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racer. I saw him beat the celebrated Silver Legs from Virginia 

 in the year 1772 at Alexandria, fonr miles and repeat. He was 

 then thirteen years old and Silver Legs only nine. 



" With respect and esteem, 



" G. Duval." 



"Without entering here into a consideration of the effects of 

 weight on speed, this is certainly a remarkable performance ; 

 bnt what is, perhaps, more remarkable, is that there is some 

 considerable diflicnlty in making out what this horse Selira can 

 be, unless, perhaps, it be Selim by imported Othello, dam by 

 imported Jolly Eoger, grand-dam by imported Silver Eye, out 

 of an imported thoroughbred mare. 



The imported horse English Selnn was by another Othello, 

 also called Black and all Black; but as he was not foaled 

 until 1753-4, it is hardly probable that he should have been 

 a foal-getter so early as 1759, unless he was never trained at all. 



It is not stated of what color was Selim by imported Othello, 

 but the two Selims by English Selim are both described as 

 bright bay horses. In the English stud-book, is a Selim by 

 Bajazet out of Miss Thigh, 1760, but I cannot find that he was 

 ever imported to America, although he is included in the stud- 

 book attached to Mason's Farrier, no authority given. 



The Granby in question, I presume to have been a bay 

 horse, 15 hands 1 inch in height, foaled in 1762, by the imported 

 Belsize Arabian, dam by old Shock, grand-dam imported mare 

 by Cade, out of the Hartley mare, who covered in Philadelphia, 

 in the year following the race, 1768. 



If not this horse — who must, if it be he, have run a five-year- 

 old against Selim aged — it must have been Wildman's Granby, 

 by Blank, Old Crab, Cyprus Arab, Commoner, Makeless, Brim- 

 mer, Dickey Pierson, Dodsworth Barb, Burton Barb Mare — 

 who was foaled in 1759, and would have consequently been eight 

 years old in the year of this race. I presume, however, it is 

 the horse first named who ran in 1667, as the English Granby 

 one would have expected to run better, unless he were sadly 

 degenerate from his illustrious ancestry. 



The imported horse Selim is said, by Edgar, to be out of the 

 beautiful dark chestnut mare imported from England, and called 

 Selim — Selima ? — who brought him to America in her belly, and 



