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Curragh of Kildare. Skew Ball ran the four miles in seven 
minutes and fifty-one seconds. 
1752, April 4th.—A little mare, belonging to Mr. 
Spedding, ran twenty times round the five-mile course at 
the Curragh of Kildare in twelve hours and a half, for one 
hundred guineas, half forfeit. She was allowed thirteen 
hours to do it in. And the next morning, for a bet of one 
hundred guineas, she ran the same ground to a minute. 
She was rode both days by a boy of Lord Antrim’s. 
This mare was bought by Mr. Spedding for twopence per 
pound weight. 
1754, September 11th.—At Swiff ham races, a mare of 
Mr. Suting’s beat a horse of Mr. Deming’s, in a sixty-mile 
match, for one hundred guineas. The winner performed 
the distance in four hours and twenty minutes. 
1759, June 27th.—Jennison Shafto, Esq., performed a 
match against time, on Newmarket Heath ; the conditions 
of which were, he was to ride fifty miles (having as many 
horses as he pleased) in two successive hours, which he 
accomplished with ten horses, in one hour and forty-nine 
seconds. 
1791, December 24th.—Mr. Hall’s horse, Quibbler, ran a 
match for one thousand guineas, twenty-three miles in one 
hour, round the flat at Newmarket, which he performed in 
fifty-seven minutes and ten seconds. 
1791, October 6th.—At the meeting in the Curragh, 
Mr. Wild made bets to the amount of two thousand guineas, 
to ride against time, viz., one hundred and twenty-seven 
miles in nine hours. He started in a valley near the Cur¬ 
ragh course, where two miles were measured in a circular 
direction ; each time he encompassed the course, it was re¬ 
gularly marked. During the interval of changing horses, 
ne refreshed himself with a mouthful of brandy and water 
