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Spark, above : dam, imported Queen Mab, by Musgrove's Gray 

 Arabian; 2d dam by the Hampton Court Childers. It is quite 

 possible that the dam of Tasker's Othello was Miss Colville, 

 above, and also that Miss Colville was the dam of Queen Mab. 

 In several old advertisements the dam of Queen Mab is given as 

 ''Miss Caldwell", which is, probably, a misprint for Colville, as 

 the name, Miss Caldwell, appears nowhere else. Selima was by 

 the Godolphin Arabian, and one of the most famous of imported 

 mares. We notice that the last edition of the " General Stud Book " 

 in England credits her to the large Hartley Mare, selecting 

 for that purpose a bay filly from that mare that was foaled in 1746 

 and got by the Godolphin Arabian. We hope that the general 

 pedigrees of their stud book have more to sustain them than has 

 this pedigree, or their pedigree of Lath, imported 1763, which 

 the same edition says is the colt Protector, that appears in the pro- 

 duce of the mare Crazy, by Lath ; whose dam (Crazy's) was Bay 

 Basto, by Childers; 2d dam by Basto ; 3d dam by the Curwen Bay 

 Barb, etc. ; otherwise we will have to consider their foundation work 

 as largely a series of guesses not sustained by evidence. Very pos- 

 sibly they accepted the American version, but they should have 

 known better. Selima was chestnut and ran as a four-year-old at 

 Annapolis, Md., in 1752. Protector ran in England in 1770. Lath 

 ran in America and won in 1768-69-70-71 and was beaten in 

 1772, after which he was kept for stock. The advertisement of Lath 

 in 1 773, when he was owned by De Lancey, and so again his advertise- 

 ment, by Mr. Goode, in the "Virginia Gazette", 1779, states that his 

 dam was by Lath; 2d dam by Childers; 3d dam by Makeless; 4th 

 dam a full sister of Honeycomb Punch, by the Taffolet Barb ; 5th 

 dam a natural Barb mare. De Lancey gave pedigrees very ac- 

 curately and we have no doubt the above is entirely correct. It 

 is also stated in this pedigree of Lath that his grandam was the 

 grandam of Weasel and of Col. Tasker's Selima, which, too, is pro- 

 bably correct. 



By referring to the "General Stud Book", page 13, edition of 1891, 

 it will be seen that a mare there called the Makeless Mare has pre- 

 cisely the pedigree of this third dam of Lath, and among her produce 

 is, 1 72 5, the filly, old Polly, bred by the Duke of Devonshire and got 

 by Flying Childers. This old Polly has a filly, Polly, called Young or 

 Devonshire Polly,also bred by the Duke of Devonshire, and got by Lath ; 

 and this Young Polly has, in 1 766, a filly by Shepherd's Crab. She pro- 

 duced every year from 1758 to 1768 inclusive, as appears in the " Gen- 

 eral Stud Book." page 157, except 1761 and 1763. Here comes the 



