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Here, should my muse presume to moralise, 

 What scope for deep reflection would arise ! 

 Might she not say that life is but a race. 

 And that 'tis finished in a little space ? 

 Thousands, no doubt, will one day wish to lie. 

 As safe as Marsk beneath an angry sky. 



Snap. A brown horse, foaled in 1750, bred by 

 Cuthbert Ruth, Esq., and sold to Jenison Shafto, 

 Esq. Snap was got by Snip, his dam (sister to 

 Mr. Panton's Slipby) by Lord Portmore's Fox, 

 out of the Duke of Bolton's Gipsey. 



Snap raced in the Earl of Sandwich's name. 

 At Newmarket First Spring Meeting, 1756, Snap 

 beat the Duke of Cumberland's Marsk, lOst. each, 

 B. C, 1000 gs. In the Second Spring Meeting, 

 he beat Marsk a second time, at the same weight, 

 B. C, 1000 gs. The odds at starting were ten 

 to one on Snap, and over the flat, thirty to one, 

 Marsk being all abroad, and was beat by half a 

 distance, at the Ditch-half-mile. Snap also won 

 the Free plate of £100 for six years olds, lOst., 

 and 'aged, lOst. 71b., four mile heats, at York, 

 beating Mr. Eastby's Farmer, aged, and Mr. 

 Robinson's Music, six years old, who was second 

 and drawn. At starting, six and seven to four 

 on Snap ; after the heat, twenty to one. He also 

 received 50 gs. not to start for the Free Plate of 

 £100, at Stockton. At Newmarket, in April, 1757, 

 Snap beat Lord Gower's Sweepstakes, 9st. each, 

 B. C., 1000 gs. The above were the only times 

 of his running. 



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