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neas, and forty-three guineas added, beating Hocus- 

 pocus, Algernon, Trajon, and Rodrigo. Next day 

 he won two heats, three miles each, (seven sub- 

 scribers) a stake of ten guineas, with 50/. added, 

 beating Algernon, Catherine, and Cwrw. In 1814, 

 X Y Z and Catton ran a dead heat, two miles and 

 a quarter, for a stakes of twenty-five guineas each 

 (six subscribers) ; after the dead heat the former 

 received a compromise, and the latter walked over. 

 He won the gold cup, value one hundred guineas, 

 and sixty guineas in specie, beating Biddick and 

 Sir C. Monck's bay colt. At Lamberton he walked 

 over for the gold cup, worth one hundred guineas, 

 four miles. At Richmond he won the gold cup, 

 with forty-four guineas, beating Biddick, Crown- 

 prince, Hocuspocus, and Tempest. In 1815, he 

 broke down in running for the gold cup, at New- 

 castle upon Tyne, against Biddick. 



Catton, a bay horse, foaled in 1809, got by Go- 

 lumpus, his dam l^ucy Gray, by Timothy, was bred 

 by Messrs. W. Horsley and S. King, whose pro- 

 perty he was till 1811, having been then sold to the 

 earl of Scarborough. In the York August meeting, 

 1812, he won a sweepstakes of fifty guineas each, 

 for three years old colts, two miles, (nine subscribers) 

 beating Langold, Boadicea, Euryalus, Zigzag, and 

 Don Carlos. In the York spring meeting, 1813, 

 he ran second to Sligo, for a sweepstakes of tvvcnty 

 guineas each, two miles, beating Geranium, Lan- 

 gold, Mowbray, Otterington, and CaslofF. At the 

 same meeting, he ran second to Sligo for the Con- 

 stitution stakes of twenty guineas each, beating 

 Geranium, Otterington, Fugitive, Salamanca, Mr. 

 Gascoign's b. c. by Sancho, duke of Leeds' b. f. by 

 Beningborough, and Sir M. M. Sykes's sister to 

 Prime Minister. Next day he won 70/. at two 

 trials, for all ages, three miles, beating Navigator, 

 Manuella, and Sir. Brade's b. f. by Diamond. This 

 was easily won. 



