Nat Flatman
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Elnathan "Nat" Flatman, born Holton St. Mary, Suffolk, was the first Champion flat racing jockey of Great Britain. He began his thirty-four-year racing career as an apprentice jockey at age fifteen an
Nat Flatman aboard Preserve at Newmarket Racecourse 1835 painting by John Frederick Herring, Jr.
St. Mary's Church, Holton St. Mary, the village where Flatman was born
Colonel Jonathan Peel, for whom Flatman rode in his early years
Orlando on whom Flatman won the controversial 1844 Derby
The Great Match (horse race)
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The Great Match is the name given to a match race between two of the most famous British Thoroughbred racehorses of the 19th century - Voltigeur and The Flying Dutchman. The race took place at York on
Nat Flatman
…his final year of riding in 1859, he won only fifteen races. However, he did take part in one of the most famous races of the century, the so-called Great Match between Voltigeur and The Flying Dutchman at York in May 1851. Flatman rode Voltigeur, who had won the Derby, St. Leger and Doncaster Cup the previous…
The Great Match by J F Herring: "Volti" is beaten by "The Flyer"