542 HISTORY OF THE 



B. C. 500 gs. In the Second Spring Meeting, Solon 

 beat Mark Anthony across the flat, 200 gs. ; and 

 on the Saturday, he beat Mr. Foley's Trentham, 



B. C. 300 gs. At Newmarket, May 6th, 1776, 

 Solon beat Mr. Conolly's Bacchus, B. C. 1000 gs. 



Solon never raced but at Newmarket, and was 

 allowed to be the best horse Lord Rockingham 

 ever had, Bay Malton excepted. When he beat 

 Paymaster, Lord Rockingham is said to have 

 won 4000 gs. on the race ; and Mr. Vernon (a first 

 rate judge at that time,) is said to have allowed 

 him to be the completest horse, with the greatest 

 power, that ever appeared at Newmarket. Solon, 

 after beating Bacchus, was Lord Rockingham's 

 Charger for several years, and afterwards became 

 a stallion at Wentworth, Yorkshire, where he died 

 about the year 1793. 



He served very few well bred mares. 



Trentham. A bay horse, foaled in 1766, bred 

 bv Sir John Moore, Bart., and sold at his sale to 

 Charles Ogilvy, Esq. Trentham was got by Lord 

 Gower's Sweepstakes out of Miss South ; he was 

 her first produce. 



At Swaflfham, 1769, Trentham won £50. At 

 Newmarket First Spring Meeting, he started un- 

 successfully for the £50 ; but in the same meeting 

 he beat Petit Maitre, R. M., 100 gs. At New- 

 market First Spring Meeting, 1770, Trentham beat 

 the Duke of Kingston's b. c, by Old England, D. 



C, 200 gs. In the Second Spring Meeting, he 



