According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 1, Ayscough was a chesnut colt, foaled in 1722, by Black a Top out of the Akaster Turk mare (sister to Chaunter).
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 382, says - "Pam, Mr. Ward's (aft. Lord Bolingbroke's Va Tout), bred by Mr Swymmer, 1757, by Regulus - Cade - Sedbury - Scarborough Colt - Darcy's Woodcock - Blackatop - Old Smithson - Brimmer - Hautboy".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 3, pages 181 and 182, says - "Herminta, (dam
of [Hutchinson's] Hermit) a Brown-Bay Mare, foaled in 1760, was bred by Simon
Scroope, Esq; of Danby Hall, near Bedale, Yorkshire.--She was got by Mr Panton’s
Hermit, (own Brother to Spectator) out of Alicroker.--At Doncaster in 1764,
Herminta, won 50 l for four-year olds, 8 st 7 lb each, beating at three two-mile
heats, Mr Brandling’s Post, 8 st 7 lb; Mr Vane’s Grenadier, 8 st 12 lb; and
Mr Dunn’s Rosetta, 8 st 7 lb. She afterwards started for the Royal Purses at
Hambleton and Newmarket, and was then put out of training. Herminta, was sold
to Mr Bamlett for a Brood-Mare, and was also the dam of Mr Hutchinson’s br f
Black-eye-Susan (Grandam of Rifleman, and great grandam of Bachelor, by Alfred
1779), Mr Hutchninson’s ches filly, Nancy, (won 50 l at Boroughbridge, and 50
l at New Malton in 1784 by Alfred 1780). Herminta was the dam of several others.
She died at Norton, in Cleveland, about 1783.
Alicroker, (dam of Herminta) a Bay Mare, foaled in 1748, was also bred by Mr
Scroope.--She was got by Regulus, her dam by the Scarbrough colt; grandam by
Black-a-Top.--Lord D’arcy’s Woocock--Mr Wilkes’s Hautboy, out of a Brimmer mare.
Alicroker started three times without winning.--She was a Brood-Mare in Mr Scroope’s
Stud, and was the dam of his bay colt, Jessamy, (foaled in 1762) by Jessamy,
and several others.--Jessamy beat Sir R Winn’s grey colt, Brisk, by Changeling,
at Newmarket, in April 1766, over the B C 200gs.
Black-a-Top, (Sire of the grandam of Alicroker) a Black Horse, foaled about
the year 1739, was bred by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, Bart.--He was brother to Primate,
(vol I, p 84) by Young Belgrade; his dam by Young Greyhound; grandam by Lord
D’Arcy’s Woodcock--Hobler--Brimmer,--Mr Place’s White Turk, out of a noted Black
a-Top Mare, which was bred at Constable-Burton. He never raced, but was a Stallion
in Sir Marmaduke Wyvill’s Stud where he died".
This Black-a-Top, brother to Primate, can't possibly be the sire of the grandam of Alicroker.
The following advertisement appears in Heber's Racing Calendar, volume VI, for the year 1756 - "To be sold, a fine Bay Stone Horse, 12 Years old, bred by the late Sir marmaduke Wyvill, Bart at Burton in Yorkshire, near 15 Hand high very Strong, remarkably Healthy, and clear of all natural Blemishes. He was got by Young Belgrade, his Dam by Young Greyhound, his Grand Dam by Lord Darcy's Woodcock, his Great Grand Dam by Hobler, his Great, Great, Grand Dam, by Brimmer, his Great, Great, Great, Grand Dam by Place's White Turk, out of a noted Burton Black-a-Top Mare; his Dam was bred by the late Sir Ralph Milbank, and said to be Sister to Comet's Dam".
Hobler in this pedigree, and in the previous pedigree of Black-a-Top, is a mistake for Hautboy, most probably Grey Hautboy. The dam by Young Greyhound and Comet's dam by Young Greyhound are out of different daughters of Woodcock.
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 26, 1726, Number 48, says - "This is to give Notice, That Blackatop, the same that got Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's Dun Mare, Castaway, and the Parsons Gelding, is now at Jervax, to serve Mares, at two Guineas each: He was got by Mr Pullen's Chesnut Arabian, and out of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's old Blackatop. And Jervaux Castaway will be at Mrs Lazenby's at Clowbeck near Darlington, the 14th Day of March, to serve Mares at 10 s each, and 6 d to his Keeper; he will be that Week and every other Week after in the County of Durham, and will keep Darlington and Bishop-Auckland: He will be the other Weeks at Jervaux in Yorkshire, and will be every Saturday in Richmond coming and going. His Pedigre is as follows, He was got by Blackatop, his Mother by Howboy; his Grand-Mother by Brimer; his great Grand-Mother by White-Lowdon; his great great Grand Mother was the famous Falconbridge's Mare; disprove this, and all the Mares shall be served for nothing, as Witness my Hand, C Ascough".
GSB PICK PICK and HEBER PICK NEWCASTLE COURANT GSB
mare mare Falconbridge's
by Dodsworth by Black-a-Top mare
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by Place's White Turk by Place's White Turk by White-Lowdon Royal Mare
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mare mare mare mare mare mare
by Brimmer by Brimmer by Brimmer by Brimmer by Brimer by Brimmer
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Brown Farewell Old Scarborough Mare mare mare mare mare
by Makeless by Makeless by Hobler by Wilke's Hautboy by Howboy by Hautboy
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OLD SCARBOROUGH COLT mare mare mare | mare
by Tifter by Bay Bolton by Darcy's Woodcock by Darcy's Woodcock | by Darcy's Montagu
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YOUNG BELGRADE = mare mare CASTAWAY Mother Western
by Belgrade Turk | by Young Greyhound by Black-a-Top by Blackatop by Smith's son of Snake
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BAY HORSE BLACK-A-TOP PRIMATE mare Spilletta
1744 1740 by Scarborough Colt by Regulus
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by Regulus by Marske
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by Hermit
1760
The above evidence points to there being three stallions called Black-a-Top, namely:
BLACK-A-TOP, a black horse, foaled about the year 1739, brother to Primate,
by Young Belgrade.
BLACK-A-TOP, sire of Ayscough in 1722, by Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian.
BLACK-A-TOP, sire of the "noted Burton Black-a-Top mare".
The Black-a-Top that sired Ayscough was probably the sire of the grandam of Ali Croker and of the fifth dam of Va Tout.
The dam lines of Herminta and Black-a-Top, brother to Primate, appear to be identical from the Woodcock mare back, assuming that Hobler is a mistake for [Grey] Hautboy. According to Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1744, page viii in the index, Hautboy was sire of the great grandam of Black-a-Top, although further evidence below would seem to point to this Black-a-Top being Lord Middleton's mare Black at Top. The extension of the dam line of Primate back to the "noted Burton Black-a-Top mare" is very exciting. If this Black-a-Top is Dodsworth and the last three mares are identical to the first three dams of Brown Farewell, then the next dam must be the Layton Barb Mare. The Black-a-Top mare, however, is specifically called a "noted Burton Black-a-Top mare" and "a noted Black a-Top Mare, which was bred at Constable-Burton", which may be further proof that the Layton Barb Mare and the Burton Barb Mare were identical.
The dam of Old Scarborough Colt (maternal grandsire of Ali Croker), and the grandam of Young Belgrade (sire of Primate), was Old Scarborough Mare, who may also trace to the Layton Barb Mare as her sire and maternal grandsire are the same as those of Brown Farewell.
The dam line of Mother Western may also trace back to the Layton Barb Mare, her dam being by a Darcy stallion out of an Hautboy mare out of a Brimmer mare out of a Royal Mare. Although he gives no reason for his assumption, it is worth noting here that Cedric Borgnis, in his article "An attempt to compute dates of the original Foundation Mares", as published in the September 1973 issue of The British Racehorse, makes Brown Farewell, Old Scarborough Mare and the Hautboy mare, grandam of Mother Western, daughters of the same Brimmer mare.
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 70, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "Rib was got by Old Crab. His dam by Ld D'Arcy's Woodcock, his grand dam by a Barb in that country, and she call'd the Moonah Mare, was brought over in the same mannr as The Royal Affrican, her brother, and were foaled with the King's Stud at Hampton Court. This pedegree was sent by Mr Marshall, Studmastr at Hampton Court. To Sr Ralph Milbanke, Bart, at Halnaby. (Wittness) Cuthbert Routh".
Heber's Racing Calendar for 1751, page 195, Stallions covered in the past season, says - "Ribb, at Theakstone, near Beedall in Yorkshire / 3 gns / bred by Sir Ralph Milbank, Bart and got by Mr Panton's Old Crab, his Dam was the noted Mare, called Doll she was got by Lord Darcy's Woodcock, and his Grand Dam, by a True Barb, she was call'd the Moonah Mare, being brought over in the same manner as the Royal African her Brother, and both foaled at Hampton Court. / 15 hands".
Weatherby's Racing Calendar for 1778, Advertisements of Stallions, 1779, page 337, says - "Premium, at the same place [Warnford, Hants], at 1g, and 1s the servant ; a very high bred, boney, bay horse. He is 15 hands, 1 inch high, rising 5 years old [foaled 1774] ; he was got by Omnium, out of a daughter of Syphon, grand dam by Norris's Bolton, g. grand dam by Old Cade, g. g. grand dam by Young Greyhound, g. g. g. grand dam by Lord Darcy's Woodcock, g. g. g. g. grandam by the Royal African, out of the Moonah Barb mare".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 183, says - "Skewcap (sister to Comet), Bred by Sir R. Hilton, got by Cade, her dam by Young Greyhound - Doll, by Woodcock - Moonah Bay Barb".
