When Charles II returned to London on May 29, 1660, after nine years in exile, one of his first acts was to appoint James Darcy the elder Master of the Royal Stud at Tutbury in Staffordshire. He was appointed on June 6, 1660 and remained in office until his death in 1673. When he arrived at Tutbury he found that the place had been so vandalised that it was in no fit condition to be used as a stud. He therefore proposed that he supply the King from his own stud at Sedbury in Yorkshire, which was not far from Place's stud at Dinsdale and Fairfax's stud at Helmsley.
The loss of Tutbury meant that Charles II was without a stud of his own. In fact, the Royal studs were not re-established and remained in abeyance until the reign of William III, when Richard Marshall was sent by the king to Barbary in 1699 to procure some Eastern horses. He returned with nine stallions and five mares, which formed the foundation stock of the new Royal Stud which had been set up at Hampton Court.
The General Stud Book, volume 1, 5th edition, suggests that there was a stud at Hampton Court between the Restoration and the reign of William III. This is incorrect. The horses supposedly bred at Hampton Court during this period were, in fact, bred at Sedbury. This confusion was caused by John Croft, of Barforth, Yorkshire, whose breed was descended from Darcy blood but who knew the horses at Sedbury by other names.
Thomas Gyll (1700 - 1778) was a Solicitor-General of the County Palatine of Durham, and Recorder of the City of Durham. His diary is little more than a record of births, marriages and deaths. The following entry is dated October 12, 1757:
"Died at Barford in Yorkshire, Mr. John Croft, one of the greatest breeders of horses in the north, as was his father, John Croft, who had been a servant in the Darcy family at Sedbury and afterwards farmed at Croft under Sir William Chaytor".
In 1709 John Croft moved his family and horses to the Barforth estate. He would have been at Sedbury during the 1690s and so would have been privy to the names and breeding of the horses as they were known to James Darcy the younger.
Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity that looks after six royal palaces in the United Kingdom. The following is taken from its publication Hampton Court Palace: Gardens, Estate and Landscape Conservation Management Plan 2011, pages 40 and 41, 2. The Stud House and Stud Nursery. History and Character.
"G 2.1 A Royal Stud existed at Hampton Court from the time of William III and is recorded throughout the reigns of Queen Anne and the first three Georges".
"G 2.2 The Stud House, situated in the Home Park on the north side of the Long Canal, was the official residence of the Master of the Horse. The present house is of uncertain date, though it may occupy the site of the former stables and courtyard. It appears in drawings at the Hermitage in Russia dating from the 1770s, although a reference in The Lady of 1910 records it as having been built in 1782. George IV, as Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, brought the Stud to prominence, and in 1815 the Stud House was conferred on the Prince Regent's private secretary, Bloomfield, who also supervised operations there".
"G 2.4 On his accession, George IV auctioned the Stud itself, while the paddocks and stables passed to his brother, Frederick Duke of York, who held them until his death in 1827. At this point the king reclaimed them until his own death in 1830. Lady Bloomfield, who had been granted the rangership of Home Park, was persuaded to quit the premises in 1830 when it was transferred to the Master of the Horse, Lord Albemarle. In 1832, Lewis William Wyatt, the Office of Works surveyor, supervised a further re-shaping of the Stud House until he lost his post on 5 April 1832. The entire property was again put under the hammer on the death of William IV in 1837.The glasshouse connected to the Stud House was designed by John Nash. Stud House was surrendered to the Crown Estate Commissioners in 1959 and is presently leased by them to tenants. A square building north of the stables and laundry was demolished between 1947 and 1955".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 388, says - "though foaled in England, was a Natural Barb. His dam, a Barb Mare, was imported in the time of Charles the Second, and was called a Royal Mare. She was sold to Mr Child by the stud-master, after the King's death, for 40 gs., at twenty years old, when in foal (by the Helmsley Turk) with Vixen, dam of the Old Child Mare. He was sire of Dicky Pierson (called in some pedigrees The Son of Dodsworth)". This was copied from Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 72, where the sire of Vixen is given as the Earl of Holderness's Turk. Conyers Darcy, the eldest brother of James Darcy the elder, was created Earl of Holderness in 1682 and held the title until his death in 1689.
This information furnishes us with some approximate dates for these horses. Charles II died in February 1685, so if the Royal Mare was sold that year, then Vixen was foaled in 1686. As the Royal Mare was said to be twenty years old, then she was foaled in 1665. The year of foaling for Dodsworth must have been about 1670.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 389, says - "was the sire of Spanker, Brimmer, and the great great grandam of Cartouch".
The Racing Calendar for 1744, by John Cheny, in the index, page ix, says - "The Yellow Turk, which got Spanker, got Brimmer, the Great Great Grand-Dam of Old Cartouch, and many others".
This is an extremely interesting piece of information. Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 17, says Old Cartouch - "was got by the Bald Galloway; his dam was bred in the Royal Stud at Hampton-Court, and got by the Cripple Barb; grandam by Makeless; great grandam by Place's White Turk, a daughter of Dodsworth, out of Mr. Layton's Violet Barb Mare". The GSB's version of the pedigree on page 13 is incorrect, by making the Makeless mare a sister to Brown Farewell an extra cross has been added which would make the great great grandam by Place's White Turk. The GSB, page 388, however, states that Place's White Turk was sire of the great grandams of Wyndham, Grey Ramsden and Cartouch.
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 23, 1727-8, Number 152, says - "This is to give Notice, that Mr Robert Carter of Brumpton upon Swale, in the County of York, has a Chesnut ston'd Horse, Six Years old, free from Blemish, that he leaps at a Guinea a Mare: He is 14 hands three Inches high, fine shap'd and strong, he was got by Woodcock, and out of a Royal Mare, she got by Lord Darcy's Arabian which he bought of Mr Curwen, her Dam got by Wastel Turk, Duchess was out of the same Mare with this Horse Dam, her Dam got by Black-legs, which got Crecket, her Dam got by the white Turk which got Hautboy, her Dam was the old Royal Mare, which Lord Darcy found at Sadberry, in 1690, so he became the Owner of this Stud; her Dam got by the old Chesnut Turk which got Leeds' Spanker, and all the best Horses of England, betwixt forty and fifty Years ago, as Lord Darcy Witnesseth".
Darcy's Yellow Turk has been identified with the old Chesnut Turk, mentioned in a letter to Christopher Croft by James Darcy the younger in 1684, part of which is reproduced on page 94 of The Royal Studs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by C M Prior. In Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 30, however, the Bustler mare at the head of Family 8 is traced back to a mare by Bay Dodsworth, which would appear to deny this identification, but the use of the adjective "Bay" here is superfluous unless there is more than one Dodsworth, so this may mean a bay son of Dodsworth. There are many instances in the stud book where a horse is known simply by its colour and the name of its sire, for example, Grey Bloody Buttocks, Bay Cade, Grey Slouch, Bay Slipby, Brown Regulus, Grey Hautboy, etc.
The rogue statements by John Cheny and the GSB that Darcy's Yellow Turk, and not Dodsworth, was the sire of the great great grandam of Cartouch, led me to the conjecture that they were one and the same. I now have evidence which proves that Darcy's Yellow Turk was also known as Dodsworth.
The Place's White Turk mare in the pedigree of Old Cartouch was also dam of Trumpet by Hautboy, and she is usually known as Trumpet's dam. The Sporting Kalendar for 1757, by John Pond, page 221, says she was - "a grey Mare of Mr. Croft's, called Trumpet's Dam, which was out of a Darcy Yellow Turk Layton Mare, and she was got by Place's white Trugunwell Turk, that got Commoner and the Ranter Gelding".
The scroll surrounding the print entitled "The Portraiture
of Old Cartouch, the Property of the late Sir William Morgan Kt of the Bath",
which was published about 1745 by Thomas Butler or John Cheny, says :
LEFT PANEL: "Cartouch was bred by the late Lewis Elstob Esqr of Yorkshire.
He was got by the Stallion sufficiently distinguish'd to Sportsmen, by the Style
of the Ball'd Galloway, Which was bred by the late Captain Rider of Northamptonshire,
out of a Whynot Royal Mare, And a Foreign Horse styl'd from his owner the St
Victor Barb".
RIGHT PANEL: "Cartouch's Dam was Bred in the Royal Stud at Hampton Court,
and got by the Cripple Barb, His Grand Dam was got by Makeless Son to the Oglethorpe
Arabian. His great Grand Dam (which was also Trumpets Dam) was got by the Place
White Turk. His Great Great Grand Dam by Dodsworth. His great Great Great Grand
Dam was a Layton Barb Mare".
The GSB, volume 1, 3rd edition, Sept 1827, page 419, says - "Cartouch, Mr Elstob's, by the Bald Galloway - Cripple Barb, at Hampton Court - Sister to Brown Farewel, by Makeless (which mare was presented by Mr Crofts to Queen Anne) - Brimmer - Place's White Turk - Dodsworth - Layton Barb".
The Derby Mercury, Friday, March 14, 1755, part of the advertisement for the stallion Silver-Leg, says - "Eminent for his great Success in Give and take Plates, was foal'd at Weybridge in Surry, and was got by the Earl of Portmore's Cartouch, Son of Old Cartouch, who was got by the Bald Galloway, and whose Dam was got by the Cripp'd Barb, his Grand-Dam by Makeless, and she was out of Trumpet's Dam, which was out of a Darcy Yellow Mare, which was got by Place's White Tregonwell Turk, that Commoner the Ranter Gelding, and several Running Horses at that Time was out of [sired by] Silver Leg's Dam, was got by Old Cartouch, his Grand Dam by Darley's Arabian, (Sire of Old Childers) his Great Grand-Dam was the dam of Bay Bolton and Lamprey, both high bred and famous Race Horses. Bay Bolton belong'd to the Duke of Bolton, and Lamprey, to the Earl of Godolphin. Their Pedigrees are so well known to Sportsmen, that it is needless to mention them".
The York Courant, Tuesday, March 18, 1746, Number 1066, says - "In the Hands of Mess Hassels in Ripon, For this Season will be Leaped, the famous Old Cartouch, at five Guineas a Mare and half a Crown to the Groom. Bald Gallaway was his Sire, the Cripple Barb, his Grandsire, Makeless his Great Grandsire, Place's White Turk his Great Great Grandsire, and Lord Darcy's Yellow Turk his Great Great Great Grandsire. He is in Health and Vigour, and from his Covers of the last season, nine Mares in ten are known to be in Foal. If any Mare does not hold, she shall be cover'd gratis the next year, Good Grass in early and rich Ground, and all due Care will be taken".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 15 to Saturday, March 22, 1746, Number 2726, says - "To Leap this Season, At Five Guineas a Mare, and Half a Crown to the Groom, in the Hands of Mess. Hassels, in Rippon, The Famous Old Cartouch. Bald Galloway was his Sire, the Criple Barb his Grandsire, Makelesse his Great Grandsire, Place's White Turk his Great, Great Grandsire, and Lord Darcy's Yellow Turk his Great, Great, Great Grandsire. He is in Health and Vigour, and from his Covers of the last Season nine Mares in ten are known to be in Foal. If any Mare does not hold, she shall be Cover'd gratis the next Year. Good Grass in early and rich Ground; and all due Care will be taken".
PRINT GSB PICK DERBY MERCURY YORK COURANT NEWCASTLE COURANT
A Layton Barb Mare Layton Mr Layton's Darcy Yellow mare mare mare
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by the Cripple Barb by Cripple Barb by the Cripple Barb by the Cripp'd Barb by the Cripple Barb by Criple Barb
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CARTOUCH CARTOUCH OLD CARTOUCH OLD CARTOUCH OLD CARTOUCH OLD CARTOUCH
by the Ball'd Galloway by The Bald Galloway by the Bald Galloway by the Bald Galloway by Bald Gallaway by Bald Galloway
The Newcastle Courant advertisement for Carter's son of Woodcock in 1728 states - "her Dam got by the old Chesnut Turk which got Leeds' Spanker, and all the best Horses of England, betwixt forty and fifty Years ago, as Lord Darcy Witnesseth". Between forty and fifty years before 1728 gives a date range 1678 to 1688. If it is assumed that the youngest horses were six years old when they ran then Darcy's Yellow Turk must have had foals as early as 1672. This puts in doubt the year of foaling of 1670 suggested by the information about Dodsworth's dam in Pick and the GSB.
The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham's pedigree collection, Sheffield Archives, Document Reference WWM/R/193/49, says - "Makeless - was got by General Oglethorpe's Arabian his dam by Ld D'Arcy's Yellow Turk - & out of a Natural Barb Mare - which Sr Jno Lawson (a Sea Admiral) bought from Barbary & gave her to King Charles - who gave her to Ld D'Arcy".
Sir John Lawson commanded a squadron in the Mediterranean from 1661 to 1664. He returned to England on the outbreak of the second Anglo-Dutch War in May 1665 and was appointed vice-admiral to the Duke of York. He was wounded at the battle of Lowestoft on June 3, 1665 and died of his wounds three weeks later. Lawson's Barb Mare must have been brought to England and presented to Charles II sometime between 1661 and 1665.
The Morning Post and Fashionable World, London, Monday, November 2, 1795, number 7405, Sales By Auction, By Mr Tattersall, says - "This Day, The following are the Property of a Gentleman: Lot 1. A Brown Mare, aged, got by Snap, her dam by Blank, her grand dam by Old Cade, her great grand dam by Old Partner, her gt gt grand dam by Bay Bolton (which Mare was the dam of the Duke of Bolton's Merry Andrew, and full sister to Lord Godolphin's Whitefoot and Wryfoot) her gt gt gt grand dam by Darley's Arabian (Sire of the Devonshire Childers), gt gt gt gt grand dam by the Byerly Turk, gt gt gt gt gt grand dam by Place's White Turk, gt gt gt gt gt gt grand dam by the Tripoli Barb, out of a natural Barb mare".
A treaty between Great Britain and the barbary state of Tripoli was concluded by Sir John Lawson and signed at Tripoli on October 18, 1662. It is possible that Lawson obtained the mare at this time, in foal to a Barb stallion which was also brought to England. This stallion would have been known as the Tripoli Barb.
The mare was given to Darcy in his capacity as Master of the Royal Stud and kept at Sedbury, where she was known as a Sedbury Royal Mare. She may have been the mare known as Dodsworth's dam, if so Dodsworth, who was imported in utero, must have been foaled in 1663. She had a daughter by Darcy's Yellow Turk, alias Dodsworth, who was the dam of Makeless. It seems likely that Lawson's Barb Mare was imported in-foal together with the sire Darcy's Yellow Turk, alias Dodsworth, alias Tripoli Barb, and their son was Dodsworth, alias Dicky Pierson.
The "old" Chesnut Turk, mentioned in a letter to Christopher Croft by James Darcy the younger in 1684, if the same as Dodsworth alias Darcy's Yellow Turk, must surely have been older than 14, the age suggested by the GSB and Pick. If, however, the "dam of Dodsworth" was in fact the "dam of son of Dodsworth" then the "old" Chesnut Turk would have been about 24, an age more likely to be accorded the epithet "old". A son of Dodsworth foaled 1663 would be more likely to have daughters covered by Place's White Turk and grandaughters covered by Bustler.
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 30, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "[Routh's Surley] A Gray Horse [1720] bought of Mr Hutton in April, 1725. He was gott by Surley, which Horse was gott by his Gray Barb, his dam by ye Royall Colt, her dam by Byrley Turk, her dam by Bustler, her dam by a Barb, and her dam by Bay Dodsworth".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 7, says - "Wyndham was got by Old Hautboy, (son of the White D'Arcy Turk) ; his dam, (Crutches's dam,) by the Marshall or Selaby Turk ; grandam by Bustler, (son of the Helmsley Turk) ; great grandam by Place's White Turk, (that got Wormwood) ; out of a daughter of Dodsworth. - This is the Pedigree of Wyndham, as it was generally given ; there have been objections made to the reality of it, though there were never any plausible reasons for them".
The GSB, volume 1, 1793 edition, page 291, says - "Cottingham, Mr Constable's, 1735, Hartley's Blind Horse - Son of Snake - Son of Rockwood - Windham & Crutche's dam, by the Selaby Turk - Bustler - Burnet's White Barb - Dodsworth". Burnet's White Barb must have been Place's White Turk as one of the co-executors of Place's Will was his cousin John Burnett.
The stud book of an unidentified breeder, Doncaster Archives, Document Reference DD\BW\J\1, says - "Cottingham was got by Mr Hartley's Blind Horse, his Dam by a son of Snake, his Grand Dam by a Son of Rockwood out of Windham & Crutches Dam, who was got by the Sellaby Turk, his G: Grandam by Bustler, His G: G Grandam by Bay Dodsworth. This from Thomas Jackson".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 23, 1733-4, Number 465, says - "To be leap'd this Season at Sunderland near the Sea, in the County of Durham, a Chesnut Horse, named Jack Childers, rising 8 Years old, free from any natural Blemish, full 15 Hands high, exceedingly well form'd, and proportionably strong. He was bred by Mr Thomas Cottingham, and got by Ovington's Childers, (who was the Sire of Mr Bartlett's Horse, and also Mr Smales's, who conquered the famous Victorious) out of a Mare got by Snake; her Dam by a Son of Rockwood; her Dam out of the Dam of Windham and Crutches, who was got by the Selby Turk; her Dam by Bustler; her Dam by Burnett's white Barb, and her Dam by bay Woodcock. He will be leap'd at 15 s and 1 s to the Keeper: Enquire of Mr John Smales near Sunderland, abovesaid, who will find very good Grass at 2 s a Week each Mare".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 15, 1739-40, Number 777, says - "A Bay stone Colt, three Years old, got by a Son of the Ball'd Galloway, who got Mr Ibetson's Chesnut Horse, that won the Plate at Durham, and out of a Childer's Mare, got by Mr Wm. Ovington's Childer's, who was full Brother to the Duke of Devonshire's Childers; her Dam by Snake; her Dam by Pullen's Rockwood; her Dam by the Bellarby Turk, Sire of Wyndham and Crutches; her Dam by Brimmer; her Dam by Mr Curwen's old Woodcock, out of a Royal Mare of Mr Darcey's of Sedburgh.--Note. The above Horses are both free and clear of any natural Blemish".
