104 ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



Darley Arabian, great great grand-dam Old Child mare, by Sir Thomas 

 Gresley's Arabian, great great great grand-dam, Vixen, by Helmsley 

 Turk, out of Dodsworth's dam, a natural Barb. Regulus was ))y th« 

 Ciodolphin Barb, dam Grey Rol)inson by the Bald Galloway, grand-dam 

 by Snake out of Old Wilkes' Hautboy mare. Rattle was by Sir H. 

 Harpur's Barb out of a Royal mare. Whitenose was by the Hall Ara- 

 bian out of dam to Jigg. Thus Fearnought is come of the very highest 

 and purest blood in England, and has left his mark largely on the blood- 

 borg© of Virginia. It is said that, before his time, there was little be- 

 yond quarter racing in Virginia, that his progeny were of uncommon 

 figure, and first introduced the size and bottom of the English race-horse 

 into America. This must be taken, however, cum grano salts, as it is 

 evident from what has been stated in regard to Selima, that four-mile 

 racers were the fashion in Maryland at least fifteen years before that 

 date, and it is only to be understood in the case of second-rate racers, 

 that quarter running was in vogue at this period. 



These capital horses were shortly followed by Morton's Traveller, who 

 ♦v^as i)robably got by Partner, a grandson of the Byerly Turk, and gi'and- 

 sire of King Herod , dam by the Bloody Buttocks Arabian ; grand-dam 

 by Grey-hound, a Barb ; g. grand dam by Makeless ; g. g. g. dam by 

 Brimmer ; g. g. g. g. dam by the White Turk ; g. g. g. g. g. dam by 

 Dodsvvorth, a Barb ; g. g. g. g. g. g. dam Laydon Barb mare. 



Makeless was by the Oglethorpe Arab out of Trumpet's dam. She 

 was a pure Barb by Dodsvvorth out of the Layton Barb mare. Brimmer 

 was by the Yellow Turk out of a royal mare. 



These were probably the best early horses that were imi^orted into 

 America ; and to these, with the mares Selima, Queen Mab, Jenny Cam- 

 •eron, Kitty Fisher, Miss Colville, and a few others of about the same 

 period, may ])c traced all, or almost all the families of running horses 

 now existing in the United States, in a greater or less degree, and with 

 nearly as much certainty as the English champions of the olden day may 

 be followed up to imported Arab and Barb on both sides. 



This being most interesting history, we quote from The Horse of Amer- 

 ica, to show how much the United States is indebted to the South for the 

 foundation of its mighty racers of the present day, and owing undoubt- 

 edly to the great interest the old planters of the South and their de- 

 scendants have taken in field sports. The record is as follows : 



In Virginia, Col. John Tayloe, Messrs. Hoomes, Selden and Johnson; 

 in Maryland, Governors Ogle, Ridgely, Wright, Lloyd and Sprigg, who, 

 as it has been remarked, seemed by their practice to acknowledge that 

 the keeping up of a racing stud was a portion of their gubernatorial 

 «iuty ; and in South Carolina, Messrs. Hampton, Washington, McPher- 



