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mare. This Creeper is, of course, not the Duke of Ancaster's colt, of the same namr, 

 by Cinnamon out of Golden Locks (who was by a son of the Bycrly Turk, her clam 

 of the Hautboy stock) ; nor was he Lord Hamilton's colt by Tandem out of Harriet 

 (by Matchem) ; nor was he Lord Godolphin's colt by his Barb out of Blossom, sister 

 to Mr. Panton's Crab mare. It is, in fact, extremely difficult to identify these horses 

 in a time when nomenclature had not reached the pitch of importance it did soon 

 afterwards, and when such additions as "Old," or " Young," are necessarily pos- 

 thumous and somewhat uncertain. But with the guidance of the First Volume of 



The Duke oj Devonshire's " Old Scar," 



bred by Mr. Crofts, by " Ufakcless," foaled in 1705. 

 Prom an engraving in the possaiion of Mr. Tattersall. 



the General Stud-book, and other assistance, it is to some extent possible to detect 

 those important beginnings of blood-stock which we are looking for, just before the 

 dawn of the eighteenth century. There are, for instance, no less than fourteen horses 

 named Spot in the index of the invaluable publication I have named. But it seems 

 most probable that the Duke of Newcastle's Spot who was beaten by the King's 

 Turk, giving him five pounds in four miles for .500, was the horse originally 

 belonging to Mr. Curwen, by the Selaby Turk, who was the property of King 

 William's studmaster, Mr. Marshall. He has been known as the Curii'en Old Spot, 

 Marshall's Spot, and the Pelham Spot, and he was a brother to the dam of Windham, 

 that capital grey colt, bred by Hautboy, in the Duke of Somerset's stud just mentioned. 



