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b. f. Miss Doe, by Sedbury out of Miss Maycs, ran at York in 1749, and was steered 

 by T. Jackson. Besides these there were almost as many in other parts of England. 

 The great Duke of Marlborough had died, in an honourable and dignified retire- 

 ment, at Blenheim, with which it is more pleasant to connect his memory than 

 with many of the events in that dazzling, complicated, ambitious existence. But 

 his Duchess continued the prize he gave at Woodstock, and no doubt looked on 

 herself at the horses he had loved to watch at Newmarket. There was Lady 

 Chaplin, too, and Lady Astley, Mrs. Puleston, Miss Martindale, Miss Nancy 

 Spearman, Mrs. Rawson, and Miss Kitty Ferger ; and though the maids of honour 

 did not have quite so gay a time as in the Restoration racing, Miss Lepell certainly 

 betted on Lord Hervey's horses as soon as she had married him, even if she had not 

 paid Newmarket a visit with Mary Bellenden before that lovely lady retired to 

 housekeeping in Kent. 



The scholarly reader will no doubt have observed already a few names of 

 horses which may startle his ideas of precise, or even seemly, nomenclature. I 

 must gather a few more at random from the old chronicles, if only as warnings to his 

 weaker brethren. Mr. Read's 

 Jack-eotne-tickle-me (York, 1742) 

 was so named, as is carefully 

 explained by the historian, be- 

 cause John Singleton told his 

 owner that the horse " ran the 

 better for being tickled." But 

 I fear the same excuse will not 

 do for Mr. Routh's Tiekle-me- 

 qnickly (1723, also Mr. Wastell's 

 in 1728), and still less for the 

 same owner's Jcnny-come-tie-me 

 (Hambleton, 1734). Mr. Hild- 

 yard's b. h. Kiss-in-a-cortur was 

 very properly beaten by Sober- 

 sides for the Ladies' Plate at 

 York in 1734 ; while the collec- 

 tion of mares on the same 



BY ftrmission of Francis, Second Earl Gwiolphin 



course six years before may well Walker & Cocktitii. a r <j ana than Rirkarju*. 