Pond's Sporting Kalendar for 1757, page 173, says - "Comet, the Duke of Bridgewater's, was got by Cade; his Dam by Young Greyhound, his Grandam by Woodstock, which Mare was the Dam of Rib, and out of the own Sister to the Royal African, which was got by the brown Barb at Hampton Court, and out of the Moonah Mare".
Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1746, page 143, says - 'Woodstock, Mr. Asbly's, p. 41, 48. was got by the Fagg Rosamond (Son of the Fagg Fair Rosamond) which was out of a full sister to Leeds and the Godolphin Old Hobler, which was got by a foreign Horse".
Primate's dam was said to be sister to Comet's dam and her grandam was by Hobler out of a mare by Brimmer. The dam of Comet's sister Skewcap was out of Doll by Woodcock out of a mare by the Moonah Bay Barb. The third dam of Premium was probably a sister to Comet and her third dam was by the Royal African out of the Moonah Barb mare. In this last pedigree "out of the Moonah Barb mare' most probably refers to the Royal African, who was by the Hampton Court Brown Barb out of the Moonah Mare. The Moonah Bay Barb in the pedigree of Skewcap also probably refers to the Royal African, as the dam of Doll was also by the Hampton Court Brown Barb. Pond's pedigree of Comet also makes his grandam Doll "which Mare was the Dam of Rib, and out of the own Sister to the Royal African, which was got by the brown Barb at Hampton Court, and out of the Moonah Mare".
There is much confusion here with Hobler / Hautboy and Moonah Bay Barb / Moonah Barb Mare / Moonah Mare. It would appear that the dam line of Comet has been wrongly attached to the Moonah Mare because the Royal African was also out of the Moonah Mare. Although it is more than possible that the Royal African was mated to his own sister, the Moonah Barb Mare, the evidence here seems to point to the Royal African being identical with the Moonah Bay Barb and Hobler. It is more than probable that this Hobler was the Godolphin Old Hobler (who was mated to a sister Leedes), a full brother to the Moonah Barb Mare (who was mated to Leedes).
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 150, quoting an extract from the diary of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, says - "1705, Sept. 3rd. Paid Mr. Anthony Leeds, of Milford, Yorkshire, for ye 3 year old bey Philley (gott by Careless, under Leeds' full sister) and ye 2 year old bey colt (got by ye brown Barbe King William gave his father, under bey Peg, which was a daughter of Young Spanker) and for ye bey yearling gott by Careless, under a daughter of ye said Barbe's, which was one of my Lord Wharton's Gallant's sister, in all £150".
It is possible that the Hampton Court Brown Barb was the Brown Barb King William III gave to Mr Leedes. The mention of Lord Wharton's Gallant in 1705, however, seemingly because he was a good racehorse and therefore foaled before 1701, means that if this identification is correct then either Gallant was an earlier own brother to the Royal African or the Moonah Mare wasn't the only mare shuttling to Barbary.
BLACK-A-TOP <==================> DODSWORTH <===================> DARCY'S YELLOW TURK
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BRIMMER = mare HAUTBOY LEEDES ARABIAN = Charming Jenny YOUNG SPANKER
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mare Fair = ROYAL AFRICAN WOODCOCK = Moonah Barb Mare = LEEDES BAY COLT
| Rosamond | [HOBLER] | 1702 | 1700 | 1703
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mare ROSAMOND Doll mare
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mare WOODCOCK mare RIB Old Leedes Mare
by Young Greyhound [WOODSTOCK] by Young Greyhound by Crab by Whitefoot
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PRIMATE mare COMET Skewcap SHERBORNE
by Young Belgrade by Cade by Cade by Cade by Hobgoblin
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mare KIPLING PRINCE WILLIAM
by Syphon by Young Snip by Dainty Davy
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PREMIUM
by Omnium
1774
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 377, says - "Black a Top, gr. m., 1724, or 1725, by Bald Galloway. There was also a stallion of this name which cannot be traced".
Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1744, pages xiv and xv in the index, says - "Brushwood was got by a Son of Capt. Hartley's Blind Stallion, Son of the Holderness Turk. His Dam was got by Blackatop, his Grand-Dam by the Wyvill Dun Turk, his Great Grand Dam by Hautboy, his Great Great Grand-Dam by Brimmer, Son of the Darcy Yellow Turk". Page xv also says - "The sire of Brushwood also got Mr Scroop's Trusty, afterward Lord Portmore's, now Sir Edward Obrien's".
The mare by Blackatop was the dam of the sire of Brushwood, as evidenced by the next pedigree.
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 69, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "Trusty was got by a colt I bred myself calld Stoole, who was got by Cap: Hartley's Blind Horse, and out of a full sister to Castaway. His [Trusty's] dam was got by Bald Galloway, his G. dam [the dam of Stoole] by Black-a-top (the same as got Castaway, Parson's Gelding, Sr M. Wyvill's dun mare, and a great many brave Horses besides). Trusty's dam was got by Bald Galloway, her dam by Acaster Turk, her G. dam by Leed's Arabian, her G. G. dam by Old Spanker, as Wittness my hand, C. Ascough".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, March 26, 1726, Number 48, says - "This is to give Notice, That Blackatop, the same that got Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's Dun Mare, Castaway, and the Parsons Gelding, is now at Jervax, to serve Mares, at two Guineas each: He was got by Mr Pullen's Chesnut Arabian, and out of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's old Blackatop. And Jervaux Castaway will be at Mrs Lazenby's at Clowbeck near Darlington, the 14th Day of March, to serve Mares at 10 s each, and 6 d to his Keeper; he will be that Week and every other Week after in the County of Durham, and will keep Darlington and Bishop-Auckland: He will be the other Weeks at Jervaux in Yorkshire, and will be every Saturday in Richmond coming and going. His Pedigre is as follows, He was got by Blackatop, his Mother by Howboy; his Grand-Mother by Briner; his great Grand-Mother by White-Lowdon; his great great Grand Mother was the famous Falconbridge's Mare; disprove this, and all the Mares shall be served for nothing, as Witness my Hand, C Ascough".
Prior's The Royal Studs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, page 183, in Lord Antrim's Stud, says - "Black Mare Got by Mogull, her dam by [Young] Belgrade, her grandam* by ye Scarborough Colt, her great grandam was Sir M. Wyvill's Old Golden Dun Mare. [Dam of] 1756. Colt by Coalition Colt. 1757. Colt by Hector". The asterisk refers to a note which, unfortunately, was not included in the text.
According to Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1744, page viii in the index, Hautboy was sire of - "the Great Grand-Dams of Barforth, Trusty, Brushwood, Country Lass, and Blackatop".
According to Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1746, page 138 in the index, Hautboy was sire of - "the Great Grand Dam of the Hallifax Barforth, the Portmore Trusty, the Ascough Brushwood, and the Middleton Country Lass, and Black at Top".
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, April 10, 1756, Number 4152, says - "To Leap this Season, At Mr William Richardson’s, in Yarm, Yorkshire, at Two Guineas a Mare, and five Shillings the Keeper, to be paid at the Stable Door; The noted Running Horse, called Old Traveller. At the same Place will Cover, at One Guinea each. The famous Running Horse, Scipio: He is full fifteen hands high, good Marks, clear from any Blemish, goes as well on his Legs as any Horse in England. Scipio was got by Stout; his Dam, by Bartlet’s Childers, out of a Sister to Thunderbolt; and is Sister to Mr Routh’s Forfeit, Fig, and Mr Selby’s Mare, that won Hambleton Guineas in 1741. Stout was got by Mr Hartley’s blind Horse, out of a Sister to Castaway and Blackatop; and is Brother to Mr Routh’s Skim, late Lord Portmore’s, Mr hale’s, and Mr Doe’s. This is a true Pedigree, as witness my Hand, / James Farmer, Esq; *** Good Grass for Mares, and proper Care taken of them".
The Newcastle Journal, Saturday, March 16. 1745, Number 310, says - "To Leap this Season, At Mr Robert Rea's, at Harraton-Outside, in the Parish of Chester-le-Street, in the County of Durham. To leap at One Guinea, and 1 s to Tho. Cummins, the Groom, The famous Stallion, call'd Trusty. He was Sire to Mr Scroop's Bay Horse, Trusty, that run the five Heats, at Durham. He was got with Mr Hartley's blind Horse, his Dam with Blackatop, his Grand-dam with Hautboy, his Great Grand-dam with Old Brimer, his Great Great Grand-dam with White Lowdon, and out of a Mare of Lord Falconbridge's, called the famous Falconbridge. The Horse is strong, and free of all Blemishes. N B There is good Grass for Mares, and proper Care will be taken of them".
