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Matchem — Foaled 1773. Imported into South Carolina. By Matehem, 

 out of Lady, by Sweepstakes — Patriot — Old Crab — Bay Bolton — 

 Curwen's Bay Barb, &c. 



Matchless — Foaled 1754. Imported into South Carolina. Godolphin 

 Arabian, dam Soreheels, grand dam the dam of Hartley's blind 

 horse — Makeless — Royal mare. 



Medley — Foaled 1776. Imported into Vii-ginia. By Giracrack, out 

 of Arminda, by Snap, out of Miss Cleveland, by Regulus, out of 

 Midge, by a son of Bay Bolton — Bartlett's Childers — Houeywood's 

 Arabian, dam of the two True Blues. 



He was a beautiful gray horse, a racer in a high form himself, 

 and a most successful stallion. He is said to have been sold for 

 100,000 pounds of inspected tobacco, at 40 shillings the cwt. " His 

 blood to this day is deemed among the best, and a cross with the 

 blood of Diomed, Shark, or Bedford, is held to be equal to any." 



MS. Note, by C. H. Hail. 



He got, among many other famous racers, Boxei*, out of a Fear- 

 nought mare ; Opernico, out of a Lindsay Arabian ; Quicksilver, 

 out of a Wildair mare ; Young Medley, out of a Black and All 

 Black mare ; Melzar, out of a Wildair mare ; Lamplighter, out of a 

 Lonsdale mare; Fitzmedley, out of a Dandridge Fearnought mare; 

 Gimcrack, out of an Ariel mare ; Bellair, out of a Yorick mare. 

 Bellair may be considered his best son, having the blood of Morton's 

 Traveller, through Yorick, Fearnought, Partner, and ]Mark An- 

 thony ; and Col. Tasker's famous mare Selima was his great grand 

 dam. — Mason's Farrier, page 306. 



Mendoza — Foaled in 1778. By Javelin, out of Pomona, by King He- 

 rod — Snap — Regulus — Hip — Large Hartley mare. 



Mendoza was the sire of Dr. Wm. Butler's famous mare, 

 Rosetta. 



Mercer — By Emilius, out of young Mouse, by the Godolphin Arabian, 

 &c. 



No date is given either of the foaling or importation of this 

 horse ; and the English Stud Books mention no Mouse, by the Go- 

 dolphin. H. W. H. 



Merman — Foaled and imported 1835. By Whalebone, dam by Orville. 



Merryfield — Foaled 1808; imported into Virginia 1816. He was got 

 by Cockfighter, out of Star mare, dam by Marske — Emma, by 

 Telemachus — A-la-Grecque, by Regulus. 



