MAKELESS H, THOROUGHBRED, 1690
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Owned by John Croft, Barforth, Yorkshire. Described as ...a horse of great eminence especially as a stallion. He was covering mares in the first two decades of the 18th century, so probably dates to the early to mid 1690s. He sired a number of daughters who are important in thoroughbred pedigrees. He got Sir Ralph Milbanke`s famous black mare (c. 1705, Family 13); the Old Scarborough mare (Family 25, 1715, the grandam of Miss Wyndam and ancestress of Young Melbourne), the only horse known to have beaten the famous (younger) Bonny Black; the Duke of Devonshire`s Makeless Mare (Family 33, dam of Old Polly and a filly who was ancestress of Dungannon); Sir Matthew Pierson`s `famous` Makeless mare (Family 37), the dam of Bay Bolton (1705), and Lamprie (1715); Chestnut Thornton (Family 2), important in several branches of Family 2; Brown Farewell (1710, Family 4), dam of Miss Partner and other important mares in Family 4; Chestnut Layton, also seen in Family 4.
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