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Meeting, he won the cup and 200 gs. each, B. C. 

 In the Houghton Meeting, Pumpkin received 

 200 gs. compromise from Lord Clermont, who 

 had the choice of six colts, sealed up, ditch in, 

 500 gs., h. ft. At Newmarket First Spring Meet- 

 ing, 1774, Pumpkin beat Evergreen, 8st. 71b. each, 

 B. C, 300 gs. In the Second Spring Meeting, he 

 received 275 gs. He also,, at 8st., received forfeit 

 from Mambrino, B. C, 1000 gs. h. ft. In the 

 First October Meeting, he beat Chalkstone, B. C, 

 500 gs. At Newmarket, First Spring Meeting, 

 Monday, 1775, Pumpkin beat Takmahaka, B. C. 

 500 gs. On Saturday, in the same meeting, he 

 beat Harapha, B. C, 200 gs.; and on the same 

 day he beat Braganza, B. C, 100 gs. At New- 

 market, First October Meeting, 1776, Pumpkin 

 won a sweepstakes of 200 gs. each, B. C, beating 

 Mambrino and Trentham. And on Saturday, he 

 received 50 gs. compromise from Amethyst, 200 

 gs., h. ft. 



Pumpkin started twenty-four times, out of 

 which he won sixteen. The sums he won and 

 received amounted to 9,1 50 gs., and he lost 3,060 

 gs. Total of his winnings, 6,090 gs., besides nine 

 hogsheads of claret, and the Newmarket October 

 cup, value 100 gs. and upwards. He was beat 

 once by each of the following horses, &c., viz : by 

 Firetail, Augur, Rarity, Mareschal, Priestess, 

 Johnny, Maiden, and Fireaway. 



Pumpkin was a stallion at Rushbrook, near 



