542 



A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



But even this was better than a day in the Spring Meeting of 1830, when the 

 "card " consisted of a match, and the decease of one of the animals suspended even 

 that limited entertainment. It should be mentioned that the first of McCall's 

 victories was a dead heat ; but we must go a long way back to find any parallel 

 to his success. At the Lewes Summer Meeting of 1882, Fred Archer had a mount 

 in six out of seven races, four being on the favourite. He won every time, and 

 had he ridden Mowerina in the last, his record would have been unbeaten. Perhaps 

 F. Mason's feat at the Cavan- Steeplechase Meeting of September, 1900, may be 

 given the credit of added peril over hedges and ditches to counterbalance smaller 

 fields, for Mason won all five events on the card, and had the favourite four times. 



On the Newmarket 

 Houghton Friday in 

 1864, Fordham scored 

 six out of the seven 

 races on the card. But 

 the first was a walk 

 over ; the second a win 

 with Dr. Syntax in a 

 handicap from a field of 

 seven at 3 to i ; the 

 next two were matches 

 for Mr. Ten Broeck and 

 the Marquis of Hastings, 

 each on the favourite ; 

 and another was a match 



for the Duke of Beaufort, also on the favourite. But McCall's victories on five 

 horses have still to take a second place to the remarkable occurrences at Salisbury 

 Races on August 9, 1827. On that day, Arthur Pavis rode Mr. H. Jones's five- 

 year-old bay mare Conquest in no less than five heats (or nine miles in all), by 

 means of which he landed all three races on the programme, and about ^150 in 

 money value. No wonder that Conquest fell down and died while running her 

 twelfth mile at Doncaster a month after. Happily McCall's record was made under 

 more humane conditions. 



It is sometimes of interest to know what horses a jockey preferred. I am able to 

 give a few instances of this. Charles Wood, though he ran a dead heat for the 



" Thormanby" by " Windhound" (1857). 



