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The details of the English thoroughbreds are correct and are part of the history of Racing.

The last horse to win the English Triple Crown (the Two Thousand guineas, the Derby, and the St. Leger) in 1935 was Bahrain.

There were only three Dictators of the Turf – Lord George Bentick II was succeeded by Admiral John Henry Rous, the most famous, and a supreme authority on handicapping.

The tale of Scham and Agba was eventually translated from the French by Colonel F. W. Alexander in 1867. The cat appears in portraits of Scham by Stubbs, Sartorious and Wootten.

Charles Green was one of the great pioneers of balloons. He made his first coal gas ascent from Green Park in London during the celebrations of the Coronation of George IV. By 1835 he had made two hundred flights and introduced the tail-rope.

In 1840 he planned a crossing of the Atlantic by balloon, but this had to be abandoned when he was injured during a difficult balloon landing in Essex.

After his five hundredth balloon ascent he retired and died in 1870.