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PLYING CmLDERS STORY Nothing was ever more true than the old saying "Give a lie ten minutes start and you will never catch it," and it is remarkable how people come to believe some of the rubbish told, which reminds me of the fairy tale still often mentioned without contradiction that Flying Childers covered a mile in eighty seconds. I have actually read the amazing statement that he ran it in sixty seconds, and in the first volume of the General Stud Book one reads the following concerning Flying Childers: "Generally supposed to have been the fastest horse that was ever trained In this or any other country." Bred by Leonard Childers, of Carr House, Doncaster, and foaled in 1715, this son of the Darley Arabian, from Betty Leedes, was bought when young by the Duke of Devonshire, and was never beaten, dying in 1741. He was mated to few mares besides those owned by His Grace, and was a rather small bay horse, with a white blaze and four white feet. Another unbeaten racer, Bahram, took 1:41 to cover the Rowley Mile when easily winning the Two Thousand Guineas in 1935, and to imagine a horse so closely related to the Arab as Flying Childers could have galloped the distance much faster Is really childish.-Faraway in Horse and Hound,
