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of injuries sustained in riding the two favourites 

 for the King's Plate at York in 1721), the ilkis- 

 trious ' Match'em ' Tims (whose son, ' Young 

 Match'em,' when ' but eleven years and a half 

 old ' won a match at Hambleton in i J^'^), Thomas 

 and Christopher Duck, the 'great' John Single- 

 ton (who died at seventy-eight in 1793, and was 

 the progenitor of a galaxy of able professionals of 

 that surname), Thomas and Josiah Marshall, 

 Richard Marsh (or March, probably an ancestor 

 of the present trainer, Richard Marsh, of Lord- 

 ship Farm and Egerton House, Newmarket, him- 

 self once a great rider of steeplechases), Richard 

 Dyer, John Woodcock (rider of a great match 

 against time), Thomas Stamford, S. Arnull (a 

 name well known to this day), and others quos 

 nunc describe re lo72guui est. 



In George II.'s reign, in 1738, a ^10 Plate 

 was run for at Maldon, Essex, by three com- 

 petitors, with the curious result that all three were 

 'distanced,' according to the rules of racing ; for 

 the horse that came in first ran on the wTong 

 side of a post, the rider of the second could 

 not draw his weight, and the other horse fell 

 and broke his leg. But perhaps a more curious 



