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FAIR EQUESTRIANS BIG RIDE Miss Pond rode one thousand miles in a thousand hours at Newmarket in 1758 She was backed to perform this feat by the Duke of Queensberry then Lord March She was however allowed to do the one thousand miles on as many horses as she chcsc without regarding time She did the match in twentyeight days and twothirds of the time on one favorite horse The lady took her rest regularly at night and rode in the daytime forty or fifty miles Ameri ¬ can Turf Register
