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A IHSTOK1' OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Mr. Vavasour's ch. h. Mercury by Almanzar, and Mr. Benson's b. h. Johnson by 

 Johnson's Turk, the whole being as well-bred a quartette as ever went to the post in 

 Yorkshire at that time. The continued rains of 1730 had caused such floods along 

 the banks of the Ouse that racing over Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings had had to be post- 

 poned in the previous year ; and it was to avoid a similar disappointment in the 

 future that Mr. Alderman Tel ford laid out the new course upon Knavesmire, which 

 proved an immediate and lasting success. In 1/33, in compliment, no doubt, to 

 the birth of Miss Pally, Miss Neashatn became Mother Neas/iam, and proceeded to 

 beat Mr. Denton's Modest Molly with great ease for the ^"50 Plate ( i i st.), at York, 

 and in 1/34 after taking her usual toll of the Kipling Coates Guineas, she again won 

 the ^"30 Plate at York, beating, at three heats, Lord Weymouth's W/iittiiigton, and 

 distancing two others. 



It would be difficult to find a better animal with which to close this list of typical 

 thoroughbreds prominent during the reign of the first George. 



