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by Woodpecker, after her ' misfortune ') and to 

 win both stake and ' bye.' 



A.D. 1779: In the month of June Mr. Burdon's 

 (Mr. Coates's) Czarina, 8 st. 7 lb., beat Mr. 

 Hutchinson's b. c. by Turk, 8 st. (about three 

 months younger than the filly), both two years 

 old. at Hambleton, ^wo miles ^ 100 guineas. 

 (Noticeable for the distance and as the first dis- 

 coverable instance of two-year-old racing in the 

 Norths though it is said to have originated there 

 in private matches between Mr. (ex-stable-boy) 

 John Hutchinson, of Shipton, near York, and the 

 horsey and Rev. Henry Goodricke, Prebendary 

 of York Minster.) 



A.D. 1781 : During the last week of September 

 ' a great match of 420 miles in one whole week 

 (but whether of six days or of seven is not stated) 

 was rode over Lincoln two-mile course and won 

 (at what weight and for what stake is unknown) 

 by Richard Hanstead of Lincoln and his famous 

 gray horse with great ease, having three hours 

 and a half to spare.' 



A.D. 1783: On October 15 'Samuel Haliday, a 

 butcher of Leeds, undertook for a bet of ^10 to 

 ride from Leeds to Rochdale, from thence to 



