194 The Horse- Breeders' Guide and Hand Book. 



DIOMED (Imp.)— Continued. 

 Corporal ; Cressida, the dam of imp. Priam. There is scarcely a good horse in 

 England of this day but what has some of his blood. In America, he sired Sir Archy, 

 called the Godolphin Arabian of America ; Ball's Florizel, Duroc, sire of Am. Eclipse; 

 Top-Gallant, Potomac, Stump the Dealer, Vingt'un, the dams of Henry, Shylock, 

 Cicero, Lady of the Lake, Richmond, Diomed Eagle, Duchess of Marlborough, 

 Maria Archy, Fanny Hill. He also sired Lady Chesterfield, Wringjaw, Miss Jeffer- 

 son, Peacemaker, Hamiltonian, Hanie's Maria, the best mare of her day ; "Wonder, 

 Virginius, St. Tammany, Truxton, Herod, Madison, Sting and a host of others. 

 Diomed was a solid chestnut, without white except on the heel of his right hind foot ; 

 15f hands high, with great substance and muscular power, which he transmitted to 

 his stock. He died in Virgiania in 1808, aged thirty-one years. He left behind 

 him a name and fame which will endure to the end of all time, and crowned with 

 laurels of the two great racing countries of the world, England and America. 



GLENCOE, 



(■WINNER OF THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS AT THE NEWMARKET 

 FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1834, AND THIRD FOR THE DERBY AT 

 EPSOM TO PLENIPOTENTIARY ; AND WINNER OF THE GOODWOOD 

 CUP SAME Y'EAR ; ALSO WINNER OF THE GOLD CUP AT ASCOT IN 



1835.) 



Glbncoe, by Sultan, was bred by Lord .Jersey in 1331. He was a beautiful golden 

 chestnut, with both hind legs white half way to the hocks, and a large star in liis fore- 

 head. His head was a little Roman, very expressive in charaiter. with fine thin 

 muzzle, well set on a stout neck, which ran into well-shaped shoulders, being oblique 

 and rather light in the blades. He had good length, with round barrel, well libbed 

 to strong broad hips, a little swayed in the back, with heavy muscular quarters, big 

 stiiies, and sound legs and i-ather flat feet. Glencoe commenced his racing career by 

 winning the Riddlesworth Stakes at the Newmarket Craven Meeting in 1834, and ran 

 second to Plenipotentiary in a sweepstakes over the Rowley Mile at the Newmarket 

 First Spring Meeting, and defeated Ganges for the Desert Stakes across the Flat. 

 Same meeting won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Rowley Mile, beating Flatterer, Bentley 

 and four others. He ran third to the great Plenipotentiary for the Derby Stakes at 

 Epsom, Shilelagh second; nineteen others started. At Ascot Heath he saved his stake 

 from Plenipotentiary in a walk over for the St. James' Palace Stakes. Won the 

 Goodwood cup at Goodwood, defeating Colwick, Famine, St. Giles, Marpossa, and 

 five others. Same meeting won the Racing Stakes, Drawing Room Stake Course. At 

 Newmarket Second October Meeting won the Garden Stakes, two middle miles, beat- 

 ing Glauous and Colwick. At Ascot Heath. 1835, won the Ascot Gold Cup, 3* miles, 

 ■defeating Bran, Nonsense and six others. At the Newmarket Second October Meet- 

 ing Lord .Jersey challenged for the whip and named Glencoe; the challenge was not 

 accepted. James Jackson, of Alabama, sent an order to England to purchase the best 

 horse in the market, and named Plenipotentiary, Priam and Glencoe. Glencoe was 

 purchased at a round sum and made the season of 1836 in England as the property of 

 Mr. Jackson. He sired that year Pocahontas, Darkness, Glimpse, Malaga, Ruthless, 

 Vapor and Wardan. Pocahontas, his daughter, in England, has placed his name 

 imperishably upon the scroll of honor through her three great sons, Stockwell, Ratap- 

 lan and King Tom. Stockwell sired Lady Augusta, Repulse and Achievement, win- 

 ners of the 1,000 guineas; The Marquis, Lord Lyon, Bothwell and Gang Forward, 

 winners or the 2,000 guineas; Blair Athol, Lord Lyon and Doncaster, winners of the 

 Derby; Regalia, winner of the Oaks; St. Albans, Caller Ou, The Marquis, Blair 

 Athol, Lord Lyon and Achievement, winners of the St. Leger; King Tom sired 

 Tomato, winner of 1,000 guineas; Hannah, winner of 1,000 guineas. Oaks and St. 

 Leger; Tormentor and Hippia, Oaks winners; Kingcraft, aDerby winner; Imp. Great 

 Tom, sire of Tennyson, Tocsin and Ella; Imp. Phaeton, sire of King Alfonso and 

 Ten Bioeck, Imp. King Ban, sire of Punster, Queen Ban, and King Ernest, sire of Re- 

 port; Marathon, Kingcraft, &o. There is scarcely a good stallion in England to-day 

 i that does not possess a strain of the blood of this great horse, viz. : Blair Athol, Ber- 

 l tram, Controversy, Cremorne, Cornelion, Cardinal York, Chevron, Craig Millar, Clan- 

 ronald, Doncaster, Forerunner, Geo. Frederick, Hollywood, Hopbloom, Isonomy, 

 Julius, Kaiser, Kingcraft, King Lud, Kisber, Lord Roland, Mask, Maximilian, Mar- 

 tyrdom, Master Kildare, Nuneham, New Holland, Prince Charlie, Petrarch, State.'i- 

 man ; Straun, Sir Bevys, Silvio, Skylark, Springfield, Uncas, Wenlock, Win?low, etc. 

 The most distinguished of his get in America were Adelgasia, Aduella, Budelight, 



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