122 The Horse- Breeders' Guide and Hand Booh. 



NORFOLK. 



(WINNER OF THE JERSEY DERBY AT PATERSON, 1854.) 



Norfolk will stand the season of 1883 a< the El Aroyo Stud Farm^ 

 Winters, Yolo Co., California, only by private contract. Theodore 

 Winters, proprietor. Winters, Yolo Co., California. 



NoBPOLK by Lexington son of Boston, bred by the late R. A. Alexander, Wood- 

 burn Stud, foaled 1861, dam Novice by imp. Glencoe out of Cbloe Anderson by 

 Rodolpb, son of Sir Archy Montorio, by Sir Archy. Norfolk did not run at two-years- 

 old, but made his debut at St. Louis, May 16th, 1864 in the sweepstake for three-year olds, 

 mile heats which he won in 1 :46J, 1 :47, beating Tipperary and four others. June 7th, 

 1864, won the Jersey Derby at Paterson, N. J., 11 miles, in 3:46J, defeating Tipperary 

 and ten others. May 23d, 1865, won two mile heats at San Francisco, California, 

 beating Lodi, in 3:48i, B:42f, 3:51|. September 18th, 1865, Sacramento, California, 

 won two mile heats, beating Lodi in 3:371, 3:38.]. Same place September 23d, 1865, 

 won match three mile heats, beating Lodi in 5 :271, 5 :29 J, the fastest and best two 

 heats ever run. Lexington the sire of Norfolk was the best race-horse and stallion 

 ever bred in America. Norfolk is the peer of his best son if not the best one. His 

 dam Novice was a fine race-mare and daughter of the great Glencoe, his grandam 

 Chloe Anderson was by Rodolph the best race-horse of his day ; he met and defeated 

 all comers ; beat Angora in the great match between Kentucky and Tennessee, four 

 mile heats and won a second heat of three miles, in 5 :40, the fastest ever run at the 

 distance to that day 1836. Norfolk in addition to being a son of the great Lexington 

 and a Glenooe mare, is full of Archy and Diomed blood being very much inbred to 

 those famous horses. Boston the fire of Lexington was by Timoleon by Sir Archy by 

 Diomed. Boston's dam by Ball's Florizel son of Diomed, Lexington's grandam was 

 by Sumpter son of Sir Archy by Diomed, Novice, Norfolk's dam by Glencoe, his 

 grandam Chloe Anderson by Rodolph, by Sir Archy Montorio by Sir Archy by Dio- 

 med, Sir Archy Montorio's dam Transport by Virginius by Diomed, Belle Anderson 

 his great grandam was by Sir Archy of Transport by Sir Archy by Diomed, dam 

 Transport by Virginius, by Diomed, and her dam Butterfly was by Sumpter, by Sir 

 Archy, by Diomed. Much of his excellence comes from this hard bottomed blood. 

 Norfolk is a bay, truly shaped all over, and for his chances an excellent sire, the follow- 

 ing of his get have been winners : Bill Hazel, Emma Skaggs, Winters, Maid of the 

 Mist, Scamperdown, Boston, Dice Box, Ballot Box, Snap, Twilight, Vanderbilt, Brad- 

 ley, Morphine, Connor, Trade Dollar, Flood, Ralston, Duke of Norfolk, Lonesome, 

 and Duchess of Norfolk, one of the best three-year olds of the year. Won, If miles, 

 in 3 :04. The blood from the large infusion of Diomed in it should be valuable. He 

 Tiever lost a race. 



