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stated in both Colonel S. D. Bruce's and Colonel 

 Wallace's American 'Stud Book' to have been im- 

 ported into America (Virginia), but, if so, it can 

 only have been temporarily in 1792-94, for a most 

 circumstantial account of the horse (sire of Colonel 

 Mellish's Sancho, winner of the St. Legerin 1804) 

 is given in ' Pick,' where (as well as in the English 

 ' Stud Book ') he is said to have been shot in 1806, 

 without any hint of expatriation. 



Sir John Pennington's Dotterel (by Change- 

 ling), was imported into Westmoreland County, 

 Virginia, where he stood in 1766, by Mr. P. N. 

 Lee ; Mr. Panton's noted Drone (by Herod) into 

 Massachusetts or Connecticut ; Lord Grosvenor's 

 The Druid (by Pot-8-os) ; Sir F. Standish's Eagle 

 (by Volunteer), by Mr. Bell in 181 1 into Vir- 

 ginia, where the horse died, aged thirty, in 1826 ; 

 Sir J. Shelley's chestnut colt (foaled 1778, by 

 Eclipse), into Maryland by Mr. Richard B. Hall, 

 and there known as ' Hall's Eclipse '; Escape, 

 a/i'as Horns (by Precipitate), by Colonel Hoomes, 

 as already mentioned ; and Mr. Tattersall's Escape 

 (by Highflyer), in 1792 by Mr. John Craggs, 

 having been known in England as * Fenelly's 

 Highflyer.' 



