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producing winners, as this liorse won the King's Plate at Saxton Hall. 



Nottingham, on July 6, i 742, beating four others ; was second ~ 



^ . ' ^ : ' 1^ & _ Francis Earl of 



for the King's Plate at York on the ensuing August 16; and Godolphin. 



won the King's Plate at the Autumn Meeting of i 743. About 

 that time he was disposed of to Mr. Parsons, for whom he won 

 a _;^5o plate at Huntingdon on July 26, i 744, beating Cade and 

 five others, after a tremendous race of four heats. At the Spring 

 Meeting of 1 745 Dormouse, by the Godolphin Arabian out of a 

 sister to Miss Partner, won a Plate of 50 guineas, and a Give- 

 and-take Plate of 50 guineas at the Autumn Meeting of i 746 ; 

 a similar race there at the corresponding meeting of 1747; was 

 second to Lord Gower's Little John in Plate of 50 guineas at the 

 Spring Meeting of i 748 (which he would have won easily had his 

 jockey, S. Arnul, ridden as well as J. Larkin did on the winner) ; 

 won a Give-and-take Plate of ;^5o at the ensuing Autumn 

 Meeting ; and a similar Plate at the corresponding meeting the 

 following year. In those races Dormouse was ridden by Sam His Career on 

 Adams. At the Spring Meeting of 1751 Lord Godolphin's bay the Turf. 

 colt, by his Arabian, won the Sweepstakes of 100 guineas each. 

 He did not win another race until the Autumn Meeting of 1753, 

 when his bay gelding came in first for a Subscription Purse of 

 260 guineas. During the next two years his horses did not win a 

 race. At the Autumn Meeting of 1756 his dun gelding, Buffcoat, 

 won a plate of ^^50 ; and Lord Godolphin's career on the Turf 

 came to an end by winning the Great Sweepstakes Match of 

 1200 guineas, for four-year-olds, at York, in August, 1757, with 

 his bay colt Weazel. Weazel (foaled in 1752) was by the famous 

 Arabian, out of a Fox mare. Lord Godolphin died on January 17, 

 ! 766, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. 



It is a somewhat remarkable circumstance that Mr. William 

 Tregonwell Frampton (so far as can be ascertained) never matched 

 or ran any of his horses against those of the Earls of Godolphin, 



