliated services became a driving economic factor in many of the upland regions of the country. It was also one of the first legal forms of gambling in [[Burgundie]]. | However, in the 1890s the ''New Stud Movement'' revived horse racing in [[Burgundie]]. In [[1892]], future [[Imperator]] of[[Caphiria]] [[Magasevetus|Juvano Baldolianti]], was granted patriarchy of House Tervarinus by [[Imperator]] [[Arieri II]]. As part of an austerity plan he sold off his father's race horses. The {{wp|Landed gentry|gens des mejans}} looking to demonstrate their wealth, but separate themselves from the aristocrats of old, flocked to the various auctions and formed Burgoignesc Breed Registry to maintain records of the new studs they were creating. Of the approximately 1,000 horses in the Tervarinus stables, 629 were brought to [[Burgundie]]. Horse racing renewed itself as a spectator sport for the working classes who were lucky enough to have a benefactor who owned horses. For the {{wp|Landed gentry|gens des mejans}} it was an all out competition, not just on the race track, but who could bring bigger crowds, build bigger and more opulent race tracks, and who could breed faster horses. Concurrent with the rise in the interest in human eugenics, equine eugenics became a craze in the early 1900s. Studding fees became astronomical as the pseudo-science purported to become more exacting. The Burgoignesc Breed Registry's recording fees also sky rocketed and the industry of horse racing and its affiliated services became a driving economic factor in many of the upland regions of the country. It was also one of the first legal forms of gambling in [[Burgundie]]. | ||