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miles. At the Hambleton May meeting of this year she beat 

 Mr. Bowe's Othello in a match for 100 guineas, 10 stone each, 

 4 miles. In the ensuing September she won the Gold Cup at 

 Barnard Castle, 10 stone, 4 miles; at Leeds, May 16, 1733, a 

 Plate of 201., 10 stone, 4 miles — after three heats, in which she 

 beat Mr. Brewster's black mare, Miss Nesham, and the Duke 

 of Hamilton's dun mare. At Durham, on the 9th of July in 

 this year, Faustina and five other horses ran for a Purse of 60 

 guineas ; 10 stone each, 4 miles. The first heat was so near, 

 that three out of the six tryers in the chair gave it in favour 

 of one horse, and three in favour of another. It was, there- 

 fore, after some disputing, declared to be a dead heat. Four 

 more heats followed, at the conclusion of which the prize was 

 claimed by the representatives of four of the competing 

 animals. One of these resigning his claim, the others proposed 

 to the stakeholder that if he would pay it to them in con- 

 junction, each would give him his discharge, and they would 

 divide the prize. This proposition was accepted. On the last 

 day of this meeting (July 13) Faustina ran and won a Plate 

 of 50 guineas, 4 miles, 10 stone, by beating the Duke of 

 Bolton's chestnut horse, Sweepstakes, and Mr. Penny man's 

 black gelding. Thumper, in the two first heats. Mr. Jenison 

 slso owned Joseph Andrews, a chestnut horse, foaled in 1743, 

 l>y Roundhead, out of Hip — Hartley's blind horse — Flying 

 Whig, upon which this Master of the Buckhounds frequently 

 followed the Royal pack. This horse made his fii'st appear- 

 ance on the racecourse at Lincoln on September 14, 1748, 

 in a Plate of 50^., for five-year-old horses which had never 

 won ; three 2-mile heats, 11 stone each, and won the race by 

 beating the Duke of Ancaster's Scar, and four others. Joseph 

 Andrews also won a Plate of 50^. for six-year-old horses, 

 4-mile heats, 10 stone, on the following May 2 at Epsom ; 

 His Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, 4-mile heats, 12 stone, at 

 York on July 31 ; a similar Plate at Lincoln on September 5 ; 

 and ran second to Lord Portmore's Othello in His Majesty's 

 Plate of 100 guineas in the ensuing October meeting at New- 

 market. Shortly before his defeat in the last-mentioned race 