The Aberdeen Journal, Tuesday, February 26, 1760, says - "The Belford Colt, rises four Years old, handsome, strong, and about 15 Hands high; he got lame last Year breaking, or would have been trained this Winter; but he is now quite sound. He was got by Magnifico, who was bred by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, and got by the famous Regulus, from one of Sir Marmaduke's highest bred Mares. Magnifico run, in 1754, at Newmarket, against the famous Dutchess, but in running the second Heat was let down, yet run her pretty near. Belford's Dame was a famous running Mare, bred by Mr Cunningham of Richmond in Yorkshire; she was got by the Bartlet Childers, her Dam by Snake, her Grandam was out of Wyndham and Crutches Dam, her great Grandam was got by the Sallaby Turk, her great great Grandam by Bustler, her great great great Grandam by the Gammar White Barb, and her great great great great Grandam by Bay Dodsworth. This is a true Pedigree. Belford, Feb. 18, 1760. / John Scott. This Colt is to be at Mr Alcock's in Aberdeen, Beginning of April, and is to Cover Mares at one Guinea each Mare, and Half a Crown to the Servant. The Money to be paid at the Stable Door. Mr Alcock, will provide Grass and Forage for such Mares as are at a Distance from Aberdeen".
The following entry appears in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 16:
SELABY TURK MARE,
Her dam by Bustler - Place's White Turk - Dodsworth.
1705 gr. c. Crutches, by Hautboy (cut) - - Sir R. Milbanke
* f. by son of Rockwood - -
1719 gr. c. Windham, by Hautboy - - Duke of Somerset
* This m. had an f. by Son of Snake, dam in 1735 of Mr Constable's
ch. c. Cottingham, by Hartley's Blind Horse.
In A History of the English Turf, Volume 1, page 119, Sir Theodore Cook states that Curwen's Old Spot was a "brother to the dam of Windham, that capital grey colt, bred by Hautboy, in the Duke of Somerset's stud". Cook provides no source for this information.
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, January 29, 1731-32, Number 351, says - "The Sire of Mr. Jackson's Grey Mare, the Gardiner's Parrot, is now in the Hands of Thomas Bridgwater, in Scruton in Yorkshire, and leap'd at a Guinea a Mare, and 2s. 6d. to the keeper, with Grass and good conveniencies, one Mile from the Salutation in Leeming-Lane, 3 from Bedale, and 4 from North-allerton ; a strong Horse, and well fashioned, 15 Hands and Half an Inch high, the Sire of young Brisk, was a Son of Mr. Lister's Turk, and out of the Dam of Old Brisk ; the Dam of young Brisk was out of the Dam of Mr. Wilk's Spot, and got by old Hautboy, and his Grand Dam was out of one of the Lord Darcy's Royal Mares, and got by old Buster".
The Newcastle Courant, March 2 to March 9, 1745, Number 2672, says - "To be Sold, At Hutton Hall, near Penrith in Cumberland, A Beautiful Chesnut Stone Horse, clear of all Blemishes, remarkably strong, and every where fine made. He is fifteen Hands and one Inch high, and eight Years old. He was got by Partner, his Dam by Ruffler, his Grandam by Mr Curwen's Bay Barb, his Great Grandam by Mr Wastell's Salt-Fish Turk, his Great Great Grandam by Sellaby's Turk, and she was own Sister to the famous Spot. Whoever has a Mind to purchase the same, may apply to Mr William Monkhouse in Penrith, or at Hutton Hall aforesaid".
The Dublin Universal Advertiser, Saturday, April 2, 1757, Number 462, says Mr Browne’s horses, serve mares this season, viz. The grey Arab at Bresy, near Castlebar in the county of Mayo, at 5 guineas and a crown a mare. The bay Arab, 5 guineas and a crown a mare, in Dublin, at Mr Coote’s Stables on the Strand, near Ballybough Bridge, where and at Mr Hill’s stables at Forest, his gett may be seen. Also, at the same place, Groundivy the 2d, at a guinea and a shilling a mare; he is a beautiful bay horse, 7 years old, and gets very fine large foals; he was got by old Groundivy, his dam by the sire of Antilope’s dam; her dam by Belgrade the 2d; her dam by Blackatop; her dam by Rockwood; her dam by the Sellaby Turk; her dam by Bustler; her dam by Place’s white Turk; her dam by Doddesworth, upon a royal foreign mare. N B Good grass for mares at 6 d a night, in Mr Coot’s wall’d paddocks: No horses will be led out till the money is paid".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 188, says - "Tarquin, (Duke of Ancaster's), [by] Godolphin Arabian - Scarborough Colt - Hip - Tifter - Snake - Diamond - Hautboy - a mare of Kitt D'Arcy's".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 212, gives the pedigree as Duke of Ancaster's Tarquin (1745) by the Godolphin Arabian oo mare by the Scarborough Colt oo mare by Hip oo mare by Tifter oo mare by Snake oo mare by (Pooley's) Diamond oo mare by Hautboy oo a mare Sir J. Jennings had of old Kitt Darcy by Blunderbuss.
The Dublin Journal, Saturday, April 19, 1755, says - "To be let to Mares this Season, at Forest, 6 Miles from Dublin, at 3 Guineas and a Crown, the Beautiful bay Horse, Sessario: He is 15 Hands high, free from all natural Blemishes; he was bred by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill: His Pedigree is as follows, viz--He was got by the Godolphin Arabian, and out of my famous Mare, Spectacles, which was got by the Scarborough Colt, her Dam by Hip, her Grandam was the Dam of Bashaw, she was got by old Tifter out of Mr Aislesby's famous Snake Mare, which was the Dam of John Trot and Bucephalus. As Witnes my Hand, / Mar. Wyvill. N T There is good Grass for Mares, and all proper Attendance".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, page 167, says - "Bucephalus, Mr. Aislabie, 1738, Robinson Crusoe - Snake - Hautboy".
The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham's pedigree collection, Sheffield Archives, Document Reference WWM/R/193/34a, says - " N B was foaled Apr ye 4th 1757 Bay Colt off hind foot white taken from Brown's Copy of Sr M: Wyvills Stud Book Pedigree of the Spectacle Mare - dam of Tarquin - Hill Forsters now Sr Ralph Gores Stallion & also dam of my Godolphin Hunter The Spectacle Mare - was got by ye scarborough Colt - her dam by the Pelham Tifter (Sire also of ye Garnet Mare) - her G: dam (the Snake Mare) was got by Old Tifter, her Gt: G: dam by Snake Gt: Gt: G: dam by Pooley's Diamond, her Gt: Gt: Gt: G: dam by Hautboy, her Gt: Gt: Gt: Gt: G: dam by Bustler, her Gt: Gt: Gt: Gt: Gt: G: dam by Old Woodcock out of one of Sr Jonathan Jenning's Mares; which Mare was of the Royal Kind at Sedbury".
This pedigree, extracted from Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's stud book, shows that Jennings's mare was too old to have been by Blunderbuss.
The identity of Diamond in this pedigree has long been a mystery. The British Racehorse, September, 1951, page 354, Early Pictures of Racehorses, Some examples from the work of Tillimans and Wootton, by Ernest Hutton, says - "Diamond, a chesnut horse foaled in 1711 belonging to the Duke of Somerset, is another of the Sympson-Tillemans prints. Little is to be found on record about this horse; he crops up in some pedigrees as the Somerset Diamond and got by Clumsey".
GSB PICK PRIOR UNKNOWN BREEDER COURANT 465 ROCKINGHAM COURANT 777 UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER ABERDEEN JOURNAL COURANT 351
Jennings Royal Mare Royal Foreign Mare
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Burnet's White Place's White Barb mare | Burnett's White | | Place's White Gammer White Darcy's
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COTTINGHAM ROUTH'S SURLEY COTTINGHAM JACK CHILDERS Old Tifter Ovington's Childers Belgrade the 2d Bartlet Childers
by Hartley's 1720 by Hartley's by Ovington's mare mare mare mare
Blind Horse Blind Horse Childers | | | |
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Pelham BAY COLT mare by the sire BELFORD COLT
Tifter by Son of Ball'd of Antilope's dam by Magnifico
mare Galloway | 1756
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Spectacle Mare GROUNDIVY THE 2D
by Scarborough Colt by old Groundivy
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In the pedigree of Surley, the Barb mare appears to have been a Place's White Turk mare and the Bustler mare may well have been the dam of Crutches dam.
Bay Dodsworth and Curwen's Bay Woodcock seem to be identical and Mr Darcey's Royal Mare was probably the Layton Barb Mare.
The following two versions of the pedigree of Ancaster Starling show that, as with the Hautboys, the Snakes and the Coneyskins, the practice of naming horses after their sires has also caused confusion between Dodsworth and his son Dicky Pierson.
The Racing Calendar for 1747, by John Cheny, page 110, says - "[Ancaster] Starling was got by the Bolton Starling, Son of Bay Bolton, son of Grey Hautboy, Son of Old Hautboy, Son of the White Darcy Turk. His Dam was got by Partner, his grand Dam by the Croft's Bay Barb. his great grand Dam by Makeless, her Dam by Dodsworth out of a Barb Mare".
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, pages 173 and 211, Ancaster Starling was by Bolton Starling oo Ringbone by Partner oo Lusty Thornton by Croft's Bay Barb oo Chesnut Thornton by Makeless oo Old Thornton by Brimmer oo mare by Dicky Pierson oo Burton Barb Mare.
According to the GSB, volume 3, 4th edition, page 341, and volume 1, 5th edition, pages 353, 206 and 48, the Irish stallion Escape (1802) was by Commodore oo Moll in the Wad (1791) by Highflyer oo Shift (1779) by Sweetbriar oo Susan (1762) by Snap oo mare by Cade oo mare by Young Belgrade oo mare by Clifton Arabian oo mare by Tifter oo mare by Hautboy oo mare by Diamond oo mare by Brimmer.
It is my opinion that the last two crosses should read - mare by Brimmer oo mare by Diamond.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 385, says - "Foxhunter, Mr Jolliff's 1768, by Mr Hutton's Chestnut Ranger (son of Regulus), his dam by the Cullen Arabian - Torismond - Young Belgrade - Johnson's Arabian - Tifter - Hautboy - Brimmer - Diamond".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 3, page 134, says - "Foxhunter, a Chesnut Horse, foaled in 1768, bred by Mr Hutton, and sold to Mr Jolliffe. - He was got by Mr Hutton's chesnut Ranger; his dam by Lord Cullen's Arabian; grandam by Torismond, Young Belgrade, Johnson's Turk, Tifter, Hautboy, Brimmer, out of a daughter of Diamond".
According to the Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 22, 1760, Number 4357,
the whole stud late belonging to Henry Pierse, comprising 12 horses, was put
up for sale at Bedale, in the County of York. The following are of note:
"No. 1. A Bay Mare, got by Starling; her Dam by Young Belgrade, Sire of
Volunteer; her Dam by Johnson's Arabian; her Dam by Tifter; her Dam by Old Hautboy;
her Dam by Brimmer; her Dam by Diamond; and in Foal to Regulus".
"No. 7. A Bay Mare got by Torrismond, six Years old, out of Belgrade Mare,
Dam of No. 1".
"No. 10. A Bay Mare, rising three, got by Lord Cullen's Arabian, and out
of No. 7".
COURANT 4357 PICK GSB GSB ROCKINGHAM COURANT 777 COURANT 465 GSB GSB
Jenning's Royal Mare Jenning's Mare
Royal Mare of Mr Darcy's had of Old Kitt Darcy
from Sedbury | by Blunderbuss
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by Old Woodcock by Curwen's by Bay Woodcock |
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mare mare mare mare | | mare |
by Diamond by Diamond by Diamond [by Brimmer] | | by Burnett's |
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mare mare mare mare | mare mare |
by Brimmer by Brimmer by Brimmer [by Diamond] | by Bellarby Turk by Selby Turk |
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mare mare mare mare mare mare mare mare mare
by Old Hautboy by Hautboy by Hautboy by Hautboy by Hautboy by Pullen's by Son of by Hautboy by Hautboy
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mare mare mare mare mare mare JACK CHILDERS BUCEPHALUS mare
by Tifter by Tifter by Tifter by Tifter by Old Tifter by Ovington's by Ovington's by Robinson Crusoe by Tifter
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mare mare mare mare mare BAY COLT mare OLD STANDARD
by Johnson's Arabian by Johnson's Turk by Johnson's Arabian by Clifton Arabian by Pelham Tifter by Son of Ball'd by Hip (BASHAW)
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mare mare mare mare Spectacle Mare mare
by Young Belgrade by Young Belgrade by Young Belgrade by Young Belgrade by Scarborough Colt by Scarborough Colt
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mare mare mare mare TARQUIN TARQUIN
by Torrismond by Torismond by Torismond by Cade by Godolphin Arabian
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mare mare mare Susan
by Cullen's Arabian by Cullen's Arabian by Cullen Arabian by Snap
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FOXHUNTER FOXHUNTER Shift
by Chesnut Ranger by Chestnut Ranger by Sweetbriar
1768 1768 | 1779
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by Highflyer
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by Commodore
1802
In both pedigrees of Tarquin, the fifth dam is Pooley's Diamond mare. The next dam is an Hautboy mare, which is given in the pedigree of Jack Childers as a Son of Rockwood mare, and in the pedigree of the Bay Colt by Son of Bald Galloway as Pullen's Rockwood mare. The sire of the Hautboy mare was Grey Hautboy, who was known as Son of Rockwood or Pulleine's Rockwood. The name Pulleine has here been rendered as Pooley. This unnamed son of Hautboy/Rockwood may once have been known as Diamond, which was the name of his paternal grandsire, Darcy's White Turk or Darcy's Diamond. This pedigree now agrees with that of Bucephalus.
It is probable that Escape belongs to this family. His seventh dam by Tifter may be the dam of Old Standard, making his eighth dam Mr Aislabie's famous Snake Mare, the dam of Bucephalus. His tenth dam by Brimmer is the Selaby Turk mare, dam of Crutches. The next dam by Bustler out of a mare by Place's White Turk (Darcy's Diamond) out of a mare by Dodsworth alias Woodcock.
It is also probable that Jolliffe's Foxhunter belongs to this family. His fourth dam is by Johnson's Arabian or Turk, which would appear to be the Clifton Arabian. His third dam by Young Belgrade could be the fifth dam of Escape.
The Newcastle Courant pedigree of the 1736 Bay Colt by Son of Bald Galloway says "her Dam by the Bellarby Turk, Sire of Wyndham and Crutches; her Dam by Brimmer; her Dam by Mr Curwen's old Woodcock, out of a Royal Mare of Mr Darcey's of Sedburgh". This says the Selaby Turk was sire of Wyndham and Crutches and the next dam was by Brimmer. It is, in fact, the Selaby Turk mare that was dam of Wyndham and Crutches. The next dam is always given as by Bustler except for this pedigree which says by Brimmer. It is possible that in his later years Brimmer stood at Selaby and became known as the Selaby Turk. Brimmer appears as a sire in the first three generations of the above pedigree chart and Selaby Turk appears as a sire in the third and fourth generations.
A letter from Thomas Pulleine to John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, taken from Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 126, dated 1706, 28th [October], Bolton, says - "the 6 yr old maire was out of a maire gott by Brimers [Brimmer] out of a Buttler [Bustler] maire & she was gott by my white Turk [Rockwood]".
This is the same pedigree as that of Wyndham, the third dam of the 1736 Bay Colt by Son of Bald Galloway and the fourth dam of Ground Ivy the 2nd, but with the Selaby Turk mare given as a Brimmer mare
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 87, in The Duke of Ancaster's Stud-Book, says - "The Selaby Turk is commonly supposed to have been imported in 1699, and to have been one of the nine stallions Mr. Marshall bought for the King in Barbary that year. But this Turk was the property of Mr. Marshall's elder brother, the owner of the Selaby estate (p. 70), and was perhaps an earlier importation, as his daughter the Coppin Mare, being out of a mare by Place's White Turk (imported 1657), would probably have been foaled before 1701".
In Heber's Racing Calendar, volume VIII, for the year 1758, under the heading "To be sold at Bungay at Suffolk. The Stud of Brood Mares, Colts and Fillies, the property of James Maskill". Lot 2 is - "A Bay Mare, 5 Years old, about 14 Hands 3 Inches high, got by Tarquin; her dam by a Horse of the Duke of Bridgewater's, which Horse was a Son of Quiet, and was Sire of Mr. Tuting's Silver Sides, that beat Mr. Coatesworth's Traveller, and many others for the 4 Years old Plate at Derby in 1750, her Grand Dam by Muley, her Great Great Dam by Chesnut Arabian at Hampton Court, her Great, Great, Great Dam by Leeds, Great, Great, Great, Great Dam by the Chillaby Barb, out of the Old Chesnut Wilkinson, a Daughter of Byerly Turk".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 390, says - "Greyhound. The cover for this foal was in Barbary, after which both his sire and dam were purchased and brought into England by Mr Marshall. He was got by Chillaby, out of Slugey, a natural Barb Mare".
King William's White Barb, Chillaby was imported by Mr Marshall in 1699. The following pedigree, which renders Chillaby as Sellaby, shows how the confusion with Mr Marshall's Selaby Turk may have arisen:
Pond's Sporting Kalendar for 1757, page 170, says - "Juba, Sir Edward Hales’s, was got by Babraham ; his Dam by Governor Harrison’s Arabian, his Grandam by the chesnut Arabian at Hampton-Court, his Great Grandam by Leeds, his Great Great Grandam by the Sellaby Barb, out of the old chesnut Wilkinson".
The only foals known to be sired by the Selaby Turk are the Coppin Mare and her sister, and Curwen's Spot and his sister.
