54 Making the American Thoroughbred 



son of imp Bedford), dam by Symmes' Wildair; by 

 Black- and- All-Black; by King Herod; by imp 

 Partner; by Apollo. Bred by Hon. Thomas Blount 

 of Jones County, Georgia, and purchased from him by 

 Col. George Elliott about 1812 and stood until 1817, or 

 longer, at his farm. He was then sold, possibly to Ken- 

 tucky. Elliott paid $1,500 for Top Gallant as a colt a 

 large price for the time. 



WONDER, first named Hazard and later called Wilkes' 

 Wonder, and sometimes Little Wonder, was by imp 

 Diomed; dam Mary Gray by Tippoo Saib (he by the 

 Lindsay Arabian); by Goode's Brimmer; by imp 

 Silver Eye; by imp Valiant; by imp Jolly Roger; 

 imp Mary Gray by Roundhead. 



Silver Eye by theCuIIen Arabian; Valiant by Dormouse. 



Wonder was foaled about 1800 and was bred by Francis 

 Eppes of Chesterfield County, Virginia. 



At Newmarket, Virginia, the spring he was four years 

 old Wonder ran and won his first race. He lost his second 

 because of a mistake made by his jockey, and ran second 

 in his third race although laboring under the strangles. 

 The next year he ran only five races, viz., Newmarket, 

 Smithfield, Norfolk, Warrenton and Belfield, but won all 

 of them. Among the horses he defeated was Monticello, 

 bred if not then owned by Thomas Jefferson, and 

 another horse by Diomed. The next spring he covered 75 

 mares and that fall defeated the famous Bumper and 

 Agnes (both by Bellair) in a 4-mile heat race at Belfield 

 "hard in hand" when the track was knee deep in mud 

 and water. At Norfolk he contended with Eolus by Bed- 

 ford, Top Gallant by Druid and Monticello and Bumper, 

 in a 4-mile heat race. He won the first heat, lost the 

 second to Eolus by a head, the third by a few feet and the 

 fourth by reason of a plate slipping. 



