SOME MEMORABLE MATCHES 297 



example, Trustee, trot twenty miles within the 

 hour. 



A.D. 1733: What may be called an 'epigram- 

 matic ' match was won on April 2, at Newmarket, 

 by the Duke of Bridgewater's Beauty against 

 Lord Lonsdale's Ugly, the former giving the 

 latter an advantage of three pounds ; and the 

 epigrammaticism was imitated at Doncaster in 

 1790, when Sir W. Vavasour's filly Hope gave 

 a beating to Sir Charles Turner's colt Despair 

 (both two years old, and both carrying seven 

 stone, distance one mile), though Despair, oddly 

 enough, was the favourite. From which matches 

 it would seem that there was more of the sportive 

 vein about horse-racing in the good old times 

 than in these days, when racing is all business. A 

 similar pleasant humour seems to have suggested 

 the match at Newmarket as early as 1722 (October 

 26), when Mr. Panton's Twig won 200 guineas 

 by beating Captain Collyer's Pig (four miles). 



A.D. 1745: On April 29 was performed Mr. 

 Cooper Thornhill's match, when he undertook, 

 riding as many horses as he pleased, to cover 

 the distance between Stilton and Shoreditch 

 Church, London, which is seventy-one miles, 