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Somerset Mare mare CURWEN'S SPOT mare mare mare | mare
by Commoner by Byerley's Turk by Selaby Turk by Selaby Turk by Byerley's Turk by Hautboy | by Commoner
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Virgin Bowes WYNDHAM mare mare SURLEY YOUNG BRISK = mare DOCTOR
by Ancaster by Hutton's by Grey Hautboy by Hautboy by Grey Hautboy by Hutton's | by Commoner by Cyprus Arabian
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GRASSHOPPER Little Bowes mare mare Aislabie's Mare Gardiner's Parrot FIRE-TAIL CINNAMON
by Crab by Chedworth Mixbury by Coneyskins by Acaster Turk by Son of Snake (Jackson's Grey Mare) by Childers 1722
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Mab mare mare mare JACK CHILDERS BUCEPHALUS mare
by Hobgoblin by Snake by Bald Galloway by Ovington's by Ovington's by Robinson Crusoe by Tifter
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SILVIO mare Worlock's Galloway BAY COLT mare STANDARD (BASHAW) mare
by Cade by Rib by Son of Snake by Son of by Hip by Young Belgrade by Clifton
1754 | 1724 Bald Galloway son of Tifter 1736 Arabian
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ROYAL GEORGE Spectacles mare
by Young Cade by Scarborough Colt by Young Belgrade
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TARQUIN mare mare
by Godolphin Arabian by Torismond by Cade
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mare Susan
by Cullen Arabian by Snap
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FOXHUNTER Shift
by Chesnut Ranger by Sweetbriar
1768 | 1779
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by Highflyer
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by Commodore
1802
The Universal Advertiser, Saturday, April 13, 1754, Number 148, says - "To cover Mares this Season, at the Widow Place's Livery stables near the Barracks, Dublin; the fine bay horse, Creeper, 15 hands high, which was purchased last Spring from the late Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, and bred as follows. This is to certifie that the fine bay horse which I sold to Peter Storey, by the name of Creeper, was bred by me, and got by my horse called Belgrade the 2d, which got my Volunteer, Bashaw, Primate, Antelope, and Garnet, to which last horse, Creeper is full brother. Garnet won several Prizes, and was generally thought, when five years old, to be the best horse in England. Creeper's dam was got by Hipp, his grandam by the Duke of Bolton's horse called Poker, his great grandam by mr Pullen's chesnut Arabian, out of a mare called Garnet, which was got by mr Place's white Turk, out of a natural Barb mare, which belonged to Oliver Cromwell. Hipp was got by old Tifter, out of Volunteer's grandam. Poker was got by the Arab, which got grey Ramsden. Pullen's chesnut Arab, got Morton's Merlin. Place's white Turk got Commoner. Old Tifter was a son of the Thoulouse Barb, out of young Cream Cheeks. The above is a true Pedigree, Witness my hand, Marma: Wyvill. Creeper's price is a moydore each mare, and half a crown to the groom, to be paid to him before the mare is covered. Good grass at the said place for all mares sent to him, at the common price of the town, and good attendance".
The Dublin Journal, Saturday, June 16 to Tuesday, June 19, 1750, Number 2428, says - "To be Let out to Mares this Season, at Mr John Kinesteen's at the White Heart in Boyle, in the County of Roscommon, at One Moydore each Mare, Leaps and Tryals, and One Shilling to the Groom, the famous Horse called Mill-Post, lately purchased from Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, by Lawrence King. Mill Post is 15 Hands and 1 inch High, a bright Bay, strong legg'd, and clear of all natural Blemishes, rising 9 Years old. There is good Grass to be had at said Kinesteen's at 2 d a Night. As to Mill-Posts Pedigree, I refer it to the Publick, the underneath being an exact Copy, signed by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill. - This is to Certify that the large Bay Horse, which I sold to Laurence King by the Name of Creeposts, was bred by me, and got by my Horse called Belgade the 2d, which got my Volunteer, Bashaw, Primate and Garnet, to which last he is full Brother. Garnet won several Prizes, and I believe was generally thought, when five Years old, to be the best Horse in England of his Age. His Dam was got by Hipp, his Grandam by the Duke of Bolton's horse call'd Poker, his Great Grandam by Mr Pullen's Chesnut Arabian, out of a Mare called Garnet, which was got by Mr Place's White Turk, out of a natural Barb Mare, which belong'd to Oliver Cromwell. Hipp was got by old Tifter, out of Volunteer's Grandam. Poker was got by the Arab, which got Grey Ramsden. Pullen's Chesnut Arab, got Morton's Merlin, &c. Place's White Turk, got Commoner, &c. Old Tifter was a Son of the Thoulouse Barb, out of Young Cream Cheeks. - All which Account as above set down, I do believe to be true. Witness my Hand, Marma. Wyvill. N B The Money to be paid before the Horse is led out".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 380, says - "Garnet, b. c., foaled 1738, by Y. Belgrade, out of Sir M. Wyvill's Garnet mare, dam of Sportsman, probably a daughter of Sir M. Wharton's Old Garnet".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 383, says - "Sportsman, Sir M. Wyvill's, 1736, by the Scarborough Colt - Garnet Mare".
Cromwell's Barb Mare = PLACE'S WHITE TURK = Scorfield's Mare
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SPORTSMAN GARNET MILL-POST CREEPER
by Scarborough Colt by Young Belgrade by Young Belgrade by Young Belgrade
1736 1738 1741 1744
The Newcastle Journal, Saturday, April 13, 1765 to Saturday, April 20, 1765, Number 1352, says - "To Leap this Season, At Denton-Burn, at half a guinea a mare, and one shilling the groom, the Famous Horse, Tiger, Who, in 1757, beat the noted horse, Dainty Davy, four heats, on Newcastle Town-Moor; and the same year won 50 l at Hambleton, and 50 l at Morpeth; and never started afterwards, but for his Majesty’s purse at Newcastle the year following, when, by misfortune, he broke down.—He will be at Mr Fram’s, in the Oat market, on Saturdays; at Mr Errington’s, in Stannington, on Tuesdays; at Morpeth, on Wednesdays; at Ponteland, on Thursdays; and at Mr Richardson’s, Denton-Burn, the rest of the week; where there is good grass, and proper care will be taken of the mares, both at that place, and at Mr Errington’s, at Stannington. Tiger was got by Mr Routh’s Crazy; his dam, by Old Partner; his grandam, by Wilkinson’s Turk; his great grandam, by Cupid (she was bred by Mr Robinson, of Easby, and full sister to the famous horse, Look about you;) his great, great grandam, by Buster; his great, great, great grandam, by Mackarell; his great, great, great grandam, by Willoughby’s Barb; his great, great, great, great, great grandam, was a filly, stole by the rebellious soldiers from (Bolton-Castle) Lord Scroope’s. N B The reason for leaping him at so low a price, is to encourage the farmers, &c for a good breed of cattle.—He is in health, and free from blemishes".
The Newcastle Journal, Saturday, April 5, 1766 to Saturday, April 12, 1766, Number 1402, says - "To Leap this Season, At Mr Errington’s, in Stannington, at Half a Guinea a Mare, and One Shilling the Groom, The famous Horse, Tyger, Who in 1757 beat the noted Horse Dainty Davy, four Heats, on Newcastle Town-Moor; likewise at York he beat the well known Horse Minor, who also beat Dainty Davy at New Market; and the same Year won 50 l at Hambleton; the 50 l at Morpeth; and never started afterwards, but for his Majesty’s Purse at Newcastle the Year following, when, by Misfortune, broke down.— He will be at Mr Richardson’s, at Denton-Burn,on Fridays and Mondays; at Mr Fram’s, in the Oat Market, on Saturdays; and at Mr Evrington’s, in Stannington, the rest of the Week; where there is good Grass, and proper Care taken of the Mares. Tyger was got by Mr Routh’s Crazy; his Dam, by Old Partner; his Grandam, by Mr Wilkinson’s Turk; his Great Grandam, by Cupid; (she was bred by Mr Robinson, of Easby, and full Sister to the famous Horse, Look about You;) his Great, Great Grandam, by Buster; his Great, Great, Great Grandam, by Mackarell; his Great, Great, Great, Great Grandam, by Willoughby’s Barb; his Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandam was a Filly, stole by the rebellious Soldiers, from (Bolton Castle) Lord Scroope’s. N B The Reason for Leaping him at so low a Price, is to encourage the Farmers, &c for a good Breed of Cattle.— He is in good Health, and free from Blemishes. This will be no more advertised".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, May 17, 1766, Number 4678, says - "To Cover this Season, At Farfield, near Chester-le-street, in the County of Durham, at One Guinea a Mare, and a Shilling to the Servant, The Horse Fellow, Rising nine Years old: He was got by Old Cade. As to the other Part of his Pedigree, it is undeniable; and after winning the King’s Plate at Leith, and several other Plates, if he had not got a Misfortune, he was thought to be as good a Plate Horse as any in the North of England. He is very compact and strong, and goes well upon his Legs".
The Newcastle Chronicle, Saturday, March 14, 1778, Number 728, says - "Fellow Will Cover, at One Guinea, and One Shilling the Groom. He will be at Darlington every Monday, at Barnardcastle every Wednesday, and the rest of his Time at Richmond. He was got by Old Cade; his Dam by Goliah; his Grandam by Old Partner; his great Grandam was own Sister to Mr Batter's famous Look-about-you. He is in the last Year of Old Cade's Get, and lucky as to Foals. Only one Colt has yet been trained of his Get, which, at four Years old, won three 50 l Plates, then sold for 600 Guineas: His young Stock are boney and promising. The Money to be paid before the Mares are taken away".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 271, says - "Fellow, (A Chesnut Horse - Foaled in 1757,) Bred by William Parker, Esq. of Kenton, Northumberland; and sold to Mr Hudson. Fellow was got by Cade; his dam by the Duke of Bolton’s Goliah; grandam by Partner; great grandam by Mr Wilkinson's Turk, out of a daughter of Cupid, which mare was bred by Mark Robinson, Esq. of Easby, near Richmond, Yorkshire.
The Newcastle Journal, Saturday, March 27 to Saturday, April 3, 1756, Number 881, says - "To Leap this Season, At Mr Thomas Tilley’s, at West Grainge near Durham, at One Cuinea a Mare, and Two Shillings the Servant, The Beautiful Chesnut Horse Stede, full fourteen Hands three Inches high: He is free from all natural Blemishes. Stede was got by Spot; his Dam by Fox; his Grandam by Cupid; his Great Grandam by Bustler; his Great Great Grandam by Mackarel; his Great Great Great Grandam by Willoughby’s Barb; and his Great Great Great Great Grandam was a Filley stole by the rebellious Soldiers from Bolton Castle, Lord Scroope’s. Stede is own Brother to Milkmaid and Full Moon, his Grandam was bred by Mr Robinson of Easby, and was full Sister to the famous Horse Look-about-ye. Good Grass for Mares; and the Two Shillings to be paid at the Stable Door".
The Newcastle Journal, Saturday, April 17 to Saturday, April 24, 1756, Number 885, says - "To Cover this Season, At Mr Ralph Walton’s at Staindrop at One Guinea a Mare, and One Shilling to the Servant, A Beautiful Chesnut Horse, fifteen Hands high, six Years old, Master of sixteen Stone a Hunting, and clear of Blemishes. He was got by Forrester; his Dam by old Crab; his Grandam by Fox, which Mare was Sister to Mr Bathurst’s famous Look-about-You; his Great Grandam by Cupid; his Great, Great Grandam by Bustler; his Great, Great, Great Grandam by Mackarel; his Great, Great, Great, Great Grandam by Willoughby’s Barb. Good Grass for Mares".
The Newcastle Journal, Saturday, May 5, 1752 to Saturday, May 12, 1752, Number 734, says - "To Leap this Season, At Mr Ralph Walton’s, at Staindrop, at One Guinea a Mare, A Beautiful strong Chesnut Colt, rising four Years old, fourteen Hands three Inches high, Master of any Weight, goes well upon his Legs, and clear of all natural Blemishes whatsoever. The Reason of his not being trained, is he having lost his Neck Vein by Bleeding. He was got by Forrester; his Dam by Crab; his Grand Dam by Fox, out of Mickleton’s Mare, which was got by Cupid, and ha[lf] Sister to Mr Bathurst’s famous grey Horse, Look about ye. This is a true Pedigree, / Thomas Vane".
The identity of Willoughby's Barb mentioned in the above advertisements is unknown, as also is the identity of Lord Scrope's mare that was stolen from Bolton Castle. I think it unlikely that Willoughby's Barb is the same horse as the stallion known as Willoughby in the next advertisement.
The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham's pedigree collection, Sheffield Archives, Sheffield,
Document Reference WWM/R193/18, says - "Beverley, April 1st, 1749 Advertisement.
There is now in the Hands of John Luck, and Joseph Smith of Beverley, in the
County of York, the noted Horse Blaze, bred by Mr Panton, and got by the Duke
of Devonshire's Childers, out of the Confederate Filly; she was got by Grantham,
her Dam by the late Duke of Rutland's black Barbe, and out of a Mare call'd
Bright's Roan; Bright's Roan was bred by Mr Leedes, and got by his Turk, which
got Bay Leeds, her Dam by Willoughby, her Gran Dam was a Daughter of the famous
running Roan Mare of Sir Christopher Wivill's, got by Dodsworth; will cover
Mares this season at [...] and [...] a Mare, and One Shilling the Servant [half
a crown, handwritten]; with good Grass for Mares at reasonable Rates.
N B The abovesaid Horse Blaze is very healthful, free from all Natural Blemishes,
full fifteen Hands high, and is allow'd to be a very fine and well proportioned
Horse, he is full Master of Twelve Stone; he won at Newmarket the Seven Hundred
Pound Stakes, a Three Hundred Pound Match, and a King's Plate; also he won the
King's Plate at Winchester, and the King's Plate at Lewis, and was allowed to
be the best Horse of his Year, as he prov'd himself by Running when Seven Years
Old; he won the Forty Pounds at Epsom, the Fifty Pounds at Guilford, the Fifty
Pounds at Reading, the Fifty Pounds at Oxford, and the Fifty Pounds at Chipping-Norton.
+ Whereas the Pedigree of the abovemention'd Roan Mare was omitted in former
Advertisements, I do hereby Certifie, that the above Pedigree of the Roan Mare
is true according to the Studd Book, as witness my Hand the 9th of January,
1744. / Edward Leedes.
Hull: Printed by G Ferraby, Bookseller, in the Butchery, and at his Shop in
Beverley, where all Sorts of Printing-Work is done at Reasonable Rates".
ROCKINGHAM NEWCASTLE JOURNAL NEWCASTLE JOURNAL NEWCASTLE JOURNAL
1352 and 1402 881 885
Wyvil's Roan
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Bright's Roan Mackarell mare Mackarel mare Mackarel mare
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Rutland Black Barb mare Bustler mare Bustler mare Bustler mare
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Confederate Filly Cupid mare Cupid mare Cupid mare
by Grantham (sister to Look about you) (sister to Look-about-ye) |
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BLAZE Wilkinson's Turk mare Fox mare Fox mare
by Childers | | (sister to Bathurst's
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Old Partner mare STEDE Crab mare
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TIGER CHESNUT HORSE
by Crazy by Forrester
1750
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, April 16, 1737, Number 625, says - "To be Leaped this Season, At Richard Peak's, at Ripon in Yorkshire, at One Guinea a Mare, and 1 s to the Groom, The Famous Horse, call'd Spot, (bred by Mr Rawlinson of Whittington, near Kerby-Lawnsdale, who bred the famous Diamond and Whittington, who were all Three own Brothers by the Mare, now in the Hands of William Haddon: He is fourteen Hands three Inches high, he won the King's 100 Guineas at Leith and Lincoln, and also several other Prizes at other Places (as to Diamond and Whittington's Performances may be found in Cheney's Book) The said Spot is now in fine Order, and clear of all natural Blemishes, and is thought by the best Judges to be one of the greatest Beauties in England. His Pedigree as follows: He was got by Sir William Ramsden's Spot, who was got by Mr Curwen's old Spot, and his Dam by Mr Leeds's Arabian, that got Bay-Leeds (which was said to run a Mile in a Minute) his Grandam by Old Woodcock, and great Grandam by Dodsworth, Spot's Dam was one of Mr Curren's bay Barb Mares. This is a true Copy certified by the Breeder Mr Rawlinson".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 380, says - "Dimple (Dyer's), bred by Mr Leedes, about 1708, got by Leedes's Arabian - Spanker - Dodsworth - Barb Mare".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 48, says - "Mr. Dyer's Dimple (sire of the grandam of Ball) was bred by Mr. Leedes, and got by his Arabian, (sire of Leedes); his dam, Old Sophonisba, by Spanker; grandam by Dodsworth, out of Lord Willoughby's Barb Mare".
NEWCASTLE COURANT GSB PICK ROCKINGHAM
mare Barb Mare Willoughby's Wyvil's Roan
by Dodsworth | Barb Mare Running Mare
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mare mare mare mare
by Old Woodcock by Dodsworth by Dodsworth by Dodsworth
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mare DIMPLE DIMPLE Bright's Roan
by Leeds's Arabian by Leedes's Arabian by Leedes Arabian by Leedes Turk
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by Curwen's Old Spot by Rutland Black Barb
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by Grantham
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by Childers
It may be that the dam of Bright's Roan was by Spanker, making Willoughby another name for Spanker. The grandams of Dimple and Bright's Roan were, I think, by Bay Dodsworth, as was the grandam of Ramsden's Spot. Bay Woodcock being another name for Bay Dodsworth. The dam of the Old Woodcock mare was by Old Dodsworth, alias Darcy's Yellow Turk. This mare was a Barb Mare and was probably the same as Wyvill's Roan Running Mare. It could be that Bright's Roan was full sister to Dimple.
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 8, Old Spanker was also known as Mr Pelham's Bay Arabian.
Famous Horses, by Theophilus Taunton, 1901, page 7, says - "Spanker (Also known as 'the Old Bay Arabian'), a bay son of the D'Arcy Yellow Turk, - The Old Morocco Mare, by Lord Fairfax's Morocco Barb, - Old Bald Peg, by an Arabian, - a Barb mare, was bred by Charles Pelham, Esq.".
Spanker was probably bred by the Duke of Buckingham and stood at Darcy's stud at Sedbury. He was later known as Leedes Spanker.
Charles Pelham's Old Bay Arabian was most probably Pelham's Bay Barb or Curwen's Bay Barb.
Young Spanker by Spanker, who was also known as Sir William Ramsden's Spanker and Curwen's Young Spanker, was probably the stallion known as Grey Spanker. He may be the stallion known as Curwen's Grey Barb or Curwen's Grey Morocco Barb. He may also be the stallion known as Curwen's Grey Turk, the sire of Flanderkin.
The Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, London, Monday, June 1, 1789, Number 5037, says - "By Messrs Tattersall, This Day, The following well bred Horses" includes "Lot 1. King of Leinster, 6 years old, got by Rebel, dam by Gamehoe, grand dam by Old England, Bolton’s Sloven, Coquet, Spot, Grey Spanker, Old Bustler, sire of Merlin, & Blunderbuss, Curwen’s Bay Barb, Little White Legged Barb, &c".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 62, says - "Coquette (Old), Bred by the Duke of Bolton about 1722, got by Basto, dam by Curwell [sic] or Marshall's Old Spot - Y. Spanker - Hautboy - Bustler".
