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Dorimond by Dormouse, Star, Cato, and his brother by Regulus, Miss Windsor and 

 Miss Cranbourn by Godolphin, Milksop by Crab, and many more ; and the stud was 

 continued with the happiest results (in spite of the sale of Eclipse to an astute meat 

 salesman) by his nephew and successor, who bred Don Carlos by Sulphur, Firetail 

 by Eclipse, Juniper by Snap, Nosegay by Justice, Pomona by Herod, and many other 

 winners. Two matches stand out especially in the Duke of Cumberland's career. 

 In the first, Marske was beaten by Lord Sandwich's Snap in 1756, as was mentioned 

 in my last volume, and in the second, King Herod was matched against the Duke of 



-' Snap" (1750). 



Grafton's Antinous by Blank over the Beacon Course for _i,ooo a side, with side- 

 bets to the value of at least ^"100,000. It was the year 1764, already to be famous 

 (though the Duke did not realise it) for the birth of Eclipse, and the Fortune which 

 had thus begun to smile was not niggardly in her favours, for the Duke won with 

 King Herod by the narrow margin of half a neck. It is to him that we are primarily 

 indebted for Ascot Races, the site of which he chose. It has retained its Royal 

 epithet ever since, and remained one of the most fashionable meetings of the racing 

 year. He was only forty- four when he died, being unable to subdue the effects of 

 that corpulence which so impressed George III. with the need of walking exercise 



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