492 HISTORY OF THK 



CHAPTER XI. 



1754 to 1764. — Squirrel — Engineer— Miss Pond's match at New- 

 market, 1000 miles, in 1000 successive hours — King Herod — Mr. 

 Jenison Shafto's match at Newmarket, 50 miles in two hours — 

 Gimcrack — Bay Malton — Mr. John Woodcock's extraordinary per- 

 formance at Newmarket, 100 miles a day, (on any one horse each 

 day,) for 29 successive days, for 2000 gs. 



Squirrel. A bay horse, foaled iQl754, bred 

 by William Cornforth, Esq., of Barforth, Yorkshire, 

 and sold to Jenison Shafto, Esq. Squirrel was 

 got by Traveller, out of Dairymaid. 



At Newmarket, in October 1758, Squirrel won 

 a sweepstakes of 1400 gs. for four years olds 

 colts, 8st. 71b. and fillies, 8st. 41b. B. C, beating 

 Lord Northumberland's Primrose, Mr. Panton's 

 Posthumous, &c. ; and at the same meeting he won 

 a subscription of 120 gs., for four years olds, 8st. 

 71b. B. C, beating Mr. Curron's Kiddleston, by 

 AVhite-nose, the Duke of Ancaster's Handby, by 

 Shepherd's Crab, Lord Gower's Shock, by Shock, 

 Lord Chedworth's Bosphorus, Basset's Dormouse, 

 Lord Northumberland's Perseus, and J^ord Port- 

 more's Rake. At Newmarket in May 1759, 



