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again won the King's Plate at Hambleton, beating 

 seventeenothers. In April 1721, she won the King's 

 Plate for mares at Newmarket. When six years 

 old, she beat Lord Harvey's Merryman, aged, and 

 allowed him 3st. ; she also beat the noted Hack- 

 wood, at 8st. each ; after which the Duke chal- 

 lenged to run her against any horse or mare in the 

 kingdom, for 1000 gs. four times round the King's 

 Plate course without rubbing ; which challenge was 

 not accepted. 



Bonny Black was the only mare that won the 

 Royal Plate at Hambleton twice ; a remarkable 

 circumstance, when it is considered that she had 

 travelled from Newmarket, and then had to start 

 against such a great number of mares, in a country 

 famed for its breed of racers, and that she gave 

 away her year at lOst. weights. She afterwards 

 became a brood mare in his Grace's stud, and 

 from her sprang a number of fine horses, as will 

 appear in many of these pedigrees. 



Mr. Panton's Molly. Bred bv — Thurland, 

 Esq., of the county of Surrey, and sold to Thomas 

 Panton, Esq., of Newmarket. 



Molly was got by Sir John Parson's Thoulouse 

 barb. It was reported that her dam was bought 

 in a fair, for a trifling sum of money, and therefore 

 it was imagined that she was a mare of little es- 

 teem, and not well bred; but several sportsmen 

 at that time insisted on the contrary ; asserting 



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