200 THE HORSE. 



Financier, a famous racer, was owned and probably bred by 

 Isaac Duckett, Esq., of Prince George's county, tlie land of his 

 maternal ancestry. — J. V. Bond, of Pennsylvania, also ran 

 with success, 1812-13, a chestnut horse called Financier. 



Baronet, bay, sixteen hands high, foaled 1785, bred by Sir 

 W. Vavasour, owned and run by the Prince of Wales — George 

 lY. — was imported into N ew York. He was got by Yertumnus, 

 out of Penultima, by Snap — Cade — Crab — Childers — Confede- 

 rate filly by gray Grantham — Duke of Rutland's Black Barb. 

 Yertumnus by Eclipse, dam by Sweeper — son of Sloe — out of the 

 Tartar mare. Mercury's dam. Baronet, a capital racer, won for 

 the Prince of Wales — winner, on the occasion, of 17,000 guineas — 

 the great Oatland stakes at Ascot, 1791-2, 100 subscribers, 100 

 guineas each, beating the best horses of England, a handicap, 

 for all ages. 



Snap — Gen. Heard's — was got by imp. Figure, out of 

 " Heard's thoroughbred mare Nettle.''* Hamilton's imp. Figure, 

 ran with great celebrity in Maryland, 1768 ; he beat the famous 

 Selim, four-mile heats ; was imp. in Maryland, 1765, he was got 

 by Figure — son of Standard — out of Mary Ann, by Croft's Part- 

 ner — Bald Galloway. He ran with celebrity in Maryland. 



True Briton by imported Othello, out of Gant's imported 

 Milley. Othello — ^imported 1757, by Gov. Sharpe, of Mary- 

 land — ^by Crab, out of Miss Slammerldn, by Young True Blue. 

 T]-ue Briton was a racer of celebrity ; he ran a great match, dis- 

 tancing Old England at Harlem, 'New York ; and another near 

 Philadeli^hia, in 1765-6, in great time, considering weight, but 

 was beat by the famous Selim, for 500 pistoles. 



Juniper, imported into Yirginia, 1761, was got by Babra- 

 ham, out of Aura, by Stamford Turk ; grandam, sister to Con- 

 queror, by Fox; g. grandam, by Childers, — the dam of Crab, 

 Snip, Blacklegs, &c. — Basto — Curwen's Bay Barb — Curwen's 

 Spot — Lowther Barb — Yintner mare. Juniper, a celebrated 

 racer, won fourteen out of eighteen races, running second in 

 the four he lost. 



Hopper's imported Pacolet, was got by Spark, — afterward 



* 1112 Delancy'a Nettle, by imported Granby, probably the same as Heard's, 

 beat Selim, thirteen years old, and other famed horses, the four-mile heats, at An- 

 napolis, vol. 1. p. 97. 



