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1731, she won the annual plate at Kipling Coates, 

 a fourth time, beating Mr. Taylor's Polly Peachem ; 

 also £30 at York, (the first year the races were run 

 for at Knaresmire,) beating Mr. Bathurst's Merry 

 Quaker, and Sir M. Wyvill's Scarborough colt ; and 

 50 gs. at Barnard Castle, beating Mr. Bright's 

 Emma, Mr. Barten's Favourite, Mr. Hodgson's 

 Fairplay, Mr. Smith's Snake, &c. ; all of which races 

 she won in excellent style. 



Miss Neesham was covered in the year 1731, 

 by Mr. Barley's Skipjack, and in the following 

 spring she produced a filly, which was afterwards 

 well known by the name of Miss Patty. ^ 



In 1733 she was called Mother Neesham, and 

 was again trained for York, where she won the 

 £30 plate, weight, list, beating easy Mr. Denton's 

 Modest Molly. In 1734, she won the annual 

 plate at Kiphng Coates, beating Captain Apple- 

 yard's Quiet Cuddy, and three others ; also the £30 

 plate, weight, list, at York, beating, at three heats, 

 Lord Weymouth's Whittington, and distanced two 



* Miss Patty was grandam of Captain Hebden's celebrated Mac- 

 heath, whose performances in the summer of 1778 are not equalled in 

 the annals of the turf, for he swept that year, all the four years old 

 plates in the countries of Lancashire and Cheshire ; he travelled and 

 raced upwards of 500 miles in the space of seven weeks, in which 

 time he won six plates of £50 each, at the following places ; viz : 

 Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Nantwich, Liverpool and Knutsford. 

 He was got by Mr. Warren's Camillus, out of a daughter of Regulus, 

 which mare was out of Miss Patty. Macheath's dam, was also the dam 

 of Mr. Wentworth's Fearnought. 



