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won the King's Plate at York in 1722 ;) he also 

 got Mr. Howe's Foxhunter, and Grey Avington ; 

 Bald Avington, Roxana, (Cade and Lath's dam,) 

 Silverlocks, (Brilliant's grandam) and several 

 others that won plates in the north ; which brought 

 him into great repute as a stallion. He covered at 

 the Oak-tree, Leeming-lane, Yorkshire, where he 

 died. 



Fox, commonly called Old Fox. A bay horse, 

 foaled in 1714. Bred by Sir Ralph Ashton, Bart., 

 and sold to Matthew Liston, Esq. 



Sir Ralph Ashton purchased two mares of Mr. 

 Leedes, and had them both covered in one season, 

 (1713) by Clumsy, (son of Mr. Wilkes's Haut- 

 boy ;) one of which produced Fox, the other Fox- 

 Cub or Squirrel. The dam of Fox was called Bay 

 Peg, got by Leedes's Arabian ; grandam, young 

 Bald Peg, by the same Arabian, (sire of Leedes,) 

 out of Spanker's dam. 



At York, in 1719, Fox won the ladies' plate for 

 five year olds, 8st. four mile, beating Lord Lons- 

 dale's Bay Jack, Duke of Ancaster's Blacklegs, and 

 nine others. He was then sold to the Duke of 

 Rutland, in whose possession he beat the Duke of 

 Wharton's Stripling, at Newmarket, for a consi- 

 derable sum. He won two King's plates at New- 

 market ; the King's Plate at Lewes ; and received 

 250 gs. from the Duke of Wharton's Swallows. 

 Fox then became the property of Mr. Cotton of 



