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Joshua (whose strange accident and death have 

 been mentioned alread)', p. 98) was beaten 

 (having already perhaps injured himself) by 

 Castrella for a handicap sweepstakes, and Mr. 

 Houldsworth proposed another match with Filho 

 for double the former stake, but Mr. Neville 

 declined the offer, and lost his horse in December 

 of the same year. The race apparently was not 

 ' clocked.' 



A.D. 1819: On May 6, Mr. W. Hutchinson, a 

 horse-dealer, of Canterbury, undertook for a wager 

 of 600 guineas to ride, employing apparently as 

 many horses as he pleased, from Canterbury to 

 London Bridge (55-I- miles) in three successive 

 hours, and ' realized the stakes, sir, yes, sir,' in 

 2 hours 55 (? 25) minutes and 51 seconds, though 

 of the horses he rode (some of which ran habitually 

 in the ' Wellington ' coach) three bolted with him 

 (one of them bolting thrice) and caused a certain 

 amount of delay. They all, however, * performed 

 their journey apparently with as much ease as 

 their rider, who considers,' says the contemporary 

 narrator, ' that he could have returned to Canter- 

 bury the same day in three hours without incon- 

 venience.' So impressed were Mr. Hutchinson's 



