| Owner: John Brewster Darley Breeder: John Brewster Darley
31 July 1717 - 2nd £30 Plate York
Sire of Croke (1734 King's Plate Ipswich, 1735 King's Plate York);
and of Miss Patty, grandam of Macheath which in the summer of 1778 won all the four year old Plates in the counties of Cheshire and Lancashire, travelling (i.e. walked) over 500 miles to his races in the course of seven weeks, winning the Plates at Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Nantwich, Liverpool and Knutsford, a feat described in Pick's Turf Register as 'not equalled in the annals of the turf'
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