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Morocco Barb,) out of Bald Peg, an Arabian mare. Bedford's crosses are 

 the best (through Dungannon and Highflyer) from Eclipse and Herod, 

 the ne plus ultra blood. 



1804. — Wednesdmj, Feb. 15. — Jockey Club, Purse |1,000.— 4 Mile 

 Heats. — Col. Alston's ch. c. Gallatin, 4 yrs., by Bedford, walked over. 



Thursday, Feb. 16. — Jockey Club Purse, 1700. — Col. Alston's Nancy 

 Air, 4 yrs., by Bedford, 103 lbs., beat, in two heats, Mr. Bellinger's Gus- 

 tavus, 4 yrs., 106 lbs., and Mr. Clifton's Young Dare Devil, 4 yrs., 106 

 lbs. 



Friday, Feb. IV.— Jockey Club, Purse $500.-2 Mile Heats.— Col. 

 Hampton's Dungannon 4 yrs., by Bedford, 103 lbs., beat, in two heats, 

 Mr. Bellinger's Gustavus, Maj. McPherson's Milk Sop, and Col. Alston's 

 Gabriel. 1st heat, 4ra., 1 seij.; 2d heat, 4 m., 5 sec. 



Saturday, Feb. 18. — Handicap Race. — 3 Mile Heats. 



Col. Alston's Gallatin, 4 yrs., by Bedford, 106 lbs., .... 1 1 

 Col. Hampton's Dungannon, 4 yrs, by Bedford, .... 2 dr. 

 Mr. Clifton's Young Dare Devil, 4 yrs., 3 dr. 



10 to 1 on Gallatin against the field. 



The Bedford Stock, it will be seen, distinguished itself this season. The 

 first day, Gallatin, by Bedford, walked over. The second day, Nancy 

 Air, by Bedford, won with great ea.se. (This mare subsequently became 

 the dam of Transport, and grand dam of Bertrand.) The third day, Dun- 

 gannon, by Bedford, won ; and the fourth day, Gallatin, by Bedford, won, 

 and Dungannon, by Bedford, was second in the I'ace. 



As Nancy Air was destined to play a conspicuous part on our Turf, we 

 subjoin the following interesting account of her origin : 



" An old gentlemen cf Caroline County, Virginia, in the neighborhood 

 of Col. Willi.s, often described the Colonel's little tackey, (about fourteen 

 hands high, apparently^ worth about |30, on which the children rode to 

 school,) that was put to the famous imported Shark, and brought An- - 

 nette. It was not supposed she had any pretensions to " blood." Annette 

 was put to imported Bedford, and produced Nancy Air. The late Col. 

 Tayloe having run her successfully under the name of Phantasmagoria, 

 Annette's next foal, the Maid of the Oaks, by imported Spread Eagle, 

 was entered in the great sweepstakes at Fredericksburg, in 1804 ; she 

 bolted, and the purse was won by Col. Tayloe, with Mr. Carter's Caroline, 

 by imported Mufti. The Maid of the Oaks won all her subsequent races, 

 until she was trained off, beating the best horses of her day — Surprise, 

 Oscar, Floretta, Top Gallant, Peace Maker, &c. Nancy Air acquired 

 great fame in South Carohna. Both have since become equally distin- 

 guished as brood mares — the one in South Carolina, the other in New 



