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PUSSY. 



° WINNER OF THE OAKS, AT EPSOM, 1834. 



Pussy, a very dark brown mare, almost black, was the pro- 

 perty of Mr Cosby, bred by Mr Lechmere Charlton, of 

 Ludford-park, near Ludlow, and foaled in 1831. She was 

 got by Pollio (son of Orville), out of Valve, by Bob Booty, 

 out of Wire, sister to Whalebone, &c., by Waxy, out of 

 Penelope, &c., &c. 



Pussy commenced her career upon the turf, by receiving 

 fifty pounds forfeit from Mr Ricardo's Ellen, at the Ascot 

 Meeting, 1833, — and in the same meeting, she ran third 

 for the Two-year-old Stakes, which was won by Mr Forth's 

 Louisa ; Mr Gardner's Comet second. 



At the Goodwood Meeting, from having been short of 

 work, and not in running condition, she was beaten easily 

 in a Match by Lord Uxbridge's Baleine. 



In the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, Pussy beat Gene- 

 ral Grosvenor's Dick by a length, for a Sweepstakes of fifty 

 sovs. each, h. ft. — Four subs. ; and in the same meeting for 

 the Nursery Stakes, D.M. — The following is the order in 

 wdiich the nine horses that started came in . 



General Walpole's f. hj Merlin, dam by Phantom, grandam by Pericles, out 



of Mary (foaled in 1815), 8st. 41b 1 



Mr Cosby's Pussy, 7st. 21b 2 



Sir M. Wood's cb. c. Charivari, by Reveller, out of Aline, 8st. 121b 3 



Mr Hunter's Morotto, by Gustavus, out of Marrowfat, 7st. 101b 4 



Lord Chesterfield's La Bayadere, 6st. 121b 5 



Mr Taylor's br. f. Myrina, 7st. 111b. . . '. 6 



General Grosvenor's three:— Bon Ton, 7st. 121b.; Cockatoo. 7st. 51b.; and Miss 

 Oavity, 69t. 121b. ; came in tog-ether, and were the only three not placed : 



a consummation which made that worthy supporter of the 

 turf screw up his face, in a manner peculiar to himself. 

 The Epsom Meeting, 1834, came round with Cotillon as 



