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PHAETON Imp. Continued. 



weighed, when in condition, over 1,300 Ibs. He had a remarkably neat head, ear and 

 good, strong, well-shaped neck, great breadth of forehead and width of jaw. His 

 shoulders were oblique and well placed, with muscle well distributed over a broad 

 shoulder-blade, great depth of girth ; well shaped, round barrel, ribbed home to strong, 

 broad, muscular hips; his back and loin a model of strength ; great length from the 

 point of the hip to the whirlbone, and thence to stifle and hocks. Cut him off at his 

 knees, and it would have been difficult to find a more perfect model of shape, strength 

 and muscular development. But his legs were very defective, and particularly light 

 below the knee for such an immense carcass. None of his descendants have bad legs. 

 He was a handsomely bred horses. In addition to his double cross of Touchstone, he 

 had the Glencoe, Whalebone and Whisker blood upon the foundation of Herod, 

 Eclipse and Matchem. He died the property of Richard Ten Broeck in the spring of 

 1874, just as his value as a stallion was established, and in the zenith of his fame; the 

 blood, conformation and constitution of this great horse should be preserved. 



SIR ARCHY. 



SIR ARCHY, by imp. Diomed, son of Florizel by Herod, bred by Col. John Tayloe, 

 Mt. Aery, Va., foaled 1805, dam imp. Castianira, by Rockingham, son of Highflyer, 

 by Herod. Sir Archy, although bred in Virginia, was from imported English 

 sources on both sides. Castianira, his dam, was imported when three year old by 

 Col. Tayloe, in 1799, and ran successfully in Virginia. Sir Archy was her second 

 foal, and made his first appearance on the turf over the Fairfield Course, Va., in the 

 sweepstakes, two mile heats; seven started; the race was won by True Blue, defeat- 

 ing Sir Archy, Wrangler, Virginius and others; no time. At Washington, D. C., he 

 was distanced in a sweepstake by Bright Phoebus, own brother to Miller's Damsel,, 

 the dam of Am. Eclipse; no time. He was laboring under an attack of distemper in 

 both of these races. Col. W. R. Johnson now purchased him, and the following spring, 

 1809, won the Post Stake at Fairfield, Va., distance and time not given. The follow- 

 ing week he was defeated at Newmarket, Va., for the Club purse, four miles heats, 

 by Wrangler, after a desperate struggle; no time given. In the fall of the same year 

 he won the Jockey Club purse at Richmond, Va., four miles heats, defeating 

 Wrangler, Ratray, Tom Tough and Minerva. Sir Archy took the lead and ran the 

 first two miles in 3 :46, very fast at that date, when the race was over, he almost walk- 

 ing over the score. The following week he distanced the field in the first heat of a 

 four mile heat race at Newmarket, Va. ; no time. In a fortnight he defeated Blank 

 for the Jockey Club purse, four miles heats, at Scotland Neck, N. C., in 7:52-8:00. 

 The following day he was purchased by A. J. Davie, the owner of Blank, for $5,000, 

 and relegated to the Stud. As a sire he had no equal in his day. The most renowned 

 of his get are Lady Lightfoot. Vanity, Reality, Timoleon, Sire of Boston, Virginian, 

 Director, Sir Charles, Sir William, Muckle John, Henry, Kosciusco, Crusader,. 

 Rattler, Childers, Sumpter, Flirtilln, Flirtilla Jr. , Janet, Contention, Carolinean, Na- 

 poleon, Tecumseh, Bertrand, Pacific, Saxe Weimer, Stockholder, Gohanna, Betsey 

 and John Richards, Marion, Cherokee, Arab, Coquette, Tariff, Isabella, Phillis, Char- 

 lotte Temple, Virginia Taylor, Jemima Wilkerson, Sir Arthur, Lady Lagrange, 

 Sally Hope, Industry, Merling, Sea Gull, Sir Archy of Transport, Sir Archy Mon- 

 torio, Sir William of Transport, Giles Scroggins, Pilot (Wild Will of the Woods), 

 Chas. Kemble, Herr and Fanny Cline, Cicero, sire of Trifle's dam, Garrison's 

 Zinganee, Gabriella, Phoenomena, Sir Richard, Pandora, Lady Burton, Lawrence, 

 Napoleon, Roanoke, Mark Anthony and many others. Sir Archy was inbred to 

 Herod; Diomed, his sire, was by Florizel, sou of Herod, and Rockingham, the 

 sire of his dam, was by Highflyer, the best son of Herod, and he traces on both 

 sides many times to the Godolphin and Darley Arabians through their best sons, Cade, 

 Babraham, Blank, Gower Stallion, Regulus, Blaze, Flying and Bartlet's Childers. 

 Sir Archy was a blood bay with no white except the heel of his right hind foot, full Ifr 

 hands high, his shoulders were unexceptional, very deep in his girth, back short and 

 strong, arms and thighs long and muscular and bone large. He possessed both speed and 

 bottom and remarkable constitution which he imparted to all his stock. The more of 

 this blood we can get into our race-horses of the present day the better. He died on 

 June 7th, 1833, full of honors and years, meriting the sobriquet of the " Godolphin 

 Arabian of America." 



