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the fact that his dam was the Old Montague Mare, who, when she received the visit of 

 his sire Partner (by ;//;';', by the Byerly Turk), was the property of Lord D'Arcy at 

 Srdlmry. She: was by the D'Arcy Woodcock, and was bred by Lord Montague of 

 Cowdray, whose famous stud I mentioned in the reign of Charles II. Among other 

 well-known horses who cm be traced to her are Eclipse, Voltaire, W'cathcrbit, Prince 

 Charlie, and Sterling. Mr. Wilkinson used to say that he had sold the best horse in 

 England for five guineas and never rued it. The lucky purchaser was his friend Mr. 

 Mann, for whom Std5uiy won the Ladies' Plate for five-year-olds at York in 1739, 

 T. Jackson up, during a Meeting which was distinguished by the presence of thirty 

 carriages and six, in which were looking on such exalted personages as the Dukes of 

 Norfolk and Leeds, the Earl of Holderness, Lords Langdale, Southwell, and 

 Wentworth, Sir Miles Stapleton, Sir William Milner, Sir John Kaye, Sir Edmund 

 Gascoigne, Sir Henry Slingsley, Mr. Vane, Mr. Shirley, and others. At Black 

 Hambleton, at Bishop Burton, at Durham, Winchester, Stockbridge, Oxford, 

 Gloucester, Epsom, and Newmarket, Scdbiiry was equally successful, besides winnin" 

 the King's Plates at Guildford, Salisbury, and Canterbury, a record which is as 

 interesting evidence with regard to the way a good horse could travel about the 

 country as it is to SeMiiry's stamina and speed. He died at Leeming Lane in 1759 

 at the age of twenty-five. Another fine northern horse was Mr. Aislabie's ch. g. 



JJucc/ilrilii', who won the 

 50 Plate at York in 

 1743, and at Guildford, 

 Chesterfield, Leicester, 

 and Burford in 1745. In 

 that year he beat Starling 

 and Cade at Newmarket 

 in two heats, and was 

 also victorious over the 

 Duke of Ancaster's liri*k, 

 a very noted horse, and 

 Mr. Johnson's Rib. In 

 1748 the ^"50 Plate for 

 five-year-olds at York was 

 won by a chestnut belonging to Mr. Coatesworth, who was afterwards known as the 

 Duke of Ancaster's Tartar. He was a splendid racer and was equally esteemed as 



The Aarl of March's " Bajazet:' 



ty permission of H.R.H. Prince Christian. 



