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The Ipswich Journal, Saturday, April 20, 1765, Number 1368, says - \"In the Hands of John Leech, of Wickham-Market in Suffolk, A Fine Black Stallion, from Craven in Yorkshire, allowed by good Judges to be the finest and strongest Horse in our County, known by the Name of Sportsman, Will Cover mares this Season at his own Stable, at Eleven Shillings a Leap and Trial: He is full fifteen Hands one Inch high, Master of sixteen Stone, and known to be as good a Hunter as any in the Kingdom. Sportsman has a remarkable fine Forehand, fine Shoulders, short strait Back, full bon’d, and well mark’d: His Stock of Colts are allowed by good Judges to be as fine Colts, according to their Ages, as of any Horse’s getting whatsoever. Sportsman was got by Amos Streckney’s Horse, who is a Son of the noted Horse call’d Smiling Tom; his Dam by a noted Hunter belonging to Mark Bell, got by the Bald Galloway, and his Grand-dam by Almanzar, who is full Brother to Bay Childers. The above Pedigree is a true one, as asserted by Robert Turner, the Breeder, at Richmond in Yorkshire\".
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