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man, and other cracks, many of them winners of tlie Derby 

 and of the Oaks. Buzzard would be scarcely remembered in 

 American pedigrees but for his son Hepliestion, out of Sir 

 Archy's dam, and as the sire to the dam of Woodpecker, the 

 sire of Grey Eagle. Many of our pedigrees, including that of 

 Grey Eagle, trace to Col. Tasker's Selima, by the Godolphin 

 Arabian, or to Mr. Carter Braxton's Kitty Fisher, by Cade, 

 mares of the first distinction both on our turf and in the stud. 



The excellence of the breed of our race-horses is likely to 

 be perpetuated by the more recent importations of such horses 

 as Priam, Barefoot, Margrave, Eowton, St. Giles, Squirrel — six 

 Derby and St. Leger winners — Zinganee, Leviathan, Glencoe, 

 Trustee, Riddlesworth, Belshazzar, Sarpedon, Consul, Emanci- 

 pator, Xonplus, Tranby, Cetus, Chateau Margaux, Fylde, Luz- 

 borougli. Skylark, Monarch, Sovereign, &c. The last two 

 names are not found in the English Stud Book. They were 

 from the Hampton Court Stud. Monarch, on account of his 

 brilliant turf achievements in South Carolina, winning all his 

 races, is believed to be tlie best son of Priam, out of Delphine, 

 by Whisker; and Soverei£n, by Emilius, out of George lY.'s 

 famous race-mare Fleur-de-Lis, the best race-horse of her day 

 in England. 



TJie application of the j^receding remarks to the origin and 

 blood of our race-horses will be now made to those fast and 

 stout competitors, Boston and Fashion, whose race of four-mile 

 heats is regarded, with us, as among the best on record ; respect- 

 ing which an intelligent commentator, " Larkin," remarks — " In 

 a comjjarison between Boston and Fashion, under equal circum- 

 stances, the papers are rather against Fashion. When called 

 on, she could not run a heat in 7.40, with her weight, at eight 

 years old. Boston, when nine years — carrying 5 lbs. more 

 than Fashion — ran a first heat in Y.33, and a second in 7.46. 

 Fashion, the wiimer of the match race, was five years old, and 

 carried 111 lbs." However, Henry, by Sir Archy, dam by 

 Diomed, grandam by Bell Air— son of Medley— when barely 

 four years old, carrying 108 lbs., had the honor to " show the 

 way to the thirties " in his match race with American Eclipse, 

 four-mile heats, run in 7.37^ — 7.49. Eclipse, aged, 126 lbs., 

 the winner of the second and third heats, the last in 8.24, was 



