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Diamond by Wildair 2d, out of a common mare, and Wildair 

 2d, by "Wildair, tlioroughbred oiit of a half-bred mare — the de- 

 grees of blood would be as follows ; — 



Wildair 2d — by thorough out of half-bred — is fths-bred. 

 Diamond — by three-fourths-bred out of common — is fths-bred. 

 Morgan's dam — by three-eighths-bred out of common— is 3-I6ths- 

 bred. Or, in other words, she had one-eighth and half-eighth part 

 of thoroughbred in her veins ; which, so far from constituting 

 her a highly bred mare, would constitute her just a degree 

 above a common road horse, and would scarcely have any ap- 

 preciable influence on her own appearance, or qualities, much 

 less on those of her progeny. 



But again, assuming True Briton to have been got, if not 

 by Moreton's Traveller, at least, by some thoroughbred, im- 

 ported or native, Traveller, of which there were thirteen or 

 fourteen covering in different parts of the country at that 

 period, there is not the shadow of a shade of evidence to show 

 that he. True Briton, was a thoroughbred horse. 



The idea of quoting Selah Norton's advertisement of his 

 stallion, stating loosely that True Briton was out of Delancy's 

 imported racer ; and arguing that she was the iiimous Cub mare, 

 is purely preposterous. 



Still worse, is the absurdity of dragging in Lindsay's Ara- 

 bian, for no other conceivable reason than on some such argu- 

 ments as this. 



Lindsay's Arabian covered mares, east of the Hudson river, 

 between the years 1766 and 1790. 



True Briton's granddam was covered, between the years 

 1766 and 1790, somewhere or other, by some horse or other. 



It is quite as likely, since Colonel Delaucy lived east of the 

 Hudson river, that she was covered there, as any where else. 



Again, it is quite as likely that she was covered by Lindsay's 

 Arabian, as by any other horse. 



Therefore she was covered by Lindsay's Arabian, and True 

 Briton's dam was the daughter of that well-known stallion. 



Even this, however, would not make True Briton thorough- 

 bred ; nor is it at all probable, that Colonel Delancy would 

 have ridden a thoroughbred stallion ; much less one of such 

 pre-eminent blood, in a warfare of partisan skirmishing, where 



