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Routh's brown mare ' Tailor's Thimble,' got by Mr. Martin- 

 dale's ' Regulus.' Mr. Routh lived at Snape, in the Bedale 

 country, but had his horses trained at Dinsdale, where he had 

 a property. It was natural, therefore, he would have 

 considerable interest in Yarm races. In 1750 he bred a brown 

 horse called ' Snap,' and sold him to Mr. Jenison Shafto. 

 ' vSnap ' was by 'Snip,' and his dam by Lord Portmore's 'Fox,' 

 out of the Duke of Bolton's ' Gipsy.' * Snap' won many races 

 at Newmarket and York, and was a stallion in Yorkshire and 

 Northumberland from 1758 to 1761, whilst from 1762 to 1766 

 he stood to mares at Newmarket. He died in 1777, aged 27. 



On the second day of this old time Yarm fixture of 1751, 

 five horses started for the £^0 plate (give and take) which was 

 won by Dr. Bracken's ' Tripping Nancy.' For the third and 

 last day nine horses entered for a similar plate, which Sir 

 William Middleton's bay filly 'Camillar' carried off, the winner 

 being by a son of ' Bay Bolton.' So much for Yarm races. 



Mr. Scroop (now rendered Scrope) belonged to one of the 

 most famous families England has ever possessed. He lived 

 at Danby-on-Yore, which is still in the possession of the family, 

 and where, in igo5, the late Mr. Simon Conyers Scrope (one 

 of the best of good fellows) kept a pack of hounds, with which 

 he hunted the moorland portion of the Bedale country. The 

 name of Scrope is writ large in the early history of the 

 Hurworth. 



Since very early days, the Scropes have been famed as 

 equestrians, and, even in Plantagenet times, a Scrope was 

 chosen from the whole English army to contest on horseback 

 in a military tournament with the French champion, during a 

 truce after one of the big battles, and won. In the celebrated 

 trial in the Court of Chivalry, in 1385, called the Scrope and 



