HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



less famous Trajan, when the former, ridden by 

 the celebrated John Singleton, to whose judgment 

 in riding the result was attributed, was the 

 winner, after the odds had varied from 2 to i 

 on Match'em at starting to as much as 5 to i on 

 Trajan over 'the flat,' and then 100 to i on 

 Match'em at ' the turn of the lands.' 



A.D, 1758 : In April and May took place the 

 match against time referred to by Dr. Samuel 

 Johnson, the lexicographer, in ' The Idler,' when 

 Miss Pond (daughter of John Pond of the 

 ' Kalendar ') is said to have ridden 1,000 miles in 

 1,0*00 successive hours at Newmarket on ^/le same 

 horse ; but the statement has been discredited. 



A.D. 1759: On June 27, at Newmarket, Mr. 

 or Captain Jenison Shafto (of North and South, 

 Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire), is said to have 

 won ^16,000 by riding in i hour, 49 minutes 

 17 seconds, the fifty miles which it had been 

 betted that he would not complete in two hours, 

 having as many horses as he pleased. He rode 

 ten, mostly thoroughbred, including the cele- 

 brated Wildair (son of Cade and sire of Tommy, 

 winner of the St. Leger in 1779), temporarily 

 imported into America. 



