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Courtesy of the Walker
Art Gallery,
William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EL
Sire
Line
Babraham
Godolphin Arabian
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Molly Long Legs b f
1753 (Babraham - Mare, by
Cole's Foxhunter).
Sire Line Godolphin Arabian.
Family 6-a. Bred and raced by Fulke Greville
(1717-1806) of Wilbury House, in Newton Toney, Wiltshire,
she was sold in 1761 to Frederick St John (1748-1787), 2nd
Viscount Bolingbroke, for whom she ran her
final race of 1761 and her only race of 1762. Between 1759 and
1761, she won three races for 200 guineas
each at Newmarket.
In the stud
she produced her first two foals in 1757 and 1758. After the
interval on the turf she produced eleven foals, from 1763 to 1778. Among her
distinguished descendants was Eleanor (b f 1798 Whiskey), the first filly to
win both the Derby and Oaks Stakes. Priam (b c 1827
Emilius) and Phantom (b c
1808 Walton) were both Derby winners and Champion sires.
Sorcerer (bl c 1796
Comus)
was a Champion sire, and Langar (ch c 1817Selim) proved to be a worthy
stallion.
| Molly
Long Legs |
Babraham |
Godolphin
Arabian |
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| Sachrissa |
Hartley's Blind Horse |
| Flying Whigg |
| Foxhunter
Mare |
Cole's
Foxhunter |
Lonsdale's Brisk |
| Brown
Betty |
| Sister to
Cato |
Partner |
| Sister to Roxana |
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Race
Record |
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| 1758 |
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Won £50 at Barnet, beating Mr Crosoer's
Sportley (b f 1753 Regulus), Lord March's Brown
Betty, Mr Pembroke's Jason
and 5 others. |
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| 1760 |
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Won 200gs at Newmarket, beating Lord March's Rose (ch
f 1754 Blank). Won 200gs at the
same meeting, again defeating Rose. Won 200gs at
Newmarket, beating Lord Gower's Little David (b c 1747
Gower Stallion). |
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| 1761 |
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Finished 2nd at Newmarket to Mr Warren's
Sportsman (b c 1753
Cade) for the Jockey Club Plate,
beating Mr Stamford's Bosphorus (br c
1754 Babraham), Lord
Rockingham's Remus (b c 1752
Regulus), Shock, Rose,
Foxhunter, Belford and Cato. Walked-over for £50 at Oxford. |
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| Year of Birth |
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Name, Sire |
Owner or Breeder |
| 1757 |
b c |
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Young
Merlin, by Merlin |
Mr Greville |
| 1758 |
b
f |
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Fanny, by the Gower Stallion |
Lord Bolingbroke |
| 1763 |
bl c |
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Darling, by Snap |
Lord
Bolingbroke |
| 1764 |
b
f |
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Laycock, by South |
Lord Bolingbroke |
| 1765 |
b f |
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Infanta, by the Compton Barb |
Mr
Vernon |
| 1766 |
b
f |
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Isabella, by the Bunbury Arabian |
Mr Blake |
| 1767 |
c |
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Versac, by Squirrel |
Lord
Bolingbroke |
| 1768 |
ch c |
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Forsett, by Matchem |
Lord Bolingbroke |
| 1769 |
b f |
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Giantess, by Matchem |
Lord
Bolingbroke |
| 1772 |
ch c |
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by the Bolingbroke Arabian |
Mr Foley |
| 1773 |
b c |
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Annuity [ex-Standard], by Sprightly |
Sir C Davers; Sir J Lade |
| 1776 |
bl c |
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Helvetius, by Turf |
Mr Gascoigne |
| 1778 |
b c |
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by
Turf |
Mr
Gascoigne |
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