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never seen an account of a race where the four 

 miles were run in 7^ minutes in the United States. 



"Figure beat SeHm in 1768, at Upper Marl- 

 borough, but Selim was undoubtedly in bad con- 

 dition, and had been lately cured of the distemper 

 in the throat. He was certainly a capital racer. 

 I saw him beat the celebrated Silver Legs from 

 Virginia, in the year 1772, at Annapolis, four 

 miles and repeat. He was then thirteen years 

 old, and Silver Legs only nine. 



" With respect and esteem, 



"G. Duval." 



It was not for long that Pennsylvania remained 

 so far behind her sister states, for she began 

 breeding in a small way sufificiently early to pro- 

 duce, in 1798, the bay horse First Consul, who 

 was foaled in Philadelphia County. First Consul 

 was sired by Flag of Truce, a Virginia horse, out 

 of a mare by imported Slender. First Consul 

 might be called the first race-horse of quality ever 

 produced in Pennsylvania. From three to seven 

 years old he won twenty-one purses, averaging 

 100 guineas each, in New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington City, 

 and was never beaten until the fall he was eight 

 years old. 



