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in New York or New Jersey, probably before 1760. Falstaff, brown, 

 by Cade, is advertised in the "New York Mercury,", 1762. Frederick, 

 black, fifteen hands, by a son of Hobgoblin, was imported in 1764 and 

 advertised at Freehold, New Jersey, in 1765-66. Batchelor, by Garland, 

 son of Bolton's Starling, was imported, 1768, to New York and stood 

 that season at Little Plains, Long Island, and in Sharon, Connecticut. 

 Old England, by Young Starling, was beaten in a four-mile race at Har- 

 lem, fall of 1763, by True Briton, son of Othello, and was probably 

 imported that season. He stood in vicinity of New York and at Phil- 

 adelphia. Childers, by Routh's Crazy, son of Flying Childers, is ad- 

 vertised at Pavonia, New Jersey, 1765. A bay horse, Hero, by Young 

 Starling, dam by Slipby and running back through Partner, Grayhound, 

 Wastel's Turk, etc., to Dodsworth and Layton Barb mare, was im- 

 ported spring of 1763, probably by one of the DeLanceys, and is adver- 

 tised that year and a number of seasons following, by Jeremiah Smith, 

 to cover at Connecticut farms in Elizabeth, New Jersey. A gray horse, 

 Young Starling, by Starling, and dam by Regulus, defeated old England, 

 atHempstead Plains, October, 1765, and is advertised the next season 

 to cover at Hempstead. Ferdinand, a bay Spanish horse, foaled 

 1760, is advertised in Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1767; and 

 Somerset, described as a beautiful gray Barb, at Hempstead Plains the 

 same year. Another Arabian, called Bashaw, fifteen hands, said to be 

 bred by the Emperor of Morocco, is advertised at Flushing, 1768. 

 Bay Richmond, bay, fifteen hands, foaled 1771, got by Babraham : 

 dam Dido, by Changeling; imported from England by Lewis Morris, 

 is advertised near Kingston, New Jersey, 1779. 



Young Sifter from Ireland, by Sifter, son of Sifter of Warwick, 

 England: dam Primrose, by Dimple, is advertised in Philadelphia, 

 1753-4; and, in 1767-9 and 1770, is also advertised in Philadelphia, 

 the Belsize Arabian, "a genuine Arab of superior form, full size, 

 great strength and admirable beauty". 



Northumberland, fifteen hands, by old England, son of Godolphin 

 Arabian, is advertised in Philadelphia, 1768-69-70, and in Brooks 

 county, Pennsylvania, 1776; and Whirligig, bay, foaled 1763, by Cap- 

 tain, son of Young Cartouche, was imported to Philadelphia, 1 773, and 

 is advertised, 1776, at Mr. Hunt's, in New Jersey, at which time Miss 

 Slamerkin, by Wildair, owned by Mr. Hunt, was undoubtedly bred to 

 him and produced the mare that was the grandam of Mambrino. Selim, 

 chestnut, foaled 1768, by Wildman's Babraham, was imported to New 

 Jersey, 1773. 



The following stallions are mentioned in Edgar or Bruce as hav- 



