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In a list of 80 or 90 of Sir Archy's distinguished get it 

 does not affirmatively appear that any one of them except 

 Virginia Taylor was bred in a Northern state; all others 

 or nearly all seem to have been produced in Mary- 

 land, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. But 

 after winning fame on the turf they carried the dynamic 

 force of the Archy blood into the stock of all states, and 

 gave to their distinguished sire the well-merited title, 

 "The Godolphin Arabian of America." 



Among Sir Archy's distinguished get were: Bertrand, 

 foaled 1821; Cherokee; Corporal Trim, 1825; Flirtilla, 

 1820; Gohanna, 1821; Henry, 1816; Industry, 1824; 

 Isabella, 1821; Janette, alias Virginia LaFayette, 1820; 

 John Richards, 1819; Kosciusko, 1812; Lady Lightfoot, 

 1812; Marion, 1820; Mucklejohn, 1827; Pirate, 1823; 

 Reality, 1813; Sally Gee, alias Pandora, 1825; Sally 

 Hope, 1822; Sea Gull, about 1815; Sir Archy, Jr., alias 

 "Montorio," alias "Out-of-Transport," 1822; Sir Arthur; 

 Sir Charles, 1816; Sir William, out-of-Transport; Sumpter, 

 1818; Tariff, 1824; Vanity, 1812; Virginian, 1813. 



Records at hand do not show that any of the above 

 named horses served as stallions in Tennessee, or that 

 any of the mares were owned here; but all of them, more 

 or less, had descendants in Tennessee. Of Bertrand 

 (bred by John R. Spann of South Carolina) Wallace 

 wrote in 1867: "he was unequalled on the turf and in 

 the stud had no rival" and "did more to improve the 

 stock of Kentucky and Tennessee than any horse before 

 or since his day." A short time before his death his 

 owner James Lindsay, of Lexington, Kentucky, refused an 

 offer of $35,000 for him. Of equal fame was Sir Charles, 

 both on the turf and in the stud. Of the others in the list 

 here given the following named were perhaps the most 

 celebrated for their performances on the turf: Flirtilla, 



