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race-horse of his day and the first progenitor of 

 speed and bottom after he retired to the stud. 



So, if it appear tedious, the reader may par- 

 don this extended story of Sir Archy because 

 he is such an important cog in the great wheel 

 that he seems to be almost its motive power in 

 America. 



Sir Archy was bred by Colonel Archibald 

 Randolph and Colonel John Tayloe, as their joint 

 property. He was foaled on James River in 

 1805, was by imported Diomed out of imported 

 Castianira by Rockingham. Imported Casti- 

 anira, by Rockingham, dam Tabitha by Tren- 

 tham, was bred by Mr. Popham, and was foaled 

 in 1796, and imported in the Tyne, to Norfolk, 

 Virginia, June, 1799, by Colonel John Tayloe. 

 She was a large brown mare, without white 

 except on her right hind pastern. Her career 

 on the turf was short. There is record of only 

 one race in which she ran, which was a sweep- 

 stakes. May 20, 1800, over the Fairfield Course, 

 at Richmond, Virginia, in which she beat a 

 noted colt of Mr. Haskins, and others. Her 

 sire, Rockingham, was one of the most noted 

 horses of England. He was bred by Mr. Went- 

 worth, foaled in 1781, by Highflyer out of Purity 



