DESCRIPTION OF LEXIXGTON. 305 



Imp. Traveller was by Croft's Partner, Bloody Buttocks, 

 Greyhound, Makeless, Brimmer, &c. 



Tasker's Selima was by tlie Godolpbin, her dam unknown. 



Selim. — ^There are six Selims in Edgar besides the English 

 Horse by Black and All Black, also Othello, out of Selima, 

 which is, I presume, the horse intended. 



Jack of Diamonds, said to be by the CuUen Arabian, Darley 

 Arabian, Byeiiy Turk, Taffolet Barb, White Tm-k, jSTatural 

 Barb mare ; said also to have been imported by Col. Spottes- 

 wood, of Virginia. But there is no evidence whatever that 

 there ever was any such horse, by the English books. 



The same may be said of the imported mare Diamond. 

 There is no such mare in any English record, nor any cer- 

 tainty that she ever existed. Diamond has always been a horse's 

 name. She is said to have been got by Hautboy out of a Eoyal 

 mare. 



This pedigree of Lexington is, it seems to me, susceptible of 

 considerable doubt, in several points, connected with the descent 

 of his dam Alice Carneal. She was foaled in Kentucky, in 

 1836, never seems to have won a race, but ran second in the 

 first heat of a four-mile race to Miss Foote, in 7.42, the best 

 time ever made in Kentucky, though she was distanced in the 

 second heat. It is, however, not to be doubted that she is 

 thoroughbred, Lexington's performances making it impossible 

 that it should be otherwise ; although the record of her ances- 

 try is, I presume, irrecoverably lost. It seems to me, that it 

 would be far better to own up frankly that such is the case, 

 than to endeavor to trump up such questionable pedigrees as 

 much of the above. I do not intend this remark to apply in the 

 least degree to the owner, but to the compilers of spurious pedi- 

 grees, sent for admission to respectable publications, periodical 

 or other, in which publication is held to imply undoubted au- 

 thenticity. 



This noble racer is well described, as follows ; — 



CHAEACTEEISTICS OF LEXINGTON. 



Lexington is a blood bay, about fifteen hands three inches 

 high, with fore and hind feet and pasterns and a small portion 

 of his hind legs above pasterns white. His bones are not par- 

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