G. Osbaldeston Esqr. extraordinary match of 200 miles against time
$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
A fine quality image, engraved by James Pollard from his own drawing. Re-issue of a plate first published by T. Helme in 1831 and depicting the famous sportsman George Osbaldeston 1787-1866 , at the Newmarket Houghton meeting of 1831, where he performed an extraordinary feat. He undertook to ride two hundred miles in ten consecutive hours for a bet of a thousand guineas, the number and choice of horses being unlimited. He divided the distance to be covered into heats of
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