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Plates (weight for age and weight for inches, 

 under and over 14 hands) and provincial meet- 

 ings; and they have left no conspicuous mark 

 upon the pedigrees. 



It is interesting to note the number of ladies 

 who raced in their own names, or nominated 

 horses to run in races, at this period, as well as 

 the colours and nomenclature of the horses. 

 Among the ladies we find (from 1727) Lady 

 Gainsborough, Lady Lovvther, Lady Chaplin, 

 Lady Astley, Mrs. Meeke, Mrs. Deighton, the 

 Duchess of Marlborough (who gives, as the great 

 Duke had given, a purse to be run for at Wood- 

 stock), the Misses Routh (Dolly, Betty, Judy, 

 and Jenny, daughters of Mr. Cuthbert Routh, of 

 Snape Hall, Bedale, Yorks), Mrs. Routh, Lady 

 Coningsby, Mrs. Puleston, Mrs. Rawson, Miss 

 Hale, the Duchess of Gordon, Miss Christiana 

 Fagg, Miss Martindale, Mrs. Figg (not to be 

 confounded with ' Figg's mare '), Miss Stuart, 

 Miss Mayes, Miss Nancy Spearman, Miss Kitty 

 Ferger, and Miss Leigh ; and, as if to show what 

 an innocent, domestic, family kind of sport is 

 horse-racing, there is a 'Master' Leigh several 

 times among the nominators of Charming Molly 



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