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in 1740, and got by Blacklegs, who was bred by 

 the former Mr. Hutton, out of a daughter of 

 Coneyskins, and got by a barb, son of the Leicester 

 Turk. Moorcock's dam was out of a daughter 

 of the Byerley Turk, and got by Hutton's grey 

 barb, his grandam by a son of the Hemsley Turk, 

 his grandam by Blunderbuss, out of a daughter of 

 Place's White Turk. 



August 10th 1744, he won the £50 prize for 4 

 yrs. olds at York, carrying 9st.; June 18, 1745, £50 

 at Grantham, carrying lOst.; July 4th £50 at Not- 

 tingham ; 23rd £50 at Huntingdon ; Aug. 20, £50 

 at Oxford; September 2nd, £50 at Windsor; on the 

 20th, 50 gs. at Odsey's ; May 10, 1746, £50 at 

 Epsom; on the 21st of Aug., he won the ladies' 

 purse of 80 gs. at Oxford ; Sep. 4, the ladies' purse 

 of 90 gs. at Lincoln ; Oct. 4, he won a match of 

 300 gs. at Newmarket, carrying 9st. 31b. 4 miles ; 

 September 30, 1748, the town plate at Salisbury, 

 and July 19, £50 at Wells. 



Babram. a bay horse, foaled in 1740 ; bred by 

 the Earl of Godolphin, and sold to Mr. Benjamin 

 Rogers of Mickleham, near Epsom, Surrey. 



Babram was got by Lord Godolphin's Arabian ; 

 his dam was Captain Hartley's large mare, by his 

 blind stallion, out of Mr. Avington's Flying Whig. 



In 1746, Babram won £50 at Reading; in 1747, 

 (in the midst of his covering season,) he won £50 

 at Guildford, and in the same year he won £50 at 

 Windsor. In 1748 he won the ladies £80 at Ox- 



