444 HISTORY OF THE 



£50 at Epsom; June 10th, £50 at Guilford; July 

 10th, £50 at Nottingham. He was sent to Ireland, 

 where he won several plates ; he then became the 

 property of Sir Edward O'Brien, Bart., in w^hose 

 possession he was accidentally killed. 



1738. — At the races of Maldon, in Essex, three 

 horses (and only three) started for a ten pound 

 plate, and were all distanced the first heat, accord- 

 ing to the common rules in horse-racing, without 

 any quibble or equivocation. The first ran on 

 the inside of the post, the second wanted weight, 

 and the tliird fell, and broke a fore leg. 



ToRiSMOND. Got by the Bolton Starling, and 

 bred by lAlr. Crofts in 1739 ; his dam by Old Part- 

 ner, his grandam by Makeless, which mare was the 

 grandam of Mr. Vane's Little Partner ; his great 

 grandam by Brimmer, his great great grandam 

 by Place's \Yhite Turk, his great great great 

 grandam by Dods worth, out of a Lay ton barb 

 mare. 



1743, when 4 yrs. old, he won £50 at Morpeth, 

 after which he was sold to Mr. Mortindale. 1744, 

 he won £50 at Epsom, £50 at Huntingdon, £50 

 at ^Yarwick. 1745, he won 100 gs. at Newmar- 

 ket, for horses rising 6 yrs. old ; £50, at Oxford, 

 £50 at Lincoln. 1746, £50 at Winchester, £50 at 

 Leicester ; after which he was purchased for a 

 stallion in the north. 



Moorcock. The property of the Earl of Port- 

 more. Moorcock w^as bred by — Hutton, Esq., 



