360 



Thus by eighteen minutes Osbaldeston won every bet he made and 

 had an hour and eighteen minutes to spare for the original match. 

 Fearing any dispute might arise as to the distance, he proposed before 

 dismounting to ride another mile, but the umpires declared themselves 

 perfectly satisfied upon all points of the undertaking. After receiving 

 congratulations from his friends and putting a top-coat over his 

 drenched and muddy clothes, he mounted a favourite hack and, sur- 

 rounded by a large field of horsemen, cantered off to Newmarket. 

 After taking a warm bath, he turned into bed for a short time and 

 joined his friends so fresh that he played billiards for a couple of 

 hours. 



As has been seen, he had fifty rides of four miles each and for them 

 he used twenty-eight diflferent horses. Tranby, the property of John 

 Gully, was ridden no less than four times and on the second occasion 

 did his round in eight minutes which was the shortest time of any. 

 Streamlet and Skirmisher were each ridden three times, Emma, Para- 

 dox, Liberty, Coroner, Oberton, Don Juan, Morgan Rattler, Cannon 

 Ball, Ultemar, Fairy, Dolly, Guilford, Coventry, Ringleader and Ipsala 

 were called on twice, while Clasher, colt by Tramp, Acorn, Ikey So o- 

 mons, Tam O'Shanter, Eldorado, Donegani, Hassan, filly by Surprise 

 and a horse by Smolensk© were ridden once. Streamlet, by reason of 

 the storm, took lOmin. losec. to do the four miles, while Ikey Solomons, 

 through falling, took 12min. and these were the two worst records. 



By reference to old calendars it will be seen that some of these were 

 racehorses of high class ; most of them were lent to Mr. Osbaldeston 

 out of the Newmarket stables, but several were his own property. 



BelVs Life, through a slip of the writer's pen, states that twenty-nine 

 diflferent horses were used, overlooking the fact that good little Fairy 

 who did her second round in 8min. 8sec., next best to Tranby's time, 

 was ridden twice. 



The time actually occupied in riding this match as taken from the 

 record opposite the name of each horse, which does not include 

 stoppages, was 7hr. 34min. 34sec. This, for each four miles, is an 

 average of 9min. 5sec., and for a mile 2min. 16sec. and is a little over 

 26 miles an hour. The stoppages, including 6min. 20sec. for luncheon, 

 came to Ihr. 7min. 16sec. but deductirig the luncheon they averaged 

 Imin. ISsec. and were from 6sec. to 2min. Of course ths first mounting 

 and last dismounting are not counted. 



Mr. Wheeler, quoting from the Standard, gives in his book ihr. 22min. 

 56sec. as the total time occupied in stoppages, but I prefer to rely 

 upon good old " Nunquam Dormio," who, on all matters sporting, 

 was in those days immeasurably more reliable than any other paper— 

 and, for that matter, remained so until its eyes were closed many years 

 after by newspapers issued daily upon sport. 



Independent of the stake Osbaldeston won a very large amount over 

 this event, having at first taken all the odds that were available and 

 ultimately laying odds on. Gully, also, was a big winner. Considering 



