The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

GNAWPOST

—was a country PLATE HORSE of some celebrity, winning several for some years in succession. He was bred by Mr. Shaftoe; was foaled in 1767; and got by Snap out of Miss Cranbourne, who was got by the Godolphin Arabian, and bred by the then great Duke of Cumberland.