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, pages 17 and 12, the Leedes Arabian mare, sister to Leedes, was sometimes called Cream Cheeks, but this is an error caused by the addition of Tifter to her produce. In Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, there are two pedigrees of Tifter. Page 67, says - "got by the Thoulouse Barb out of an own sister to Leedes". Page xxviii in the index, says - "by the Thoulouse Barb, out of Cream Cheeks, the grandam of Cinnamon". The pedigree of Cinnamon on page 352, says - "his dam, called the Ryegate Mare, by the Thoulouse Barb; grandam, Sir John Parson's Cream Cheeks, by Spanker, out of a daughter of Mr Wilkes's Hautboy'. This pedigree is confirmed by the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 379.
Pond's Sporting Kalendar for 1754, page 159, says - "old Tifter, was Son of the Thoulouse Barb, out of young Cream Cheeks, which was full Sister in Blood to Leeds's [Cream Cheeks]". The use of the word "young" here suggests there was an older mare called Cream Cheeks which the apostrophe s in Leeds's suggests Mr Leeds owned. It is possible that the phrase "Sister in Blood to Leeds's" has been corrupted into "Sister to Leeds" but since it is known that the grandam of Cinnamon was by [Young] Spanker out of a mare by Hautboy, and Leedes was by Leedes Arabian out of a mare by Spanker, this is clearly in error.
It is likely that the Hautboy mares in the pedigrees of Old Coquette and Cinnamon are identical, and although Wilkes's Hautboy would normally refer to Grey Hautboy, I think here it means his sire Hautboy. The Bustler mare could be the dam of Old Spot who bred a filly by Rockwood, alias Hautboy.
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 155, Cunegonde (1769) was got by Blank, dam (1760) by the Cullen Arabian - (Bolton) Patriot, her dam by Gander - brother to Grey Grantham - Pulleine's Arabian - Spanker.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 2, page 312, says - "Cunegonde (A bay mare - foaled in 1769,) Bred by Robert Pigott, Esq. and sold to Messrs. Fox and Foley. Cunegonde was got by Blank, her dam [1760] by Lord Cullen's Arabian; grandam by the Duke of Bolton's Patriot; great grandam by Gander - Brother to Grey Grantham - Mr. Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian, out of a daughter of Spanker".
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 116, Fearnought (1725) was got by Bay Bolton, dam by Lexington Gray Arabian, her dam by Curwen's Old Spot - Spanker - Grey Ramsden's dam, by the Byerly Turk.
The Spanker in these pedigrees is probably Young Spanker, as evidenced by the following:
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 25, says - "Fearnought was got by Bay Bolton; his dam by the Lexington Grey Arabian; grandam by the Curwen Old Spot; great grandam by Old Spanker, out of a daughter of the Byerley Turk, which mare was the dam of Grey Ramsden, and full sister to the dam of Tantivy, a son of the Taffolet Barb".
Heber's Racing Calendar, volume IV, for the year 1754, page 232, says - "Fearnought's Dam was got by the Lexington Grey Arabian, his Grand Dam by Old Spot, his great Grand Dam by Sir William Ramsden's [Young] Spanker, his great great Grand Dam by the Byerly Turk, which Mare was the Dam of Grey Ramsden, and full Sister to the Dam of Tantivy".
The Racing Calendar for 1743, by John Cheny, in the index, page xxi, says - "Fearnought's Dam was got by the Lexington Grey Arabian, his Grand-Dam by Old Spot, his Great Grand-Dam by Sir William Ramsden's [Young] Spanker, his Great Great Grand-Dam by the Byerley Turk, which Mare was the Dam of Grey Ramsden, and full sister to the Dam of Tantivy".
The Racing Calendar for 1746, by John Cheny, in the index, page 144, says - "The Dam of Fearnought was got by the Lexington Arabian, his Grand Dam by the Curwen Spot, bred, &c. as p.139, His Great Grand Dam by the Ramsden [Young] Spanker, his Great Great Grand Dam by the Byerley Turk, out of the Dam of Grey Ramsden, which Dam was full Sister to the Dam of the Curwen Tantivie. Fearnought's Great Great Great Grand Dam was got by the Taffolet Barb, her Dam by Place White Turk, out of Barb Mare"
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 493, says - "Old Coquette, (dam of Young Coquette) was a brown mare, foaled about the year 1722, bred by the Duke of Devonshire, and got by Basto, dam by Mr. Curwen's Old Spot; grandam by Young Spanker, (son of Old Spanker); great grandam by Mr. Wilkes's Old Hautboy, out of a daughter of Bustler". There is a note - "There has been an omission in the above Pedigrees, as lately published, leaving out the words 'dam by Mr. Curwen's Old Spot,' - The above is copied from those signed by Mr. Peter Hammond, wherein that gentleman says, 'I do certify the above to be genuine, 1754, &c. Peter Hammond".
In light of this evidence it would appear that the Spanker mare at the head of family 42 was by Young Spanker. This may be the Young Spanker mare, half sister to the dam of Bonny Lass, or the Young Spanker mare, grandam of Old Coquette. I have gone with the latter because the dam lines of Bolton Starling and the Gander mare are only one generation different, and the mating of the Gander mare with Bolton Patriot is in line with the inbreeding pactices of the time.
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mare | mare Young Cream Cheeks | Old Lady
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mare mare mare TIFTER Ryegate Mare = WYNDHAM mare mare
by Curwen's Bay Barb | by Pulleine's Arabian by Thoulouse Barb by Thoulouse Barb | by Grey Hautboy by Jigg by Pulleine's
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SLOVEN = Old Coquette mare CINNAMON PATRIOT BOLTON STARLING
by Bay Bolton | by Basto by Brother to by Bay Bolton by Bay Bolton
1718 | Grey Grantham | 1729 1727
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Cunegonde
Grey Spanker = Young Spanker = Curwen's Grey Turk by Blank
Pulleine's Blind Horse = Brother to Grey Grantham 1769
The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham's pedigree collection, Sheffield Archives, Document Reference WWM/R/193/37, says - "Selima, 9th August 1755, The Bay Mare I sold to the Marquiss of Rockingham, was got by Bajazett, her Dam by Bloody Buttocks, her Grandam by Almanzor, her Great Grandam by Sr Wm Strickland's Hautboy was own Sister to Bay Bolton and Lamprey, her Great Great Grandam by Makeless, her G G G Grandam by Brimmer who was Ocklam Merlin's Dam & was Grandam to Terror, her G G G G Grandam by Diamond, her G G G G G Grandam was full Sister to Old Merlin's Dam".
Sir John Dutton's Book of Pedigrees, Gloucestershire Record Office, Document Reference D678/1, F14/5/6, says - "A Pedigree of Bay Bolton taken out of Sr Mathew Pearson's Book who bred him. 6 Decr 1735. Bay Bolton was foaled ye 3d May 1705. A Bay Colt foal, the far foot behind white, got by Mr Constable's Grey horse Hautboy, which Grey horse was bred by Sr Wm Strikland. Bay Bolton's Dam was got by Makeless, His Grandam by Brimmer, His Great Grandam by Diamond, out of Sr Mathew Pearson's little Bay Mare, full Sister to his sorrel Running Mare; which sorrell Mare was Old Merlin's Dam"
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, part of a letter from Thomas Pulleine to John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, page 126, says:
"1706, 28th [October], Bolton. The pedigree of the maires I send for
yor Grace to have the refuseall off is as follows
The Lame philly's dam was gott by Mr Place white Turke & vnder a ffenwicke
maire & her sire is my Chessnutt Arabian
thother 4 yr old philly's dam was out of Sr Mathew Peirson Running maire wch
was the most famouse maire in my time & gott by Mr Place Turke & the
philly's sire my Chessnutt Arab.
the 6 yr old maire was out of a maire gott by Brimers [Brimmer] out of a Buttler
[Bustler] maire & she was gott by my white Turk [Rockwood]".
Although there is no evidence for it it is possible that Darcy's Diamond was another name for Place's [Darcy's] White Turk.
Sir Matthew Pierson's mares may be related in some way to Dicky Pierson, perhaps full sisters to him by Dodsworth, alias Darcy's Yellow Turk, out of Lawson's Barb Mare.
HELMSLEY TURK DARCY'S YELLOW TURK = Lawson's Barb Mare
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mare Pierson's = DIAMOND <==========> PLACE'S WHITE TURK = Pierson's Sorrell = BUSTLER | DICKY PIERSON
| Bay Mare | 1668 | Running Mare | | | [CURWEN'S WOODCOCK]
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MAKELESS mare mare = PULLEINE'S CHESNUT ARABIAN MERLIN Vixen Vintner Mare
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| mare mare HARPHAM ARABIAN | mare
| by Brimmer by Pulleine's Arabian | | by Pulleine's Arabian
| | 1702 | | [by Lowther Barb]
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mare Mr Brewster's Famous Mare | ACCLOM'S MERLIN mare
| by Hautboy | | by Curwen's Old Spot
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BAY BOLTON ALEPPO FOX = mare = GRAHAM'S CHAMPION WOODCOCK mare
by Grey Hautboy [BAWTRY'S BLIND HORSE] 1714 | by Darley's Arabian | by Harpham Arabian | 1702 by Curwen's Bay Barb
1705 by Darley's Arabian | | 1707 | |
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mare mare DARCY'S MONTAGUE PARTNER
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Riot Cypron = TARTAR Mother Western
by Regulus by Blaze | 1743 by Easby Snake
| 1753 1750 | | 1731
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Flora KING HEROD Spilletta
by Lofty 1758 by Regulus
1765 | 1749
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[Family 31] [Family 26] ECLIPSE
by Marske
1764
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, pages 192 and 17, Sourface was foaled in 1753 by Cullen Arabian oo Bay Snip (1746) by Snip - Godolphin Arabian - Frampton's Whiteneck (full sister to the Mixbury Galloway) by Curwen Bay Barb, her dam by Curwen (or Pelham) Old Spot, her dam by White Legged Lowther Barb, out of the Vintner Mare".
According to The Royal Studs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by C M Prior, page 165, in Lord Godolphin's Stud Book, Bay Snip was foaled in 1748 by Snip out of Young White Neck (1739) by Godolphin Arabian out of Grey White Neck Mare by Conyers Arabian out of Frampton's Whiteneck by Curwen's Bay Barb out of Mixbury's dam by Old Spot. Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 26, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, in the pedigree of a mare by Flatface, signed by Henry Curwen, says - "her dam by Old Spot, wch mare was the dam of Minchell's famous Mixbury, her grandam by a little Barb, her g.-grandm was the Vintner Mare, black, which was got by my Arabian".
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 62, Whiteneck by Crab was out of a mare by Godolphin Arabian out of a mare by Conyers Arabian out of the sister to Mixbury by the Curwen Bay Barb, the dam of Partner.
Boddley's Bath Journal, Monday, May 23, 1768, Number 1289, Advertisement for the stallion Sourface, says - "He was got by Lord Cullin's bay Arabian, that covers at Ten Guineas a Mare; his Dam by Snip; his Grandam by Lord Godolphin's late Arabian; his Great Grandam by Leeds; his Great Great Grandam by the White Leg Louthe Barb, and out of the Laiton Barb Mare".
The Leeds mare in this pedigree was known as sister to Quiet and her dam was Sloven's dam by Curwen's Bay Barb, a full sister to Frampton's Whiteneck.
GSB PRIOR GSB BATH JOURNAL COURANT 777
Laiton Barb Mare Royal Mare of Mr Darcey's
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White Legged Lowther Little Barb mare White Legged Lowther White Leg Louthe |
Barb mare | Barb mare Barb mare |
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Curwen Old Spot mare Mixbury's dam Curwen Old Spot mare | Brimmer mare
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Frampton's Whiteneck Frampton's Whiteneck Curwen Bay Barb mare | Bellarby Turk mare
by Curwen Bay Barb by Curwen's Bay Barb | | (Crutches dam)
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| Grey White Neck Mare QUIET Leedes mare Pullen's Rockwood
| by Conyers Arabian by Leedes | mare
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Godolphin Arabian mare Young White Neck Godolphin Arabian mare Snake mare
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Bay Snip Bay Snip Snip mare Ovington's Childers
by Snip by Snip | mare
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SOURFACE SOURFACE BAY COLT
by Cullen Arabian by Cullin's Bay Arabian by Son of Ball'd
1753 Galloway
1736
The pedigree of Sourface in Boddley's Bath Journal, though incomplete and at variance with the GSB version, is nonetheless a fair representation of his dam line. The different great grandams are a problem but, as both are out of full sisters to Mixbury, the integrity of the line is maintained back to the White Legged Lowther Barb mare. The next dam, according to Boddley's Bath Journal, is the Layton Barb Mare and I would be most surprised if this was another name for the Vintner Mare. A more likely explanation is another gap in the pedigee and I would suggest that the Vintner Mare was a daughter of the Layton Barb Mare.
The Vintner Mare was by Curwen's Arabian. This Arabian may be the same as Curwen's Bay Woodcock, which appears to be another name for Bay Dodsworth and Dicky Pierson. This stallion was also known as Dodsworth as evidenced by the two pedigrees of Ancaster Starling above. The Layton Barb Mare bred a filly by Dodsworth, alias Darcy's Yellow Turk, so she may have bred a filly by his son.
Waxy traces back in the female line to 'sister to Westbury' by Curwen's Bay Barb oo mare by Curwen's Old Spot oo mare by Old Woodcock. If the dam of Westbury was also the dam of Mixbury, or they were sisters, then there is a gap in this pedigree and the mare by Curwen's Old Spot was out of a White Legged Lowther Barb mare. This would make the next dam the Vintner Mare by Old Woodcock alias Curwen's Old Woodcock alias Curwen's Arabian.
Ramsden's Spot was by Curwen's Old Spot oo mare by Leedes Arabian oo mare by Old Woodcock oo mare by Dodsworth. It is more than possible that this Old Woodcock mare was the Vintner Mare.
The following entry appears in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 12:
LAYTON (Violet) BARB MARE,
* f. by Dodsworth - - - Lord Darcy
c. Counsellor (Darcy's), by Lonsdale
Counsellor - Lord Darcy
c. Burford Bull, by Brimmer - Lord Darcy
f. by ditto - - - Lord Darcy
about 1715 f. Y. Violet Layton, by Darcy's
Chesnut Arabian - Lord Darcy
* This Dodsworth mare bred a f. by Place's White Turk, and
a filly by Hautboy.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 385, says - "Fantail, Sir J. Shelley's, 1770, by Latham's Snap, his dam by Babraham - Sir Robert Fagg's Goldenlocks - Soreheels - Woodcock - Westall (probably Wastell) Turk - Hautboy - Dodsworth - Layton Barb Mare". This pedigree is responsible for the addition of the filly by Hautboy to the produce of the Dodsworth mare above. The Soreheels mare is more likely to be Sir R. Fagg's 1729 chesnut filly by Soreheels oo Grey Woodcock by Woodcock oo Croft's Pet Mare by Wastell's Turk oo mare by Hautboy oo Trumpet's dam by Place's White Turk oo mare by Dodsworth oo Layton Barb Mare.
Young Violet Layton cannot possibly be out of this mare.
The following pedigree is taken from Weatherby's Racing Calendar, Advertisements of Stallions, 1780, page 322 - "Grey Gower was got by the Gower Stallion, a son of the Godolphin Arabian, his dam by Lord Chedworth's Foxhunter, son of the Ball'd Galloway, grand dam by a full brother to Mixbury, gt grand dam by a son of Darley's Arabian, out of a mare of Sir Matthew Peirson's, which was the dam of Terror, gt gt grand dam by Lord Wharton's Snail, gt gt gt grand dam by Burford's Bull; Bull was got by Brimmer, his dam a Layton Barb mare". This pedigree ends with a mare by Burford Bull. A cross of the Godolphin Arabian has been omitted after the Foxhunter mare but the Godolphin Arabian mare was entered in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 92 with the pedigree - "her dam by a brother to Mixbury - Smockface - Old Snail - Mr Wilkinson's mare (sister to Burford Bull), by Brimmer - Layton Barb". There is no sister to Burford Bull.
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 196, says - "Epaminondas, Duke of Cumberland's, foaled in 1779, got by Herod, dam by Snap - Blank - Chedworth Foxhunter - Mr. Howe's Mixbury Mare - Smockface (son of Darley's Arabian) - Snail - Burford Bull - Mr. Wilkinson's Mare".
According to History of the British Turf, by James Christie Whyte, the dam of Grey Hautboy was the Arlington Barb Mare. This mare was a present from the Emperor of Morocco to Lord Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II, who sold her to Mr Wilkinson of West Layton. I think it very probable that this mare was generally known as Layton Barb Mare. Old Snail was by Whynot out of a mare by Wilkinson's Bay Arabian out of the Arlington Barb Mare.
Lord Wharton owned two horses called Snail. Snail by Whynot ran in 1698. He had a younger Snail who ran in 1718. This line is most probably Snail (1710) by Snail (1692) by Whynot.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 43, says Grisewood's Partner was - "got by Mr. Crofts's Partner ; his dam by Hutton's Grey Barb ; grandam, (Bay Wilkinson's dam) by Whynot ; great grandam by Wilkinson's Turk, out of a mare of Mr. Wilkinson's called Old Woodcock, by the D'Arcy Woodcock". It is possible that the next dam was the Arlington Barb Mare, alias Layton Barb Mare, which would make Old Woodcock a full sister to the Vintner Mare.
The following entry appears in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 4:
BURTON BARB MARE,
Mr Burton's Natural Barb Mare,
* f. by Dodsworth - - Bred at Hampton Court
** f. by Dicky Pierson
(son of Dodsworth) - Bred at Hampton Court
c. St Martin, by Spanker - Bred at Hampton Court
* This mare was the dam of a colt by a son of Helmsley Turk,
sold to Sir W. Morgan, and known as Morgan's Dun, also of an
own sister to him, which mare bred a filly by Hautboy.
