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CHAPTER X. 



1750 to 1754. Marsk (sire of Eclipse)— Snap — Syphon — Cruel match 

 between Crop and Mr. Harrison's roan-horse — The Earl of 

 March's celebrated chaise match at Newmarket — Careless — Dainty 

 Davy — Lottery — Spider — Match between Skew Ball and Miss 

 Sportly on the Curragh of Kildare. — Extraordinary performance of 

 Mr. Spelding's mare on the Curragh. — Sir Charles Turner's match 

 against time. — 300 miles in 64 hours, and 20 minutes, by Mr. 

 Croker's mare. 



Marsk. Sire of Eclipse, a brown horse, foaled 

 in 1750, bred by John Hutton, Esq., of Marsh, 

 near Richmond, Yorkshire ; who disposed of him 

 to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. 



Marsk was got by Squirt, out of the Ruby 

 mare ; she was from a daughter of Bay Bolton 

 and Mr. Hutton's Blacklegs, grandam by Fox- 

 Club ; great grandam by Coneyskins ; great 

 great grandam, by Mr. Hutton's grey barb, 

 a daughter of Mr. Hutton's royal colt , a daughter 

 of the Byerley Turk, from a Bustler mare. 



" In the year 1750, his Royal Highness the 

 Duke of Cumberland gave me — John Hutton — a 

 chestnut Arabian in exchange for a brown colt, got 