Adams's Weekly Courant, Tuesday, April 10, 1770, Number 1743, says - "Aethon Will Cover Mares this Season, at One Guinea and a Shilling The Money to be paid at the Time of Covering. Aethon is now Six Years Old, of a fine Brown Colour, 15 Hands and a Half high, Strong in Proportion, free from Blemish, very Active, and able to carry 16 Stone a Hunting. He won the King's Plate at Carlisle, in 1768, when Five Years Old, carrying 8st 7lb. He was got by Young Cade, his Dam by White-Nose, his Grand-Dam by the Scarborough Colt, his Great Grand-Dam by Young Belgrave, his Great Great Grand-Dam by Ascough's Blackatop, his Great Great Great Grand-Dam by Old Hautboy. This is a true Pedigree, witness my Hand, Huxwell, Oct 3, 17[6]6. C Dalton".
Pue's Occurrences, Tuesday, March 9, 1756, says - "Ground Ivy the Second will serve Mares this Season at Mr Francis Croghan's at Rosscommon, at a Guinea and Half a Crown, to be paid before Service; he is young and fresh, 6 Years old, 15 Hands high, with uncommon Beauty and good Gates, but was by an Accident prevented from shewing the Perfections of his Sire in Raceing; he was got by Groundivy; his Dam by the Sire of Antelope's Dam; his Grand Dam by Belgrade the Second, Sire of Volunteer; his Great Grand Dam (the famous Wyville Dun Mare) by Ascough's Blackatop; his Great Great Grand Dam by the Pulleyne Rockwood, Sire of the Great Grand Dam of Old Starling; his Great Great Great Grand Dam (Dam also of grey Windam) by the Sellaby Turk, Sire of the Grand Dam of Old Partner; his Great Great Great Great Grand Dam by Bustler, Sire of Old Merlin; his Great Great Great Great Great Grand Dam by Place's White Turk; his Great Great Great Great Great Great Grand Dam by Dodesworth upon a Royal Foreign Mare".
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".
CHENY 1744 PRIOR NEWCASTLE COURANT NEWCASTLE JOURNAL NEWCASTLE COURANT ADAMS'S WEEKLY COURANT
Falconbridge's Famous
mare Falconbridge
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by Brimmer by Brimer by Old Brimmer
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by Hautboy by Howboy by Hautboy by Hautboy
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mare Sister to Castaway CASTAWAY mare Sister to Castaway mare
by Blackatop by Black-a-top by Blackatop by Blackatop by Blackatop by Ascough's Blackatop
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SON <======================> STOOLE <==========================================> TRUSTY <===================> STOUT mare
by Hartley's Blind Horse by Hartley's Blind Horse by Hartley's Blind Horse by Hartley's Blind Horse by Young Belgrade
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by Young Cade
1764
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 143, Zanga, who was disqualified after winning the 1789 St Leger, was by Laurel out of Moorpout, bred by Mr Dalton in 1777, by Young Marske out of a mare by a son of Omar out of a mare by Whitenose.
In Pick's Racing Calendars for 1805 and 1806, advertisements for Sportsman say, - "Sportsman, at Mr George Ridley's at Melsonby, near Richmond, Yorkshire. By Walnut; dam, Moorpout, by Young Marsk; grandam by a son of Omar, (son of Lord Godolphins Arabian); great grandam by Lord Portmore's Whitenose, the Scarbro' Colt, Belgrade Turk".
According to Pick's Racing Calendars, Mr Dalton also bred a sister to Moorpout, dam of Mobberley Crab, by Young Eclipse, and Mr W Hamilton's colt by Ruler, bought from Mr Dalton.
Mr Dalton's advertisement for Aethon in Adams's Weekly Courant, above, extends the pedigree and corrects the cross of Belgrade Turk to a cross of Young Belgrade, son of Belgrade Turk.
The advertisement for Ground Ivy the second, in Pue's Occurrences, shows that Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare traces to the Selaby Turk mare that was the dam of Grey Wyndham.
mare GREY HAUTBOY mare <=========> mare
by Spanker | by Brimmer by Selaby Turk
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mare FARMER mare <====================> mare <========> Queen GREY WYNDHAM Wyvill's = PULLEINE'S
by Leedes Arabian Dun 1706 | | Old Blackatop | CHESNUT ARABIAN
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mare Silverlocks AYSCOUGH CASTAWAY PARSON'S GELDING Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare
by Bald Galloway by Bald Galloway 1722 1712 | 1717
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TRUSTY TRUSTY aka STOUT aka STOOLE mare mare
by Stoole by Hartley's Blind Horse by Scarborough Colt by Young Belgrade
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Brushwood, Silverlocks and Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare were all duns. | | |
The Golden Dun Mare and Silverlocks, who is registered as chesnut in the GSB, mare mare GROUND IVY the 2d
were probably palominoes. by Mogul by White-Nose by Ground Ivy
| 1750
Black-a-Top doesn't appear in the pedigree of Silverlocks so is not the source of the ---------------------
dilution. The Acaster Turk sired Thwaite's Dun Mare. If Cheny is correct and the third | |
dam of Trusty was by Hautboy, then there is a possibility that the Acaster Turk was AETHON mare
Wyvill's Dun Turk. The Acaster Turk was also known as Lord Carlisle's White Turk. by Young Cade by Son of Omar
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by Young Marske
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by Laurel
1786
Black a Top, gr. m., 1724, or 1725, by Bald Galloway was probably out of a mare by Black-a-Top. This Black-a-Top mare may well have been own sister to Castaway. It may be that Cheny was referring to this mare when he stated that Hautboy was sire of the great grandam of Blackatop.
In the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 1, the following two entries appear:
AKASTER TURK MARE (sister to Chaunter),
Bred by Sir W. Strickland, her dam by The Leedes Arabian, grandam
by Spanker, out of The Old Morocco Mare (Spanker's dam).
1718 ch. f. Roxana, by The Bald Galloway - - Owner or Breeder
1719 ch. f. by ditto - - - - Sir W. Strickland
1722 ch. c. Ayscough, by Black a Top - - Sir M. Newton
1723 b. c. Bat, by The Strickland Turk - - Sir W. Strickland
1725 ch. f. Silverlocks, by The Bald Galloway - Mr Ayscough
AKASTER TURK MARE,
Her dam by a son of Pulleyne's Arabian - Brimmer
1719 b. c. Squirrel (Williams's), by Lister's Snake - Mr Smith
*1721 b. f. Molly in the Moss, by ditto - - Ld Derby
17 b. c. Smith's son of Snake or Easby Snake, by
ditto - Mr Smith
* This mare bred in 1736 a b. f. by Bartlet's Childers (Mr Dalton's)
which was sold to Sir J. Lowther, and produced 1759 ch. f. by Regulus
It has long been thought that Silverlocks was full sister to Roxana and the pedigree of Trusty as given by Mr Ascough, the owner of Silverlocks, would seem to confirm this. There is, however, evidence to suppose otherwise.
The produce of the Akaster Turk mare (sister to Chaunter), as listed in the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 1, shows foals bred by Sir W Strickland in 1718, 1719 and 1723, and foals bred by Mr Ayscough in 1722 and 1725. The three fillies are Roxana and her sister and Silverlocks. The produce of the Bald Galloway mare (sister to Roxana) on page 2 includes Cato and his sister, both bred by Sir W Strickland, and Trusty, bred by Mr Ayscough.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 24, says - "The Acaster Turk was sire of Chaunter, Terror, and Mr. Thwaite's Dun Mare, (dam of Mr. Beaver's Driver). - He got the dam of Mr. Williams's Squirrel ; the dam of Mr. Ovington's famous Roxana, (dam of Lath and Cade) ; the dam of Mr. Coke's Silverlocks, who was the dam of Lord Portmore's Silvertail, Lord Godolphin's Buffcoat, and grandam of Mr. Crofts's Brilliant. - Mr. Scroope's Trusty's dam was own sister to Silverlocks ; Mr. Panton's Cato was out of an own sister to Roxana ; and Mr. Greville's Molly Longlegs's dam was out of an own sister to Cato. - He covered very few Mares".
It is clear from this passage that Roxana and Silverlocks did not share the same dam and in this case 'own' is used to mean by the same sire..
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 58, says - "Roxana (a Chesnut Mare, foaled in 1718) was bred by Sir William Strickland, Bart. who sold her to Mr. Thomas Ovington. - She was got by the Bald Galloway ; her dam (sister to Chaunter, page 24) by the Acaster Turk ; grandam by Mr. Leedes's Arabian, (sire of Leedes) out of a daughter of Spanker".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 61, says - "Trusty was got by a Son of Capt. Hartley's Blind Horse; his dam, (own sister to Silverlocks) by the Bald Galloway ; grandam by the Acaster Turk ; great grandam by Mr. Leedes's Arabian, (sire of Leedes), out of a daughter of Spanker" and "Silverlocks (foaled in 1725, and own sister to the dam of Trusty) was also bred by Mr. Ascough, who sold her to Mr. Coke of Norfolk". Page xxxix in the index says - "The greatest part that Silverlocks and her sister produced were Duns".
This is further proof that Roxana and Silverlocks weren't full sisters. The paragraph about Roxana makes no mention of Silverlocks and the paragraph about Silverlocks makes no mention of Roxana.
According to Prior's Royal Studs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, page 139, in the particulars of Edward Coke's Brood Mares, the grandam of Roxana was "Sir William Strickland's Blunder Mare" and the grandam of Silverlocks was "a mare that Sir William Lowther vallued much".
