Admiral Rous

[zerosky]

Came across this link, makes for an interesting read
Even one hundred and fifty years ago they were complaining
at the about the sacrifice of stamina to speed and the over
racing of young horses....

http://www.archive.org/details/onlawspracticeof00rousrich

[robert99]

Not in the case below - and thanks for the link :ThmbUp:

"15. Two Horses Running Five Miles and a-Half
instead of Four Miles, by Mistake.

AYR RACES, 1813. A Plate of 50G. For all ages.
Four-mile heats.

Marquis of Queensberry's Llewellyn 211
Sir W. Maxwell's Tam-o'-Shanter ..122
By mistake these horses went round the course
once oftener than was necessary, the first heat
making a distance of about five miles and a-quarter,
miles at the end of which Llewellyn was first ; but Tam-
o'-Shanter having the lead at the end of four
miles, the heat was adjudged to him. "