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cellent racers, among other valuable mares, got Roxana, the dam of 

 Cade and Lath, Grey Robinson, the dam of Rcgulus, and Silverlocks, 

 the grand-dam of BrilHant. 



In 1714, at CHfton and Rawcliff-Ings, near York, the third heat for 

 the Queen's gold cup, being severely contested between Mr. Childers's 

 Duchess and Mr. Pierson's Foxhunt.er, the jockies fought on horseback, 

 a sufficient evidence of the former barbarous manners of the 

 turf In 1719, Old Fox, the pio|Derty of Mr. Cotton, of Sussex, 

 beat Lord Hillsborough's Witty Gelding, for two thousand guineas, a 

 proof among many of the spirit of those times. The name of Old 

 Fox stands eminent in our pedigree. In Fox's pedigree, as well as 

 in that of many of our highest-formed racers and stallions, there 

 was an affinity of blood, which is here adverted to, by way of 

 hinting, that such circumstance may not have the unfavourable 

 consequence, as to the worth of the stock, which seems generally ap- 

 prehended (See p. 321.) Fox was got by Clumsy out of Bay Peg, a 

 daughter of Leedes's Arabian, his grand-dam being Young Bald Peg, 

 got also by the same Arabian, out of the dam of Spanker. Spanker, 

 one of our most famous and high-bred stallions, was bred at Brockelsby^ 

 by the Pelham family, and comes very near our earliest pedigrees ; 

 perhaps his grand-dam takes precedence of all others, going beyond the 

 Old Morocco Mare. Spanker Avas got by the D'Arcy Yellow Turk 

 out of the Old Morocco Mare, his grand-dam, called Old Bald Peg, 

 bred by Lord Fairfax, and got by an Arabian out of a Barb mare. 



Flying Guilders was a chesnut Horse, with white upon his nose, 

 and whited all-fours, upon his pasterns, the white reaching highest 

 upon his near leg before, and his off hinder leg. On this head the old 

 jockies held the following whimsical doctrine— A Horse is well marked 

 when he has h.\s far fore-foot and his near hinder-foot, white ; on the con- 

 trary, those are said to be ill marked, that have the near fore-foot and far 

 hinder-foot white, or a white hinder-foot on the far side, or both the^bre- 

 feet white, or when the two teet on the same side are white; and he is 

 called well-whited, if his hinder feet be both white, provided the white 

 do not run up too high, tor he is then styled honed, which is the sign of a 

 washy constitution. 



Flying Childers appears fifteen hands high, or upwards, and to have 



been 



