470 THE HORSE. 



after, the owner of Eclipse made some abatement in his terms, 

 which would have been acceded to, had not the American agent 

 purchased Moro in the mean time." This story is very apocryphal. 

 Eclipse was bred by Col. O'Kelly, who had always immense confi- 

 dence in him, and it is not believed that he ever wished to sell. It 

 is also singular that no Regulus mare, on record, is out of a Rib 

 mare, though one Rib is out of a Regulus. While no recorded 

 mare, either by Regulus or Rib, ever bore a foal to Moro. 



One cannot resist the evidence that fully one half of the early 

 Southern pedigrees are forgeries. H. W. H. 



MoRVEN — Foaled 1836. Imported. By Rowton, dam Nanine, by Selim, 

 &c., &c., &c. 



MoRWiCK Ball — Foaled 1762. Imported into Virginia. By Regulus — 

 Walter Hartley's blood horse, &c. This horse is stated in White's 

 History of the British Turf, to have died at Mr. Vever's, who bred 

 him, Januai-y 4, 1787, aged 25. 



Mosco — Foaled 1746. By the Cullen Arabian, dam by Croft's Star- 

 ling, gd. Croft's Partner, g. gd. Makeless, g. g. gd. Brimmer, g. g. 

 g. gd. Plaice's White Turk — Old Dodsworth — Layton Barb mare. 

 This is a correct pedigree. H. W. H. 



Mouse Tr.\p — He ran in England in 1777, and was said to be imported 

 into Virginia by Col. Dawson of North Carolina, whose family have 

 still the original certificate from the stud groom of the Duke of 

 Buccleugh, who bred him. By Careless, dam by Regulus, grand 

 dam by Liberty, g. g. d. Old Cade. He has been confounded with 

 Jack Rapp, alias Mouse Trap, foaled in 1787, but cannot, of course, 

 be the same. 



Mufti— Foaled 1783. Imported into Va. 1801. Fitz Herod, dam by 

 Infant, grand dam by Whittington out of sister to Black and All 

 Black. By Crab out of Miss Slamerkin. 



Nicholas — Foaled 1833. Imported into Mass. 1834 — by St. Nicholas, 

 out of Moss Rose by Tramp, out of Duchess of York's dam by 

 Sa.ncho. 



NiMROD — Said to be by King Fergus, dam by Eclipse, grand dam by old 

 Marske, g. g dam by Fortitude, g. g. g. dam old Matcheni. Phila- 

 delphia, 1788. 



Not in the Stud Book. A queer pedigree by Eclipse out of 

 his own half sister. H. W. H. 



