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■we "have any particular account, is Brocklesby Beti y, the property of 

 the Pelham family. She was a large, dark chcsnut mare, without 

 any white, foaled in Lincolnshire, in 1711, and bread entirely from 

 fbrei-^n stock. Got by the Curwen Bay Barb, out of the Hobby mare, 

 daughter of the Lister Turk, out of a royal or foreign mare. Although 

 used as a brood-mare before she was trained, she yet proved superior, as 

 is said, both for speed and goodness, to any Horse or Mare of the 

 time. There is a portrait remaining of Brocklesby Betty, which pro- 

 bably gives a correct idea of her general figure ; but Horse-painting 

 was surely at a very low ebb in this country, before the days of Stubbs. 

 This mare won several Royal Cups, both in the North and at New- 

 market, beating all the capital Horses of the North and South. Many 

 of her races were at heats, and with high weights. She also beat in two 

 matches, in 1718, the Duke of Wharton's Snail, for two hundred 

 guineas, and the Duke of Bridgewater's famous Astridge Ball, by 

 Leeds, then supposed to be the best Horse in the kingdom, for nine 

 hundred guineas. She was thenceforth turned into the breeding stud, 

 the property of Mr. Crofts, who was the fortunate owner of so many 

 celebrated racers. Brocklesby, foaled in 1723, was her produce, and 

 many late famous racers have descended from her. 



Bonny Black was bred by the Duke of Rutland, a black mare with 

 two white legs behind, and a small blaze in her face, foaled in 1715. 

 She was the daughter of a Horse of the Duke's, called Black-hearty, 

 a son of the Byerley Turk, her dam by a Persian stallion, which very 

 probably might be a true-bred Arabian, and merely styled Persian, 

 from his having been procured in that country ; a common occurrence 

 as I have before stated. Her great and true running naturally leads to 

 such conjecture. Her speed was so great, that it was said to equal her 

 game and strength of constitution, by which she told out all the Horses 

 of her day. 



In April, 1719, at Newmarket, Bonny Black, then rising four, but 

 according to older accoun'.s, only rising three years old, beat Mr. Framp- 

 ton's Horse, rising seven, ten stone each ; and going down into the 

 North in the following August, she won the King's Plate at Hambleton, 

 beating thirty five-year old mares, thirty-five had entered, but the were 



drawn. 



