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A.D. i860: Mr. R. Ten Broeck's ch. c. Umpire 

 (G. Fordham) beat Lord Glasgow's b. c. Tom 

 Bowline (T. Aldcroft), three year olds, 8 st. 7 lb. 

 each, at Newmarket Houghton, Ab. M. ; 1,000, 

 h. ft. ; by six lengths ; 5 to 2 on Umpire. 

 {Noticeable because the winner, by Lecompte 

 and Alice Carneal, was 'bred in the United 

 States.') 



A.D. 1866 : Mr. Caledon Alexander's Robin 

 Hood, by Wild Dayrell, received forfeit from 

 Baron Rothschild's Robin Hood, by North Lin- 

 coln, three years, 8 st. 10 lb. each ; 200 sovs. and 

 the name, that is, which should be called Robin 

 Hood ; D.M. at Newmarket. (Noticeable as 

 about the last of the ' sportive ' matches.) 



A.D. 1874 : Mr. Joseph Dawson's Prince Charlie, 

 five years, 8 st. 10 lb., beat M. Aumont's Peut- 

 etre, three years, 7 st. 11 lb. (carried 7 st. 12 lb.), 

 at Newmarket, 50 sovs., play or pay ; R.M. ; 

 time I minute 52 seconds. (Noticeable because 

 the ' roarer ' beat the ' Frenchman ' that had just 

 won the Cambridgeshire.) 



A.D. 1875 ■ Prince Batthyany's Galopin 

 (Morris), three years, 8 st. 10 lb., beat by eight 

 lengths Mr. H. Chaplin's filly Stray Shot (H. 



