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taking an affection to the wolds of Yorkshire, in some respects resembling the Downs 

 of the southern counties, were pleased to deposit the sums whence the prize annually 

 rises ; and although but sixteen guineas, yet, as the time of running for it is in the 

 infancy of the season, it is looked upon as a proper taste trial or proof how horses 

 have come through the winter." Owing to the advice of Stephen Jefferson, who rode 

 her into second place in the King's Plate at York, in 1726, Mr. John Brewster 

 Darley, of Aldby Park, Yorkshire, brought her from Mr. Thompson, and changed 

 her name. Jefferson was a good judge, and Miss Neasham soon supplanted even his 



By permiuion of the Rt. Hon. tike Earl of Rtaebtry. 



"Krisk" (17.50). 

 From the original fainting by J. H 'oof ten. 



favourite Aleppo in his affections. He rode her in 1731, on the second day of the 

 first meeting ever held on the Knavesmire course, when she beat Mr. Bathurst's 

 Merry Quaker, and Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's Scarbrtf Colt by Tiftcr, for the .30 

 Plate for aged horses, n stone, four mile heats. On the day before (Monday, 

 August 1 6th), the meeting had opened with a race for His Majesty's Hundred Guineas 

 (six-year-olds, 1 2 stone, four mile heats), which is worth noticing, for it was won 

 by Lord Lonsdale's b. h. ^fonkc\ by his Lordships Bay Arabian, dam by CM twit's 

 Bay Barb, who beat Sir Nat. Curzon's gr. h. Brisk, by the Bloody Shouldered Arabian^ 



