478 HISTORY OF THE 



tilda, by Cade, 6 years old, and Lord Rocking- 

 ham's Scrub, aged ; at starting four and five to 

 one on Careless ; the heat was run in 8 minutes and 

 8 seconds, and won by a length. In ] 760, he 

 won the great subscription of £255, weight 9st., 

 four miles at York, beating the Duke of Devon- 

 shire's Atlas, on whom the odds were five to one. 

 Careless only started once after, when he was beat 

 bv Scrub and Maria, at York, in 1761 : he also 

 was beat by Atlas, at Newmarket, in April, 1759, 

 which, with the above, were his only engagements. 

 Careless was afterwards a stallion, in the Duke 

 of Kingston's stud, at Holme Pierrepoint, Not- 

 tinghamshire, where he served mares at 10 gs., 

 and 05. He was sire of the Duke of Kingston's 

 Christopass, Catch'em, Cossack, Crony, Chrysis, 

 Antonio, &c. ; of Sir Charles Sedley's Regulator 

 and Rattletrap ; of Mr. Bailey's Lydia, Mr. Pat- 

 terson's Silvertail, Mr. Vernon's Petit-Gris, Lord 

 Abingdon's Impostor, Mr. Powell's Prodigal, Mr. 

 Wentworth's Mousetrap, Mr. H. Vernon's Va- 

 ranes, Mr. Douglas's Alderman, and several others. 

 He also got the dam of Lord Abingdon's Magna 

 Charta, Lord Melsintoune's Catalpha, Sir John 

 Lade's Plutus, Mr. Lade's Plutitia, Mr. Douglas' 

 Spider, Competitor and Grantham, Mr. Gas- 

 coigne's Ceres, &c. ; and the grand am s of Mr. 

 Preston's Silverlocks, Mr. Clifton's Geranium 

 Lord Darlington's Ruby, Mr. Bullock's Alarm, 

 Lord Barrymore's Musquito, &c. 



