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IMPORTED HORSES OF LATER PERIOD 



The following named imported stallions, not previously 

 mentioned, stood in Tennessee after 1840; the names only 

 being given by Killebrew; other facts from other sources: 

 Ambassador, by Emilius; imported by Col. Wade 

 Hampton. Scythian, and Sacklowie (an Arabian); 

 imported into Kentucky. Rowton, winner of the Don- 

 caster St. Leger in 1829; imported into Virginia. Ten- 

 eriffe and Emu; both imported by Thomas Flintoff. 

 Espersykes, by imp Belshazzar; imported by Thomas 

 Alderson. Volney, by Velocipede; Shamrock by St. 

 Patrick; and Albion by Cain or Actaeon. 



STRAIGHT DOWN THE LINE l 



The way in which the "live lines" came down and 

 penetrated the Tennessee stock is shown by these instances 

 of descent through sire and son. As a rule the dams of 

 the horses belonged to a line different from that of the 

 sires. 



MATCHEM LINE (i) Matchem, Conductor, Trump- 

 ator, Sorcerer (who got three winners of The Oaks), 

 Smolensko, imp Shakespeare. 



(2) Sorcerer, Comus, Berner's Comus of North Ala- 

 bama. 



ECLIPSE LINE O'Kelly's Eclipse, King Fergus, 

 Beningbrough, Orville, Muley, sire of Leviathan and 

 Margrave. 



HEROD LINE (i) Herod, Florizel, Diomed, Duroc, 

 American Eclipse, O' Kelly and others. 



(2) Diomed, Sir Archy, Timoleon, Boston, Lexington. 



1 For additional facts about performances and offspring of English 

 horses mentioned under this sub-head, and elsewhere in this chapter, 

 see Addenda B. 



