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match, four miles (200 guineas) against Lord 

 Drogheda's Snip mare, carrying 8 st. 5 lb. ; and 

 on the same day the same Fox, carrying 10 St., 

 won another match (150 guineas) against the 

 same Snip mare, carrying 8 st. 6 lb., six miles. 

 (What would be thought nowadays of running a 

 horse two matches, ten jniles, in one day ?) 



A.D. 1723: On March 23, at Newmarket, Mr, 

 Cotton's Fox, 10 St., beat Lord Drogheda's Snip 

 mare, 8 st., in a match (300 guineas), eight miles ; 

 and on the same day the same Fox, 10 St., beat 

 Mr. Tregonwell Frampton's Miss Wassop, 8 St., 

 in a match, two miles, 200 guineas. ( Vide supra.) 



A.D. 1723: On November 2, at Newmarket, 

 Mr. Thomas Panton's chestnut mare Molly (by 

 the Thoulouse Barb, and, it is believed, a Leedes 

 mare that was own sister to Quiet, though the 

 dam was under suspicion of being not well bred) 

 was matched to run four miles against the Duke 

 of Bolton's Terror, and, two hours afterwards, 

 four miles against the same Duke's Badger ; but 

 Molly (of whom it is written that she * was not a 

 mare of great size, nor had she so considerable 

 a share of speed as some others have had, but 

 was of such durable last in running that she was 



