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Hampton, dam by Gray Diomed — Gen. Hampton — 



Mr. J. Y. Bond, foaled 1806 



Cora. Truxton, — Gen. Andrew Jackson, . . 1806 



The dam of Henry, 1806 



And the dam of Eliza White, .... 1806 



Gray Diomed, sire of Amanda, was by the imported Med- 

 ley ; his dam by Sloe ; grandam by Yampire, &c. — was foaled, 

 May, 1786. Of his races previons to 1793, when purchased of 

 Mr. Kichard Brooke by Col. Tayloe for $800, 1 am not informed. 

 In August, 1793, he won a match, 4 miles, beating Mr. Page's 

 famous Isabella at the Bowling Green. In October, he won 

 there a jockey club purse. In JSTovember he won a jockey 

 club purse at Petersburg. In September, 1794, he won the 

 jockey club purse, four-mile heats, at the Bowling Green. In 

 October he won the jockey club purse, four-mile heats, at 

 Chestertown, Md., beating Gen. Ridgely's famous Cincinnatus, 

 then four years old. During the same month he won the jockey 

 club purse at Annapolis, beating Cincinnatus, the equally famed 

 Yirginia Nell, Nantoaki, and others — on which occasion there 

 were two striking evidences of bottom ; through mistake, after 

 winning the heat, another mile was run, terminating in a dead 

 heat, between him and Cincinnatus. In the next heat, soon 

 after starting, in endeavoring to pass on the inner side, he cut 

 within the pole, had to return, and barely saved his distance ; 

 running the whole heat at his utmost speed ; yet was winner 

 of the race. In December, when winning at Alexandria, he 

 fell over a dog, by which accident he lost the race. He started 

 but once more, for a sweepstakes at Leeds, against Mr. Wash- 

 ington's horse, and Mr. Butler's mare, but being lame he lost, 

 beating the latter. Sold by Col. Tayloe in 1798 to Mr. J. Blick 

 for $2200. —American Txtrf Register^ vol. i., 1829. 



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