** This mare bred Mr Crofts's f. Old Thornton by Brimmer and
a sister to her. Old Thornton was the dam of ch. f. Chesnut
Thornton, by Makeless.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 42, gives the pedigree of Little Bowes as - "Got by Chedworth's brother to Mixbury Galloway, her dam, Bowes, by Hutton's Grey Barb - Byerly Turk - Selaby Turk - Mr. Place's mare, by Hautboy - sister to Morgan's Dun, by a son of the Helmesley Turk - Dodsworth - Burton Barb".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 7, gives the pedigree of the Coppin Mare as - "Got by The Selaby Turk, her dam by Place's White Turk". A note has been appended - "The Coppin Mare is confused in Pick, and in old pedigrees, with The Coffin Mare (a mare so called by being concealed by Mr Place in a cellar in Fenchurch Street, at the time of the Restoration, which was probably her grandam). Pick also, vol. i., p. 223, makes the grandam of Little Bowes as out of an own sister to The Coffin Mare".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 223, gives the pedigree of Mab as - "got by Hobgoblin; her dam, Little Bowes, by Lord Chedworth's Mixbury; grandam by Mr. Hutton's Grey Barb, brought over by Mr. Marshall, great grandam by the Byerley Turk, out of a full sister to the Coffin Mare. The Coffin Mare was got by the Marshall or Selaby Turk, out of a daughter of Mr. Place's White Turk".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 90, gives the pedigree of Mixbury as - "got by Regulus - Brother to Mixbury -Hutton's Barb, brought over by Mr. Marshall - Byerly Turk - Selaby Turk - Mr. Place's Mare, which he had out of Oliver Cromwell's Stud".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, page 194, gives the pedigree of Lord Chedworth's Snap as - "got by Old Snap, his dam (called Young Bowes), was got by Dormouse, grand dam (called Little Bowes) by Mixbury, great grand dam (called Bowes) by Hutton's Barb, brought over by Mr. Marshall, great great grand dam by the Byerley Turk, out of a full sister to the Coffin Mare, whose sire was the Selaby Turk, and her dam a Place Mare - Mr. Place of Dimsdale [sic], Stud Master to Oliver Cromwell, stole this Mare out of the Stud, and kept her concealed in a cellar, till the search for her was over".
The Oxford Journal, Saturday, April 19, 1760, says - "Also to Cover at the same Place [Foss-Bridge in the County of Glocester], at a Guinea and a Shilling, a beautiful Chesnut Horse, rising nine Years old, full 15 Hands high, with a Star, and one white Heel behind, bred by Mr. Hutton in Yorkshire, and got by Blaze; his Dam by Mixbury, and was the Dam of Phoenix, Mab, and Lord Chedworth's Filly that beat ten Four Year Olds at Newmarket in May, 1757; his Grand Dam was the old Bowes Mare, got by Mr. Hutton's grey Barb, her Dam by the Byerly Turk, and full Sister to the Coffing Mare, whose Sire was the Selaby Turk, and her Dam Mr. Place's famous white Mare".
Place's White Turk must have been foaled about 1670, as he would have to be old enough to be associated with Rowland Place, who died in 1676, and young enough to get foals in the 1690's when he was known as Darcy's WhiteTurk. In the pedigrees above, the Coppin Mare and her sister were out of a Place's White Turk mare. This Place's White Turk mare cannot have been "Mr. Place's Mare, which he had out of Oliver Cromwell's Stud", because she was foaled before 1657, and Mr. Place's mare cannot have been by Hautboy, because Hautboy was foaled after Place's death. If the extension of the pedigree back to the Burton Barb Mare is correct, then the cross of Hautboy must be wrong, as the Coppin Mare and her sister were out of a Place's White Turk mare. But there is no cross of Place's White Turk in the pedigree.
Consider these two pedigrees taken from the GSB:
mare by Hautboy - mare by Place's White Turk - mare by Dodsworth - Layton (Violet) Barb Mare. In Darcy's Stud.
mare by Hautboy - sister to Morgan's Dun by son of Helmsley Turk - mare by Dodsworth - Burton Barb Mare.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 242, traces Young Greyhound back to "Mr. Layton's Violet Barb Mare" and Desdemona back to "Mr. Burton's Violet Barb Mare, in Lord D'Arcy's Stud". The evidence here seems to point to there being only one mare which was known as the Violet Barb Mare but the next advertisement shows that the Layton Barb Mare here has been confused with her great granddaughter Violet Layton. These two mares should properly be called Layton Barb Mare and Burton Barb Mare and if the above pedigrees are identical, then that would make Morgan's Dun and his sister by Place's White Turk, a son of the Helmsley Turk.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 108, says - "Little Partner was got by Mr. Crofts's Forester ; his dam by Partner ; grandam by Greyhound, Makeless, Counsellor, Brimmer, out of a favourite Mare of Mr. Scorfield's".
The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham's pedigree collection, Sheffield Archives, Sheffield, Document Reference WWM/R193/23, says - "The Bay Mare wch is ye Dam of Peirsons horse [Little Partner] was got by Partner her dam by old Greyhound, her Grandam by Makeless, her Gr Grandam by Counceller, her Gre Gr Grandam by Brimmer, from a mare of Mr Scurfields, formerly a breeder in Yorkshire".
Both these pedigrees agree that the Brimmer mare was out of Scorfield's Mare, and according to the Stud Book this Brimmer mare was sister to Old Thornton out of a mare by Dicky Pierson out of the Burton Barb Mare.
According to Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 208, the grandam of Wildair was by Partner, Greyhound, Makeless, Counsellor, Brimmer, out of a daughter of Place's White Turk. This Place's White Turk mare was Trumpet's dam, out of a mare by Dodsworth oo the Layton Barb Mare.
The next advertisement says that the Dodsworth mare was ancestress of the Starlings and the Greyhounds.
Ancaster Starling traces back to Old Thornton by Brimmer, which would make Scorfield's Mare by Dicky Pierson out of the Burton Barb Mare.
Brother to Guy traces back to the Brimmer mare out of Trumpet's dam, which would make Scorfield's Mare by Place's White Turk out of a mare by Dodsworth out of the Layton Barb Mare.
I can find no evidence that Old Thornton was out of a mare by Place's White Turk, so it would seem that the Dodsworth mare in the next pedigree was Scorfield's Mare.
The Caledonian Mercury, Wednesday, May 22, 1765, says - "To Leap this season, at Mrs Duncan's, near to Priestfield, at One Guinea each mare, and One Shilling to the keeper, a fine chesnut stoned horse, called Tartar, nine years old, fifteen hands and a half high, able to carry 14 stone a hunting, and free of all natural blemishes.--His pedigree is as follows: Tartar was got by Ground Joy [Ground Ivy], his dam by the Hartley Roan Horse, got by Hip upon the dam of Babraham; his grand dam (bred by Lord Dorcey) by Woodcock sire of the dams of Sedbury, Miss Doe, and many others of note; his great grand-dam by the Darcey chesnut Arab, sire of Jews-trumps; his great great grand dam (Violet Leyton) by the Darcey White Turk, sire of Hautboy, Black Leggs, Royal, &c his Great great great grand dam by Dodsworth, the common ancestor of the Windam's Dimples, Starlings, Desdemona, Grey-hounds, Ticklepitchers, &c his great great great great grand dam by the Darcey Yellow Turk, sire of Brimmer, Spanker, &c so remarkable to future ages for their gets. The above is certified by Dom Browne, Esq; N B Good grass for mares, and proper care taken of them.--The money to be paid at the stable door".
The grandam by Woodcock was probably Mad Darcy, 1719, who had daughters by Hartley's Roan Horse (foaled 1732) in 1738 and 1739.
The dam of Mad Darcy was Young Violet Layton, bred by James Darcy the younger, by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian out of Layton Barb Mare.
I would have thought the Layton Barb Mare was by the Layton Grey Barb, alias Grey Hautboy, but this advertisement, however, says she was Violet Layton by Darcy's White Turk out of a mare by Dodsworth, which pedigree is unique. All other pedigrees have Dodsworth mares covered by Place's White Turk. Darcy's Chesnut Arabian was also known as Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian, and in the above letter to John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, dated October 28, 1706, Thomas Pulleine offers to sell him two four year old mares [foaled 1702] by his Chesnut Arabian out of mares by Place's White Turk. This letter confirms that Place's White Turk mares were active at stud in the first decade of the eighteenth century and with the above advertisement proves that Darcy's White Turk and Place's White Turk were one and the same.
In the above advertisement "Windam's Dimples" should read "Windams, Dimples". It is the mare by Dodsworth that is "the common ancestor of the Windams, Dimples, Starlings, Desdemona, Grey-hounds, Ticklepitchers, &c". Some trace to Dodsworth mares and some to Dicky Pierson mares. The dam of Violet Layton I believe to be a mare by Dicky Pierson out of a mare by Darcy'sYellow Turk. This is typical Darcy inbreeding as Dodsworth [Dicky Pierson, Son of Dodsworth] was by Darcy's Yellow Turk [Dodsworth].
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 28, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "[Wood's] Counsellor's dam was got by Makeless, her dam was a Barb mare of Sr Hugh Cholmondley's. His sire's [Darcy's Counsellor's] dam was the Violet Laton mare in Ld D'arcy's stud. His grandsire's [Lonsdale Counsellor's] dam was gott by the White Turk, who got Cannon and Ho'boy. And her dam by the Yellow Turk, who got Old Spanker".
This pedigree clearly shows that the dam of Darcy's Counsellor was the Violet Layton Mare by Darcy's White Turk.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 25, says - "Old Counsellor, bred by Lord D'Arcy, was got by a son of the Shaftsbury Turk, out of Mr. Layton's Violet Barb Mare", and page 204, says - "Burford's Bull was got by Brimmer, (son of the D'Arcy Yellow Turk,) out of Mr. Layton's Violet Barb Mare".
The Sportsman, Wednesday, March 16, 1892, Pedigrees copied from Capt. Hartley's Stud Book, says - " Violet Layton, bred by Lord D'Arcy, by his chestnut Arab, her dam, Old Violet Layton, by the White Turk; gr by Dodsworth, gr gr gr by a chestnut Turk, both of which last two names horses were famous in their time. She was full sister to Miss Tippet".
This pedigree agrees with the advertisement for Tartar, above.
Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1744, page xi in the index, says - "Bustler, which got the Grand-Dam of Windham, also got Blunderbuss and Old Merlin, the former of which got the Dam of Old Royal (Sire of Bald Charlotte) the latter got Woodcock, sire of Miss Tippet, and Castaway, which got the Dams of Bald Charlotte and Conqueror".
This entry says Miss Tippet was sired by Woodcock, whereas Hartley's Stud Book says she was full sister to Violet Layton by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian out of Old Violet Layton. Violet Layton was named after her dam, so it is not impossible that Miss Tippet was also named after her dam and was by Woodcock out of Miss Tippet by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian out of Violet Layton. Mad Darcy was was foaled in 1719 by Woodcock out of Young Violet Layton by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian out of Violet Layton. This gives a rough date for the younger Miss Tippet.
The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham's pedigree collection, Sheffield Archives, Document
Reference WWM/R/193/54, says - "Whistlejacets Pedigree. Whistle Jacet was
foald the first of April 1749 And Sold to Sir William Midleton September the
22d 1752, he was got by the Mogul, his dam by Sweepstakes, his Grandam by the
Chesnut Arabian at Hampton Court, his great Grandam was out of a Mare called,
Penelope, which was got by Makeless; his great great Grandam by Brimer and out
of Trumpets Dam".
The Penelope in this pedigree was the dam of Brown Farewell in 1710. She may
have been the dam in 1709 of Penelope that won the 1714 Hambleton Royal Plate.
The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham's pedigree collection, Sheffield Archives, Document Reference WWM/R/193/49, says - "The Scarborough Mare was got by Mackeless her dam by Brimmer which Mare was a dau of Sr Marma: Wyvills Mare & called Tisby".
It is possible that Tisby, an old spelling of Thisbe, was full sister to Penelope.
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Violet Layton mare Trumpet's dam Old Thornton Old Sophonisba Whirligig
by Darcy's White Turk by Place's White Turk by Place's White Turk by Brimmer by Spanker by Spanker
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Y Violet Layton BURFORD BULL DARCY'S COUNSELLOR mare Penelope Tisby mare Chesnut Thornton DIMPLE Bright's Roan
by Darcy's Chesnut by Brimmer by Lonsdale by Bustler by Brimmer by Brimmer by Hautboy by Makeless by Leedes Arabian by Leedes Arabian
Arabian Counsellor | | | | |
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Mad Darcy mare OLD SPOT mare [Penelope] Brown Farewell Croft's Pet Mare Lusty Thornton Desdemona Young Bets
by Darcy's by Selaby Turk by Selaby Turk by Rockwood by Makeless by Makeless by Wastell's Turk by Croft's Bay Barb by Greyhound by Rutland
Woodcock | | | 1709 | 1710 | | 1714 Black Barb
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mare WHYNDAM mare Old Lady mare BROTHER TO GUY YOUNG GREYHOUND Ringbone Confederate Filly
by Hartley's by Grey Hautboy by Grey Hautboy by Pulleine's by H Court by Greyhound by Greyhound by Partner by Grey Grantham
Roan Horse | | Arabian Ches Arab 1723 1718 | 1732 |
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TARTAR WYNDHAM TICKLEPITCHER mare mare ANCASTER STARLING BLAZE
by Ground Ivy 1719 by Son of by Pulleine's by Sweepstakes by Starling by Childers
1756 Holderness Turk Blind Horse | 1736 1738 1733
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BOLTON STARLING WHISTLEJACKET TICKLEPITCHER
by Bay Bolton by Mogul by Cade
1727 1749 1757
The Place's White Turk mare in the pedigrees of Brother to Guy and Young Greyhound was also dam of Trumpet by Hautboy, and she is usually known as Trumpet's dam. The Sporting Kalendar for 1757, by John Pond, page 221, says she was - "a grey Mare of Mr. Croft's, called Trumpet's Dam, which was out of a Darcy Yellow Turk Layton Mare, and she was got by Place's white Trugunwell Turk, that got Commoner and the Ranter Gelding".
Although the Arlington Barb Mare of West Layton was most probably the Layton Barb Mare, it is possible that the Darcy Yellow Turk Layton Mare was also known as the Layton Barb Mare. According to the Caledonian Mercury she was also known as the Burton Barb Mare, and as mentioned in the stud book, they both had foals by Dicky Pierson alias Dodsworth.
One of the pedigrees of Wyndham's dam, which appears in the advertisement of the Bay Colt by a son of the Bald Galloway in the Newcastle Courant, ends "her Dam by Mr Curwen's old Woodcock, out of a Royal Mare of Mr Darcey's of Sedburgh". Curwen's Old Woodcock was Dicky Pierson and the Royal Mare of Mr Darcey's of Sedburgh was the mare by Darcy's Yellow Turk. If the Vintner Mare was a daughter of Curwen's Arabian and the Layton Barb Mare then she would appear to be a full sister to the Dicky Pierson mare that was the ancestress of Wyndham.
See CONFUSED PEDIGREES AND MISTAKEN IDENTITIES for information concerning the pedigree of Blaze.
The Royal Studs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by C M Prior, page 143, in Lord Godolphin's Stud Book, says - "Volunteer's Sister was got by a Colt of my own Breed called Bellgrade, and out of a Daughter of Bartlett's Childers, out of a Daughter off ye late D: of Devonshire's Chesnut Arabian, out of a Daughter of ye Bay Barb, wch was full sister to ye Duke of Somerset's Westburry, as Mr Pelham certifyed to me. [Signed] Ma: Wyvill".
Arlington Barb Mare
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GREY HAUTBOY Layton Barb Mare mare mare
[LAYTON GREY BARB] by Darcy's Yellow Turk by Dicky Pierson by Wilkinson's
by Hautboy | [by Darcy's Woodcock] Arabian
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| Scorfield's Mare mare <============> Vintner Mare <===================> mare mare mare | |
| by Dicky Pierson by Whiteshirt by Curwen's Arabian by Old Woodcock by Woodcock by Wilkinson's | |
| [by Curwen's Old Woodcock] | | | | Turk | |
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| mare mare mare <================> mare <======================> [mare] mare mare mare SNAIL
| by Place's White Turk by Luggs by Little Barb by Lowther Barb [by Lowther Barb] by Leedes Arabian by Whynot by Whynot by Whynot
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| mare mare mare <================> mare <=======================> mare RAMSDEN'S SPOT BAY WILKINSON | SNAIL
| by Bustler by Snake by Old Spot by Old Spot by Old Spot by Old Spot by Snake | | 1710
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--> = mare OLD SPOT THUNDERBOLT mare <====> Grey Mare sister to Mixbury sister to Westbury | Milkmaid
| by Selaby Turk by Selaby Turk by Wood's by Flattface by Flattface by Curwen's Bay Barb by Curwen's Bay Barb | | 1720
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mare WYNDHAM mare Queen HANNIBAL PARTNER mare mare Meliora
| by Hautboy | by Terror by Son of Jigg by Devonshire Turk by Cardigan by Fox
| | 1700 | 1713 | 1718 [by Devonshire Arabian] Colt | 1729
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mare mare Thwaite's Dun Mare mare mare Miss Layton mare HIPP TARTAR
by Grey by Acaster Turk by Acaster Turk by Montague by a cart horse 1731 by Bleeding Childers by Tifter by Partner
Cottingham | | | | | | 1743
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mare COTTINGHAM mare mare Mother Western mare VOLUNTEER mare mare mare
by Tifter by Hartley's by Bald by Partner by Easby Snake by Son of Snake by Young Belgrade by Scarborough Colt | by Young Belgrade
| Blind Horse Galloway | | 1731 | 1735 | | |
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mare | Worlock's Galloway mare Spilletta mare ANTELOPE mare Spectacles Miss Windsor
by Hipp | by Son of Snake by Crab by Regulus by Spark by Young Belgrade by Young Belgrade by Scarborough Colt by Godolphin Arabian
by Tifter | | 1724 | | 1749 | 1746 | | | 1754
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mare Golden Locks | mare COALITION COLT | TARQUIN Lisette
| 1745 by Oroonoko | by Hip by Godolphin Arabian | by Godolphin Arabian by Snap
| | 1758 | | 1749 | | 1745 | 1772
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mare Sportsmistress ECLIPSE SAMPSON mare Maria
by Snip by Sportsman by Marske by Blaze (Ancestress of Oriana and WINDLE) by King Herod
| 1758 | 1765 | 1764 1745 | 1777
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mare POTOOOOOOOO WAXY
by Regulus 1773 by Potoooooooo
| 1790
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TANDEM
by Syphon
1773
The pedigree of Wyndham shows line breeding to the Arlington Barb Mare of 2 x 6. I have had much doubt as to the probability of this type of breeding so I decided to come forward 300 years to try to find some occurrences of horses bred 2 x 6 in the present day. Northern Dancer (1961) sired Sadler's Wells in 1981 and Sadler's Wells had his last foals in 2008. I have checked the pedigrees of 332 horses sired by Sadler's Wells in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Twenty eight were line bred 2 x 6 to Northern Dancer, and of these Pekan Three (2007) and Nu (2008) were also line bred 2 x 7, as shown below.
