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and perhaps never exceeded by any horse of her 

 time. 



BucKHUNTER, commonly called the Carlisle geld- 

 ing. Bred by the Earl of Carlisle of Castle Howard 

 Yorkshire. 



Buckhunter was got by that noted stallion the 

 Bald Galloway; his dam, called the Wharton mare, 

 by Lord Carlisle's Turk, out of a daughter of the 

 said Bald Galloway, which was out of a Byerly 

 Turk mare. A curious old portrait of this horse 

 hangs in the rooms of Mr. Truefit, the well known 

 hair dresser, in the Burlington Arcade. Buck- 

 hunter was own brother to Old Lady, who was like- 

 wise bred by Lord Carlisle ; and his dam w^as also 

 the dam of Colonel Howard's Squirrel, and of his 

 Chesnut mare, that won the Royal Plate for mares, 

 at Newmarket, in April 1728. 



At York, in July 1719, Buckhunter^ (the first 

 time of his running,) won her Majesty Queen 



* In the year 1714, in running for her Majesty's Gold Cup, over 

 Clifton and Rawcliff Ings, near York, the third heat was most severely 

 contested between Mr. Childers's, Duchess (who had won the first 

 heat) and Mr. Peirson's Fox-hunter, who had won the second heat. 

 Robert Hesletine, who rode Duchess, ran Fox- hunter so near the 

 cords, that his rider Stephen Jefferson was obliged to whip over the 

 horse's shoulder. The heat was given by the Tryers to Fox-hunter, 

 but as both the riders had shown foul-play, and fought on horse-back, 

 many disputes arose amongst the sportsmen ; and it was agreed that 

 the heat should be run over again by Duchess and Fox-hunter, which 

 the former won by a clear length. In consequence of Mr. Childers 

 and Mr. Peirson both claiming the cup, a law-suit ensued, and all 



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