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Crofts, and often styled in old pedigrees, " that remarkable speedv 

 stallion Bloody Buttocks." Yet allowing him to have been an Eno-Hsh 

 Horse, with great speed, it could only have been shewn in private 

 trials, since he lived so latel)', that had he ran in public, it must have 

 appeared in the racing transactions. He got Dairy Maid in the year 

 1737. 



Bald Charlotte, or Lady Legs, a high-bred mare, of the finest 

 form, and winner of King's Plates. At Newmarket, in 1727, carryino- 

 eighteen stone, she beat Swinger, seventeen stone seven pounds, four 

 miles, for two hundred guineas. Another, among numerous proofs, that 

 our best and speediest Race-horses, are not that weak and spider-leo-"ed 

 breed, which it has been sometimes the fashion to represent them. 



The Bloody-Shouldered Arabian was the sire of Sir Nathaniel 

 Curzon's Brisk, which won the King's Plate at Lincoln, in 1731, and 

 various other plates. Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne has an original 

 portrait of this Horse at Gogmagog. 



Spanking Roger, by the Devonshire Childers, his dam Sparkler; 

 the dam also of Mr. Greville's Grantham, by the Cyprus Arabian, out 

 of a daughter of Spanker. This was a remarkably fine shewy Horse, 

 as appears by his portrait now before me. He had not that depth of 

 carcase which generally distinguishes the racer, but had a rotundity of 

 barrel, often seen in the Suflblk Cart-horse. Indeed, he was so parti- 

 cularly distinguished in that respect, that Dr. Bracken, who knew the 

 Horse, has noticed the circumstance as follows, "It is generally sup- 

 posed, that when a Horse is well let down in the girth, he is a o'ood- 

 winded nag ; yet I have known this fail now and then, more particu- 

 larly in the Chesnut Horse, Avhich belonged to the late Sir Edmund 

 Bacon, called by the name of Spanking Roger, which won the six-year- 

 old plate at York, Lincoln, and other places, in the year J 738, for he 

 was a Roiiiid-barrelled Horse, and did not look much let down in the 

 girth, or of the make of a greyhound, about the breast, yet he was a 

 good-winded Horse, as well as a swift one. But although he was not 

 much let down in the place mentioned, he might take as large a girth, 

 as if he had been more so ; therefore, the true estimate is to be made by 

 the number of inches that will go round at the usual place where we fix 

 the girths; or rather, let him be measured over the highest part of his 



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