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Moreton's bay colt, out of Bay Bloody Buttocks, was so called ; 

 and at least half a dozen in America, when Charlemont, alias 

 Ben, the great g. g. g. nephew of Bay Bloody Buttocks, re- 

 ceived a third alias of Traveller, for the very purpose one would 

 say of breeding confusion. 



I have taken considerable interest in these quasi Greyhound 

 mare pedigrees, and have traced it so far as to satisfy myself 

 that at least two-thirds of them are direct and wilful forgeries. 



It appears that there is but one Greyhound mare of suffi- 

 cient note to be named in the books, whose dam was by Make- 

 less — viz., Brown Farewell. She had five fillies. Bay and Grey 

 Bloody Buttocks, Little Partner, Red Rose, and a Bay filly g. g. 

 g. dam of Enterprise. All the daughters of the two Bloody 

 Buttocks mares are named and well known. Little Partner had 

 but one filly, Cat by Cade. Red Rose had fillies by Lesang, 

 Syphon, Matchem, Alfred and Magnet, and the Bay filly, it 

 would seem, but one by the Bolton Starling. So that all the 

 pedigrees which run to this strain must necessarily be false, un- 

 less Greyhound be preceded by Bloody Buttocks or Partner, 

 and these again by one of the following, viz., by Partner, For- 

 ester, Cade, Lesang, Syphon, Matchem, Alfred, Magnet or 

 Starling. 



Without pursuing this farther, I would observe that it is very 

 far from being my wish or object to throw doubts on established 

 pedigrees, or to endeavor to vitiate, in public opinion, strains of 

 blood, which have been admitted to pass muster. 



It is my object, on the contrary, to verify, not to vitiate ; and 

 1 am far, indeed, from joining in the absurd outcry, that every 

 horse is necessarily coarse-bred or cold-blooded, because he can- 

 not he proved, directly, to be pure bred. I perceive that the 

 circumstances of the country, at the time when importation be- 

 gan, the great laxity in keeping proper registers, and the fatal 

 facility of forgery, have rendered it almost impossible that it 

 should be otherwise. 



I maintain that where there has been a chance horse, him 

 self a good racer, he has invariably failed and must of necessity 

 fail as a getter of runners in the first or second generation of 

 his stock, as was notoriously the case with Potomac, and other 

 horses, which might be named. 



