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son, Alston and Singleton, were as early, and have continued to be as 

 constant and undeviating patrons of the American turf, as have the 

 Queensburjs, Rutlands, Wyndhams, Bentincks, Fitzwilliams, and other 

 equally renowned turf names, been supporters of this noble sport on the 

 old English greensward. 



From so early a date as that of the ante-revolutionary cracks and 

 champions, such as Celer, Traveller, Yorick, Tryall, Ariel, Partner, Marc 

 Antony, Regulus, Flag of Truce, Goode's Brimmer, Butler's Virginia 

 Nell, Bel Air, Calypso, Gray Diomed, Cincinnatus, Virago, Shark, Black 

 Maria, by Shark, Leviathan, Gallatin, Fairy, Cup-bearer, Collector, 

 Amanda, Ball's Florizel, Post Boy, Oscar, Hickory, Maid of the Oaks, 

 Bond's First Consul, Sir Archy, Potomac, Pacolet, Duroc, Hampton, 

 Tuckahoe, and others, the names of which alone would fill a volume, >re 

 can easily bring down in these States — and the others colonized from 

 them, both with men and horses, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, and more 

 recently Alabama — one uninterrupted and stainless succession of noble 

 racers, to the day when the descendants of Sir Archy, that veritable Go- 

 dolphin Arabian of the Turf of America, began to show upon the course 

 —and when the renown of American Eclipse began to call the attention 

 of the whole world, and of the mother country most of all, whence was 

 derived that transcendent stock, which in all other countries has degene- 

 rated, but in this has continued to rival the honors of its remotest ances- 

 try by the performance of American race horses. 



As being of value, we give also the history and pedigrees of som* of 

 the most celebrated horses of the days succeeding the revolutionary war. 

 They are : 



First INIedley — Imported into Virginia in 1783, by Gimcrack, dam 

 Arminda by Snap, out of Miss Cleveland by Eegulus ; g. gr. dam Midge, 

 by a son of Bay Bolton ; g. g. gr. dam by Bartlett's Childers ; g. g. g« 

 gr. dam by Honejrwood's Arabian ; g. g. g. g. gr. dam the dam • of the 

 two True Blues. Gimcrack was by Cripple, out of Miss Elliott, by 

 Grisewood's Partner, gr. dam Celia by Partner, g. gr. dam by Bloody 

 Buttocks, g. g. gr. dam by Greyhound, g. g. g. gr. dam Brocklesby 

 Betty. 



Cripple was by the Godolphin Arabian, out of Blossom by Crab, gv. 

 dam by Childers out of Miss Bel voir, by Grantham. 



Medley was one of the best sires ever imported into America. He got 

 Atalanta, Bel Air, Boxer, Calji^so, Gray Diomed, Gray Medley, Lamp- 

 lighter, the Opossum Filly, Pandora, Quicksilver, Virginia, and others — ■ 

 racers in a high form, and themselves the getters of racers. 



Second Shark — Foaled in 1771, and imported into Virginia by 



