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to have trotted thirty miles in two hours; 

 which diftance was actually trotted, in two 

 hours and ten minutes, by Ogden's cheftnut 

 mare. 



The brown mare died January 30, 1794. 

 She had been nearly ftarved by running the 

 winter in a park near Hounflow; and the 

 morning (he was taken home, dropped down 

 dead, as the boy was exercifing her, after 

 water. Very good portraits of the above two 

 mares, may be feen in a monthly mifcellany, 

 by no means unentertaining, called the Sport- 

 ing Magazine. 



A grey mare, called the lockfmith's mare, 

 a running trotter, trotted feventy-two miles in 

 fix hours. 



In 1793, Crocket's grey mare trotted one 

 hundred miles in twelve hours, and had 

 twenty minutes to fpare. 



A five year old, fon of young Pretender 

 (which Pretender was got by Hue and Cry, 

 fon of Old Shields, out of a bred daughter of 

 Lord Abingdon's Pretender) I have been 

 informed, trotted, in 1792, in Lincolnshire, fix- 

 teen miles in fifty-nine minutes, carrying fif- 

 teen flone. 



In April 1 792, the yellow bay gelding, called 

 Spider, and the old cheftnut gelding, then 

 near thirty years of age (above-mentioned in 

 the name of Cartwright) trotted thirty-two 



miles 



