Old Dominion was Turf Mother 89 



American turf to-day. The story of him is 

 this : — 



Diomed, a chestnut horse, foaled in 1777, was 

 bred by the Hon. Richard Vernon of New- 

 market, and sold to Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, 

 of whom he was purchased by Messrs. Lamb & 

 Younger, for the sum of 50 guineas, and im- 

 ported into Virginia in the spring of 1 798, when 

 twenty-one years old. 



He finished, at Bowling Green, the season 

 which had been then commenced by Cormorant. 

 At Newmarket Fall races, of that year, he was 

 purchased of Colonel Hoomes by Colonel M. 

 Selden, who was afterwards joined in the pur- 

 chase by Thomas Goode, Esq. He made the two 

 next seasons at Mr. Goode's in Chesterfield. 



Diomed was got by Florizel, out of a Spectator 

 mare (the dam of Pastorella, Fame, Fancy, etc.), 

 her dam (sister to Horatius) by Blank ; grandam 

 (Feather's dam, and full sister to the grandam of 

 Cygnet and Blossom) by Childers out of Miss 

 Belvoir by Gray Grantham ; Paget Turk, Betty 

 Percival by Leed's Arabian. 



At Newmarket, second spring meeting, 1780, 

 Diomed won a sweepstakes, of 500 guineas each 

 half forfeit (six subscribers), 8 stone, ditch-in ; 



