438 THE HORSE. 



the case of Moreton's Traveller, is the real pedigree ; and that 

 he was the bay colt got by Partner out of Bay Bloody But- 

 tocks, in 1745 '46 or '47, own brother to the celebrated "Wid- 

 dington mare. Bay Bloody Buttocks, whose dam was by Grey- 

 hound, &c., &c., as above, bore colts or tillies from 1733 to '35 

 inclusive to Partner, in 1736 missed to Crab, from 1737 to '41 

 colts or fillies to Partner ; in '42 missed to Partner, from '43 to 

 '47 inclufeive, first a filly and then three colts to Partner, in '48 

 missed to Partner, and in '49 bore her last colt to Forester. 

 Old Traveller of the Stud Book was by Partner, dam by Al- 

 manzor. 



Coatworth's Traveller never came to America. 

 And Strange's Traveller, first called Charlemont, then Big 

 Ben, and then most absurdly^ in America, Traveller^ was 

 by O'Kelly's Eclipse out of a Herod mare, dam by Blank ; 

 her dam by Snip out of Lady Thigh, who was daughter of Grey 

 Bloody Buttocks, own sister to Bay Bloody Buttocks, dam of 

 Moreton's Traveller. 



These two horses do really trace to the Greyhound, &c., line 

 alluded to above, and I doubt not their excellence and popular- 

 ity, in Virginia, were the cause of the falsification of above half 

 a score of pedigrees into the like form. 



Tliis is a matter of very considerable importance to the 

 American Turf ; since old, or Moreton's, Traveller got Tryall 

 and Yorick out of imported Blazella, Barwell's Traveller out of 

 a Janus or Lycurgus mare ; Lloyds' Traveller out of a Jenny 

 Cameron mare, Tristram Shandy out of a Janus mare, Ariel and 

 Partner out of Col. Tasker's Selima. 



It is remarkable that Mr. Edgar has left, in his invaluable 

 Stud Book, the pedigrees of these two Travellers as question- 

 able. There is, however, no question about it ; owing to the 

 fortunate fact of the dam of the one and the great-great-grand- 

 dam of the other being named mares. Bay Bloody Buttocks, 

 and Lady Thigh, instead of merely bay filly by So and So ; 

 which leads to their direct identification, without the possibility 

 of mistake. 



There would have been no difficulty, whatevei-, but for the 

 absurd chopping and changing of names. 



There were already three Travellers, in England, when 



