13G THE HOliSli. 



Post Boj, Oscar, Hickory, Maid of the Oaks, Bond's First Con- 

 sul, Sir Archy, Potomac, Pacolet, Duroc, Hampton, Tuckalioe, 

 and others, the names of which alone would fill a volume, we 

 can easily bring down in these States — and the others colonized 

 from them, both with men and horses, sucli as Kentucky, Ten- 

 nessee, and more recently Alabama — one uninterrupted and 

 stainless succession of noble racers, to the day when the de- 

 scendants of Sir Archy, that veritable Godolphin Arabian of 

 the tnrf of America, began to show upon the course ; and when 

 the renown of American Eclipse began to call the attention of 

 the whole world, and of the mother country, most of all, whence 

 was derived that transcendent stock, which in all other coun- 

 tries has degenerated, but in this has continued to rival the 

 honors of its remotest ancestry by the performance of American 

 race-horses. 



The English sires most renowned in post-revolutionary days, 

 until we come down to the present day of the Leviathans, Sar- 

 pedons, Trustees, Priams, and Glencoes, have been — 



Ist. Medley — Imported into Virginia in 1783, by Gimcrack, 

 dam Arminda by Snap, out of Miss Cleveland by Eegulus ; 

 g. gr. dam Midge, by a son of Bay Bolton ; g. g. gr. dam, by 

 Bartlett's Childers ; g. g. g. gr. dam, by Honey wood's Arabian ; 

 g. g. g. g. gr. dam, the dam of the two True Blues. Gimcrack 

 was by Cripple, out of Miss Elliott, by Grisewood's Partner, 

 gr. dam Celia by Partner, g. gr. dam by Bloody Buttocks, g. g. 

 gr. dam by Greyhound, g. g. g. gr. dam Brocklesby Betty. 



Cripple was by the Godolphin Arabian, out of Blossom by 

 Crab, gr. dam by Childers, out of Miss Belvoir, by Grantham. 



Medley was one of the best sires ever imported into Amer- 

 ica. He got Atalanta, Bel Air, Boxer, Calypso, Gray Diomed, 

 Gray Medley, Lamplighter, the Opossum Filly, Pandora, Quick- 

 silver, Virginia, and others — racers in a high form, and them- 

 selves the getters of racers. 



2nd, Shark — Foaled in 1771, and imported into Virginia, 

 l)y Marske, out of the Snap mare, gr. dam Wag's dam, by Marl- 

 borougli, out of a natural Barb mare. 



Marske, sire of Eclipse, was by Squirt, dam by Foxcub, gr. 

 dam by Coneyskins, g. gr. dam by Hutton's Gray Barb. 



Squirt was by Bartlett's Childers, dam by Snake, gr. dam 