INTRO NEWCASTLE COURANT CHENY 1744 NEWCASTLE COURANT PUE'S OCCURRENCES DUBLIN UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER GSB
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Falconbridge's Place's White Place's White
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Busler mare White Lowden mare Bustler mare Bustler mare Royal Mare
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Brimmer mare | Brimmer mare Brimer mare Dam of grey Windham Sellaby Turk mare Brimmer mare
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Son of the Pulleine Hoyboy mare Hautboy mare Howboy mare Pulleyne Rockwood mare Rockwood mare Hautboy mare
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Akaster Turk mare Duke of Rutland's mare | | | Montague mare
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WILLIAMS'S SQUIRREL MR ELLERKER'S CHESNUT mare CASTAWAY Wyville Dun Mare Blackatop mare |
by a Son of Snake HORSE SNAKE by Blackatop by Blackatop by Ascough's Blackatop | |
1719 by Snake son of Lister's Turk [Sister to Castaway] | | |
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Belgrade the second Belgrade the 2d Mother Western
mare mare by Easby Snake
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mare by the sire mare by the sire Spilletta
of Antilope's dam of Antilope's dam by Regulus
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GROUND IVY THE SECOND GROUNDIVY THE 2D ECLIPSE
by Groundivy by old Groundivy by Marske
1750 1750 1764
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 380, says - "Driver (Beaver's), 1732, by Snake - Thwaite's Dun Mare, by the Akaster Turk. The Dun Mare bred also a f. by Partner".
The sire of Beaver's Driver was Easby Snake by Son of Snake - mare by the Acaster Turk - mare by Grey Hautboy - mare by Brimmer - mare by Bustler.
Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare was by Blackatop - mare by Wyvill's Dun Turk - mare by Grey Hautboy - mare by Brimmer - mare by Bustler.
Both Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare and Thwaite's Dun Mare were so famous in their time that their identities have long been merged to the point where the dam of Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare is generally given as a mare by Grey Hautboy, which was her grandam. I am convinced that her dam was Thwaite's Dun Mare by the Acaster Turk alias Wyvill's Dun Turk.
Easby Snake and Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare I believe were out of full sisters and their grandam was a mare of Lord Darcy's called Queen.
THWAITE'S DUN MARE,
By Acaster Turk
ch. c. Castaway, by Black a Top - Mr Ayscough
1712 c. Parson's Gelding, by Black a Top
1717 d. f. Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare, by Black a Top
1722 ch. c. Ayscough, by Black a Top - Mr Ayscough
1724 gr. f. Black a Top, by Bald Galloway
1725 d. f. Silverlocks, by Bald Galloway - Mr Ayscough
f. by Partner
1732 ch. c. Driver, by Easby Snake
Queen
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by Hip by Crab by Regulus
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SAMPSON Golden Locks ECLIPSE
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1773
In the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 13, the full entry for the Montagu mare, dam of Mother Western, is as follows:
MONTAGU MARE,
Bred by Lord DARCY, got by his (Old) Montagu, her dam by Hautboy -
Brimmer - Royal Mare.
f. by Woodcock (dam in 1739 of Vavasour's
Champion, by Bolton Goliah - Lord Darcy
f. Mother Western, by Smith's son of
Snake, brother to Williams's Squirrel - Mr Smith
* f. by Whiteshirt - - - Mr Smith
f. by Smith's son of Snake - - Mr Smith
f. by Champion - - - Mr Smith
* This mare bred a f. by Darcy Chesnut Arabian
In the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 14, the full entry for Old Montague, dam of Sedbury, is as follows:
OLD MONTAGUE,
Bred by Lord DARCY, got by his Woodcock (son of Bustler), out of a
mare of the celebrated breed of Lord Montague, of Cowdray, Sussex.
*1731 f. by Partner - - - Mr Mann
**1734 ch. c. Sedbury, by Partner - - Mr Martindale
1739 b. c. Darby, by Flying Childers - - Mr Mann
* This mare (Mr Mann's) produced, in 1739, a c. by The Devonshire
Childers, and, in 1740, a c, by the Devonshire Brother to Conqueror.
** Sedbury was bred by Mr A. Wilkinson, of Burroughbridge, Lord
Darcy having died before he was foaled.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 77, says - "Champion was got by the Duke of Bolton's Goliah, out of a daughter of the Old Montague Mare".
In The Family Tables of Racehorses, by Kazimierz Bobinski, volume 1, family 12, the following note is appended - "According to the GSB (Vol. 1, 5th ed.) the Whiteshirt mare and Mother Western were sisters. Nevertheless, Mother Western produced foals between 1746 - 1757 and therefore could hardly have been born much earlier than 1730. It is equally known that the Whiteshirt mare was the great-grand-dam of Sophonisba, born in 1717. Even if the length of a full generation were reckoned at 4 years, the Whiteshirt mare could not possibly have been born later than 1705, which would entail a difference of at least 25 years between the Whiteshirt mare and Mother Western. The allegation that these two mares were sisters is therefore clearly inadmissible. Cuthbert Routh (C. M. Prior, Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, 1924), who owned a sister of the mare by D'Arcy's Chesnut Arabian (gen. 6), recorded that the Whiteshirt mare was 'out of an extraordinary mare of Ld. Montague's of Codrey.' Likewise, Pick (The Turf Register Vol. 1. p. 22), stated that the Whiteshirt mare was 'out of a favourite mare of Lord Montague's of Cowdray, Sussex.' It is most likely that this 'extraordinary mare of Lord Montague's was of the same breed as the 'mare of the celebrated breed of Lord Montague' (GSB Vol. 1, p. 14) grand-dam of Sedbury, and would trace to Family 68 of these Tables. The compiler of the 5th Edition of the GSB, Vol. 1, probably confused a Mare by D'Arcy's Old Montagu (according to Lady Wentworth Old Montagu was sent to England by E. Wortley Montagu, Ambassador in Constantinople in 1716) with a mare of Lord Montague; whose name was also spelt Montagu. There can be no doubt that the Whiteshirt mare and Mother Western descended from distinctly separate roots, the former tracing to the breed of Lord Montague of Cowdray, and the latter to one of the D'Arcy Royal Mares. Both on account of her descent and her merit as an ancestress of a prominent strain, the Whiteshirt mare deserves to be designated as a foundation mare of a separate family. Nevertheless, her progeny having earned a prevailing position in the family to which she was erroneously assigned, it has been deemed practicable to retain the Whiteshirt mare in Family 12".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 58, says - "Sedbury was got by Mr. Crofts's Partner, out of the famous Old Montague Mare". Page 59, says - "The Old Montague Mare was got by Lord D'Arcy's Woodcock, (son of Bustler, sire of Old Merlin); her dam, (the cause of her name) was bred by Lord Montague of Cawdry, Sussex, a nobleman eminent for his breed of fine horses (and running many of them) in the reign of King Charles the Second. - She was also the dam of Mr. Mann's Darby, (son of Childers) a very promising colt in 1743; but only started once, which was at Carlisle, against Mr. Crofts's Teazer, and was second both heats. - He died soon after".
Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1744, pages xxxl and xli in the index, says - "Sedbury was got by Partner. See Page 16. His Dam was got by Woodcock, Grandson of the Helmsley Turk ; she was call'd the Old Montague Mare, being descended from the Kind of the Lord Montague's of Sussex, a Nobleman eminent for his large and fine Stud of Horses in the Reign of Charles the Second".
Cheny's Racing Calendar for 1744, page xxv in the index, says - "White Stockings was bred by Mr Crofts and got by Partner. His dam was got by Woodcock (Sire of the Dam of Sedbury) Son of Old Merlin, Son of Bustler, Son of the Helmsley Turk".
The above evidence, and that below concerning the Whiteshirt mare, shows that the produce of three mares have been confused. They are:
Montague Mare - dam of Diamond and Whiteshirt mare.
Old Montague by Woodcock by Merlin - dam of Partner mare, Sedbury and Darby. It would appear that Vavasour's Champion, foaled the same year as Darby, was out of a full sister to Old Montague by Woodcock.
Montagu mare - dam of Mother Western, her sister and a filly by Graeme's Champion.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 381, says - "Jew Trump, Mr Curwen's, 1709, by his Chesnut Arabian - Curwen Bay Barb".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, in the index, page xviii, says - "Jew Trump, Mr. Curwen's (sire of Diamond) by his Chesnut Arabian, out of a daughter of the Bay Barb".
The Petworth House Archives, West Sussex Record Office, Chichester, Details of horses in Petworth stud, Document Reference PHA/5041, says - "Diamond was got by Jews Trump son of Ld Dearcys Chesnut Arabian out of a daughter of the Bay Barb".
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".
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".
The Stamford Mercury, Thursday, April 25, 1717, Volume IX, Number 16, says - "A Chesnut Horse call’d Drugg, his Dam was got by the Duke of Ancaster’s Horse St Martins, out of Mr Cotton’s Mare Brisk; she [error for he] was got by Cæsar, who was got by Mr Courant’s Arabian, and out of Mr Darcey’s Royal Mare of Sedbury, Yorkshire. Note the Spectator Vol. 2, No. 157, Page 2[6]9. Half a Guinea a Leap and Trial, and Six-pence the Man. He is kept at Spalding, Lincolnshire, by John Scomey".
