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twenty guineas, for horses ten stone, four-mile 

 heats, ' won at two heats, by Captain Collyer's 

 b. h. Drummer, beating five others ; ' and on 

 July 23rd, a plate of forty guineas, for six-year- 

 old horses, four-mile heats, won by Trentham, 

 the property of Lord Gower, which beat three 

 others." In the following year, there was at 

 least one race run at Doncaster, while in 1730, 

 there were three different four-mile heat races 

 contested; in 1731 and 1732, sport again went 

 on, a contest for "Galloways" having been in- 

 stituted in the latter year, which was continued 

 for some seasons. In 1738 there appears to 

 have been an autumn meeting, of which, how- 

 ever, in the years immediately following we find 

 no further notice ; indeed, for the four years pre- 

 ceding 1 75 1, there are no returns of races run 

 at Doncaster in print, but, in that year, three 

 plates of ^50 each were contested. 



The Marquis of Rockingham comes to the 

 front in 1752, when he gives a plate of ^50, 

 to be run for by four-year-olds that had never 

 won ^50 — the trophy was taken by Cato, the pro- 

 perty of Mr. Bowes. At Doncaster, in the year 

 1755, w^e find a programme of five races provided, 

 and a match thrown in the bargain. In those days, 

 sport was taken in leisure, the programme being 

 spread over the week, at the rate of one race 

 per diem. Matches, in 1756, seem to have been 

 " all the go," as no less than seven were brought 

 off on the Town Moor in that year, three of them 

 being won by the Marquis of Rockingham, who 

 had by this time begun to play a prominent part 

 in the Doncaster struggles. 



