Newmarket Spring Meeting Schedule for May 1762
The program opens May 4 1762 with the Jockey Club Plate for four-year-olds, weight, heat over the Beacon Course, plus a Sweepstakes and four matches. May 5 features a three-heat best of three heats Sweepstakes for Gentlemen. May 6 offers the Jockey Club Plate for all horses, weight heat over the Beacon Course. May 7 includes one match. May 8 is free for any horse mare or gelding five-year-olds eight stone four pounds to carry and six-year-olds seven stone one pound, with one heat over the Beacon Course and two matches. Entries and proper certificates required the day before running. owners of horses state for matches or plates must pay usual fees.
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Newmarket
Jockey Club
Beacon Courts
Beacon Course
Merlin
Prospero
Manchester
York
John Perly
Mantel
Goodman’s Fields
Japan
India
Hamaltons
Whitechapel
Henry III
George II
Fohn. Cay
Henry Boult Cay
Mark Barkere
Robert Baskere
Elizabeth Richardson
Catherine Lintot
Bookfellas
Toign and
Counmy
Chester Races 1762 May Meetings Run for Pure Purse
The Chester races of 1762 announce a May meeting with multiple purses for four and five year old horses over two to four mile heats. Events include a fifty pound purse, a Guy Plate, and a Lord Grosvenor Golf Cup for six year olds. Entries open April 29 at Chester Pierage with certificates and rules. A cocking match occurs each morning during the racing period.
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Chester
Lord Grosvenory
Peirice
Horse Breeding Details From Surrey Auction Notes
In Eysom Surrey Felix Winchester notes mares at one guinea each and one shilling for servants with care. Serper traces to Lord Portmore lines. Cartouch bred from Ivory Mare sold by the Earl of Northumberland. Dam and sires connect to Hamton-Court Childers, Derby-era horses, and the Darcey White Turk lineage. Multiple crosses to notable stallions Windham, Crippled Barb, and Jakson/Gavloway lines are described, with various grand and great grand dam notes. Prices and timing tied to covering or removal of mares.
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Felix Winchester
Eysom
Surrey
Spider
Lord Portmore
Cartouch
Earl of Northumberland
Devonshire Blacklegs
Sir William Morgan
Duke of Somarset
Hamton-Court Childers
Devonshire Childers
Dhe Wettal Turk
Dhe Darcy Blacklegs
Greir
Darcey White Turk
Red Rose
Lord Lortmore
S. Carrouch
Hampton-Coure
Lord Halifax
Windham
Britain
Darcy White Turk
de Marthal
Turk
Wornwood
William Morgan
Bald Galloway
Hampton Court
Makeless
Oglethorp
Ireland unrest and White Boys escape in Ireland
Dublin reports imminent militia mobilization as Waterford dispatch notes 58 marines escaping an armed ship at Passage. White Boys and Levellers are rounded up in Limerick and Waterford, with multiple arrests and trials announced in Cork and Youghal. Strong language targets rebels and priest Kelly, detailing garrison actions by Lord Drogheda’s light horse.
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Ireland
Dublin
Waterford
Rhis
Carrick
Ennis
Limerick
Clonmeil
Yourhall
Inelagh Miskell
Kelly
Corke
Francis Stackpole
Matthew Roach
John Day
Youghal
Last Monday clash with White Boys in Claghen cave
A report recounts a skirmish in a cave near Claghen where White Boys were captured after a clash with a Light-horse party. An underground laddered descent led to a confrontation ending in eight wretches surrendering as pistols were found on a fallen-assaulting figure.
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Cloumell
Claghen
Drotheda
George's day at court with knights of the garter
St George's day observers the Knights of the Garter Thistle and Bath wore their collars at St James's Court. Baron de Behr arrived from Hanover as minister of state. Lord Bertie and Lady Raymond called on the Majesties at St James's. A grand levee was held at Lord Granville's Arlington Street home with notable attendance. Letters from Ireland mention parsons taken up under late instructions.
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London
St. George's Day
Englind
Knights of the Garter
Thistle
Bath
St. James’s
Baron de Behr
Hanover
Thurslay
Robert Bertie
Raymond
Lord Granville
Arlington-area
Janes’s
Ireland
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Phipps
King’s Arms Tavern
Cornhill
John Gay
Amphill
Bedford- Shire
Amprill
Charlton Palmer
Actorney
Philpot-Lane
Robert Phipps
Leadenhall- Sweet
Fawley
Y Wantage
Berkshire
N.B
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James Lambert
Earl of Godolphin
Hogmagog
Cambridge
Cyanet
Middleham
Yorkshire
Attathwell
Louth
Lincolnshire
Sultan
Fulk Greville
Soultan
Duke of Wharton
Why-nor
Darley
Lord Tracy
SuLvran
Ower
Lord Gower
Spectre
Little David
Mr. Gooke
Epsom
Whitefoot
Bajazet
Little Hartley
Pond
Mir. Dugeins
Widing-House
Chapel-Street
Audley Chapel
Grosvenor Square
J Earl
Port More
Mr. Duggins
Walthamlow
Highan-Hill
Essex
Matthew Bateman
Mayer
Holbourn-Conrg
Grav’s Inn
Plantation
New Sy
St. Fago de la Vega
Jamaica
Cruize Hig Majesty
Day Fon
Benin-river
Africa
Owens
Hope
Bristol
Port New
Falmouth
Savage
Turnpenny
Blewert
Dennis
Adventure
Thomas
Penzance
His
Peggy
Todd
Lisbon
Elizabeth
Smith
Hammonze
Garland
Neath
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Little William
Murray
Prince Ferdinand
Anderson
Guernsey
Martinico
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Hughes
Cowes
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Meriton
Deal
Downs
Prince. George, Brown
Portsmouth
Harrison
Iron
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Mary
Parkenton
Hannah
Tattersal
Ellinthorpe
Sunderland
Johnson
Cork
John
Stroud
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Nacks
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