According to The Spectator both Blunderbuss and Curwen's Chesnut Arabian were 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 advertisement for Drugg in the Stamford Mercury, however, makes it clear that it was Cæsar who was by Mr Courant's Arabian. The line in The Spectator after Helmsley Turk refers to Cæsar and should read "and he got [by] Mr. Courand's Arabian, which got Mr. Minshul's Jews-trump".
The Universal Advertiser, Tuesday, April 30, 1754. Number 153, says - "To be let to Mares this Season, at Eccles Vell, near Fentona, in the county of Tyrone, Mazard, alias Roger; he is a jet black, 15 hands and an inch high, and every way qualified to get officers horses, hunters, and running cattle; for the encouragement of breeders in that part of the world, he will be let at so small a price as 2 guineas each mare, and a crown to the groom, the money to be paid without distinction before the horse leaves the stable. He was remarkably fruitful last year, which was his first season: mr Eccles had 13 mares covered by him, which were all in foal; any mare that he covered last season, which has not a foal, shall be covered this year at half price, provided the mare is under 10 years old.—The following pedigree, certified by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, will clearly shew what may be expected from a horse of his blood, size, strength and beauty.—This is to certify, that the black stone horse which I sold to mr Eccles, was bred by me, and now rises 9 years old the next grass; he was got by my Scarborough colt, his dam by Belgrade the 2d, his grandam by Old Tifter, his great grandam by Lord Darcey’s Woodcock, his great great grandam by Lord Darcey’s Chesnut Arabian, his great great great grandam by Blunderbuss, out of a natural Barb mare, which was dam to the famous Makeless. Scarborough colt was a son of my Old Scarborough mare and Old Tifter; he won the great stakes at Richmond when 5 years old, and the King’s plate at Leith when 6; and got the dam of Antelope, and many excellent horses. Belgrade the 2d, was the sire of Volunteer, Bashaw, Garnet, Primate and Antelope. Woodcock got the famous Diana mare, and many others of great note; he was son of Old Merlin and Tyrconnel Barb mare. The Chesnut Arabian above mentioned, got Jews-trump, and mr Bethell’s Royal. Blunderbuss was one of the most noted stallions of his Time, and to this day his blood is as much valued as any in England. The above account is true, witness my hand, / Marmaduke Wyvill".
It is clear from the above advertisements that Curwen's Chesnut Arabian, the sire of Jew Trump, was later known as Darcy's Chesnut Arabian, the sire of Bethell's Royal. Bethell's Royal was also known as Old Royal, the sire of Bald Charlotte out of Bethell's Castaway mare. According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 10, Old Royal was by the Holderness Turk out of a mare by Blunderbuss out of Old Grey Royal.
GSB, Volume 1, 5th edition, page 10 The Spectator, August 30, 1711 The Stamford Mercury, April 25, 1717
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Courand's Arabian and Courant's Arabian are different spellings of Curren's Arabian, which is the correct pronunciation of Curwen's Arabian or Curwen's Chesnut Arabian, the sire of Jew Trump in 1709. He was also known as Darcy's Chesnut Arabian and Holderness Turk. It would seem from the above pedigrees that Caesar and Old Royal were full brothers.
It should be noted here that the Holderness Turk that sired Hartley's Blind Horse was a different stallion.
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 27, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "Creeping Molly was gott by the Bay Barb, her dam by a little White leggd Barb of Mr Curwen's, out of a mare nobody can give any acct off".
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 29, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "The Chest mare, full sister to Grizwood's Lady Thigh, was got by Partner, out of Sampson's Sister, wch was got by Old Greyhound, her grandam [sister to Little George] by Mr Curwen's bay Barb, her great grandm by Ld D's [D'Arcy's] Arabian, her g. g. grandam by a Horse calld White Shirt, out of a famous mare of Ld Montague's".
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 37, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "My Bay mare, own sistr to Haniball. Gott by Terrr, her dam by Flattface, her grandm by Old Spott, her G. Grandm by a little mountain Barb, and her G. G. Grandm was full sistr to Sr Robt Bainton's bay Diamond". Also says - "My Little Bay mare, sistr to Haniball's dam, was gott by Flattface, her dam by Old Spott, her Grandm by Mr Curwen's Gray Turk, which got Flandrkin, her G. Grandm by a little Arabian, her G. G. Grandm by old famous White Shirt, out of an extraordinary mare of Ld Montague of Codrey [Cowdray, Sussex.] . This White Shirt mare was Grandm to Flandrkin, grandm to Little George, G. Grandm to Mr Hall's Lady Leggs, and G. G. Grandm to the colt I sold his Grace of Bolton in Aug: 1721".
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 26, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "A Gray Mare, sold to Mr. Hutton by Mr. Curwen, given to C. Routh by Sr R. Milbanke. 'She was got by Flattface, 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 gott by my Arabian.' [Signed] Hen: Curwen".
The White-Legged Lowther Barb is here called a "little mountain Barb", a "little Arabian" and a "little Barb". In the pedigree of Creeping Molly he is called a "little White legged Barb of Mr Curwen's".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 100, says - "Whittington was got by a Brother to Lord Portmore's Whitenose; his dam by Stanyen's Arabian, Curwen's Bay Barb, Marshall's Spot, Lord Lonsdale's White-legg'd Chesnut Barb, Vintner Mare".
Pond's Sporting Kalendar for 1751, page 220, says - "In the Hands of John Moore, at Hartfordbridge in Hampshire, A grey Horse call'd Starling [Moore's Son of Partner], will cover this Season, at one Guinea a Leap and One Shilling the Servant: He was bred by his Grace the Duke of Bolton, and got by Mr Crofts's Partner; his Dam by bay Bolton, which was full Sister to Old Starling, and Dam to the Duke of Bolton's Sourface; his Grandam by the Brother to Grantham, his Great Grandam by Pulland's Chesnut Arabian, his G G Grandam by Rockwood, his G G G Grandam by Bustler".
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 18, a colt, which died young, was foaled in 1723 by Grantham oo Young Violet Layton by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian oo Layton Barb mare.
The crosses in these pedigrees are very similar. Grantham would appear to be the Brother to [Grey] Grantham and the Layton [Grey] Barb was a son of Rockwood. The second cross in each pedigree would suggest that Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian was also known as Darcy's Chesnut Arabian.
According to the GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 32, Belmont was a bay colt, foaled in 1759, by Young Cade oo mare by Bloody Buttocks oo mare by Son of Pulleine's Arabian oo Lightfoot's dam, the sister to Bonny Lass by Bay Bolton.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 308, says - "Belmont was got by Young Cade; his dam by Bloody Buttocks; grandam by Mr. Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian, out of Lightfoot's dam, page 122". Page 122, says - "Lightfoot was got by Cade; his dam, (bred by Sir W. Ramsden) by Bay Bolton, and was own sister to Whitefoot".
These two pedigrees have cited Lightfoot, a colt by Cade, instead of Lightfoot, a filly by Curwen's Bay Barb. The editor of the GSB has created a "Son of" Pulleine's Arabian to make the dates fit.
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 29, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "Wasp. A Sandy gray horse I bought of Mr Curwen, was gott by Terr[o]r & his dam by Mr Pullein's Chest Arabian, and was mothr to Mr Gage's famous gallow Lightfoot. [Note.- The above mare by Pulleine's Arabian was out of the Vintner mare.]".
Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, page 27, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "Mr [Ralph] Jennison's Gray mare, bought for him in 1723, was gott by Blossom, and out of Lightfoot's dam [by Pulleine's Arabian, out of the Vintner mare]. [Mr. Curwen's grey mare Lightfoot, by his Bay Barb, won a Plate for Galloways at York, August 1712. See Faustina, G.S.B. vol. 1, p. 85.]".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 85, says - "Faustina, Bred by Mr Curwen, in 1725, got by Hartley's Blind Horse, her dam by Blossom (son of the Curwen Bay Barb) - Pulleine's Arabian - Vintner Mare".
The mare by Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian in the pedigree of Belmont bred a filly by Bloody Buttocks. Young Violet Layton by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian also bred a filly by Bloody Buttocks.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 17, lists the produce of the Vintner Mare as a filly by the White-legged Lowther Barb and a filly by Pulleine's Arabian.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 13, lists the produce of the Whiteshirt mare as a filly by Darcy Chesnut Arabian.
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 37, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says the Whiteshirt mare bred a filly by the White-legged Lowther Barb.
CURWEN'S CHESNUT <=========> DARCY'S CHESNUT <================> LOWTHER CHESNUT BARB <===========> PULLEINE'S CHESNUT <==============> CURWEN'S WHITE <=> HOLDERNESS TURK
ARABIAN ARABIAN | ARABIAN LEGGED BARB [DARCY'S
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| mare | mare mare mare mare | BLOSSOM | mare BETHELL'S ROYAL
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JEW TRUMP mare mare FLANDERKIN mare Lightfoot | mare Creeping HOLDERNESS
1709 | by Curwen's by Curwen's by Curwen's | | Molly TURK
| Grey Turk Grey Turk Spot | | 1700 |
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Sophonisba mare mare FLATTFACE | MIXBURY mare | HARTLEY'S
by Dyer's Dimple by Greyhound by Curwen's | | [WESTBURY] | | BLIND HORSE
1717 | 1723 Spot | | | | |
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Lady Thigh TERROR = mare | PARTNER Faustina |
by Partner [BLUE CAP] | | by Son of Jigg | 1725 |
1731 | | 1718 | |
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1730
An Early Buckinghamshire Stud / Lord Wharton's establishment at upper Winchendon, by F M Prior, an article in The British Racehorse, August 1956, says - "The Chesnut Arab I had from Mr Poulaine who gave 300 guinies for him when he came lame oven [often]. King Charles sayd he was the hansomest horse that he did ever see, he has got Hawker, Colonel Morton's running hors that has won so many plates, and many other running horses".
