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Crab, out of the Warlock Galloway. He was bred by 

 Lord Grosvener and was imported into Virginia by Col. 

 John Hoomes. He was one of the best horses ever brought 

 from England and left a numerous and valuable offspring. 

 His blood was valued highly by Tennessee breeders, as 

 evidenced by the frequency of his name in Tennessee 

 pedigrees. 



THE GODOLPHIN ARABIAN OF AMERICA 



In 1779 Col. John Tayloe imported a brown mare, 

 Castianira, by Rockingham, dam Tabitha by Trentham; 

 g. dam (the dam of Pegasus) by Bosphorus. Together 

 with shipping charges, Castianira cost $750. She made no 

 distinguished figure on the turf and was soon withdrawn. 

 Her second foal, by imp Diomed, was dropped in May, 

 1805, as the joint property of Col. Archibald Randolph of 

 Ben Lomond, Virginia, and Col. John Tayloe. This was 



SIR ARCHY, doubtless named for Col. Randolph. He 

 was a blood bay with no white except on the heel of his 

 right hind foot. He grew to be 16 hands. 



Sir Archy first appeared on the turf in 1808 when, 

 having the distemper, he was more than distanced in a 

 sweepstake at Washington, by Bright's Phoebus by 

 Messenger. Col. W. R. Johnson, of Petersburg, Virginia, 

 who witnessed the race, immediately purchased Sir Archy 

 for $1,500 and under Johnson's management he won 

 every race he ran. 



Johnson's challenge to run him against any horse in 

 the world not being accepted, Sir Archy began his career 

 as a stallion in 1810, as the property of Maj. A. J. Davie 

 of Halifax County, North Carolina, who paid $5,000 for 

 him. Later he came into the possession of J. D. Amis of 

 Northampton County, North Carolina, who, in 1833, was 

 quoted as saying that Sir Archy, in the stud, had netted 

 him $76,000. In 1829 he stood at $100 to insure. 



