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before she was trained, after which she beat the best Horses in th« 

 North; and Mr. Crofts supposed her the best-bred mare in England. 

 Partner was a Horse of great powers, symmetry, and beautj^ and tlie best 

 racer of his time at Newmarket, At five years old he beat a Hor^c 

 of Sir Rol)ert Fagg's, of the same age, allowing him two stone; and 

 the next year beat the Bolton Sloven, allowing him ten pounds (or the 

 year. The blood of the Byerley Turk, through Partner, as totally 

 distinct, was an excellent cross for that of the Darley Arabian, through 

 Childers and others, according to the received opinion of breeders. 



Miss Neesham, afterwards called Old Mother Neesham. I introduce 

 this mare on a two-fold account. For the sake of making a remark on 

 her form, and as she stands connected with an anecdote, Avhich n)y 

 Lord Somerville lately imparted to me, respecting his grandfather. 



This famous racer and brood-mare, I have somewhere read or heard, 

 had her shoulder formed like the hare, of great width at the summit, 

 and that she ran with her fore-legs as wide as a barn door. Her 

 shoulders, however thick, declined deeply into her waist, adding to her 

 strength without diminishing her powers of progression. She was bred 

 at Neesham, in Cumberland, foaled in 1720, and sold to jNIr. Darley 

 of Yorkshire. Got by Hartley's blind Horse, son of the Holderness 

 Turk, out of the dam of Favourite, by Commoner, son of Place's White 

 Turk. She was of the oldest blood then in England. She started at 

 six years old, in the name of Cripple, for the King's Plate at York, and 

 although being lame, she could not win the plate, she yet won the high 

 opinion of Stephen Jefferson, the famous jockey, who rode her, and 

 who, on a more intimate acquaintance, preferred her even to his fa- 

 vourite Aleppo. Miss Neesham afterwards beat the best Horses in 

 the kingdom, and at the high weights often and twelve stone, winning 

 her races in a very high form. In 1731 she was covered by Skip-Jack, 

 a son of the Darley Arabian, the produce of which was INIiss Patty, 

 afterwards well known as a racer and brood-mare. In 1733 she was 

 again trained and raced in the name of Mother Neesham, proving to 

 the last, the stoutest racer of her time, at high weights, and in running 

 heats. In her last race at York, she beat Lord Weymouth's Whitting- 

 ton, at eleven stone, three heats, distancing two others. She finished her 

 career as a brood-mare, in Mr. Darley's stud. 



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