OUR SADDLE-HORSES. 13 



market, in 1720, there were twenty-six matches, 

 none of them less than four, some six miles. 

 In October, the Duke of Wharton's Honeyskin, 

 list. 101b., against Lord Hillsborough's Speed- 

 well, the best of three heats, twelve miles, 1 ,000 

 guineas. The match was drawn. In 1721, 

 twenty matches were run, and with few excep- 

 tions, these distances seem to have been run 

 up to the year 1757. The published account 

 from which these performances are taken refer 

 only to the short period mentioned, and no 

 consecutive account of the running, even at 

 Newmarket, appears to have been kept until 

 late in the last century. We have selected, 

 however, the chronicled performances of a few 

 horses. One of these, called Exotic, com- 

 menced his running 1760, and continued on 

 the turf to the year 1767. 



" We know not how many times this horse 

 started during this period ; but in the course 

 of it he won eighteen times. The account says 

 that he won in 1767, which was his seventh 

 year on the turf, a race at Peterborough, con- 

 sisting oifour heats ; the distance of the other 

 races which he won are not stated, but they 

 probably were not less than four miles. 



