CONTENTS 



sand Nine Hundred Miles in Twenty-nine Successive 

 Days— Holcroft the Dramatist's Story — Gimcrack — 

 Two-year-Olds — A Mile in a Minute and Four and a 

 Half Seconds — A Cruel Match — The Race-horse as 

 a Trotter— The Prince of Wales (George IV.) — 

 Thirty Stone carried by each Rider in a Match — 

 Hambletonian and Diamond — Two Curious Matches 

 — Sir Solomon and Cockfighter — ' Mrs. Thornton's ' 

 Matches — Sancho and Pavilion — Sir Joshua and 

 Filho da Puta — ^From Canterbury to London in 

 Three Hours — Tiresias and Merlin — Sharper and 

 the Cossack Horses — Mr. Osbaldeston's Match — The 

 Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur — Two Matches won 

 by Galopin — The Prince of Wales's 'Arab' Alep — 

 A Cruel Match between French Horses — St. Simon 

 and Duke of Richmond — James Selby v. Time — 

 Lord Lonsdale v. Time — Prince B. de Rohan's 

 Dangerous Feat — A Thousand Miles' Drive with 

 One Horse in Nineteen Days — The Long Distance 

 Military Match between Austro- Hungarian and 

 German Officers ------ 275 — 343 



Index ---------- 344 



