RATHER ROMANTIC.
An American exchange says : — An interesting story involving a romance of the turf and the highest aristocracy has just been brought to light. A well-known sporting Duchess became infatuated with the most successful jockey in the world, and proposed tp' marry him. He was a widower and she had long been a widow. Her preference was never emphasised until the last race meeting at Newmarket. Fred Archer rode Gray Hermit and ran a dead heat with Modena. When he failed to win Archer found his fee was £500, instead of the customary £10., Just after this her ladyship broached the delicate question of a' matrimonial partnership. Then Archer reflected. Her ladyship is over sixty year's old, and" Archer is only thirty. He wrote a respectful answer to her ladyship's, offer of an alliance, but the letter was characteristically horsey. He said he wats overpowered by the intended bonor, but he couldn't.ride theweigat,
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1213, 13 January 1886, Page 5
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154RATHER ROMANTIC. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1213, 13 January 1886, Page 5
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