Lord Wharton's Stud Book, 1683 - 1711, page 14, An Account of my Stallions taken September 1708, says - "The Chesnut Arab I had from Mr. Poulaine who gave 300 guinies for him when he came lame over. King Charles sayd he was the hansomest horse that he did ever see, he has got Hawker Colonel Mortons running horse that has won so many plates, and many other running horses".
Hawker was owned by the monarch, so it is possible that "Colonel Mortons running horse that has won so many plates" was a different horse.
A letter from J Griffin to the ninth Earl of Rutland, as reproduced in Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 105, says - "1687. 27th Oct. Newmarket. Being laste night at Jackson's, & haveing an oportunity to match with Mr. Frampton [Keeper of the Running Horses to the King] according to your commission you gave me, I matched Blackleggs [Byerley's Turk] laste night with Haucker, 10 stone waite each, for 500 guineys, two forfeite ; over ye foure mile course here, to runne ye third Wednesday in March nexte [March 21 1687/88]".
Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian must have been foaled before 1685 for King Charles to have seen him and old enough to have sired Hawker, who would have been about six years old in 1688 when he ran against Blacklegs. He only has the one entry in Wharton's Stud book, above, and no foals are mentioned between 1708 and 1711. If we assume he was 30 in 1708 then he would have been foaled in 1678 and sired Hawker in 1681 or 1682.
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, May 11, 1728, Number 159, says - "At Edlington near Whitingham, in the County of Northumberland, will be leap'd this Season, a Gray Stone-Horse, called Gray-Conyers, the Horse is 14 Hands and a half high, late belonging to Sir John Swinburn, Bart of Capheaton, now in the Possession of Mr Francis Smith at Edlington aforesaid; where any Gentlemen may have Mares served, paying for each Mare, half a Guinea a Leap, and 1 s and 6 d the full Serving; the Sire of the Horse was got by Mr Pullam's Arabian, and out of a Byerly Mare, belonging to Sir William St Quinton, Bart. The Dam of the said Gray-Conyers, was out of a Royal Mare of Mr Wilkinson's of West Laiton, and got by old Why-not, belonging to Esquire Forster of Bainsbrough. Test.--- Christopher Clayton, Newcastle".
"the Sire of the Horse was got by Mr Pullam's Arabian, and out of a Byerly Mare, belonging to Sir William St Quinton, Bart.". This piece of tortured English means that the sire of Gray-Conyers was owned by Sir William St Quintin, 3rd Baronet, of Harpham Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, who lived from 1662 to 1723. It is probable that this unnamed stallion by Pulleine's Arabian out of a mare by Byerley's Turk was commonly known as the Harpham Arabian. He sired Champion in 1707, and his sister who was the dam of Whitelips in 1718.
The name Gray-Conyers is more of a description and would appear to mean the Grey son of Conyers. Conyers was Conyers Arabian who had foals from about 1710 to 1716. He was later known as Stanyan's Arabian, when he sired foals in the 1720s.
BYERLEY'S TURK
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STALLION
Owned by Sir William St Quintin
3rd bt of Harpham Hall
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HARPHAM ARABIAN CONYERS ARABIAN STANYAN'S ARABIAN
CHAMPION (1707) SMILING TOM Hanger's Brown Mare
Sister to Champion Grey Whiteneck Mare Stanyan's Arabian mare
Witty's Grey Mare (1716) Whittington's dam
GREY MOONAH
GREY CONYERS
The sire of Grey-Conyers was also known as Richard's Arabian, as evidenced by the following advertisement for Smiling Tom, who was by Conyers Arabian.
The York Courant, Tuesday, March 17, 1729-30, Number 236, says - "This is to give Notice, the Grey Stud Horse called, Smiling Tom, is still in the Hands of Thomas Gallon of Burn-Park nigh Beverley, and will leap Mares this Season, at two Guineas each Mare, and Half a Crown to his Servant. Note, This is the Horse that the late Stud-Master, Mr Marshal give him the Pedigree of, and witnessed by his own Hand, which is this: He was got by Richard's Arabian; the Dam got by King William's white Barb; the Grand Dam got by Makeless out of a Snowden Mare of Mr Crofts, which was a through bred Mare. He has Grass for Mares at a reasonable Rate".
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 13, in a note to the Cripple Barb mare, says - "This mare bred Mr Hodge's Centurion, by a son of the Conyers Arabian, his dam by Dyer's Dimple - [King William's Black Barb - Chillaby] - Moonah Barb Mare". The part in brackets is wrong and should read as follows :
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 154, says - "Centurion (sire of the dam of Tantivy) was the property of Mr. Hodge of Copgrove, near Knaresborough, Yorkshire. - He was got by a Son of Mr. Conyers's Arabian, out of an own sister to the dam of Old Cartouch, page 17. The Sire of Centurion was out of a daughter of Mr. Dyer's Dimple; grandam by King William's White Barb, Chillaby, out of Queen Ann's Moonah Barb Mare".
The Ipswich Journal, Saturday, April 18, 1761, Number 1162, says - "Also now in the Hands of Richard Reynolds, of Somersham in the County of Huntingdon, The Bay Horse late the Marquis of Granby’s: His Pedigree is as follows, He was foaled at Windsor-Forest the 26th of April 1754: He was got by Babraham, his Dam by True Blue, at his Majesty’s Studd; her Dam by the Hamptoncourt Childers; her Grandam by Governor Harrison’s Arabian; her Great Grandam by Grey Moonah; her Great Great Grandam by King William’s Black Barb without a Tongue; her Great Great Great Grandam by Mackles, and she was out of one of Mr Darcey’s best Royal Mares: Grey Moonah was got by the Conyers Arabian; his Dam by Dyer’s Dimple; his Grandam by King William’s White Barb called Chilsby, and she was out of the old bay Barb Mare call’d Old Bay Moonah, that Mr Marshal brought from Barbary. Windsor-Forest, May 31, 1755. / Brice Fisher".
As with Gray-Conyers, the name Grey Moonah is a description and means the Grey from the female line of the Moonah Mare.
Old Bay Moonah
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ROYAL AFRICAN Moonah Barb Mare CROFT'S BAY BARB mare Darcy's <======> Old Grey Royal <====> Tregonwell Barb mare
by Hampton Court Brown Barb by Hampton Court Brown Barb (CRIPPLE BARB) by Chillaby Royal Mare by Darcy's White Turk by Place's White Turk
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mare mare Doll | mare mare <====> Milbanke's Black Mare mare
by Stanyan's Arabian by Leedes by Woodcock | by Dyer's Dimple by Makeless by Makeless by Blacklegs
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Hackney's dam Old Leedes Mare RIB | mare = GREY MOONAH = mare <============> Gipsy mare
by Whitefoot by Whitefoot by Crab | | by Conyers Arabian | by Black Barb by Black by Wastell's Turk
| | 1731 1736 | | | without a Tongue No-Tongued Barb | 1703
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mare SHERBORNE Witty's Grey Mare HODGE'S mare Hanger's Brown Mare Duchess
by Hampton Court by Hobgoblin by Conyers Arabian CENTURION | by Stanyan's Arabian by Newcastle Turk
Childers 1738 1716 | | 1708
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TANTRUM mare = HAMPTON COURT CHILDERS
by Cripple by Harrison's Arabian | by Childers
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GRANBY'S HORSE
Witty's Grey Mare won the Royal Plate at Hambleton in 1721 1754
BLACKLEGS <=============================> BYERLEY'S TURK
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| = CONYERS ARABIAN Wharton Mare
| ACASTER TURK = Brewster's Mare = HARPHAM ARABIAN |
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| | TERROR <=======> BLUE CAP CHAMPION = mare ALMANZOR = Old Lady
| | | | = 1707 | by Darley's Arabian by Darley's Arabian | by Bald Galloway
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| ALEPPO = mare mare = CHAMPION mare = BETHELL'S ARABIAN mare
| by Darley's Arabian | | 1707 | |
| 1711 | | | |
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CRICKET = mare FOX = mare Selima = BLAZE DART
| | 1733 | by Badger
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mare GOLIAH Cypron
| 1730 | 1750
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Partner mare KING HEROD
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STRANGER
by Son of Young Iphis
1751
This chart shows the extent of the inbreeding surrounding Conyers Arabian. It is only speculation that the Wharton Mare was out of the dam of Conyers Arabian, which must have been a grey mare by Byerley's Turk. Interestingly, the stallion Black-a-top by Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian out of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill's Old Blackatop, bred many high class dun horses from a daughter of Wyvill's Dun Turk alias Carlisle White Turk alias Acaster Turk.
In the following chart if each mare in the dam line of Hannibal (1713) was covered as a two year old then the latest that the Whiteshirt mare could have been foaled is 1698. This would still make it impossible for the Whiteshirt mare to be half sister to Mother Western as their dam would have been foaled in 1695 and 36 years old when Mother Western was foaled.
