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A HISTORY OF 7 HE ENGLISH TURF. 



Mr. Crofts' Brilliant. The Lonsdale Bay Arabian (sire of Monkey and Spider) was also 

 sire of Lord Lonsdale's Jigg, who beat Lord Middleton's Shambleshanks, Mr. Panton's 

 Cato, the Duke of Bolton's Little John, and five others for the October Stakes of 

 250 guineas at Newmarket in 1736. He was also sire of his lordship's jfuba, Cyrus, 

 Ugly, Sultan, and others, including the clam of Miss Ramsden, and the granddam of 

 Diana. Sir Thomas Oglethorpe's Arabian is chiefly famous as the sire of Makdess, 

 but another son of his was Bald Frampton, a high-formed galloway about whom the 

 persistent legend is invariably told that he beat the Duke of Devonshire's Dumplin, 



By fcrmisiiun of Mr. SomervilU Tatltnall. 



Air. Gregory's Arabian. 

 By George Stubbs. 



or Dimple, for the whip. To these should be added the St. Victor Barb, the Cole 

 Barb, the Duke of Marlborough's Little Mountain Barb, the Lowther Whiteleggcd 

 Barb, the Rider Chestnut Barb, the Vernon Barb, the Broivn/ow, Ely and Wastell 

 Turks, the Holderncss Turk, sire of Hartley's Blind Horse, Harput' s Arabian (or 

 Barb), the Oxford Bloody Shouldered Arabian, sire of Bolton Sweepstakes, the Bethcll 

 Arabian, the A/cock Arabian (sire of Crab), the Oysterfoot Arabian, the Duke of 

 Rutland's Cyprus Arabian, also called the Hampton Court chestnut Arabian, and 

 Litton s Chestnut Arabian. 



