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Nevertheless, we ascertain by the official certificate of the 

 Master of the Buckhounds that 50 stags and 38 hinds had 

 been hunted and killed by the pack " in one year ended the 

 24tb of June, 1759." 



Ascot Races were announced to take place on June 12, 13, 14, 

 15, and 16, but on Friday, the loth, the only race on the card 

 for that day — viz., a Plate of 501. for six-year-olds and aged 

 horses — was not run for, " for want of horses to enter for the 

 same." However, on Tuesday, June 16, a Plate of 50^. was 

 run for by five-year-olds, carrying 9 stone 5 lb., in two-mile 

 heats, and was won, in the first and third heats, by Sir Hugh 

 Smithson's* bay horse Persius, beating Mr. Gore's bay horse 

 Snap, Mr. Vernon's chestnut horse Stow Hill, Mr. Pytt's mare 

 Sportly, Mr. Barrot's chestnut horse Scrub, Lord Albemarle's 

 black gelding Jet, and Mr. Snell's dun mare Atalanta. 



On the 13th, a Plate of 501. was run for, free only for 

 horses of huntsmen, yeomen prickers, and keepers of Windsor 

 Forest, carrying 12 stone each, which was won, in the second 

 and third heats, by Mr. Shorter's grey horse Babram, beating 

 Mr. Ives' chestnut gelding Blameless, and Mr. Nunn's bay 

 horse Babram. The next and last race on this day was for 

 " the great sweepstakes," by four-year-old horses, carrying 



8 stone 7 lb., in 1 four-mile heat. This race was won by 

 H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland's brown colt Dapper, beating 

 Lord Portman's grey colt Grey Jack, Mr. Shaftoe's chestnut 

 colt Hooke Nose, the Duke of Ancaster's grey colt, Mr. Blake's 

 colt. Lord Rockingham's colt, and Lord Gower's chestnut colt, 

 which " fell sick in running and pull'd up," the competitors 

 passing the winning post in the order named. 



On the 14th, a Plate of 501. was run for by five and six-year- 

 old mares, carrying, according to their age, 8 stone 7 lb. and 



9 stone 3 lb. respectively, which was won, in the second and 

 third heats, by Mr. Rogers' Fair Rechael, beating Mr. Harvey's, 



* He married, in 1740, Elizabeth, only child of Algernon Seymour, Earl of 

 Northumberland, and was created Earl Percy and Duke of Northumberland 

 October 22, 1766. He dieil in 1784. From the time of his marriage to the date 

 of his elevation to the peerage he was commonly styled Lord Northumberland. 



