THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

What a furore! What revelry! How strong liquors flowed like water when Lord Zetland’s horse won the Derby. A pot of money made, maybe a wagon load came into Richmond, for everybody had backed their local favourite, and didn’t they spend it. It was told that about eight or ten of the old hands died off within 12 months of this great haul being made. They liquored day and night for weeks and their constitutions, not being as stable as the walls of Richmond Castle, gave way under the strain.

Darlington & Stockton Times, 1898