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This is a clearly traced pedigree, and I have no doubt that this 

 is m fact the horse — and not the Fellow, next on the list, whose 

 importation is questionable — who has been miscalled Fallow, a dray- 

 horse, the g. g. grandsire of Timoleon. 



For what purpose so absurd and unmeaning a name as " Fal- 

 lower " could be given to a race-horse is not conceivable ; but 

 strangely stupid names seem to have been the fashion in America 

 at that time. He was named after importation. H. W. H, 



Fellow — Foaled 1757. By Cade, dam by Goliah, grand dam by Part- 

 ner, g. g. d. by Wilkinson's Turk, g. g. g. d. by Cupid, he by the 

 Somerset Arabian out of Bald Charlotte. Bred by Mr. Hudson, 

 1757. 



I am induced to insert this celebrated horse, in consequence of 

 a note by Mr. William Williams, of Tennessee, on the parentage 

 of Timoleon, the best son of Sir Archy, the sire of Boston, and 

 progenitor of half the best horses in the country of the present day. 



Timoleon's maternal ancestry runs thus; — dam by imported 

 Saltram, grand dam by Symmes' Wildair, g. g. d. dam by Fallow, 

 &c., &e. 



Now Fallow is said to have been a cart-stallion imported into 

 North Carolina. It is, of course, preposterous to tell any man, who 

 knows any thing about breeding or blood, that such a horse him- 

 self, and the getter of such horses as Timoleon, could possibly be 

 the great-grandson of a common cold-blooded cart-horse ; or that 

 any breeder, not a subject for the lunatic asylum, would have put 

 a filly by Driver and her dam by Vampire to a cart-horse. 



Mr. Williams informs me, that it was in his younger days ac- 

 credited that Fellow by Cade, as above, was imported previous to 

 the Revolution into America, and that he confidently believes that 

 be, and not the nondescript Fallow, is the great grandsire of Timo- 

 leon. 



I give the tradition for what it is worth. Mr. Williams is 

 understood not to vouch for the relation as of his own knowledge ; 

 but his opinion is entitled to the highest consideration ; and this 

 hypothesis would settle a serious difficulty, did I not consider it 

 settled by the insertion of the horse above-named into the list of 

 imported stallions. 



For that the progeny of a cart-horse should continue to prove, 

 generation after generation, the best performers both for speed and 

 endm-ance, is an unheard-of anomaly on the Turf; and may, from 



