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CHAPTER Xm. 



Pedigrees and performances of the most celebrated race-horses, &c., 

 continued from 1764, to the period of the estabHshment of the 

 Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster, in 1777 — Goldfinder — Cicero 

 — Forester — Paymaster — Solon — Trentham — Mark Anthony — 

 Mambrino — Sweet- William — Firetail — Johnny — Pumpkin — Sweet- 

 briar — Shark — Young Marske — Dorimont — Pot-8o's — Highflyer — 

 Hollandoise, the first winner of the St. Leger. 



Goldfinder. — A bay horse, foaled in 1 764, 

 bred by John St. Leger Douglas, Esq., of Spring 

 Fields, Essex, and sold to Jenison Shafto, Esq. 

 Goldfinder was the most celebrated horse of his day. 

 He was got by Snap ; his dam by Blank ; grandam. 

 Lord Bolingbroke's Nettle's dam, by Regulus ; 

 great grandam by Lord Lonsdale's bay Arabian, 

 out of the Duke of Bolton's Bonny Lass, the dam 

 of Merry Andrew, &c. 



At Newmarket First Spring Meeting, April 5th, 

 1768, Goldfinder won a sweepstakes of 200 gs. 

 each, h. ft,, B. C. In the Second Spring Meeting, 

 April 29th, he won the Ascot stakes of 25 gs. 

 each, B. C. In the First October Meeting, Mon- 

 day, he won a subscription of 200 gs. each, h. ft., 

 eight subscribers, 8st. 101b. each, B. C. Tuesday, 

 Goldfinder, 8st. 71b., received forfeit from Sir John 



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