202 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Of him I had occasion to speak in a previous chapter, where a painting of him 

 now in the Old Palace House, at Newmarket, has been reproduced. He was the 

 property of Mr. Panton, the owner of the famous Molly, and was own brother to 

 Bay Bolton by Grey Hautboy. In the picture by Seymour at the Durdans a good 

 deal more white is shown near the saddle than in that belonging- to Mr. Leopold de 

 Rothschild, and Mr. E. Weatherby has kindly shown me yet a third representation of 

 him which must have been done when he was older, for it shows a still whiter horse 

 all over. His son Young Lamprie, bred by Sir W. Morgan out of his favourite Snake 

 mare, was sent to Ireland. His clam was also dam of his breeder's, Sir Mathew 

 Peirson's, Luggs Marc, a daughter of the Darlcy Arabian. He won the King's 

 Plate twice at Newmarket and once at Lewes, and beat Lord Milsington's Rake 

 in a match for 200 guineas, receiving forfeit from Mr. Grisewood's Puzzle, Lord 

 Tankerville's famous Sophonisba and other good horses. He was unfortunately 

 killed just after he had been sent to the stud. Sophonisba was also beaten by that 

 high formed mare Mr. Panton's Molly, who lowered the colours of Lord Milsington's 

 Stripling as well, and in the course of an extraordinarily successful career beat Lord 

 Drogheda's Tickle pitcher, Picklcherring, Snip, and Wltly Gelding, and Mr. Proby's 

 Chimney Sweeper. She was by the Toulouse Barb out of Mr. Croft's Leedes mare 

 (sister to Quiet), and was therefore a half-sister to Creeping Molly, who was by Grey 

 Crofts. She won a very large sum in wages and forfeits, and was never beaten 

 until she fell down dead in the match against the Duke of Bolton's Terror. Her 

 loss to the stud was irreparable, and in this alone is her memory surpassed by 

 another famous mare of this period, Miss Ncasham, later Mother Ncashain, who was 

 first called Cripple when Mr. Thompson bred her out of a Commoner mare (great 

 grand-daughter of Place's White Turk) by Hartley's Blind Horse, in 1720. Her 

 record is an extraordinary one because she bred a chestnut filly, Miss Patty by 

 Darlcy 's Skipjack, in 1732, and was trained again for the next two years. This 

 Miss Patty had a filly by Regulits who was the dam, by Mr. Warren's Camillus, of 

 Captain Hebden's celebrated Macheath, whose record remains unparalleled : for in 

 seven weeks in the summer of 1778 he travelled and raced 500 miles, and won six 

 four-year-old plates of ^"50 each at Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Nantwich, 

 Liverpool, and Knutsford. Miss Ncashain won the Kipling Coates guineas (an 

 annual Plate for horses of all ages, 10 st. each) no less than five times between 

 1728 and 1734. John Cheny says that this prize " was founded by a body of fox- 

 hunters, appointing it to be annually run for on the third Thursday in March, who, 



