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CHAPTER V. 



SOME MEMORABLE MATCHES. 



Some Preliminary Remarks about ' Clocking ' — The Prince of 

 Wales (Richard II.), Charles 11. and William III., and 

 their Matches — Messrs. Lepton, Calvert and Norden v. 

 Time — Honeycomb Punch — Mr. Sinclair and Mr. and 

 Miss Pond v. Time — Prince George of Denmark — Queen 

 Anne — Mr. Frampton and Sir J. Lade and Mule v. Horse 

 — First recorded ' Tipping ' of a Successful Jockey — First 

 recorded ' Dead Heat ' — Long Distances — Big Wagers — 

 Heavy Weights — Epigrammatic Matches — Mr. Cooper 

 Thornhill v. Time — Lord March's Carriage-match — A 

 Stupid and Cruel Match — A Thousand Miles in a 

 Thousand Successive Hours on the same Horse — Two 

 Thousand Nine Hundred Miles in Twenty-nine Succes- 

 sive 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 W.)— Thirty Stojie 

 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 Canter- 

 bury 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 ' 



