IMPORTED STALLIONS. 483 



Tranby— Foaled 1826. Imported into America, 1835. Got by Black- 

 lock, dam by Orville, Miss Grimstone, by Weazle, Ancaster, &c. 



Very great expectations were placed upon this horse as a four- 

 mile stock-getter, owing to his having carried Mr. Osbaldiston in 

 his 200 mile match; four heats of four miles each, in 8.10, 8.0, 

 8.19, 8.50 — in all sixteen miles — in 33.15, with 11 stone, 154 lbs. 

 on his back. 



He turned out of no profit as a stock-getter. He had only 

 been a third-rate racer before, but it appears to me that he settles 

 the question that English horses, properly selected and trained, 

 have not degenerated as distance-goers — they certainly have not as 

 weight-carriers — by the modern system. H. W. H. 



Traveller, Moreton's — The pedigree of this celebrated stallion is dis- 

 puted, or rather, it is not clear which of two horses he is. 



He is said to have been bred by Mr. Croft ; foaled about 1748, 

 by Partner, dam by Bloody Buttocks, Greyhound, Makeless, 

 Brimmer, White Turk, Dodsworth, Layton Barb. 



The identical, ever-recurring Virginia pedigree of every race- 

 horse, whose name is not to be found in the Stud Book. 



The other pedigree is, 



Coatworth's Traveller, by old Traveller, dam Bartlett's Chil- 

 ders, grand dam Mr. Durham's gray mare, by a son of the Bald 

 Galloway, out of Daffodill's dam, by a foreign horse of Sir Thomas 

 Gascoigne. 



Old Traveller — Osbaldiston's — was by Partner, dam by Alman- 

 zor, Gray Hautboy, Makeless, Brimmer, &c. He was sire of Squirrel, 

 Dainty Davy, and the Dam of Morwick Ball. The death of this 

 horse is not recorded in the History of the British Turf, and he 

 may have been exported, but he was foaled in 1735, which date does 

 not seem to agree. 



I may be in error. But the moment I see the six names of 

 Greyhound, Makeless, Brimmer, White Turk, Dodsworth, Layton 

 Barb in a Virginia pedigree, I suspect a forgery. 



If not all, at least two-thirds of all the thoroughbred horses im- 

 ported into Virginia, in the first half of the eighteenth century, 

 were either out of the same mare, or out of own sisters, which is 

 not easily credible. 



Traveller — Strange's — alias Big Ben. — Said to be got by O'Kelly's 

 Eclipse, King Herod, Old Cade, Snip, Croft's Partner, Bloody 

 Buttocks, Greyhound, Makeless, Brimmer, White Turk, Dodsworth, 

 Layton Barb. 



