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famous in the next century ;is the breeder of Caini//ns, by Mr. Moscoe's .-Indian), Mr. 

 Washburn, and the Karl of Westmorland, who won on Lord Sherard's horse. Charles 

 Cokayne, Viscount Ctillen, rode his own horse. He had married the daughter of 

 Lord Thomond, whose house at Newmarket had been bought by Charles II., and 

 hU son married the witty, beautiful heiress Elizabeth Trentham, whose name was to 

 be as famous in the lineage of the English thoroughbred as that of her husband. 

 The prize won on this festive occasion by Lord Westmorland was a pair of silver 

 candlesticks. Colonel Lisle, who was riding Lord Exeter's horse, fell near the finish 

 of the last heat, just as he was well ahead, and the Lord- Lieutenant thus lost all 



The Duke of Somerset's " II 'indham" foaled in 1705. 

 From the engraving in Ike possession of Mr. Taitersall. 



chance of victory. This official would have done well to have put a stop in that year 

 to the grotesque bull-racing, which went on for at least half a century longer in 

 Northampton. The miserable brutes were ridden by jockeys booted and spurred, 

 and armed with goads, from the gates of Squire Thursby's park to the Pump on 

 Cornmarket Hill. As the winning animal was sold for 20, there was, perhaps, not 

 so much actual cruelty as we noticed at Stamford on a somewhat similar occasion ; 

 but the good burgesses of Northampton would have been far better employed in 

 encouraging the real thing on Rothwell Racecourse. 



Hurford began, in 1681, the reputation which, under the name of Hibury, it 

 maintained till well into the days of George IV. Its popularity was started by the 



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