| Owner: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton Breeder: Mr. Snell Winnings: 5 Starts: 4 - 1 - 0
The best racehorse of 1728, winning 3 King's Plates
26 Oct 1727 - 220gns stakes Newmarket; 4 Jun 1728 - King's Plate Salisbury; 15 Jul 1728 - King's Plate Winchester (w.o.); 3 Oct 1728 - King's Plate Newmarket (from Victorious and [Halifax] Goliah)
8 Aug 1728 - 2nd King's Plate Lewes (to [Halifax] Goliah)
Sire of the taproot mare of Family 9-b; of the dam of top class racehorse Whistlejacket (1754 King's Plates Newcastle, Edinburgh, Great Subscription Purse [5yo division] York), 1755 King's Plates Nottingham, York, Lincoln, 1756 King's Plate Newmarket); of 3rd dam of Banker (1765 Jockey Club Plate [4yo division] Newmarket and quite a successful stallion in Ireland);
and of the 3rd dam of the significant sires Mercury and Volunteer and of good racehorses Jupiter and Queen Mab, and 4th dam of Tag (1789 Oaks) and Remembrancer (1803 St Leger, Doncaster Cup)
Lord Rockingham's collection notes that "Sweepstakes had bad feet, being much troubled with Sand Cracks"
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