JAMES SEYMOUR I 69 



crowds of spectators on horseback and in car- 

 riages. This is a small work by Seymour in the 

 same collection. 



He painted a picture of the famous Carriage 

 Match, made by the Earls of March and 

 Eglinton with Messrs. Theobald Taafe and 

 Andrew Sproule for 1,000 guineas, which came 

 off on Newmarket Heath on 29th August, 

 1750. The articles provided that a carriage 

 with four running wheels carrying one person 

 in or upon it should be drawn by four horses 

 a distance of nineteen miles in one hour. 

 Lords March and Eglinton were to give two 

 months' notice of the week in which the race 

 was to be run, and had libi;rty to choose any one 

 day in the week appointed. From the Sportsman s 

 Magazine of 1825 we take an account of this 

 curious race against time : 



The horses were all bred and trained for running ; the 

 two leaders, including riders, saddles, and harness, carried 

 about 8 stone each ; the carriage, with a boy on it, weighed 

 about 24 stone. 



Tawney, the near leader, was rode by Mr. William Errat, 

 who had the conducting the rate to go at ; the off leader, 

 Roderick Random ; the near wheel-horse, Chance ; the off 

 wheel-horse, Little Dan. 



They all had lobsters to preserve their shoulders ; the traces 

 (by an ingenious contrivance) run into boxes with springs, 

 when any of them hung back, to prevent the traces getting 

 under their legs. A rope went from the further end of the 

 carriage to the pole, and brought back under it, to keep the 