NORTHERN DANCER
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NIJINSKY SADLER'S WELLS
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INCHINOR | Inchkeith
| 1990 | | 1992
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Frappe | Ingeborg
| 1996 | | 1999
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PEKAN THREE Nu
2007 2008
In the pedigree of Volunteer it is very likely that a cross of the White-legged Lowther Barb has been missed, so it is possible that the Old Spot mares are identical, making Mixbury and Westbury full brothers.
In his lifetime the horse we know as Mixbury was referred to as the Mixbury Galloway, meaning the galloway from Mixbury. The village of Mixbury is in Oxfordshire, ten miles east of Banbury. One mile north of Mixbury, just across the border in Buckinghamshire, is the village of Westbury. It is possible that the horse known as Westbury was stabled at Mixbury and became famous as the Mixbury Galloway. The galloway was owned by Richard Minshull of Bourton in Buckinghamshire, whose horses were trained at Mixbury, and was also known as the Minchell or Minshull Galloway. The next advertisement states that Smiling Ball traced to a "full Sister to a Horse that Minchel had, call'd Westbury, which he said, when tryed, was the best young Horse he ever had".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, February 28. 1735-6. Number 566, says - "An Account of a Chesnut Horse, call'd Smiling Ball. This famous Horse leaps Mares all this Season at Richmond in Yorkshire, for One Guinea a Mare Leaps and Tryals, and One Shilling the Man. He was bred by Mr Gase of Panton in Lincolnshire; he was got by a Son of the Acklam Merlin; Mr Gase bought him out of Yorkshire; he made him so good a Hunter, that he never would suffer him to be trained; he was thought one of the best Hunters in the Kingdom. Ball's Dam was bred by Mr Curwen of Workington; she was got by Mr Curwen's old bay Barb, which was Mr Pelham's afterwards; she was the Dam of Lord Gower's Chance Gelding, out of a Mare that was got by old Spot, out of a Daughter of old Woodcock, (not Mr Bethel's Woodcock) and full Sister to a Horse that Minchel had, call'd Westbury, which he said, when tryed, was the best young Horse he ever had. This is a true Pedigree I have under Mr Pelham's Hand, by Mr Curwen's Book. Ball is now coming 15 Years old, sound of his Wind, and free from any Cough, and clear of all material Blemishes. The Horse was bought by John Turner of Mr Gase, who had him some Time, and then sold him to the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex; after he had done Running, his Lordship gave him to John Turner, who was Servant to his Lordship the Time he had him in Training, and saw all his Performances. N B Good Grass for the Mares, and proper Care will be taken of them.
Westbury was later owned by "The Proud Duke" Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, who was Master of the Horse to Queen Anne and George I. A sister to Westbury bred a filly by the Devonshire Chesnut Arabian, that was grandam to Volunteer. There was also an Arabian that was given by the Duke of Devonshire to Lord Finch and this Arabian sired Fair Wanderer, a filly bred by Lord Gower out of his sister to Mixbury. The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 8, lists Fair Wanderer under the sister to Mixbury, dam of Partner. This Lord Finch was Daniel Finch, whose sister Charlotte was the second wife of the 6th Duke of Somerset, and their daughter Frances married John Manners, Marquis of Granby, whose father's first cousin was Lord Gower. These family connections lead me to the conclusion that Lord Gower's sister to Mixbury and the sister to Westbury were identical, and she was the dam of Fair Wanderer by Finch's Arabian and Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's mare by the Devonshire Chesnut Arabian, that was grandam to Volunteer.
See THE CHESNUT ARABIAN AT HAMPTON COURT for more information.
See BLACK-A-TOP, OLD MONTAGUE MARE, PULLEINE'S CHESNUT ARABIAN AND WHITESHIRT MARE for evidence that the Whiteshirt mare was the Vintner Mare.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 389, says - "Oglethorpe Arabian (sire of Makeless). This may be the horse described as Mr Oglethorpe's son of the Yellow Turk".
The York Courant, Tuesday, February 17, 1756, Number 1582, says - "To be Sold, The Property of John Pollard, of Stubbs Hall, near Doncaster, Two Stallions; the one a very genteel Bay Horse, call'd Silvertail, six Years old, well mark'd, full fifteen Hands one Inch and an half high, Master of 16 Stone a-hunting, is allowed to be one of the best Chapmen's Horses in the Country, and his Foals, of their Year, none can exceed. The other a Brown Bay Horse, call'd Stranger, five Years old, fifteen Hands high. Stranger was got by a Son of Young Iphis. Iphis was got by Makeless, and Makeless by the Earl of Albemarle's Grey Arabian; his Dam, by Old Partner; his Grandam, by Cricket, and out of a Mare got by Aleppo; his great Grandam, by Mr Curwen's Terror; and his Great Great Grandam was Lord Derwentwater's white Mare, which was taken at Preston, in 1713 [1715]. The above Horses are free from Blemishes".
The York Courant, Tuesday, March 10, 1752. Number 1379, says - "To Leap this Season, At Half a Guinea a Mare, and one Shilling at the Stable Door; being the Property of Mr William Staveley, at Hunmanby, near Scarbrough and Bridlington, in Yorkshire. A Fine strong Bay Horse known by the Name of Captain, fourteen Hands, three Inches and a half high, well mark'd clear of all natural Blemishes and goes well on his Legs: Bred by William Osbaldeston, Esq; He was out of the Dam of that noted Running Horse, Traveller, Maidenhead, Mopsy and Trail, who got so many saleable Horses at great Prices. Her Dam full Sister to the famous Bay Bolton, &c bred by Sir Matthew Peirson. And is only rising seven Years old. He was got by Captain Hartley's Young Hip, who was bred by Mr Pelham, and got by Mr Curwin's Bay Barb, his Dam by Lister's Turk, who got Old Snake, and out of a Running Mare of the Duke of Kingston's, call'd Piping Peg. My Horse was out of the Dam of Babram, and was got by my blind Horse out of old Flying Whig, which Lord Godolphin bred. She was got by the Woodstock Arabian, who also got the famous Spider and Points; her Dam was got by St Victor's Barb, who got the Old Bald Galloway, and her Grandam by Old Grey Whynot, and out of a Running Kind, &c. The Pedigree of Hip I had from Mr Pelham, and that of Whig from Lord Godolphin. / Leonard Hartley. Good Grass for Mares for the Season".
The Sporting Kalendar for 1754, by John Pond, in the stallion advertisements, says - "Also at the same Place, the famous well-shaped chestnut Horse, called Joseph Andrews, fifteen Hands and an Inch high, fit to carry eighteen Stone Weight a Hunting, bred by Leonard Hartley Esq; near Richmond in Yorkshire, at one Guinea and half a Crown each Mare. He was got by Roundhead, who was out of Roxana and the Devonshire Childers; Joseph's Dam was got by Hip, bred by Charles Pelham Esq, and got by the old Bay Barb, his Grandam by Mr. Hartley's blind Horse, his Great Grandam was Old Flying Whig, bred by the Earl of Godolphin; she was got by the Woodstock Arabian, her Dam by St. Victor's Barb who got the old Bald Galloway, and her Grandam by old grey Why Not. Leonard Hartley".
The Racing Calendar for 1743, by John Cheny, in the index, says - "The Dam of Smales Childers was got by the Byerley Turk, his Grand Dam by the Wilkinson Whynot, Son of the Fenwick Barb".
The Sporting Kalendar for 1754, by John Pond, in the index, says - "Mariamne, the Earl of Portmore's, was got by Victorious, her Dam by Partner, her Grandam by Richardson's Merlin, a Son of old Merlin, bred by Sir Matthew Pierson, her Great Grandam by Makeless, her Great Great Grandam by Burfoot's Ball, her Great Great Great Grandam by an Arabian of the old Duke of Devonshire's. Victorious was got by Rufler, his Dam by the late Hutton's grey Barb, his Grandam by Bay Whynot, which was the Dam of Bay Wilkinson. She came from a kind of Mr. Wilkinson's called the Smithson; Mariamne is full Sister to Sir Ralph Gore's Mare".
The Dutton Pedigrees, Gloucestershire Record Office, Document Reference D678/1 F14/5/6, page 3, says - "The Ball'd Galloway's Pedigree. He was got by Monsr St Victor's Barb; His Dam by Mr Rider's Whynot, Whynot was out of a Royall Mare & the Yellow Turk, & bred by Mr D'arcey".
According to Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 10, the dam of Bald Galloway was "a mare of Captain Rider's, got by Mr. Fenwick's Whynot, (son of his Barb); his grandam was a Royal Mare".
Pedigrees involving Whynot are very mixed up but the general concensus is that the dam of Bald Galloway was by Grey Whynot. The dams of Bay Wilkinson and the stallion Snail were both out of mares by Wilkinson's Turk and are both generally accepted to be by Bay Whynot or Wilkinson's Whynot or Darcy's Whynot.
It is only supposition but Grey Whynot could be Rider's Whynot by Fenwick's Whynot by Darcy's Yellow Turk. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that Fenwick's Whynot was also known as Fenwick Barb.
Muir's Ye Olde New-Markitt Calendar, page 27, under Horse matches to be run
at Newmarket, says - '1698. April 7. The King's Plate. 12sts. 0lbs. 3 heats
and a course'
Muir's Ye Olde New-Markitt Calendar, page 28, says - '1698. April 7. His Majesty's
Plate, £100. 3 heats (about 2 o'clock). Sir John Parson's horse 0 1 1.
Sir John Water's gelding 1 0 0. Lord Wharton's Snail 0 0 0'
Hore's History of Newmarket, volume III, page 213, quoting The Post Man, April
7-9, 1698, No 447, says - 'Newmarket, April 7. About two a Clock his Majesty's
Plate was run for; the first heat was wone by a Gelding of Sir John Waters;
the second by a Horse of Sir John Parsons, and the third in a fair way
to be wone by my Lord Wharton's Snail, who being crossed and stopped
by Spectators within 300 yards of the ending post, Sir John Parsons Horse
wone the Plate, by winning that heat likewise'
Hore's History of Newmarket, volume III, page 215, quoting The Post Man, April
9-12, 1698, No 448, says - 'Newmarket, April 9. My Lord Sherwoods Bay
Horse, and my Lord Whartons Snail were to run this day, but the former paid
forfeit two days ago, and both run for the Plate which Sir John Parsons grey
Horse wone'
As this was a race for six year old horses Snail was most probably foaled in 1692.
DARCY'S YELLOW TURK <======================================================================================> DODSWORTH
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SPANKER DARCY'S or WILKINSON'S or BAY WHYNOT ==> Arlington Barb Mare = DARCY'S WOODCOCK
| (FENWICK'S WHYNOT or FENWICK BARB) = | 1663
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Charming Jenny GREY WHYNOT mare | ==> Arlington = WILKINSON'S TURK = mare
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Leedes Arabian mare mare Byerley's Turk mare mare | mare
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Acaster Turk mare = BALD GALLOWAY SMALE'S CILDERS SNAIL Whynot mare
| by Bleeding Childers | 1692 |
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Roxana SNAIL BAY WILKINSON Hutton's Grey Barb mare Hutton's Grey Barb mare
1718 | 1710 by Snake | |
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Milkmaid GRISEWOOD'S mare = VICTORIOUS
| 1720 PARTNER by Chesterfield | by Ruffler
| by Partner Arabian | 1722
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Meliora PORTMORE HIGHLANDER
1729 1742
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 388, says - "was the property of Mr Place, stud-master to Oliver Cromwell, when Protector, and was sire of Wormwood, Commoner, and the great-grandams of Wyndham, Grey Ramsden and Cartouch". This is confirmed by Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 71.
The Racing Calendar for 1744, by John Cheny, in the index, page x, says - "The White Turk that got Wormwood, and also the Great Grand-Dam of Windham, I suppose to be the Turk of Mr. Place's, Stud-Master to the Lord Protector Cromwell; but this I am not absolutely certain of". Page xi says - "The White Turk of Mr. Place's, which (as I conjecture) got Wormwood and the Great Grand-Dam of Windham, got Commoner and the Ranter Gelding, the Great Grand-Dams of Grey Ramsden, Scar, Guy, Cartouch, Young Greyhound, and the Great Great Grand Dam of Barforth".
The Sporting Kalendar for 1757, by John Pond, page 221, says he was - "Place's white Trugunwell Turk, that got Commoner and the Ranter Gelding".
The Sportsman's Pocket Companion, a collection of forty engravings drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts, published around 1760, number 33, says - "The Portraiture of Silver Leg. The Property of Nath.l Curzon Esq.r This Excellent Horse was bred by the Earl of Portmore at Weybridge in Surry, and got by Young Cartouch, Son of Old Cartouch who was got by Bald Galloway, whose Dam was got by the Cripp'd Barb, his Grand Dam by Makeless, she was out of the Dam of Trumpet, who was out of a Darcey Yellow Mare got by Places White Tregonwell Turk that got Commoner the Ranter Gelding and many others Silver Leg's Dam was got by Old Cartouch his Grand Dam by Darley's Arabian Sire of Childers, his Great Gran Dam was the Dam of Bay Bolton Lamprie &c".
He is commonly identified with the Arabian horse purchased for Cromwell in Aleppo in 1657, but this date is much too early for Place's White Turk, as he would have been at least thirteen years old when Dodsworth was foaled and there is no evidence that Dodsworth ever covered a Place's White Turk mare.
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde. K.P. preserved at Kilkenny Castle. New Series, Vol. V., pages 6 and 7. Part of a letter from Colonel Edward Cooke to Ormond, 1679, March 29, London, says - "Lastly for horses, I have kept 12 at house all this winter, some in heats, some for hunting and some for haglings. I have the famous beautiful Burnett in my stable, who serves but to pick up Gloucestershire plates (of which we have abundance) and get foals, finer than which never any stallion yet got. He is allowed by all the Newmarketerians as the handsomest horse now in England, comes eleven and is sound to all intents and purposes".
The 'famous beautiful Burnett' is Burnett's White Barb, another name for Place's White Turk, as one of the co-executors of Place's Will was his cousin John Burnett.
Foaled in 1668.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 389, says - "also called Sedbury Turk, was the sire of Old Hautboy, Grey Royal, Cannon, etc".
In Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 36, in the pedigree of Creeper, James Darcy says - "Blundrbush Royall's dam was out of my own Gray Royall, and gott by the White Turk". C M Prior, in his note on this pedigree, says - "In the foregoing pedigree of Creeper, in his allusion to 'the White Turk,' James Darcy probably referred to Place's famous stallion, rather than to a horse of his own, as supposed in the G.S.B. Dinsdale, where Place's White Turk stood, was only some ten miles from the Darcy estate at Sedbury. It will be noted that for such animals as were his own property, James Darcy uses the term 'my'."
This identification has long been conjectured but I now have evidence which proves that Place's White Turk was also known as Darcy's White Turk. The following text is taken from a portrait of William's Squirrel by James Seymour - "Squirril was bred by the late Mr. Smith near Middleham Yorkshire, & got by Snake, whose Dam was a Daughter of Hautboy. His Sire the Stradling, or Lister Turk. Hautboy was out of a Royal Mare, and the White Darcy Turk, which got Commoner & the Ranter Gelding". According to John Cheny and John Pond, above, Commoner and the Ranter Gelding were sired by Place's White Turk.
The following entry appears in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 10:
GREY ROYAL,
Bred at Hampton Court or Sedbury, got by Darcy's White Turk,
dam by Darcy's Yellow Turk - Royal Mare.
* f. (Kitt Darcy's Mare) by Blunderbuss,
son of Bustler - Miss Darcy
** f. by Makeless - - - Miss Darcy
***1719 f. Duchess, by the Newcastle Turk - Miss Darcy
* This mare was the dam of Sir R. Milbanke's famous black
mare, by Makeless, of Capt. Hartley's bl. f., by the Rutland
Black Barb, of a f. by Hautboy, and also probably of (Old)
Royal, by the Holderness Turk.
** This mare had a f. by the Rutland Black Barb (Capt.
Hartley's), which was the dam, in 1716, of a f., by Holderness
Turk, and, in 1723, of a f., by Snake.
*** Duchess was the dam of the Duke of Devonshire's c.
(Hampton Court) Childers, by Flying Childers, and of a sister
to him, which was sent to Ireland, and was dam, in 1737, of
the Irish stallion, Ground Ivy, by Y. Lamprie.
The following entry appears in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 16:
ROYAL MARE (Kitt Darcy's),
Bred by Lord Darcy, got by Blunderbuss, her dam, Old Grey
Royal, by Darcy White Turk.
bl.f. by Makeless - - - Sir R. Milbanke
bl.f. by The Rutland Black Barb - Sir R. Milbanke
f. by Hautboy - - - Sir J. Jennings
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 108, says - "Rachel, Bred by the Duke of Ancaster, foaled in 1763, got by Blank, her dam by Regulus - Soreheels - Makeless - C. D'Arcy's Royal Mare".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 110, says - "Regulus mare, Her dam by Soreheels, grand dam by Makeless, out of Christopher D'Arcy's Royal Mare".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 133, says - "Soreheels mare, Her dam (the dam of Hartley's Blind Horse) by Makeless, out of Christopher D'Arcy's Royal Mare".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 176, says - "Hartley's blind Horse, [by] Holderness Turk - Sir R. Milbank's Black Mare, by Makeless - D'Arcy Royal Mare".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 132, says - "Sophia, Foaled in 1764, got by Blank, her dam, Lord Leigh's Diana, by Second, grand dam, Mr. Hanger's Brown Mare, by Stanyan's Arabian, out of Gipsey ; she was bred by Sir Ralph Milbanke, and got by King William's Black Barb without a Tongue, out of Sir Ralph's Black Mare, bred by Mr. D'Arcy, got by Makeless, out of one of his best Royal Mares".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 169, says - "(Ld Leigh's) Charming Molly, bred by Mr. Hanger, 1741, She was own sister to Diana, got by Second, dam (Mr. H's brown mare) by Stanyan's Arabian, out of Gipsey ; Gipsey was bred by Sir R. Milbank, and got by King William's no-tongued Barb - Makeless - Royal Mare".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 133, says - "Spectator mare, bred by the Duke of Ancaster, her dam by Blank - Godolphin Whitefoot - Stanyan's Arabian - King William's Black Barb - Christopher D'Arcy's Royal Mare". According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 35, the Blank mare was out of Lord Leigh's Diana by Second.
