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Sussex, in whose hands he won the 300 gs. stakes 

 at Quainton Meadow ; he afterwards beat Lord 

 Hilsborough's Witty, gelding, for 2000 gs. from 

 whom he also received a forfeit of 100 gs. ; he like- 

 wise beat Lord Drogheda's Snip, three matches for 

 considerable sums ; and Mr. Frampton's Miss 

 Worksop, for 200 gs. 



Fox was a stallion in Lord Portmore's stud, 

 and died in his Lordship's possession, in the spring 

 of 1738, aged 23. He was sire of Captain Ap- 

 pleyard's Cuddy and Conqueror ; of the Duke of 

 Bolton's Gohah and Merry Andrew ; of Lord 

 Portmore's Victorious and Slipby ; of Mr. Witty's 

 Mehora, (dam of the famous Tarter, sire of King 

 Herod ;) of the dam of the Duke of Cumberland's 

 Crab, Sir William Middleton's Childerkin, Mr. 

 Shafto's Snap, Northumberland, Swiss, Legacy, 

 &c. &c. 



Spanker w^as bred by Charles Pelham, Esq., of 

 Brocklesby, Lincolnshire. He was got by the 

 d'Arcy, Yellow Turk ; his dam was called the 

 Old Morocco mare, by Lord Fairfax's Morocco 

 barb ; his grandam, called Old Bald Peg, bred by 

 the said Lord Fairfax, and got by an Arabian, out 

 of a barb mare. Spanker was sire of Mr. Leedes' 

 Old Careless ; Mr. Curwen's Young Spanker, 

 &c. He got the dam of old Leedes ; the grandam 

 of Mr. Dyer's Dimple; the grandam of Basto; 

 the grandam of Spanking Roger ; the great gran- 



