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Medley. Thus far Eclipse's pedigree is unquestioned ; for the 

 balance, see American Turf Kegister, p. 50, vol. 4. Of Sir 

 Charles Bunbury's Diomed, imported into Yirginia 1799, having 

 " filled the measure of his glory," nothing more need be said. 

 Messenger, foaled 1788, imported about 1800 into Pennsylvania, 

 was also a race-horse of repute at Newmarket ; he won some 

 good races, and lost but few.* He was a gray, of great sub- 

 stance ; was got by Mambrino, a very superior stallion, his dam 

 by Turf, son of Matchem, Eegulus — Starling — Snap's dam. See 

 English Stud Book, and American EclijDse's pedigree in full, 

 American Turf Register, p. 51, vol. 4. 



Financier was got by Tippoo Saib ; dam by imp. Messenger, 

 grandam by Bashaw ; great-grandam by Young Bulle Eock — 

 the famed Selim — Hopper's imported Pacolet. Tippoo Saib, a 

 capital racer by imported Messenger, his dam imported, by 

 Northumberland — Snap — Gypsey by Bay-Bolton — Duke of 

 Newcastle's Turk — Byerly Turk. Tippoo Saib was sire to the 

 famous Tippoo Sultan, that beat First Consul, 1807, and chal- 

 lenged Miller's Damsel ; and was out of Financier's grandam by 

 Bashaw, own brother to the famous race mare Slammerkin ; 

 the ancestor to Ratler, Sumter, Childers, Flirtilla, Polly Hopkins, 

 Lady Relief, Jackson, &c., the son of imported Wildair, by 

 Cade, out of " the imported Cub mare." Young Bulle Rock, by 

 Bulle Rock, son of imported Spark ; dam by imp. Bulle Rock, 

 imported 1730 into Yirginia — imp. Dabster — imported mare, 

 out of the famed Britannia, own sister to True Briton, by imp. 

 Othello ; her dam Gant's imported Milley. Imp. Bulle Rock, 

 by the Darley Arabian — Lister Turk — ^Natural Arabian mare. 

 Lnported Dabster by Hobgoblin — Spanker — Hautboy. Selim, 

 foaled in Maryland, 1759, was got by the famed imp. Othello, 

 out Col. Tasker's famous brood mare, imported Selima, by the 

 Godolphin Arabian — said to be sister to Babraham, out of the 

 large Hartley mare. Selim, the best race-horse of his day, was 

 purchased of Col. Tasker, at one year old, for £1000, by Sam'l 

 Galloway, Esq., who beat with him all competitors, in the best 

 time, until after nine years old. See American Turf Register, 

 vol. 1, pp. 17, 62, and 480. 



* It has been erroneously stated that imported Messenger never was beat. He 

 lost several races in 1785. See English Racing Calendar. 