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 194, says - "Chance, D. of Cumberland's, foaled in 1780, got by Javelin, dam by Faggergill, grand dam by the Northumberland Golden Arabian - Traveller - Hip - Snake - Rutland Black Barb - Blunderbuss - Lord D'Arcy's Grey Royal Mare".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 201, says - "Tyrant, Mr. Gott's, foaled in 1769, got by Turf, his dam (Cremona) by Regulus - Traveller - Hip - Snake - Rutland Black Barb - Blunderbuss - Ld D'Arcy's grey Royal Mare".
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 222, the Hip mare in these two pedigrees was called Whitestockings and the cross of Blunderbuss should read Makeless. On page 70 under the mare Cremona a note is appended - "Previous editions give 'Blunderbuss' instead of Makeless, but the latter is more generally confirmed". If the Makeless mare in these two pedigrees is Milbanke's Black Mare then King William's Black Barb was probably the same as the Rutland Black Barb.
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 36, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "Creepr [foaled 1716]. A Gray mare, gott by Woodcock, Her dam by ye D. of Rutland's Gray Arabian, her grandm was out of my Old Royall Mare, which was gott by Blundrbush, which mare was half sistr to the black Royal mare I sold to Sr Ralph Milbanke, gott by Makeless. Blundrbush Royall's dam was out of my own Gray Royall, and gott by the White Turk. Witness my hand, J. Darcy".
This pedigree, supplied by James Darcy the younger, makes it clear that Milbanke's Black Mare by Makeless was half sister to the Royal Mare by Blunderbuss and not her daughter.
Prior's note to this pedigree says - "It will be observed that James (Lord) Darcy says Blunderbush Royal's dam was out of Grey Royal, whereas the G.S.B. shews her dam to have been Grey Royal herself". Prior's inability to read old pedigrees correctly has further complicated the matter. Firstly, Grey Royal is not a name, it is a description. Secondly, pedigrees were written down backwards. So, Blundrbush Royall's dam was out of my own Gray Royall, and gott by the White Turk, means that the Royal mare was by Blunderbuss, and her dam [the Grey Royal in the GSB] was by the White Turk out of my own Royal mare which happens to be a grey.
James Darcy the younger states here that he was the owner of the grandam of the Royal Mare by Blunderbuss but not the dam, which according to the above pedigrees was owned by his brother Christopher Darcy.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 10, says Grey Royal was - "got by Darcy's White Turk, dam by Darcy's Yellow Turk - Royal Mare". We know from Prior, above, that the dam of Grey Royal was James Darcy's own Gray Royall, and since she was by Darcy's Yellow Turk, a chesnut, her dam must also have been a grey Royal Mare. It is only conjecture, but it seems likely that this grey Royal Mare was the Old Morocco Mare.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 14, says the Old Morocco Mare was dam of a filly by Darcy's Yellow Turk, owned by Darcy, that was dam of Lord Lonsdale's Counsellor by the Shaftesbury Turk. Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 28, however, says the dam of Lord Lonsdale's Counsellor was - "gott by the White Turk, who got Cannon and Ho'boy. And her dam by the Yellow Turk, who got Old Spanker".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, 1791, page 183, says - "Old Royal, [by] Holderness Turk - Blunderbuss Royal Mare".
Old Royal and the Rutland Grey Arabian mare, dam of Creeper, would appear to be the only known produce of the Blunderbuss mare.
The Sportsman, Wednesday, March 16, 1892, Pedigrees copied from Capt. Hartley's Stud Book, says - "Hartley's Blind Horse, a dark ch, bred by the Earl of Holderness, by the Holderness Turk (which Sir R Sutton brought over with him from Turkey, when Ambassador to Queen Anne), his dam by Makeless, a Royal mare by Blunderbuss, Her dam by the Sedbury White Turk, gr by the Yellow Turk".
The Sportsman, Wednesday, March 16, 1892, Pedigrees copied from Capt. Hartley's Stud Book, says - "Chestnut mare, bought by Capt. Hartley, of Sir Ralph Milbank, bred by Lord Holderness at Hornby Castle. Pedigree given to Capt. Hartley by Lord D'Arcy, who sold her dam to Lord Holderness: chesnut mare, 1716, by Holderness Turk, dam by Rutland Black Barb, g d, dam of Milbank, black mare by Makeless, g g d Sedbury Royal mare. Old Grey Royal, by Sedbury White Turk".
The Sportsman, Wednesday, March 16, 1892, Pedigrees copied from Capt. Hartley's Stud Book, says - "Snake mare [1723], bought of Tim Wright's widow, her dam by the Rutland Black Barb, out of Sir R Milbank's famous black mare, which was of the Blunderbuss Royal stud, of Sedbury".
These last two are both out of the same Rutland Black Barb mare, a daughter of Sir Ralph Milbank's Black Mare by Makeless, out of Old Grey Royal.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 10, says this is the Makeless mare out of Grey Royal. A note says this Makeless mare was dam of the Rutland Black Barb mare that was the dam of the Holderness Turk mare in 1716 and the Snake mare in 1723. The same entry says Grey Royal was the dam of Kitt Darcy's Mare by Blunderbuss, son of Bustler. A note says this Blunderbuss mare was dam of Sir R. Milbanke's famous black mare, by Makeless.
The GSB entry for Grey Royal is a mess. Kitt (Christopher) Darcy's Mare was Grey Royal, not her daughter by Blunderbuss. Milbanke's Black Mare was a daughter of Grey Royal and not the Blunderbuss mare. The Blunderbuss mare was dam of a Makeless mare that was the dam of Hartley's Blind Horse.
The Snake mare was dam of Whitestockings by Hip in 1732. This pedigree now agrees with the correction given in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 70.
Tregonwell Barb mare <==============================================================> Old Grey Royal
by Place's White Turk (Christopher Darcy's Royal Mare)
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mare Royal Mare Milbanke's Black Mare
by Blacklegs by Blunderbuss by Makeless
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mare mare mare OLD ROYAL mare Gipsey mare
by Wastell's Turk by Rutland Grey Arabian by Makeless by Holderness Turk by Rutland Black Barb by King William's Black Barb by Soreheels
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Duchess Creeper HARTLEY'S BLIND HORSE mare mare Hanger's Brown Mare mare
by Newcastle Turk by Woodcock by Holderness Turk by Holderness Turk by Snake by Stanyan's Arabian by Regulus
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HAMPTON COURT CHILDERS mare Whitestockings Diana Charming Molly Rachel
by Childers by Childers by Hip by Whitefoot by Whitefoot by Blank
| 1732 | 1740 1742 | 1763
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GROUND IVY Sophia HIGHFLYER
by Young Lamprie by Blank by King Herod
1737 1764 1774
Duchess by Newcastle Turk was not a 1719 daughter of Old Grey Royal but was a 1708 great grandaughter of Tregonwell Barb mare, alias Old Grey Royal.
It should be noted here that the Holderness Turk that sired Old Royal was a different stallion from the Holderness Turk that sired Hartley's Blind Horse.
The following entry appears in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 15:
THE PET MARE,
The property of Miss Betty Darcy. She was the daughter either
of Grey Royal or of a Sedbury Royal Mare. The sire is not
given in any pedigree, and probably the cover was abroad,
as this is the only case in which the sire is not given.
gr.c. Clumsey, by Hautboy - - - Mr Wilkes
gr.f. Grey Wilkes, by ditto (Wilkes Old - Mr Robinson
Mare) - of Easby
* gr.f. The Old Wen mare, by ditto - - Sir J. Parsons
* This mare bred a c. by The Curwen Bay Barb.
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 17, 1732-3, Number 412, says - "To be leap’d, this Season, at Mr Benjamin Scaife’s, the Sign of the black Lyon in Stockton, in the County of Durham, at one Guinea a Mare, and 2 s 6 d the Keeper the famous Horse call’d Robinson Crusoe, bred by Mr Robinson of Easeby: He was got by Jigg, out of a Sparke Mare, which was from a Snake Mare, the full Sister to the famous Egerston’s Mare (Country Wench) which Snake Mare was out of a Hautboy Mare bought of Mr Wilk’s: Her Dam being a Pett-Filly Mr Wilk’s bought of Mrs [error for Miss] Betty D’Arcy, which was a Foal of her Brother Mr Christopher D’Arcy’s, out of a Royal Mare: He is also full Brother to the Hon Henry Vane, Esq’rs Mare, which came Second the last Meeting at Hambleton, and won the 5 Years old Plate at Barnard-Castle, and the aged Plate at Sunderland the last Year. Mr Robinson sold Robinson Crusoe to Charles Bathurst, Esq; who matched him to run at Midlam; at 5 Years old, against Mr Anderson’s grey Horse for 600 Guineas, which he won: He also won the King’s Plates at York and Newmarket.—N B Whoever sends a Mare to him, may have Grass and good Conveniencies for her, at reasonable Rates".
The Racing Calendar for 1744, by John Cheny, in the index, page viii, says - "Hautboy, which got the Dam of Snake, was also the sire of Windham, of Sir John Parsons's Plowman, Farmer, and Clumsey, all three bred by Mr. Wilks; The latter of which was the Sire of Fox, and the Fox Cub or Squirrel.
Records of the Dutton Stud, Gloucestershire Records Office, D678/1 F14/5/6, says - "Regulus's Sister. A grey Mare got by the Earl of Godolphin's Arabian, Her Dam by the Balled Galloway her grandam was a mare of Mr Wilks's, got by Hautboy out of a full sister to Plowmans".
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, March 3, 1759, Number 305, says - "To Cover this Season, At Mr Richard White's at the King's-Arms in Didmarton, Glosestershire, At One Guinea a Mare, and Half a Crown the Servant, A Beautiful Strong Grey Horse, Near fifteen Hands high, and Master of any Weight, bred by Mr William Howe, and got by the late Duke of Devonshire's Second, who was a Son of Childer's, and full Brother to Black Legs, Snip, Puff, Bay Motte. The Grey Horse's Dam was the noted Mare, Called Grey Robinson, and was also the Dam of Mr Martindale's Regulus, Mr Dyer's Frolick, and severalother running Horses, She was got by the Bald Galloway, her dam by Old Hautboy, out of a full Sister to Sir John Parson's Plowman. As the Pedigree of Regulus, and the Horses of his gett, are so frequently published in the Horse-Race Papers, it is thought needless to mention any more of his Pedigree. This is a true Pedigree, as witness my Hand, W Howe".
The Records of Dutton's Stud and Jackson's Oxford Journal both say the dam of Grey Robinson was by Hautboy out of a full sister to Plowman. The Racing Calendar for 1744 says Hautboy was the sire of Plowman, which means that both these pedigrees have put Hautboy instead of Snake as the sire of the dam of Grey Robinson.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 5, says - "Sir John Parson's Ploughman".
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 30, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "[Routh's Surley] A Gray Horse [1720] bought of Mr Hutton in April, 1725. He was gott by Surley, which Horse was gott by his Gray Barb, his dam by ye Royall Colt, her dam by Byrley Turk, her dam by Bustler, her dam by a Barb, and her dam by Bay Dodsworth". Also says - "The mare [my] Surley was out of was got by Coney skins, her dam by old Ho'boy, & her dam [i.e., the Ho'boy mare] was bred by old Wilks, and out of a mare of Sr Wm Wyvill's, calld Clubfoot".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 378, says - "Blacklegs, Mr Hutton's, 1725, by Hutton's or Mulso Bay Turk - Coneyskins - Old Club Foot, by Hautboy. Mr Hutton had an own sister to Blacklegs".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 387, says - "Valentine, Mr Wentworth's, 1765, by Young Cade - Norris's Bolton - Mogul - Young Belgrade - Mulso Bay Turk - Coneyskins - Hautboy".
Weatherby's Racing Calendar, March 23, 1775, Newspaper, Number I, says - "At Brickwell-House in Hertfordshire, (3 Miles from Hatfield, and 2 from Wellwyn) Valentine, that beautiful and boney high-bred bay horse, at one guinea each Mare, and 2 s 6 d the man. He was got by Young Cade, his dam by Norris's Bolton, his Grandam by the Duke of Bolton's Mogul, his great grandam by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's Belgrade, who was the Sire of Volunteer and Antelope; his great great grandam by a Bay Turk, brought over by Mulso; his great great great grandam, by Coneyskin, his great grt grt grt grandam by Hautboy, his great great great great great gran-dam from the Wilks Mare. This is a true Pedigree. / Witness my hand, Dec. 23d, 1772. / William Wood. Valentine's Performance is well known to all Sportsmen of the Turf. At 5 years old he won three matches, and received two forfeits, beating Phlegon over Newmarket, which covers at 5gs a Mare; and Daniel or Hemp, which covers at 10gs a Mare, over Bath; and several plates too tedious to mention. N B Good grass and proper care taken. The money to be paid at the time of covering, or before the Mares are taken away".
The following entry appears in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 16:
ROYAL MARE,
Lord Darcy's Blacklegged Royal Mare, probably a daughter of one
of the Royal Mares at Hampton Court, and removed to Sedbury,
near Richmond, on the death of Queen Anne.
* f. by King William's Barb-without-a-tongue - Lord Darcy
f. by Lord Oxford's Dun Arabian - - Lord Darcy
* This mare bred a f. by The Bald Galloway.
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 10, Grey Royal was the dam in 1719 of Duchess by the Newcastle Turk, the dam of the Hampton Court Childers.
The Racing Calendar for 1746, by John Cheny, in the index, pages 138 and 139, says - "The Turk that got Hautboy, was also the Sire of Cannon, of the Darcy Grey Royal, the Grand Dam of the Devonshire Dutchess, which was the Dam of the Hampton-Court Childers, and many others".
The Racing Calendar for 1746, by John Cheny, in the index, page 143, says - "The Hampton-Court Childers was bred by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, and got by Childers. The Dam of the Hampton-Court Childers, was call'd Dutchess (she was got by the Newcastle Turk) her Grand Dam was got by the Westal Turk ; her Great Grand Dam by the Darcy Black Legs ; her Great Great Grand Dam was called Old Royal ; she was out of a Darcy Royal Mare, and the Darcy White Turk".
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 124, in the list of the Duchess of Newcastle's Mares for 1712, mentions - "A filly foal Bay, 4 years old, by ye Pagett Arab of her Call'd Darcy's Young Sorrill out of a Royall Mare Call'd Black Leggs & Gott by Wastell's Turk, her Dam Gott by Duke of Rutland's Black Leggs out of Darcy's oldest Royall Mare".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 23, 1727-8, Number 152, says - "This is to give Notice, that Mr Robert Carter of Brumpton upon Swale, in the County of York, has a Chesnut ston'd Horse, Six Years old, free from Blemish, that he leaps at a Guinea a Mare: He is 14 hands three Inches high, fine shap'd and strong, he was got by Woodcock, and out of a Royal Mare, she got by Lord Darcy's Arabian which he bought of Mr Curwen, her Dam got by Wastel Turk, Duchess was out of the same Mare with this Horse Dam, her Dam got by Black-legs, which got Crecket, her Dam got by the white Turk which got Hautboy, her Dam was the old Royal Mare, which Lord Darcy found at Sadberry, in 1690, so he became the Owner of this Stud; her Dam got by the old Chesnut Turk which got Leeds' Spanker, and all the best Horses of England, betwixt forty and fifty Years ago, as Lord Darcy Witnesseth".
Duchess was foaled in 1708 by the Newcastle Turk (Pagett Arab) out of a mare by Wastell's Turk out of a mare by Blacklegs out of Darcy's Oldest Royal Mare.
The evidence here points to Darcy's Oldest Royal Mare being the same mare as Old Grey Royal, and her daughter by Blacklegs being the same mare as Lord Darcy's Blacklegged Royal Mare.
The Sporting Kalendar for 1757, by John Pond, page 221, says Trumpet's dam was - "out of a Darcy Yellow Turk Layton Mare, and she was got by Place's white Trugunwell Turk, that got Commoner and the Ranter Gelding".
The records show that the Tregonwell Barb Mare was the property of Sir John Lowther, who was created Viscount Lonsdale in 1696, and she had a daughter by Place's White Turk. The pedigree of Trumpet's dam in Pond's Sporting Kalendar refers to Place's White Turk as Place's White Trugunwell Turk. It may be that the daughter was a Place's White Trugunwell Turk mare, which was shortened to Trugunwell Barb mare. A more correct name for her dam, the Tregonwell Barb Mare, may be Lord Lonsdale's Arabian Mare, and if Pond's pedigree of Duchess is correct then she was a grey mare by Darcy's Yellow Turk out of a grey Royal Mare, and identical to Darcy's Grey Royal Mare.
The Tregonwell Barb mare was probably by Place's White Trugunwell Turk out of Lord Lonsdale's Arabian Mare and was identical to Old Grey Royal.
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 28, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "[Wood's] Counsellor's dam was got by Makeless, her dam was a Barb mare of Sr Hugh Cholmondley's. His sire's [Darcy's Counsellor's] dam was the Violet Laton mare in Ld D'arcy's stud. His grandsire's [Lonsdale Counsellor's] dam was gott by the White Turk, who got Cannon and Ho'boy. And her dam by the Yellow Turk, who got Old Spanker".
The pedigree of Lord Lonsdale's Counsellor in the GSB makes his dam a full sister to Spanker, while the version entered in Cuthbert Routh's Stud Book makes his dam a daughter of Darcy's White Turk out of a daughter of Darcy's Yellow Turk. This pedigree actually refers to Darcy's Counsellor and should read - "His sire's [Darcy's Counsellor's] dam was the Violet Laton mare in Ld D'arcy's stud. His sire's [Darcy's Counsellor's] dam was gott by the White Turk, who got Cannon and Ho'boy. His grandsire's [Lonsdale Counsellor's] dam by the Yellow Turk, who got Old Spanker".
