DIOMED AND HIS GET. 137 



Hautboy. Marlborough was by the Godolphin Arabian, dam 

 large Hartley mare. 



Shark's most distinguished progeny are ; Americus, Annette, 

 Black ]\Iaria, dam of Lady Lightfoot, Opossum, Shark, Yirago, 

 and many others. 



3d. DioMED — Foaled in 1777. Imported into Virginia 1798. 

 He was by Florizel, dam by Spectator, gr. dam by Blank, g. gr. 

 dam by Childers, g, g. gr. dam Miss Belvoir, by Grantham. 



Florizel was by Herod, dam by Cygnet, gr. dam Cartouch, 

 g. gr. dam Ebony, by Childers, g. g. gr. dam old Ebony Basto 

 mare. 



Herod was by Tartar, out of Cypron, by Blaze, out of Se- 

 lima, &c., (fee. — See table of Genealogy, No. 2. 



Diomed is probably the greatest sire of the greatest winner- 

 getters ever brought into this country. Had he got none but 

 Sir Archy, out of imported Castianira — who brought him to 

 America in her belly — that renown alone would have been 

 more than enough ; for scarce a recent horse in England, unless 

 it be PotSo's, has so distinguished himself as a progenitor. 



He begot ; Bolivar, Diana, Dinwiddie, Duroc, Florizel, Gal- 

 latin, Gracchus, Hamlintoniau, Hampton, Hornet, King Herod, 

 Lady Chesterfield, Madison, Marske, Nettle-top, Peace-maker, 

 Potomac, Primrose, Sir Archy, Top-gallant, Truxton, Yirginius, 

 "Wonder, and many others. Most of the horses named above 

 were the greatest runners of their day, and the getters of the 

 greatest racers and sires to the present time. Boston, probably 

 the very best horse that ever ran on American soil, was by 

 Timoleon, grandson of Sir Archy, the best son of Diomed ; 

 while Fashion, the very, best mare that ever ran on this side 

 the water, by her dam. Bonnets of Blue, daughter of Reality, 

 was great-granddaughter of that same noble stallion ; and by 

 her grandsire Sir Charles, sire of Bonnets and son of Sir Archy, 

 was also his great-granddaughter, a second time, in the mater- 

 nal line. 



4th, Gabbeiel — Foaled 1790, imported into Virginia, was 

 got by Dorimant, dam Snap mare, gr. dam by Shepherd's Crab, 

 g. gr. dam Miss Meredith by Cade, g. g. gr. dam Little Hartley 

 mare. 



Dorimant was by Otho, dam Babraham mare, gr. dam Chiddy, 



