454 HISTORY OF THE 



weight 9st., at Scarborough, beating easy Mr. 

 JolUff's Foxhunter, and Mr. Harvey's Sweetlips. 

 At starting, ten to one, and after the heat, twenty 

 to one on Match'em. The above were the only 

 times of his running. 



Match'em then became the leading stallion in 

 the North of England, where he covered with un- 

 common success, till death put a period to his 

 existence, which happened in the thirty-third 

 year of his age, at Bywell, in Northumberland, on 

 Wednesday, the 21st of February, 1781. A few 

 days previous to his death, he covered a mare, 

 which proved in foal. 



Match'em first covered at 5 gs. ; in 1765, he 

 was advanced to 10 gs. ; in 1770, to 20 gs. ; in 

 1775, he was stinted to twenty-five mares, with 

 those of his owner, at 50 gs. each, exclusive of the 

 groom's fee. It has been said, and there can be 

 little or no doubt of the truth, that Mr. Fenwick 

 cleared by Match'em, as a stallion, upwards of 

 £17,000, which was about £16,000 more than Mr. 

 Martindale, of St. James's Street, London, gained 

 by the celebrated Regulus. 



The first of Match'em's get that started, was 

 the Duke of Northumberland's Caesario, that won 

 the Jockey Club Plate for four years olds, at New- 

 market, on the 15th of May, 1764. Mr. Tuting's 

 Turf ran in the year, and won a match of 140 gs., 

 and a £50 plate. 



