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Flying Childers ran a mile over Newm.arket in 

 thefpaceofa minuie ; a velocity fo immenfe, 

 that it turns ones ideas to fpeed in the abftra^i, 

 or ubiquity. It has however been really per- 

 formed, in a few feconds over a minute, an in- 

 ftance of which, within my prefent recollection, 

 is that of Firetail and Pumpkin. 



The diftance of four miles was ran by Chil- 

 ders, in 1721, carrying nine (lone two pounds, 

 in the fpace of fix minutes forty-eight feconds. 

 This wonderful animal leaped ten yards with 

 his rider, upon level ground ; and is fuppofed 

 to have covered, at every ftride, a fpace of 

 twenty-five feet, which is more than forty-nine 

 feet in a fecond. Bay Malton ran four miles 

 over York, in 1763, in feven minutes forty- 

 three feconds and a half. Eclipfe ran the 

 fame diilance over York, in eight minutes, with 

 twelve flone. In general, a hojfe which will 

 run four miles in eight minutes, with eight (lone 

 feven pounds, will win plates. Refpe61ing the 

 number of miles which an Englifli racer would 

 run in an hour, I have often been furprized, 

 upon enquiry, to find there is abfolutely no 

 opinion ; and that no fportfman hitherto has 

 had the curiolity to make the effay. I remem- 

 ber indeed, that Hull's Ouibbler ran twenty-two 

 or twenty-three miles in one hour ; but little is 

 to be inferred from thence, fmce the perform- 

 ance has been equalled upon the hard road, by 



a three 



