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and power that characterized their progenitor. The 

 Janus stock exceeded all others in the United States for 

 speed, durability and uniformity of shape and were noted 

 as the producers of more good saddle horses than any 

 other stock. 



CELER, son of Janus, foaled in 1774, the property of 

 Mr. Mead, of Virginia, propagated a stock equal in every 

 quality to that of his sire. Celer's dam was a descendant 

 of the Godolphin Arabian and the CuIIen Arabian. He 

 died in 1802, aged 28 years. 



MORTON'S TRAVELLER, a bay, was foaled in Yorkshire, 

 England, about 1748. His sire was (Croft's) Partner; his 

 dam by Bloody Buttock's Greyhound, an Arabian. He 

 had also the blood of Makeless, Brimmer, Place's White 

 Turk and the Lay ton Barb mare. In 1754 Morton's 

 Traveller was in the stud at Richmond Court House, 

 Virginia. Many of his get became celebrated. 



PARTNER, foaled in 1775, was the most distinguished 

 son of Morton's Traveller, both as a racer and as a stallion. 

 Partner got Rockingham out of Gen. Thomas Nelson's 

 imp Blossom by Sloe (son of Crab), dam by Regulus; 

 Fitz-Partner, out of the dam of Celer, and 



MARK ANTHONY, who was foaled about 1763. Mark 

 Anthony's dam was Septima, by Othello, alias Black-and- 

 all-BIack, and was descended from Spark who was pre- 

 sented by Frederick, Prince of Wales, to Lord Baltimore, 

 who gave him to Govenor Ogle of Maryland. Mark 

 Anthony was remarkable for his beauty, speed and 

 bottom and propagated a stock held in highest esteem for 

 their various valuable qualities as turf, harness and saddle 

 horses. Mark Anthony had a habit of standing erect on 

 his hind feet at the starting post and "screaming" until 

 the other horses started. He also habitually passed them; 

 in one race he distanced all seven of his competitors. 