It being more than probable that Lord Lonsdale's Counsellor was descended from his Arabian Mare, then the Lonsdale Arabian Mare would have been a full sister to Spanker by Darcy's Yellow Turk out of the Old Morocco Mare.
The Stamford Mercury, Thursday, March 26, 1778, Number 2456, says - "The noted Horse Spot, (The Property of Samuel Siddall, of Bourn,) will Cover this Season, at One guinea a Mare. Spot was bred by the late Edm. Turner, Esq; of Stoke near Grantham, and his pedigree is as follows: He was got by Blank, his dam by old Regulus, his Grandam by old Royal, Sire of Capt. Appleyard’s bald Charlotte, his great Grandam by Mr Curven’s grey Barb, his great great Grandam by Mr Curven’s bay Barb, Sire of Brocklesby Betty, and out of a Mare of Lord Lonsdale’s called the Tregonnel Mare, which Mare was bred by Mr Curven, and esteemed one of the highest Blood Mares Mr Curven had. The above Pedigree was taken from Mr Curven’s Stud Book, by the late Charles Pelham, Esq; of Brocklesby".
The Kentish Gazette, Saturday, May 6, 1780, Number 1199, says - "Trimmer Will Cover this Season, 1780, At Thomas Winter's, Colt-breaker, at Hythe, At Two Guineas a Mare, and Five Shillings the Man. He is fifteen Hands and a Half high, Master of sixteen Stone, and free from Blemish. - Trimmer was got by Mr. Turner's Spot ; Spot was got by Blank ; his Dam by Regulus ; his Grandam by Royal, who was the Sire of Captain Appleyard's Bald Charlotte ; his Great Grandam by Mr. Curwen's Grey Barb ; his Great Great Grandam by Mr. Curwen's Bay Barb, sire of Brocklesby's Betty, and out of a Mare of Lord Lonsdale's, called the Tyrconnel Mare, which Mare was bred by Mr. Curwen, and esteemed one of the best Mares he had. The above Pedigree was taken from Mr. Curwen's own books by Charles Pelham, Esq; of Brocklesby. His Dam by Sportsman ; his Grandam by Cullen ; his Great Grandam by Rib ; his Great Great Grandam by Partner. The above Horse was bred by J. Warren, Esq; of Stapleford. Trimmer never started but three Times, and won easy each Time, and was then lamed. Good Grass for Mares at 2s. 6d. per Week, and the utmost Care taken of them".
The "Mare of Lord Lonsdale’s called the Tregonnel Mare, which Mare was bred by Mr Curven, and esteemed one of the highest Blood Mares Mr Curven had" would appear to be the full sister to Grey Ramsden's dam by Byerley's Turk. This mare was dam of Sir William Ramsden's Tantivy by the Taffolet Barb, otherwise known as the Curwen Tantivie. This would make Turner's Spot's great great grandam full sister to Tantivy by Curwen's Bay Barb out of Tregonnel Mare by Byerley's Turk out of Tregonwell Barb mare by Place's White Tregonwell Turk out of Lord Lonsdale's Arabian Mare.
The pedigree of Turner's Spot in the Kentish Gazette, which is more or less identical to that in the Stamford Mercury, misspells Tregonnel Mare as Tyrconnel Mare.
Bustler, one of the few horses known to have been sired by the Helmsley Turk, is called Mr Place's Bustler in the GSB and Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 20, says he was bred by Rowland Place, but it is most unlikely that Bustler was Place's White Turk. The following text, part of a letter from Thomas Pulleine to John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, taken from Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 126, clearly shows that they were two different stallions:
"1706, 28th [October], Bolton. The pedigree of the maires I send for
yor Grace to have the refuseall off is as follows
The Lame philly's dam was gott by Mr Place white Turke & vnder a ffenwicke
maire & her sire is my Chessnutt Arabian
thother 4 yr old philly's dam was out of Sr Mathew Peirson Running maire wch
was the most famouse maire in my time & gott by Mr Place Turke & the
philly's sire my Chessnutt Arab.
the 6 yr old maire was out of a maire gott by Brimers [Brimmer] out of a Buttler
[Bustler] maire & she was gott by my white Turk [Rockwood]".
The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, page 376, quoting from No. 157. Thursday, August 30, 1711, says - "But tho' there is so little Care, as I have observed, taken, or Observation made of the natural Strain of Men, it is no small Comfort to me, as a Spectator, that there is any right Value set upon the _bona Indoles_ of other Animals; as appears by the following Advertisement handed about the County of Lincoln , and subscribed by Enos Thomas, a Person whom I have not the Honour to know, but suppose to be profoundly learned in Horse-flesh. A Chesnut Horse called Cæsar, bred by James Darcy, Esq., at Sedbury, near Richmond in the County of York; _his Grandam was his old royal Mare, and got by Blunderbuss, which was got by_ Hemsly Turk, and he got Mr. Courand's Arabian, which got Mr. Minshul's Jews-trump. Mr. Cæsar _sold him to a Nobleman (coming five Years old, when he had but one Sweat) for three hundred Guineas. A Guinea a Leap and Trial, and a Shilling the Man_. T. Enos Thomas".
According to The Spectator Blunderbuss was sired by the Helmsley Turk. Blunderbuss was, in fact, a son of Bustler by the Helmsley Turk and there are other pedigrees in which Bustler and the Helmsley Turk are confused. It seems likely that Bustler was also known as the Helmsley Turk.
The Sporting Review, edited by 'Craven', May, 1841, The History of the Turf by 'Craven', page 352, says - "Upon the authority of the 'Treatise on the Horse,' the Helmsley Turk is stated to have lived to the age of sixty, and to have retained his youthful energy and vigour".
This would seem to imply that two stallions, probably father and son, both lived to ripe old age and were both known as Helmsley Turk.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 389, says he was - "from the stud of Lord Fairfax, Helmsley, became the property of the Duke of Buckingham, and got Bustler, etc". Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 20, says he was - "the Duke of Buckingham's Turk, generally called the Helmsley Turk".
Helmsley was given by the Commonwealth to Lord Fairfax in 1651 and it was in his possession until 1657 when, on the marriage of his only daughter, Mary, to the second Duke of Buckingham, he restored the estate to his son-in-law from whom it had been confiscated. It is generally accepted that the horses attributed to Lord Fairfax were all bred or owned by him during his time at Helmsley and that, for some reason, he neither owned nor bred any horses after 1657. If it is assumed that the ownership of all the horses in the stud reverted to the Duke of Buckingham and that the Old Morocco Mare, which is credited in the GSB as being bred by Fairfax, was foaled in 1657, and that Fairfax's Morocco Barb was a yearling when he covered Old Bald Peg, then he would have been foaled in 1655. This would make him thirty years old when he covered Dodsworth's dam in 1685. Not an impossible scenario, but stretching the imagination.
The Lonsdale Library, Volume XXVIII, Flat Racing, page 28, says - "In November [1657], Nicholas Baxter, 'His Highness's Gentleman of Horse,' arrived at Gravesend in charge of a grey horse which had been sent in the good ship Dartmouth, Captain, Richard Booth, presumably from either Aleppo or Costantinople. Rowland Place of Dinsdale, in County Durham was Stud Master to Cromwell, and knowing the Commonwealth would be of short duration after the Protector's death (in September 1658), he would appear to have removed this imported Eastern horse to Dinsdale, where the horse afterwards was known as Place's White Turk, and as such enters freely in the ancestry of the Thoroughbred".
The following is only supposition. In November 1657 Nicholas Baxter arrived at Gravesend in the good ship Dartmouth with a grey horse for Oliver Cromwell. The horse was acquired in Barbary and given by Cromwell to Lord Fairfax, who stood him at stud at Helmsley. This horse was known as Fairfax's Morocco Barb, the Buckingham Turk and the Helmsley Turk. Rowland Place, who had a stud nearby at Dinsdale, had access to the stallion and by him bred Bustler and Place's White Turk. When the grey stallion died, his son Bustler stood at Helmsley and also became known as the Helmsley Turk. It was he who covered Dodsworth's dam in 1685 and sired Vixen. Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 72, says the sire of Vixen was the Earl of Holderness's Turk. Place's White Turk first stood at Dinsdale and ended his days at Sedbury where he was known as Darcy's White Turk and the Sedbury Turk.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 377, says - "Aimwell, Mr Pembroke's, 1750, by Babraham - Sir Everard Fawkener's Grey Turk - Hampton-Court Childers - Conyers Arabian - Vernon Barb - Curwen's Grey Morocco Barb - Leedes Arabian - Spanker - the Old Morocco Mare (Old Peg)". The mare by Curwen's Grey Morocco Barb has been listed under the dam of Chaunter on page 12.
The Sporting Kalendar for 1754, by John Pond, page 149, says - "Aimwell, Mr. Pembroke's, was got by Babraham, Son of the Godolphin Arabian; his Dam by Sir Everard Faulkner's grey Turk, his Grandam by the old Hampton Childers, his Great Grandam by Conyer's Arabian, his Great Great Grandam by the Vernon Barb, his Great Great Great Grandam by Mr. Curvin's grey Morocco Barb, his Great Great Great Great Grandam by Leeds's Arabian, that got Leeds, his Great Great Great Great Great Grandam by old Spanker, out of Bald Peg".
If the GSB and Pond are correct then the fifth dam of Aimwell was by Curwen's Grey Morocco Barb. This is probably the stallion known as Curwen's Grey Turk and The Turk, sire of Flanderkin. In Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 37, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, he is called Mr Curwen's Gray Turk, which got Flanderkin. Flanderkin was foaled in 1707 and Chaunter was foaled in 1710, so although it is possible that Curwen's Grey Turk could have sired a filly out of the dam of Chaunter, it is unlikely that the Leedes Arabian mare here is the dam of Chaunter. The third dam of Chaunter, the Old Morocco Mare, who was also known as Old Peg, was never known as Bald Peg. Pond says Aimwell traces to Bald Peg, which may be her sister Leedes (Young) Bald Peg or her dam Old Bald Peg.
The pedigree of Aimwell, as recorded in Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 156, reads - "by Babram, his dam by Sir Everard Fawkener's Grey Turk, grandam by Hampton Court Childers, Conyer's Arabian, Mr. Vernon's Barb, Lord Fairfax's Grey Morocco Barb, Mr. Leeds's Arabian, (sire of Leedes), a daughter of Spanker, out of Old Bald Peg, the grandam of Spanker".
Pick says the fifth dam of Aimwell was by Lord Fairfax's Grey Morocco Barb but this would appear to be an error for Curwen's Grey Morocco Barb. He also states that Aimwell traces to a mare by Spanker out of Old Bald Peg, whom he further identifies as the grandam of Spanker.
It is possible that the Grey Morocco Barb was Young Spanker by Spanker. He was also known as Sir William Ramsden's Spanker and Curwen's Young Spanker, and was probably the stallion known as Grey Spanker.
It seems more likely that the Bald Peg in this pedigree is Leedes (Young) Bald Peg thus making the Leedes Arabian mare identically bred to Bay Peg, the dam of Fox and Basto.
The Bath Journal, Monday, April 13, 1747, Number 164, says - "This is to give Notice, That there is now in the Hands of Farmer Price, of Tinbead, in the Parish of Edington, Wilts, a Grey Horse known by the Name of Hopeful, often called Sour-Face ; and a Bay Horse, known by the Name of Basset, both of them full Fifteen Hands high ; and a Nutmeg Grey Colt, know by the Name of Tom, Fourteen Hands and three inches high, two Years old. The Grey Horse is as strong-grow'd as any bred Horse in England, and was bred by his Grace the Duke of Bolton ; he is out of a Daughter of Bay Bolton, and she was got out of a famous Mare called Coquet, and he was got by an Arabian called Bloody-Buttocks. The Bay Horse, Basset, was bred by Lord Weymouth ; he was got by Young Sparks, out of Yellow Mess, who was got by the Chesnut Arabian, her Dam by the Coniers Grey Arabian, her Grand-Dam by Vernon Barb, and her Great Grand Dam was called the Grey Foot Ramsden Mare, she was got by Mr. Curwin's Grey Morocco Barb, and she under Sir William Ramsden's Bay Peg, that was got by Mr. Leed's Arabian, that got Leeds and Bay Peg, was under Mr. Leed's Chesnut Peg, which was got by Old Sparks, and under Old Ballad Peg, and Ballad Peg was under a natural Barb Mare, who was got by Lord Fairfax's Arabian. The Nutmeg Grey Colt, Tom, was bred by his Grace the Duke of Bolton, and is as high Blood as any in England, out of a Bay Bolton Mare, that was bred at Bolton-Hall in Yorkshire, and the Colt got by Hopeful, often called Sour-Face. To cover at Half-a-Guinea the First Leap, and One Shilling the Groom ; and Half-a-Guinea more at the Fall of the Colt. Note, Good Grass for Mares at Two Shillings per Week, and Tryal as often as convenient".
The pedigrees of Aimwell and Basset have four identical consecutive crosses - Conyers Arabian, Vernon Barb, Curwen's Grey Morocco Barb and Leedes Arabian. Spanker and Old Sparks are undoubtedly the same. The sire of the Old Morocco Mare, Fairfax's Morocco Barb, and the sire of Old Ballad Peg, Lord Fairfax's Arabian, are also undoubtedly the same. The Grey Foot Ramsden Mare was out of Sir William Ramsden's Bay Peg by Leedes Arabian, while Basto was bred by Sir William Ramsden out of Bay Peg by Leedes Arabian. Leedes Chesnut Peg, the grandam of Basto, and Yellow Bald Peg, the grandam of Fox, are the same. Spanker, the sire of Leedes Chesnut Peg, was owned by Mr Leedes and was an Arabian, while the sire of Yellow Bald Peg was Leedes Arabian. Old Ballad Peg by Lord Fairfax's Arabian and Leedes's Bald Peg by Fairfax's Morocco Barb are the same. It is possible that this Bald Peg was the Old Morocco Mare but I am inclined to think that they were sisters. The Natural Barb Mare, dam of Old Ballad Peg, and Old Bald Peg Arab, dam of Old Morocco Mare, are the same. The pedigree of Old Bald Peg, which is usually given as 'by an Arabian out of a Barb mare', is undoubtedly a ghost pedigree caused by Leedes's Bald Peg also being called Old Ballad Peg.
In the pedigree below the dates are hypothetical and are there simply to suggest a possible timescale:
| Curwen's Grey Morocco Barb mare (1705) 5th dam of AIMWELL [Grey Foot Ramsden Mare] |
CURWEN'S GREY MOROCCO BARB (1690) [YOUNG SPANKER] [GREY SPANKER] |
SPANKER (1670) [LEEDES SPANKER] |
DARCY'S YELLOW TURK (1660) [OLD DODSWORTH BARB] |
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| Old Morocco Mare (1660) [Old Peg] |
FAIRFAX'S MOROCCO BARB (1650) [FAIRFAX'S ARABIAN] |
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| Old Bald Peg (1650) [Natural Barb Mare] [Old Bald Peg Arab] |
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| Leedes Arabian mare (1690) [Ramsden's Bay Peg] |
LEEDES ARABIAN (1680) |
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| Spanker mare (1680) [Yellow Bald Peg] [Leedes Chesnut Peg] |
SPANKER (1670) [LEEDES SPANKER] |
DARCY'S YELLOW TURK (1660) [OLD DODSWORTH BARB] |
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| Old Morocco Mare (1660) [Old Peg] |
FAIRFAX'S MOROCCO BARB (1650) [FAIRFAX'S ARABIAN] |
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| Old Bald Peg (1650) [Natural Barb Mare] [Old Bald Peg Arab] |
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| Leedes Bald Peg (1670) [Young Bald Peg] [Old Bald Peg] |
FAIRFAX'S MOROCCO BARB (1650) [FAIRFAX'S ARABIAN] |
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| Old Bald Peg (1650) [Natural Barb Mare] [Old Bald Peg Arab] |
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Lady Wentworth says the Taffolet, or Morocco, Barb was the same as Fairfax's Morocco Barb, but this is impossible as the Taffolet Barb sired Mustard in 1707.
Old Bald Peg = FAIRFAX'S MOROCCO BARB <====> HELMSLEY TURK
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| Old Morocco Mare = DARCY'S YELLOW TURK = Lawson's Barb Mare |
| [Old Peg] | [OLD DODSWORTH BARB] | [Dodsworth's dam] = BUSTLER
| | | [TRIPOLI BARB] | | |
| -----------> | <----------- | ---------------- ---------- |
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| | | | ---------------> | <----------> | <-------------------------------------- | |
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| | | | | | | | Arlington | | |
| | | | | | | | Barb Mare | | |
PLACE'S WHITE TURK = Darcy's Grey | SPANKER OGLETHORPE'S ARABIAN = mare BAY DODSWORTH | | | Vixen |
[DARCY'S WHITE TURK] | Royal | | [ALBEMARLE GREY ARABIAN] | [DICKY PIERSON] | ------- | 1686 |
| 1668 | | | | [BAY WOODCOCK] \ / \ | |
| | | | | [CURWEN'S ARABIAN] = Layton Barb | | |
-----------> | <-------------------> | <---> | <----------------------------> | <-- 1663 | Mare | | |
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HAUTBOY Old Grey Royal Charming MAKELESS | mare | | | |
| [Darcy's Pet Mare] Jenny | | | | | | |
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| ------> | <---------------------> | <---------------------------> | <----> | <--> | <----------------> | <------------------ | |
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| | ------------------------> | <---------- -----------| | | | | |
\ / | | \ / | \ / | | |
GREY HAUTBOY | | Milbanke's Black Mare mare mare | | |
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| | | | -----------------------> | <--------- ----------> | <----------------
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| | JIGG | PULLEINE'S = Vintner Mare mare = SELABY TURK
| | [SNAKE] | ARABIAN | | [BRIMMER]
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| | | | mare = SPOT
----------> | <---------------------> | <--------------------- | |
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Grey Wilkes | BAY BOLTON CURWEN'S BAY BARB mare
[Old Wen Mare] | 1705 | |
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SON OF JIGG ALCOCK'S ARABIAN mare
[SON OF SNAKE] [BLOODY BUTTOCKS] |
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