144: THE HORSE. 



Johnson, and a man of intelligence ana respectability. Elliott 

 used to say the Gray Medley mare was a sort of milk and cider 

 color. Cryer bought either her or the Top filly at Johnson's 

 sale. Foxall, an Englishman, and, I am inclined to think, a 

 Yorkshireman, married Cryer's widow, and brought Sir John 

 Kichard on the turf, with the aid of Elliott and "Williams. 

 "When Sir John became a winner, his name was changed to 

 Monsieur Tonson, and his dam took the name of Madame Ton- 

 son. Top-gallant was a verj' fine horse, bred in Georgia. His 

 pedigree runs — Got by Gallatin, dam by Wildair, Black and all 

 Black. By Wildair we of the South and South-west mean the 

 son of Fearnought out of Kitty Fisher, Col. Symmes' horse, 

 and not the Maryland "Wildair, Sims' horse, son of Delancy's 

 imp. Wildair. By Black and all Black, was probably meant 

 Skip wi til's horse, son of imp. Brunswick. As to Brimmer, my 

 father bought Eclipse, about the close of the Revolution, of Col. 

 Harris, and he stated that Eclipse was the sire of Col. Goode's 

 Brimmer, confirmed by a circumstantial statement in one vol- 

 ume of the American Turf Register, though it is briefly stated, 

 in another volume, that Brimmer was by Yaliant. Having 

 thus rectified and explained — I have learned from Dr. Robert- 

 son that his father, the old General, brought here the first 

 thoroughbred — he Ihinks called Why-not — from Maryland; my 

 note says — by Fearnought, dam by Othello, about 1788. He 

 says his father and others, then and afterward, had many 

 Spanish mares. Add to my preceding list, about 1815-16 — 

 Highlander imp., a finely formed white, small, but except a 

 bad ear, well-finished ; and Childers, a gray, imp. — neither 

 much patronized- -and Doublehead, b. by Diomed, his dam, 

 Major Park said, was a Fearnought and Janus. Park bought 

 the Bel Air mare, dam of Hayne's Maria, to breed to him, and 

 I sold him the Wildair mare, dam of Orion by Stirling, for the 

 same purpose. After all, I may liave forgotten, or never known, 

 some good stallions in middle Tennessee. 



If your object be a general stud-book and sporting maga- 

 zine, then permit me to say, that Jolly Roger — Roger of the 

 Yale, in England, imp. to Yii-ginia in 1748 — according to the 

 opinion of men conversant in such matters, was distinguished 

 among the early importations ; that Janus, ch. by Janus, Old 



