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his own gelding ; Captain Hay's mare was ridden 

 by Captain Mulcaster. The gelding 'gave out,' 

 as the Americans say, within six miles of Tad- 

 caster, and died next day ; the mare arrived at 

 Ouse Bridge, York, in thirty five minutes over 

 forty hours, having drunk twelve bottles of wine 

 on the journey, and, having started on a Tues- 

 day, had recovered sufficiently by the next 

 Thursday to be exercised on Knavesmire. The 

 match was severely denounced in the papers of 

 the day ; but there was then no Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to take the 

 matter up properly. 



A.D. iJJJ-y^ : The race-horse Infidel (by Turk, 

 dam the Cub mare that was the dam of Miss 

 Nightingale), belonging to the great breeder and 

 racer, Mr. Bethell, of Rise in Holderness, trotted 

 (carrying between 9 st. and 10 st.), on the turn- 

 pike road between Newcastle and Carlisle, fifteen 

 miles within the hour. (Noticeable because a 

 writer in 18 14 observes : ' No thorough-bred was 

 ever known capable of trotting sixteen miles 

 within the hour. . . . Several race-horses have 

 been supposed capable of trotting fourteen miles 

 in one hour, and it is reported that the late 



