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racers Patrick and Christopher Blake, of Lang- 

 ham Hall, Suffolk), with Regulus (son of the 

 great Regulus and of Bald Partner's dam). 



The Duke (antepenultimate) of Bolton, with 

 Beau (foaled 1731, by Partner), Goliah (by Lord 

 Portmore's Fox), Looby (by Bay Bolton), Merry 

 Andrew (by Sir Ralph Aston's Fox, son of 

 Clumsy, by Hautboy, and Bay Peg, by the Leedes 

 Arabian), Sourface (son of Bartlett's Childers, and 

 of a sister to the Bolton Starling, by Bay Bolton), 

 Starling, Sweepstakes (by the Oxford Bloody- 

 shouldered Arabian), so called, apparently, from 

 winning about the first sweepstakes ever run at 

 Newmarket (in 1727), Syphax (own brother to 

 Looby, by Bay Bolton), Foxhunter (by Bay 

 Bolton), and Mary Gray (by Almanzor, son of 

 the Darley Arabian, dam apparently unknown). 



Mr. (afterwards Sir) George Bowes (of Gibside, 

 near Newcastle, ancestor of the famous Mr. 

 Bowes, of Streatlam Castle, Durham, connected 

 with the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne), 

 with Cato (by Regulus). 



Lord Byron (who killed Mr. Chaworth), with 

 Osmar (Mr. Fenwick's, by Snip). 



Lord CiiEDWORTii (of the racing family of 



