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year at Mr. Daniel Iluger's plantation, in St. John's Parish, at £20 cur- 

 rency. 



A b. h. railed Prince, by Herod, bred by Lord Farnham, out of Helen 

 by r)lank, foaled in 1773, was also covering, subsequently, at the same 

 place. 



Pharaoh was the name of another horse, of good blood, imported, in 

 1762, from England ; he covered near Ashley ferry for several seasons — 

 was a bay, by Moses, foaled in 1753, out of a Godolphin Arabian mare, 

 bred by Lord Gower. 



Tarquin, imported the following year, 1763, stood at Mr. John Izard's 

 plantation, on Ashley River. He was the son of old Tarquin, by an Ara- 

 bian horse. 



Pam, imported by Mr. Fenwiclce in 1764, covered at his plantation, on 

 John's Island, at £50 currency. Pam was a horse of high blood, by Re- 

 guliis, dam by Cade; won in 1761, '62, and '63, several fine races at New 

 Market, in England, and other places. 



Abdallah was the name given to a famous Arabian horse that was first 

 carried to Gibraltar from Arabia, thence brought to Beaufort, Port Royal, 

 by Capt. Barnes, in the year 1767. He covered at £l5 his first season. 

 In February of the same year, 1767, Mansell, Corbett & Co. imported, 

 in the ship Heatlicott, Capt. Hooper, from London, two very fine stal- 

 lions, one was named Sportsman, a dark chesnut, strong and bony, and 

 perfectly sound, got by a son of Blaze, whose dam was by Mr. Leeds' 

 Second, a son of Childers. Sportsman's dam was by the Golden Bay; 

 his g. dam by a son of Lord Bedford's Arabian, and his g. g. dam by 

 Bay Bolton. 



The other was a fine ch. c, 4 yrs. old, named Sprightl}-. He was a 

 colt of wSportsman, mentioned above, out of a Cartouch mare, g. dam by 

 old Cade. Sprightly had been trained in England, and won a plate at 

 Ludlow, and ran second in a large field for a stake at Salop. 



Tartar, an imported horse, belonging to the estate of Robert Hume, 

 covered for several seasons at Goose Creek. He was alive as late as the 

 season of 1767. 



Immediately after the Charleston Races of tliis year, in March 1767, 

 several English and half-English blood mares and colts were sold on the 

 Course, belonging to the estate of Robert Hume. Capt. Parker, of the 

 Nancy, having just arrived with the following thorough bi'eds frouj Eng- 

 land, they were also put up and disposed of to the highest bidders: 



A b. st-iUion, 8 yrs. old, by Bosphorus, out of a mare by Tartar, dam 

 by Regulus, g. dam by old Cade, g. g. dam by Bay Bolton. 



A br. stallion by Snap, out of Vanessa by Regulus. 



