Spoi-ting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 03 



From this time, and for some ten or twelve years afterwards, Cheveley. 

 the Duke's Woodcock, Hipp, Raorged Staff, Diamond, Pug, and ^, ~~, , 



rr> t3C5 I o' The Duke s 



several unnamed colts, fillies, and mares, ran in a good many races Racing Career, 

 at Newmarket, in which his horses were invariably beaten. 1724-43- 



With Windham — a five years old horse in 1724, and therefore 

 not the same horse as the Duke's grey Windham, before men- 

 tioned — he won several races and matches. This horse was 

 almost an Arab, being descended from Dodsworth by Place's 

 White Turk, by Bustler, by Selaby Turk, by Hautboy. Grey- 

 legs (by Windham out of a Barb mare) won the King's Plates 

 at Ipswich, June 2, 1730; at Guildford, June 8, 1731; and at 

 Lewes, August 5 in that year ; and was second for a similar plate 

 at the ensuing Newmarket October Meeting. In the preceding 

 year he won a sweepstakes of twenty guineas each, and ran last 

 in a like race of 100 each, at Newmarket, to which the Duke was 

 a constant subscriber, but was very unsuccessful in those then 

 novel events. With Quibble (also by Windham) he won the 

 King's Plate at Ipswich, June 17, 1733. Although the Duke 

 frequently ran horses for King's Plates and Subscription Sweep- 

 stakes, he does not appear to have won a race during the next 

 five vears, nor until his brown mare Chiddy, by the Hampton 

 Court Childers out of Bald Charlotte, secured the King's Plate, 

 for mares, at the Newmarket Spring Meeting of 1 739 ; and at 

 the ensuing October Meeting, another King's Plate, for six-year- 

 old horses, 12 stone, four mile heats, with an unnamed bay horse. 

 Bad luck still pursued the Duke's horses at the Newmarket 

 Spring Meeting in 1743. When Achilles, a brown horse, by 

 a brother to the Bolton Fearnought, dam by Diamond, was 

 apparently likely to distance his field in a Subscription Plate of 

 55 guineas each, 10 stone, he was upset by a person crossing the 

 course, and instead of winning was distanced in that race. On the 

 ensuing May 24, he was also leading in the first heat in the King's 

 Plate at Guildford, when the jockey broke a stirrup leather and 

 fell. However, he won the King's Plate at Lewes, on August 5 in 



