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(four miles), 300 sovs. a side, against an unnamed 

 horse, in April, weights unknown, at Newmarket. 

 N.B. — H. P. was own brother to the dam of the 

 Duke of Devonshire's Makeless mare (dam of 

 Old Mermaid), ancestress in direct female line 

 of the celebrated Dungannon, son of Eclipse. 

 (Notable as an authentic case of a match won 

 by a horse, of whose performances little is 

 known, though his name is conspicuous in the 

 pedigrees.) 



^'A.D. 1 701 : Lord (the Marquis of) Wharton's 

 St. Martin (by Spanker and Mr. Burton's natural 

 Barb mare) won ' an extraordinary fine ' match 

 (distance and weights unknown) in April at New- 

 market, for ' a good deal of money,' against the 

 Duke of Devonshire's Dimple (first recorded 

 holder of the famous Newmarket Challenge Whip, 

 said to have been presented by Charles II.). 



A.D. 1 701 : ' Mr. Sinclair, a gentleman of Kirby 

 Lonsdale, in Cumberland, for a wager of 500 

 guineas, rode a galloway of his on The Swift, at 

 Carlisle, a thousand miles in a thousand succes- 

 sive hours.' (The same feat, incredible as it may 

 appear, Miss Pond was said to have performed — 

 and her father, Mr. John Pond, of ' Kalendar ' 



