Professor Richard Hofstadter writes that penalties for servants who breached their contracts ranged from extending their contracts by double the time the master lost while they were gone to as much a ten-to-one penalty authorized in Maryland at one time.
Fresh from his first innings double century, the 'Little Master' was irresistible, smashing Hauritz for successive sixes over midwicket before rocking back and driving the same bowler twice through the covers for four.
That haul included a Champion Hurdle-Gold Cup double for trainer Kim Bailey on Alderbrook and Master Oats, Williamson becoming the 10th jockey to accomplish the feat and the first for 34 years.
He did double duty around the house when I went back to school to get my master's degree, watched nervously as I took a ride on a Harley and silently cringed when I insisted on going parasailing.