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for his first owner, Mr. Green, and was then bought by Mr. Wildman, the purchaser 

 of Eclipse. For him he beat Prophet, Treasure, and another, over the last four miles 

 of the Beacon Course, and was then bought by Lord Bolingbroke, under whose 

 colours he beat Mr. Panton's Rocket by Blank, in a match for a thousand guineas, 

 B.C., 7st. 4.1bs., on the same day when another of Blanks sons (Antinons) was being 

 beaten by Herod. In the next July Lord Bolingbroke was equally successful with 

 him against Lord Lowther's Ascham by Regulus over the same distance, but was 

 unable to give Lord Rockingham's Bay Malton seven pounds and a beating, though 



By permission of H.R.H. Prince Christian. Mr. Benjamin Rogers' "Aaron." 



Drawn and engraved from life liy T. Burford. 



he gave no less than twenty-one pounds to the Duke of Cumberland's Drone by 

 Young Cade. These perpetual successes over long distances induced Count Laura- 

 guais to buy Gtmcrack and take him to France in order to accept a wager that no 

 horse could travel 22^ miles in the hour, which the gallant little grey promptly won 

 for him, and, when they both returned to England, went on winning under his 

 French owner's colours at Wisbech, Ascot Heath, Maryborough, and Wells, but 

 was beaten over the Round Course by the Duke of Kingston's Tyrant, and at 

 Wantage by Major Brereton's Otterley (another grey), and at Odsey by Tortoise, a son 

 of Snap. In 1768 he picked up his form again, and scored more victories at Epsom, 



