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Dunlavon, when the former was ridden by Oliver and the 
latter by F. Jacobs. Dunlavon won, and Oliver had a nasty 
fall, but recovered in time to get third on Prince George in the 
Liverpool Steeplechase the next year. In 1849, Archer won the 
Newport Pagnell Steeplechase on Charity. Mr, Brooks says 
that in 1849 Archer was living at Cintra House, though he still 
kept up his old quarters in St. George's Place. 
There was another attraction for the jockey in Prestbury ; 
he had fallen in love with Miss Emma Hayward, the handsome 
elder daughter of William Hayward, then the highly respected 
landlord of the King's Arms. On the day before St. Valen- 
tine's Day, 1849, Archer was married to Emma Hayward by 
the Rev. John Edwards (later De la Bere), whose son's letters 
to Fred Archer are published in this book. The wedding party 
was a very merry one — and no wonder, for Black Tom Oliver 
was best man, possibly attended by his satellite Lindsay Gordon, 
but this last is pure conjecture. Mr. William Holman, the 
celebrated trainer, and Mr. Hawkins, the owner of Theresa, 
were also present. The bride's father gave a gorgeous wedding 
feast at the King's Arms, at which the vicar and all who had 
been at the wedding were present, and afterwards the bride 
and bridegroom went off to London, where they stopped with 
Host Wright of the Anglesey Hotel in the Haymarket. Mrs. 
William Archer was a tall, dark girl, whose beauty was rather of 
the Oriental type. She was eminently aristocratic-looking, and 
" Archer's parents were indeed thought to have some good 
blood in their veins from somewhere," remarked a famous 
trainer. " Must have, to get that," he said, as he gazed at his 
" best " portrait of Archer. For the " best " pictures of 
Archer are like the sands of the sea or the hoofs of EcUpse in 
number. 
Emma Hayward came of a family long and highly esteemed 
in Prestbury, and whether she had aristocratic forebears or not, 
she certainly looked the part. Her father was churchwarden 
at Prestbury for over forty years, and was much hked by the 
