120 A HISTORT OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Windham's dam, it may be added, was out of a Bustler mare, and could trace back to 

 Place's While Turk and Dodsworth. It is a curious coincidence that the accounts of 



the Master of the Horse reveal that in the same year, 1698, a grey horse was bought 

 for King William's stables from Lord Carlisle for ^165 ; but the grey named Spott 

 who changed hands at the same time, in the same way, for^ioo, was bought from a 



Mr. Burnett. I quote this as an example merely of the difficulties that present 

 themselves during the period, and I am inclined to add that, as Sir John Parsons won 

 the Plate at this meeting, I should not be surprised if the Duke of Newcastle's horse 

 were the Spot by a son of the Curwen Bay Barb who was out of this Sir J. Parsons' 

 Old Wen Mare, sister to Clumsy . 



Among other horses mentioned are Lord Wharton's Colchester, who was beaten by 

 Lord Ross's Darius; Lord Bristol's Hog (of the Hautboy sort); and the Duke of 

 Devonshire's Looby, an old horse who fell lame in the last half-mile, and after whom 

 was named, I have no doubt, the Duke of Bolton's brown colt by Bay Bolton, out of 

 Golden Locks, foaled in 1728. Another of the same name and colour was got about 

 the same time by the Pigot Turk out of a Terror mare, her clam a Curwen Barb mare. 

 A third Looby was a grey colt by Partner out of Grey Brocklcsby (by Bloody Buttocks), 

 and there are still others of a more modern date, one of whom was painted " at full 

 stretch" by Sartorius. In the spring meeting of next year, the King's horse Cupid 

 (with which he beat Mr. Harvey) was from the famous Somerset stud, and the name 

 was preserved in the brown colt foaled in 1736 by the Somerset Arabian out of 

 Bald Charlotte (late Lady Legs], a mare who was bred by Captain Appleyard of 

 Brimmer stock. Lord Wharton's Careless was now more fortunate than he had been 

 before, and showed the value of the Spanker blood by winning a match of six miles 

 f r ^ I 9 00 a side, in which the Duke of Devonshire was a loser. On April i6th 

 (still in 1699) Honeycomb Punch (by the Taffolet or Morocco Barb] ran Sir George 

 Warburton's horse four miles for 300, and beat the favourite. He did not belong 

 to Sir George, as the stud-book says (p. 381, vol. i.), for the " Post Man " (No. 602) 

 distinctly reports that though " the odds ran 2 to i of Sir George Warbleton's side, 

 Honcycumpunch won the match," the sense of which seems clearer than the spelling. 

 Sir Roger Mostyn, whose jfigg, by the Byerly Turk, was the sire of Old Partner, 

 Shock, and Saucebox, was hard at it in the October meeting of this year, and began 

 with a sporting match of three heats with the Duke of Devonshire at \,ooo a heat. 

 But the Dimple or Dumplin belonging to this nobleman was not the horse whose 

 name appears first in the records for the Whip. 



