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foaled him in 1753 ; which mare was by the Godolphin Ara- 

 bian, oi.it of the large Hartley mare, foaled about 1736. There is 

 evidently much confusion and difficulty in all this matter. First, 

 it appears that but one mare named Selima has been imported 

 to America. She, got by the Godolphin Arab, was imported 

 into Maryland by Col. Tasker about 1750, and, as I have al- 

 ready recorded, was a celebrated winner in 1752. Therefore 

 she could not have been imported in 1752, with Selim in her 

 belly ; nor have foaled him in 1753. 



Again, Col. Tasker's Selima is not described, usually, as 

 out of the large Hartley mare, who was so distinguished a pro- 

 genitrix that such a pedigree would never have been overlooked 

 if it could have been made good ; nor, lastly, does it appear 

 from the English stud-book, which contains no filly Selima of 

 this date, that the large Hartley mare ever bore a chestnnt filly 

 to the Godolphin Arabian ; certainly not in 1736, when she 

 brought Hartley's roan stallion to Hip ; nor any chestnut filly 

 at all in any year ; nor any filly to the Godolphin, except a bay 

 one in 1646. Furthermore, in the stock of the Godolj)hin, re- 

 corded at length in White's History of the British Turf, there is 

 no chestnut filly recorded by him out of any mare, nor any filly 

 out of either of the Hartley mares, except that named above, 

 and Merlin's dam, out of the little Hartley, in 1739. 



I conclude, therefore, that there is some bad blunder in this 

 pedigree somewhere — the rather, that after stating in the first 

 line that he was a dark bay, foaled in 1753, imported in his 

 mother's bell}^, it states below that he was imported in 1752, 

 the V6jy year in which Selima beat Tryall, and Jenny Cameron, 

 and that he was a capital racer, and died at twenty-seven years 

 of age. 



It seems to me, taking every thing into consideration, that 

 the odds are that all the four horses in this remarkable race 

 were imported ; though if it be so, it is certainly not a little 

 remarkable that Mr. Duvall, in his letter quoted above, should 

 dwell on the fact that the beaten horses were imported, and 

 make no comment on the winner, and the third best runner. 



By the account of the race given above, one is led to sup- 

 pose that in this year, 1767, there were regular meetings at 

 Philadelphia ; as the term, " the Gentlemen's Stakes," of one 



