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this period, Sir Archy stood highest as a sire 

 as well as a racing animal. He got more dis- 

 tinguished racers than any horse in America, 

 perhaps in the world, from all sorts of mares, 

 with all kinds of pedigrees, and some with no 

 pedigrees at all. It might be said with truth 

 that he filled a hemisphere with his get. Sepa- 

 rating him from, and putting him above, all 

 other sires that had existed in America was the 

 single significant fact that, mated with animals 

 of all degrees, he yet got more winners and 

 animals of capacity than any horse which had 

 preceded him. 



The most distinguished of his progeny on the 

 turf and in the stud were: Timoleon, Director, 

 Lady Lightfoot, Vanity, Reality, Blank, Virgin- 

 ian, Stockholder, Rattler, Contention, Kosciusko, 

 Napoleon, Sir Charles, Sir William, Muckle John, 

 Sumter, Pacific, Childers, Betsey Richards, John 

 Richards, Henry, Arab, Janet Bertrand, Sir Will- 

 iam of Transport, Flirtilla, Marian, Gohanna, 

 Sally Hope, Industry, Crusader, Kate Kearney, 

 Gabriella, Charles Kemble, Black Heath, and 

 Flirtilla Jr. 



It will be seen that, by the time of Sir Archy, 

 or the beginning of the nineteenth century, racing 



