fearnought

BBC Radio 4: Fearnought (poems for Southwell Workhouse)

Lord Clermont received 85 guineas from Mr. Wentworth when his horse Fearnought backed out of a match race.

Ageing machinery that opens or teases wool, a 'fearnought', has also been moved away from the blend bins and a new one inserted at an earlier stage of production.

Ebenezer Robinson recalled that Patten had been "brave to a fault, so much so that he was styled and called 'Captain Fearnought'".

His progeny included Bonny Lass, Fearnought, Looby, Starling (a Champion sire) and Whitefoot.

Bonny Boy of Fearnought out of Woodside's Christie Lou, and was a grandson of the famed Kippax Fearnought, the celebrated English import, who went Best in Show in 1955 at Westminster.