THE TRUE SPORTSMAN'S GAZETTE
... Staffordshire, on the 9th inst. J. Pratt. Esq., of Saredon, of sporting celebrity, undertook, for a wager of 100 a-side (with Mr. Thomas Evans, of Wolverhampton), to ride his hack, a bay horse, by Spectre, from the gas-post in Wolverhampton market-place to the ...