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Blank), who won a sweepstake of 200 guineas at the First Spring Meeting of 1768. 

 He possessed such good speed and power that he was never beat, and never paid 

 forfeit ; but it must be added that he broke down in his exercise in 17/0, just before 

 he was about to meet Eclipse for the King's Plate. He was the sire of many good 

 horses at Nuttall Temple, near Nottingham, where he stood for Sir Charles Sedley, 

 who bought him in 1771 for 1,350 guineas. 



Another celebrated horse of the same period was Mr. Foley's Firetail, bred in 1769 

 by the Earl of Orford, by Squirrel out of Jctt, a daughter of Othello, her dam by 



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By permission of Sir Walter Gilbey. 



"Gohl finder." 



Bartletfs CJiilders. At the Spring Meeting of 1773 he beat Pumpkin (Sst. R.M. 

 500 guineas) in what is said by Mr. J. C. Whyte to have been the extraordinary time 

 of i minute \\ seconds. Pumpkin himself was a chestnut, by Matchem, out of his 

 breeder Mr. Pratt's famous Old Squirt Marc, and was also sold to Mr. Foley. His 

 first race was one of his best, when he beat Mr. Ogilvey's Denmark, in 1772, Ditch In, 

 500 guineas, by half-a-neck. Over the same Course he was also victorious over 

 Firetail and Conductor. In 1776 he beat Mambrino and Trent ham in a sweepstakes 

 of 200 guineas each, B.C., and completed a record of sixteen successes out of twenty- 

 four starts. Stubbs painted him several times, being very fond of his characteristic 

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