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Of Ariel we find the following: Ariel's pedigree is worthy of her 

 performances. Her own brothers — Lance, a year older than herself, a 

 distinguished runner that beat the famous Trouble, a great match — 

 O'Kelly, that beat Flying Dutchman, Mary Randolph, and others, with 

 »uch eclat as to bring $5,000 — and St. Leger in the great sweepstake in 

 Baltimore, where he was so unaccountably beaten, but has since beat 

 Terror — her own sister Angeline, and half-brother Splendid, by Duroc, 

 that was beaten at three years old, in a produce match, by Col. Johnson,* 

 Medley — are all well known to fame. Her grandam Empress, has also 

 been regarded one of the most renowned race nags and brood mares of 

 the North. October, 1804, at four years old, she very unexpectedl}* 

 beat the famous First Consul, for the Jockey Club purse, four-mUe 

 heats, at Harlem, N. Y. The first race he lost. 



Besides combining the three valued crosses of Herod, Matchem, and 

 Eclipse, it will be observed Ariel's pedigree is "richly imbued with the 

 best English blood ;" to which she traces almost directly from Childers, 

 Partner, Crab, Snap, Cade, Spark, Othello, Gimcrack, Mambrino, Med- 

 ley, PotSos, Messenger, Baronet, Diomed, &c. ; besides deriving her de- 

 cent from the best early importations. No other stock probably par- 

 takes so much of the Messenger blood — ^no less than four crosses ; with 

 two, not very remote, from English Eclipse, two from Gimcrack, two 

 from imported Pacolet, and three from imported Spark. Her color sus- 

 tains her valuable origin — running so much into the Arabian blood. 



Black Maria was another of the wonderful performers of the early 

 part of the century, having been bred by Charles Henry Hall, Harlem, 

 N. Y., and foaled June 15, 1826. She was sired by American Eclipse, 

 dam Lady Lightfoot by Sir Arch}^ gr. dam Black Maria, by imported 

 Shark ; g. gr. dam the dam of Ving't un, by Clackfast, a half-brother 

 to Medley, by Gimcrack ; g. g, g. dam Burwell's Maria, by Regulus. 



Of her dam, Lady Lightfoot, Frank Forrester says she was the most 

 distinguished racer of her day, having won between twenty and thirty 

 races, the majority at four-mile heats, and never having been beaten but 

 once, except in her old age — her eleventh year — and then by Eclipse, on 

 the Union Course. She was bred by the late Col. JohnTaloe of Va. and 

 was foaled at Mr. Ogle's seat, Bel-air, Md., in June, 1812. 



Among the wonderful racers of forty years ago, Boston and Fashion 

 will always be remembered as the two mighty examples of staunch 

 prowess and well-deserved fame. 



Boston was foaled in 1833, bred by John Wickham, Esq., Richmond, 

 Va. His sire was the celebrated Timoleon, out of an own sister of 

 Tuckahoe, by Ball's Florizel ; her dam by imported Alderman, out of a 

 mare by imported Clackfast ; her gr. dam by Symmes' Wildair, &c. 