Robert Baynton [Bainton or Bayntun] was Keeper of the Race Horses at Newmarket in the reign of Charles II and Keeper of the Running Horses at Newmarket in the reign of William III. He died in 1694-5 and was succeeded in that position by W Tregonwell Frampton.
Lord Montague's mare
Mare by Darcy's Montague
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BAINTON'S DIAMOND mare Mother Western
by Whiteshirt by Whiteshirt by Easby Snake
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mare mare Spilletta
by Curwen's White Legged Barb by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian by Regulus
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mare FLANDERKIN LITTLE GEORGE mare ECLIPSE
by Curwen's Grey Turk by Curwen's Grey Turk by Curwen's Bay Barb by Curwen's Bay Barb by Marske
| 1707 | 1764
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mare Sophonisba mare
by Curwen's Old Spot by Dyer's Dimple by Greyhound
| 1717 | 1723
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mare Lady Thigh
by Flattface by Partner
| 1731
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mare HANNIBAL
by Terror by Terror
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by Pelham's White Barb
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BONNY BACHELOR
by Hartley's Blind Horse
1730
In Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, by C M Prior, pages 35 and 37, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, the following pedigrees are given :
Hannibal. "Was gott by Terrr, his dam by Flattface. his G.D. by Old Spott. His Great Grandm by a little Barb. His G.G.Grandm was full sistr to Sr Robt Bainton's bay Diamond".
"My Bay mare, own sistr to Haniball. Gott by Terrr, her dam by Flattface, her grandm by Old Spott, her G. Grandm by a little mountain Barb, and her G.G. Grandm was full sistr to Sr Robt Bainton's bay Diamond".
"My Little Bay mare, sistr to Hanniball's dam, was gott by Flattface, her dam by Old Spott, her Grandm by Mr Curwen's Gray Turk, which got Flandrkin, her G. Grandm by a little Arabian, her G. G. Grandm by old famous White Shirt, out of an extraordinary mare of Ld Montague of Codrey".
The first two pedigrees of Hanniball and his sister are identical. The pedigree of the sister to their dam, however, has a cross of Mr Curwen's Gray Turk. It was not uncommon in those days to call two mares sisters if they traced to the same mare through different daughters and had identical crosses. It didn't matter if one mare had an extra cross. Their actual relationship was 'sisters in blood'.
Lord Montague's Mare
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by Whiteshirt by Whiteshirt
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mare FLANDERKIN mare LITTLE GEORGE mare
by Curwen's Grey Turk by Curwen's Grey Turk by Curwen's Old Spot by Curwen's Bay Barb by Curwen's Bay Barb
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mare mare Sophonisba mare
by Curwen's Old Spot by Flattface by Dyer's Dimple by Greyhound
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sister to Hannibal's dam HANNIBAL Lady Thigh
by Flattface by Terror by Partner
| 1713 1731
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by Terror
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by Pelham's White Barb
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by Hartley's Blind Horse
1730
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 17, lists the produce of the Vintner Mare as a filly by the White-legged Lowther Barb and a filly by Pulleine's Arabian.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 13, lists the produce of the Whiteshirt mare as a filly by Darcy Chesnut Arabian.
Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 37, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says the Whiteshirt mare bred a filly by the White-legged Lowther Barb.
Both mares are credited with only two daughters. Each had a daughter by the White-Legged Lowther Barb and a daughter by Pulleine's Arabian alias Darcy's Chesnut Arabian. The White-Legged Lowther Barb was also known as Pulleine's Arabian alias Darcy's Chesnut Arabian, so it must be considered more than a coincidence and it could be that the Whiteshirt mare and the Vintner Mare were identical.
Consider these two pedigrees:
Partner (1718) out of mare by Curwen's Bay Barb - mare by Old Spot - mare by White-Legged Lowther Barb - Vintner Mare by Curwen's Arabian.
Hannibal (1713) out of mare by Flatface (by Curwen's Bay Barb) - mare by Old Spot - mare by Little Barb - mare by Whiteshirt.
Now consider this. Prior's Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse, page 26, in Cuthbert Routh's Stud-Book, says - "A Gray Mare, sold to Mr. Hutton by Mr. Curwen, given to C. Routh by Sr R. Milbanke. 'She was got by Flattface, 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 gott by my Arabian.' [Signed] Hen: Curwen".
This is the dam line of Partner, whose dam was sister to Mixbury, but this Flatface mare could be the dam, or sister to the dam, of Hannibal.
The skeleton of Eclipse is kept at the Royal Veterinary College, although there have been rumours that the skeleton is not that of Eclipse. At one time there were several skeletons that were claimed to be that of Eclipse, and at least seven purported hooves are currently in existence. One report states that Eclipse's skeleton became part of the Royal Veterinary College's teaching collection and was stored for some time in an attic, in a box with other disarticulated horse bones.
An article in Archaeometry 54, 5 (2012) 916-925, entitled 'Truth in the Bones: Resolving the Identity of the Founding Elite Thoroughbred Racehorses', by M A Bower et al, says - "We obtained Mitochondrial D-Loop DNA from the bones of Eclipse". "We proposed that if the putative skeleton of Eclipse has identical mtDNA to that of the real Eclipse's dam's female descendants (Family 12, n = 15), it is highly likely that the skeleton is indeed Eclipse". "We then analysed DNA isolated from four discrete anatomical features of the skeleton: one tooth (lower M3) and three bones - metacarpus, humerus and tibia. The mtDNA sequences from each sample were identical, suggesting that all originated from the skeleton of a single horse. To further confirm that skeletal elements pertained to a single individual, we measured the three bones' carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (the tooth was excluded due to lack of material). The variation between the skeletal elements fell within the range expected from a single animal. Previous SNaPshot [TM] profiling of all DNA isolates identified a chestnut horse, which is in agreement with the recorded phenotype. While these data indicate that the skeleton originated from a chestnut-coloured horse with the same proportions as Eclipse, mtDNA D-loop sequence data revealed that the skeleton belonged to maternal Family 20, and not to Family 12 as listed in the current (46th) edition of the General stud book. According to the current GSB, Eclipse's dam was Spilletta. Spilletta's dam, Mother Western, was a sister to the Whiteshirt mare, with their dam (Eclipse's great-grandmother) being 'Old Montagu mare'. An analysis of mtDNA from 15 living Thoroughbred horses designated as Family 12 revealed that all living horses descended from Mother Western (Eclipse's maternal grandmother, n = 3) in the female line had an identical sequence to Eclipse and Family 20 (n = 9). Eclipse's haplotype was also shared by Family 19 (n = 1) and Family 2 (n = 1), but since these were single individuals, they were excluded from the data analysis. Those descended from the Whiteshirt mare (n = 12) shared mtDNA sequence identity with each other and with Family 9 (n = 14). We propose, therefore, that an error has been introduced to the GSB, at the time of the introduction of this pedigree in the fifth edition (1891)". "As only 3% of horses fall into the Family 20 group (9/296), it seems unlikely that a different, random horse of the same size and coat colour as Eclipse would also be in the Royal Veterinary College collection. We therefore suggest that the putative skeleton of Eclipse is the authentic skeleton, and that a revision of the GSB pedigree record for Eclipse is required".
Arlington Barb Mare = DARCY'S YELLOW TURK = Lawson's Barb Mare
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Vintner Mare <====================> Whiteshirt mare BAINTON'S DIAMOND
by Curwen's Arabian by Whiteshirt by Whiteshirt
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by White-Legged Lowther Barb by Little Barb
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by Old Spot by Old Spot
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mare Grey Mare <=======> mare
by Curwen's Bay Barb by Flattface by Flattface
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PARTNER HANNIBAL
by son of Jigg by Terror
1718 1713
Mother Western's dam was by Darcy's Montague. The Lonsdale Library, volume XXVIII, Flat Racing, chapter one, The Origin & History of the British Thoroughbred Horse, by J. B. Robertson, M.R.C.V.S. (Mankato), pages 34 and 35, says - "The Hautboy Mare produced a mare by Darcy's Old Montague (by Woodcock, out of a mare obtained from Lord Montague of Cowdray, Sussex)". This Hautboy mare was probably Darcy's Queen by Grey Hautboy.
HELMSLEY TURK <============================================================================================> FAIRFAX'S
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BUSTLER = mare mare = DARCY'S DIAMOND DARCY'S YELLOW TURK = Old Morocco Mare
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OLD MERLIN BRIMMER = mare OGLETHORPE'S ARABIAN WHITESHIRT mare SPANKER
| (SELABY TURK) | | (CURWEN'S ARABIAN) | |
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| mare | HAUTBOY MAKELESS BAINTON'S mare = DARCY'S Charming Jenny
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| -----------> | <----------------> | <--------------- | | ARABIAN |
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ACCLOM MERLIN mare = GREY HAUTBOY = mare CURWEN'S BAY BARB = mare JIGG
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WOODCOCK | BAY BOLTON mare DYER'S DIMPLE = mare = GREYHOUND SON OF JIGG
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Old Montague DARCY'S = mare mare Sophonisba mare = PARTNER
Mare MONTAGUE | [Darcy's by Almanzor 1717 1723 | | 1718
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| mare TRAVELLER Grisewood's Lady Thigh
| | 1735 | 1731
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SEDBURY = MOTHER WESTERN = REGULUS Cullen Arabian mare
by Partner | by Easby Snake | 1739 |
1734 | 1731 | |
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1746 | 1749 by Snap
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ECLIPSE CONDUCTOR
by Marske by Match'em
1764 1767
The above chart casts further doubt on the possibility that Mother Western was half sister to the Whiteshirt mare and also highlights the possibility that the stallion known as Darcy's Old Montagu was full brother to Darcy's Old Montague Mare.
