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five others ; he also won the first heat from Lord 

 Portmore's Tom Tinker, and Mr. Bingham's Merry 

 Cupid, at Winchester, hut fell lame when running 

 for the second, and was obliged to be drawn. In 

 1743, he won £50 at Epsom, beating Lord Port- 

 more's Crab, Mr. Parson's Bristol mare, and Sir M. 

 Wyvill's Sportsman ; £50 at Salisbury, beating 

 Lord W. Manners' Black Jack, and the Duke of 

 Beaufort's Madcap ; £50 at Winchester, beating 

 Mr. Wood's Long Meg, and Mr. Parson's Bristol 

 mare ; £50 at Reading ; and £50 at Stockbridge. 

 In 1744, he won £50 at Canterbury; and £50 at 

 Windsor, beating Mr. Dent's Blacklegs, and four 

 others. 



Partner was in high form, and would, undoubt- 

 edly, have won several other prizes, if he had not 

 unfortunately fallen lame at the early time of his 

 racing, and which frequently happened to him 

 when running. He became a stallion, and was 

 sire of the dam of the famous Grimcrack, Trinket, 

 Slipslop, &c. 



Little Partner. A bay mare, foaled in 1731, 

 bred by, and the property of, the Hon. Mr. Vane. 



Little Partner was got by Mr. Croft's Partner, 

 her dam (Mr. Evelyn Chadrick's Redrose's dam) 

 by Old Greyhound ; grandam (Changeling and 

 Match'em's grandam) by Makeless ; great gran- 

 dam by Brimmer ; who was by the Yellow Turk, 

 out of Mr. Layton's Violet barb mare. 



