The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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SKYSCRAPER,—the name of a horse of much present celebrity: he was bred
by the late DUKE of BEDFORD, and got by _Highflyer_ out of
_Everlasting_. In the Craven Meeting, at Newmarket, 1789, when two years
old, he received forfeit from three for a sweepstakes of 200 guineas
each across the flat. The same Meeting he beat Mr. Fox's _Maid of all
Work_ across the flat for 500 guineas. The second Spring Meeting (then
three years old) he won the Prince's Stakes of 100 guineas each, eight
subscribers; the Derby Stakes at Epsom, 50 guineas each, thirty
subscribers. At the same place he received 70 guineas compromise from
the Earl of Egremont's _Tag_. In the first October Meeting he received
250 guineas forfeit from Mr. Ladbroke's _Magpie_, two middle miles of
Beacon Course, for 500 guineas, half forfeit. In the second October
Meeting he won a sweepstakes of 100 guineas each, from the Ditch-in,
nine subscribers. The next day he won the 50_l._ Plate for three year
olds, beating _nine_ others. The same week he received 122½ guineas
forfeit in a Post Match with Lord Derby. In the Houghton Meeting he
received 130 guineas compromise from Mr. Fox's _Sister to Lethe_, 300
guineas, _half forfeit_. The same week he received 130 guineas
compromise from Mr. Fox's _Braggadocio_, across the flat, for 300
guineas, _half forfeit_.
In 1790, at the first Spring Meeting, he won the Jockey Stakes of 100
guineas each, (half forfeit,) fourteen subscribers, of which nine paid
forfeit. In the same week for the Claret Stakes of 200 guineas each,
_half forfeit_, he received from his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales's _Sujah ul Dowlah_, his Royal Highness the Prince's _Deir Sing_,
Duke of Orleans's _Jericho_, Lord Egremont's _Calomel_, and Sir C.
Bunbury's _Glaucus_. In the first October Meeting he received 100
guineas forfeit from _Montezuma_. In the same Meeting he won half a
subscription of 30 guineas each, (seven subscribers,) beating the famous
_Escape_, then the property of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
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