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at the same age ; and we find such horses as 

 Merry Hampton and Ayrshire (at a slight dis- 

 advantage in point of weight too) running the 

 Derby in less time than The Flying Dutchman 

 and West Australian ; in the same time, in fact, as 

 Isinglass this year ( 1 893). Moreover, ' The Dutch- 

 man ' was all but beaten by the half-bred Hotspur 

 We must * look at the clock ' circumspectly. 



Memorable Matches. 

 A.D. 1377 : In this year the Prince of Wales, 

 afterwards Richard the Second, was beaten ap- 

 parently in a match, ' owners up ' (but other par- 

 ticulars of time, place, weight, etc., are unknown), 

 by the Earl of Arundel. (See Mr. J. P. Hore's 

 ' History of Newmarket,' vol. i., p. 23, where 

 some doggerel French verse, written by the con- 

 temporary Marquis de Saluces, alias Marchese di 

 Saluzzo, are quoted as referring to such a match. 

 The Prince of Wales could not have been more 

 than eleven years of age at the time. He seems 

 to have afterwards purchased the Earl of Arundel's 

 horse for a large sum of money, equal to ^4,000 

 of ours, according to Mr. Hore, who quotes a 

 writ of Privy Seal, April 5, 1378, in attestation. 



