OBITUAKY OF STALLIONS. 



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OBITUARIES. 



Ch. Janus, imp., died about . 



Fearnought, b., imp., died about 



Eclipse, native, b., died about 



Celer, native, ch. " 



Mark Antony, br., " 



Shark, imp., br., " 



Medley, gr., imp., " 



Spread Eagle, b., " 



Gray Diomed " 



Messenger, gr., imp., died about 



Ch. Diomed, imp., died about 



Cceur-de-Lion, imp., died . 



Dragon, ch., of a kick, . 



Wonder, ch., February, on the road, of colic, 



Boaster, b., imp., autumn, 



Pacolet, gr., October, of colic, 



Oscar, br., November, of colic, 



Eagle, b., imp., . 



Constitution, summer, . 



Bluster, imp., autumn, 



Buzzard, ch., imp.. 



Sir Archy, about 



1780, Va., 

 1776, Va., 

 1790, Va., 

 1802, N. C. 

 1793^, N. C. 

 1796, Va., 



1799, 

 1805, 

 1806, 

 1808, 



Va.. 

 Ky., 

 N. C, 

 N. Y., 



1807-8, Va., 

 1809, 



1812, Tenn., 

 1815, Tenn., 

 1819, Tenn., 



1825, Tenn., 



1826, Tenn., 



1827, Ky., 



1827, Tenn., 



1828, Tenn., 

 1811, Ky., 

 1832-3, N. C, 



Trs. o 



33. 



26. 



20. 



28. 



32-3. 



25. 



23. 



13. 



20. 



28. 



30-1. 



20. 



25. 



15. 



24. 



17. 



11. 



30. 



22. 



20. 



24. 



27-8. 



I liave had the above on such authority as I credited at the 

 time, and think them correct, or nearly so. Obituary lists are 

 not only a matter of curiosity, but serve to detect forgeries in 

 some cases. 



Citizen, and Mark Antony, and Celer, and Bel Air, and 

 Gray Diomed, and Pacolet, were, in point of fact, nearer the 

 Arabian, and approximated nearer the heau ideal, than any of 

 the importations at the close of the last or ccmmencement of 

 the present century. They are, to my taste, Turk. The Dio- 

 meds, the Archy s, the Leviathans, were remarkable for size 

 and stride ; but if among them you found a beauty, you had to 

 look to the dam, viz. ; Wonder, dam by Tippoo Saib, son of 

 Lindsay's Arabian ; Second Diomed, gray, dam by Clockfast ; 

 Barksdale's Gray Diomed, who, through Brimmer and Polly 

 Flaxen, united the Godolphin and Darley Arabians ; John 

 Dawson, a bay — a superb, large horse, got by Pacific — had by 

 his dam a Gray Medley, a Pacolet, and two Tippoo Saib crosses. 

 He was a good one on the turf under bad management, and 



