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purse of £281, for six years olds, 8st. 71b., and 

 aged, four miles, beating Mr. Vernon's Jerkin, 

 six years old ; Mr. Coulson's Royal George, six 

 years old, Mr. Shafto's Flyfax, six years old, Mr. 

 Stapleton's Beaufremont, aged, and Sir John 

 Moore's King Herod, aged ; at starting, seven to 

 four, and two to one, against Bay Malton, seven 

 to two against Jerkin, three to one against Royal 

 George, the same against King Herod, and ten 

 to one against Beaufremont and Flyfax ; an ex- 

 ceeding fine heat, and most severely contested by 

 the first three for the whole four miles, and won 

 by about a length. Bay Malton ran the four miles 

 in 7 minutes and 43 1 seconds, which was 7^^ 

 seconds less time than ever the course was run 

 before. "^ Bay Malton was rode by John Singleton, 



* At the York August Meeting, 1766, the North country gentle- 

 men beat those of the South, which showed the superiority of the 

 breed of horses of the north. There was excellent sport each day, 

 fine weather, and a numerous and brilliant appearance of nobility and 

 gentry, viz : — H.R.H. the Duke of York, the Marquis and Mar- 

 chioness of Rockingham, the Earls of Albemarle, Carlisle, Courte- 

 ney, Elgin, Fitzwilliam, Fingal, and Countesses Hereford, March, 

 Mexborough, Ossory and Scarborough, Lords Viscount Bolingbroke 

 and Downe, Lord Farnham, Baron Perrot, Hon. L S. Barry, Hon. 

 A. Barry, Hon. Miss Bowery, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dawney, Hon. Mr. 

 Egerton, Hon. Mr. and Lady Bridget Lane, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Langdale, Hon. Messrs. and Miss Robinsons, Hon. Mr. Vane, Sir 

 George and Lady Armytage, Sir William and Lady Anderson, Sir 

 Griffith and Lady Boynton, Sir Charles Bunbury, Lady C. Bellasyse, 

 Lady Binglej'', Lady Buncombe, Sir Lawrence and Lady Dundas, 

 Mr. T and Lady C. Dundas, Sir John Eden, Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 

 Sir Billingham Graham, Lord Archibald and Lady Hamilton, Sir 



