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Blacklegs, the Uukc of Somerset's Quibble, and Lord Lonsdale's Ugly. Re- 

 turning to the animals that may more strictly be referred to the reign of Queen 

 Anne, we may conclude our typical list with the Duke of Devonshire's Old Scar, 

 who was bred by Mr. Crofts, and got by Makeless, son of the Oglcthorpe Arabian. 

 Star's grandam was by Brimmer, and his pedigree goes back to Places White 

 Turk. In 1710 at Newmarket he beat Lord Porchester's Bay Wanton, 9 st., 

 four miles ; and two years afterwards he beat Lord Harvey's Ladythighs over the 

 same distance at 8 St., and repeated this victory twice in 1/13. 



It will be appropriate for us to take leave of Queen Anne in that good company 

 of northern sportsmen who were racing over Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings on the 2nd 

 of August, 1714. Mr. 

 Stapleton's chestnut 

 gelding Chance (late 

 Hazard) had just won 

 the Gold Cup for six- 

 year-olds, 1 1 stone, four 

 mile heats, when an ex- 

 press arrived from Town 

 with news of the death 

 of Her Majesty. Mr. 

 Childers, Mr. Vernon, 

 and Mr. Elstob, were all 

 on the field, and owned 

 horses in this 



race. 



ByffrmuiionoflkeRt.Hon.tkeEarlofRoubery. "Wanton" (1719.) 



From Ike Original Picture by Wootlon. 



Looking on, we may 

 imagine, were Sir William Strickland, Sir Ralph Milbank, Sir John Bland, Lord 

 Molineux, Mr. Childers, Mr. Place, Mr. Hutton of Marske, Mr. D'Arcy, Mr. 

 William St. Quintin, Mr. Darley of Aldby, Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, and many 

 others famous on the northern Turf. Not all of these were present perhaps ; 

 but all, we may be sure, were there in spirit ; and every gentleman in York or near 

 it who heard of the bad tidings made haste to attend upon my Lord Mayor, Mr 

 \\ illiam Redman, and my Lord Archbishop Dawes, who lost no time in proclaiming 

 His Majesty King George I. as the rightful successor to the throne. Most conver- 

 sations naturally turned upon the fact that Her late Majesty's bay horse Star had 

 won the ^"14 Plate on the Friday, and, as those who hastened up to London soon 

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