Excerpt from Fores's Sporting Notes Sketches, Vol. 23: A Quarterly Magazine; Descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Sport
How Captain Coventry won by sheer riding, after a tremendous race with Hall Court, ridden by Captain Tempest of the 1 1th Hussars, is a matter of history.
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