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drawn, being the greatest number ever entered for that plate. In the 

 following 3^ear she won the same plate, beating seventeen others. The 

 next April she won the King's plate for mares at Newmarket. At six 

 years old she beat Merryman, aged, allowing him three stone. This 

 Merrimanwas a gelding, sometimes called the Witty Gelding, a winner 

 of the King's Plate at Newmarket, and one of the first racers of his 

 time. She afterwards beat the famous Hackwood, eight stone each ; 

 after which the Duke of Rutland challenged all England with her, for 

 a tliousand guineas, to run four times round the King's-plate Course, at 

 Newmarket, without rubbing, which was not accepted. She was the 

 only mare that ever won Hambleton twice, and the giving the year at 

 the weight of ten stone, to sucii a number of mares, in that famous 

 county of racers, taking also into consideration her travelling backward 

 and forward between Yorkshii-e and Newmarket, are surprising proofs 

 of constitutional power. The Duke kept this mare in the stud, and from 

 her have descended many of our highest formed racers. Colonel 

 O'Kelly, I am informed, has an original portrait of Bonny Black, at 

 Cannons. If there be any truth in the prints of her, she was exceed- 

 ingly well filletted. 



BucKHUNTER was bred by the Earl of Carlisle, thence called the 

 Carlisle Gelding, and foaled in 1713. He was so vicious and unma- 

 nageable a colt, that it was judged necessary to cut him ; indeed, the 

 countenance in his portrait, shews such disposition. He was full brother 

 to Old Lady, got by the famous Bald Galloway, his dam the Wharton 

 mare by Lord Carlisle's Turk, outof a daughter of the same Bald Gal- 

 loway, which was outof a Byerley Turk mare. 



Buckhunter won Queen's Anne's Gold Cup, value one hundred 

 guineas, and many King's Plates, with great variety of matches and 

 prizes, and after the severe service of running trials at Newmarket, 

 until fourteen years of age, he won nearly twenty plates, in different 

 parts of the country, at last, losing his life by breaking a leg, whilst 

 running for a plate at Salterley Common, and was buried near the 

 pales of Stilton church-yard, in 1731. Buckhunter had not first rate 

 speed : but in other respects, was equal to any Horse that ever was 

 trained. The Bald Galloway, sire of Buckhunter, and of so many ex- 



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