2 76 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



Alep — A Cruel Match between French Horses — St. Simon 

 and Duke of Richmond — James Selby v. Time — Lord 

 Lonsdale ?'. 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. 



Matches were the form of racing most in vogue 

 among the men of old time on the accepted 

 race-courses, especially at Newmarket. It would 

 obviously, therefore, be ridiculous to do more than 

 pick out of them a few that, for some reason or 

 other, were and are memorable beyond the rest. 

 Moreover, some of the most remarkable matches, 

 especially against time, have not been run on a 

 race -course at all, or by race -horses. Still, as 

 they, for the most part, grew out of horse-racing 

 in general, and are of cognate interest, they, too, 

 have not been neglected altogether. 



Be it premised that details respecting ages, 

 weights, and times, and sometimes distances, are 

 occasionally omitted in the most provoking manner 

 in the records, and that it is now impossible to 

 supply the defect ; and let a few preliminary 

 remarks be added for the assistance of the ordi- 

 nary reader who has not been accustomed to try 

 and realize what is meant by the announcement 

 that a certain race, whether match or other, was 



