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Thread #152581   Message #3570541
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Oct-13 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Beware Chalk Pit (Graham Penny)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Beware Chalk Pit
From The Sporting Magazine, Volume 11 (London: March, 1798), page 296:

The following is inscribed on a Pedestal, erected at Farley, in Hampshire.

Underneath lies buried a horse, the property of Paulet St. John, Esq. that in the month of September, 1733, leaped into a chalk pit, a fox hunting, twenty-five feet deep, with his master on his back, and in October 1734, he won the Hunters plate on Worthy Downs, and was rode by his owner, and entered in the name of "BEWARE CHALK PIT."