164 tup: horse. 



dition — an assertion, perhaps, in this case, true, but in all cases 

 easy to make, and impossible to disprove — and was beaten by- 

 John Bascombe, who, though, also, for a time, esteemed pro- 

 digious, was only a good, and not an extra good, race-horse. 



John Bascombe by Bertrand ; he by Sir Archy out of Eliza, 

 by Bedford ; dam Gray Goose by Pacolet ; he by imp. Citizen 

 g. dam Sally Sneed by imp. Buzzard, g. g. dam Jane Hunt by 

 Gen. Hampton's Paragon, g. g. g. dam by imp. Figure, g. g. g. g. 

 (lam Miss Slamerkin by imp. Wildair, g. g. g. g. g. dam Delan- 

 cy's imp. Cub mare. 



This is as good an American pedigree as can easily be pro- 

 duced. He was a large, tall, rather leggy and decidedly light-, 

 bodied horse ; but had fine action and was an easy go'er ; his 

 points were for speed, not for staying the distance, or carry- 

 ing weight. He beat the best horses of his year — Argyle and 

 Postboy ; but the year was not a crack one, and like many 

 other horses, who have been held cracks of the minute, he has 

 settled down into his proper i:>lace. It has been calculated that 

 Boston and Fashion, in their great race, would have beat Bas- 

 combe in his Postboy race by 240 yards. 



"Wagner and Gray Eagle, I shall not here refer to more at 

 large, leaving their pedigrees and descriptions to be noted here- 

 after, as I have those of Eclipse and Henry, Ariel and Flirtilla, 

 Black Maria, and the other animals whose performances and 

 great races I have judged it desirable to record at length, from 

 the accounts of the best and most brilliant contemporary au- 

 thorities. 



Peytona — by imp. Glencoe, dam Giantess by imp. Leviathan, 

 g. dam by Sir Archy, g. g. dam Virginia by Dare Devil, g. g. g. 

 dam Lady Bolingbroke by imp. Pantaloon, g. g. g. g. dam Cades 

 by Wormley's King Herod, g. g. g. g. g. dam Primrose by Dove, 

 g- g- g- g- g- g- ^'^^^ S^cl^'^ ^y Othello, g. g. g. g. g. g. g. dam 

 Tasker's Selima by the Godolphin Arabian. 



She was an enormous dark-red chestnut mare, standing full 

 sixteen hands and three inches in height ; she was deep made 

 in her heart-place, and had powerful, loug-let-down hocks ; her 

 barrel was so large that standing directly in front of her — P.or- 

 ter says — one could see her ribs on either side. Her stride was 

 enormous, said to cover twenty-seven feet. 