The GSB, volume 1, 5th edition, page 85, says - "Faustina, Bred by Mr Curwen, in 1725, got by Hartley's Blind Horse, her dam by Blossom (son of the Curwen Bay Barb) - Pulleine's Arabian - Vintner Mare". She is shown as the dam of fillies by Bloody Buttocks, Darley's Arabian and Young Greyhound, that were bred or owned by Mr Jennison, of Walworth.
Pick's Turf Register, volume 1, page 31, says - "Faustina, (foaled in 1725,) Bred by Ralph Jenison, Esq. of Walworth, Durham. Faustina was got by Capt. Hartley's Blind Horse; her dam by Blossom; grandam by the Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian, out of the famous Vintner Mare".
The Royal Studs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by C M Prior, page 126, says - "The mare, Faustina, who was undoubtedly foaled in 1725, and raced each season till she was eight years old, is shewn in the General Stud-book, vol. I., p. 85, to have had produce by the Darley Arabian, but this entry is evidently in error, and the horse probably died before Faustina was born".
An Introduction to a General Stud-Book, page 87, says - "Miss Stamford, Bred by Mr. Stamford, got by Whitenose, dam by Spinner, grand dam by Crab, great grand dam by Darley's Arabian, out of Faustina, a daughter of Mr. Thompson's Old Milky".
Pick's Turf Register, volume 2, page 432, says - "Faustina, (great great grandam of Miss Stamford) was bred by Mr. Thompson, of Marston, near York, and out of a mare called Old Milkey, who was a noted good runner". Same page, says - "Old Milkey was bred by Mr. Leedes, of North-Milford, Yorkshire, and sold, when young, to Mr. Thompson".
The Worcester Journal, Thursday, May 18, 1788, Number 4966, says - "Critic will cover this Season, at Mr William Watton’s in Dolday, Worcester, at Two Guineas a Mare, and Two Shillings and Six-pence the Groom. Critic was got by Match’em, own brother to Jemmy, out of Miss Stamford, a grey mare bought of Dick Stamford. She was got by Whitenose, her dam by Lord Portmore’s Spinner, her grand-dam by his Lordship’s Old Crab, her great grand-dam by Darley’s Arabian, her great great grand-dam, called Fustana, bred by old ‘Squire Thompson of Marson in Yorkshire out of his Old Milkey, a noted good runner. She was bred by old Mr Leeds, of North Milford.. / Patrick Blacke".
The evidence here points to there being two mares named Faustina. The older, bred by Mr Thompson out of Leedes Old Milkey, that had a filly by Darley's Arabian, and the younger, bred by Ralph Jenison out of a Blossom mare, that had fillies by Bloody Buttocks and Young Greyhound.
The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, June 21, 1760, Number 4369, says - "To be Raffled For, At Mr Parker’s, at the Turk’s Head, on Thursday in the Race Week, by thirty Lots, at three Guineas a Lot; A Chesnut Filly, rising five Years old, with a Filly Foal at her Foot got by Snap; and about 10 Weeks ago covered with the said Horse. She was got by Oroonoko; her Dam by Regulus; her Grandam by Bloody Buttocks; her Great Grandam by Hartley’s Blind Horse, out of the noted Mare Faustina; her Great Great Grandam by Blossom, out of Lightfoot’s Dam, and got by Mr Pullein’s Chesnut Arabian; Lightfoot’s Dam was out of the Grandam of Old Partner.—The above Filly was late the Property of Ralph Jenison, of Walworth, Esq; and the Truth of the Pedigree of her is hereby certified by / Francis Chapman. *** A Publick Ordinary every Day at Mr Parker’s Long-room during the Races".
The York Courant, Tuesday, August 18, 1761, Number 1868, says - "To be
Sold by Auction, At the Black Swan in Coney-street, York, on Thursday the 27th
of August Inst. the Property of Joseph Proctor, and bred by Ralph Jenison, Esq;
A Bay Mare, got by Regulus, with a Filly Foal at her Foot, got by Snap. She
is covered this Year by the Damascus Arabian.
Likewise to be sold at the same Place,
A Brown Colt, out of the above-mentioned Mare, rising three Years old, got by
Snap.
The above Mare's Dam was got by Bloody-Buttocks: her Grandam, by Hartley's blind
Horse, out of the noted Mare Faustina; her Great Grandam, by Blossom, out of
Lightfoot's Dam, and got by Mr Pullen's Chesnut Arabian; and Lightfoot's Dam
was out of the Grandam of Old Partner.
The Truth of the Pedigree of the above Mares (now twelve Years old) is hereby
certified by Francis Chapman".
The York Courant, Tuesday, September 15, 1761, Number 1862, says - "To
be Sold by Auction, At Richmond, in the Race-Week, To-morrow the 16th of September
Inst. between Ten and One o'Clock.
No. 1. A Bay Filly, rising two Years old, got by Locust; her Dam, by Greyhound;
her Grandam, by Hartley's Blind Horse; her Great Grandam, by Blossom, out of
Lightfoot's Dam, and got by Mr Pulleyn's Chesnut Arabian; Lightfoot's Dam was
out of the Grandam of Old Partner. Francis Chapman.
No. [2]. A Black Filly, rising two Years old, got by Snap; her Dam, by Oroonoko;
her Grandam, by Regulus; her Great Grandam, by Bloody-Buttocks, out of the Dam
of No. 1, which was the noted Mare Faustina. Francis Chapman".
The York Courant, Tuesday, March 30, 1762, Number 1900, says - "To be
Sold immediately, An high-bred Brood Mare, got by Old Whitenose; her Dam, by
Greyhound; her Grandam, by Hartley's Blind Horse; her Great Grandam, by Blossom,
out of Lightfoot's Dam, got by Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian. Lightfoot's Dam was
out of the Grandam of Old Partner. She is covered this Season by Northumberland.
Also to be Sold, a Bay Filly, one Year old this grass, out of the above Mare,
and got by Young Cade. - For Particulars inquire of David Banks at Over-Dinsdale,
near Great-Smeaton, in Yorkshire"
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===> Montague Mare = WHITESHIRT <==> DICKY PIERSON <==> CURWEN'S ARABIAN = Layton Barb Mare [GR] <======
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by Whiteshirt by Curwen's Arabian
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mare <=================================================================> mare <===============================> mare [GR] mare [GR] <=========> Old Milkey
by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian by Little Barb by White-Legged Lowther Barb by Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian |
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mare mare FLANDERKIN mare <================================>mare [GR] Lightfoot [GR] mare <===============> Faustina
by Curwen's Bay Barb by Curwen's Grey Turk by Curwen's Grey Turk by Old Spot by Old Spot by Curwen's by Blossom |
| | 1707 | | Bay Barb | |
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mare mare mare <=========> Grey Mare [GR] mare Faustina mare
by Greyhound by Old Spot by Flattface by Flattface Curwen's Bay Barb by Hartley's Blind Horse by Darley's Arabian
| 1723 | | | | 1725 |
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Lady Thigh mare HANNIBAL PARTNER mare mare mare
by Partner by Flattface by Terror by son of Jigg by Bloody Buttocks by Young Greyhound by Crab
| 1731 | 1713 1718 | | |
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mare mare mare Pamela mare
by Cullen Arabian by Terror by Regulus by Orion by Spinner
| | | 1744 |
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mare Jennison's mare mare Miss Stamford
by Snap by Pelham's White Barb by Oroonoko by Whitenose
| 1762 | | 1756 1754
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CONDUCTOR BONNY BACHELOR filly
by Match'em by Hartley's Blind Horse by Snap
1767 1730 1760
The pedigree of Lightfoot gives us a chance to deduce the colours of some of the older mares. Lightfoot was grey by a bay stallion. Her dam must have been grey and she was by a chesnut stallion. The next dam, the Vintner Mare, must have been grey and her sire was also known as Bay Dodsworth. The next dam, Layton Barb Mare, must have been grey and her sire was chesnut. Her dam, Arlington Barb Mare, must have been grey.
The grey mare by the chesnut Flattface must have been out of a grey mare. This grey mare was the grandam of Partner and she was by Old Spot, colour unknown. Her dam might well have been grey and she was by a chesnut stallion out of the grey Vintner Mare.
Dicky Pierson (1663)
to Conductor (1767) = 8 generations. 1663 to 1767 is 104 years which divided
by 8 gives 13 years per generation.
to Bonny Bachelor (1730) = 8 generations. 1663 to 1730 is 67 years which divided
by 8 gives 8.375 years per generation.
to Flanderkin (1707) = 3 generations. 1663 to 1707 is 44 years which divided
by 3 gives 14.67 years per generation.
to Hannibal (1713) = 5 generations. 1663 to 1713 is 50 years which divided by
5 gives 10 years per generation.
to Partner (1718) = 5 generations. 1663 to 1718 is 55 years which divided by
5 gives 11 years per generation.
to Snap filly (1760) = 8 generations. 1663 to 1760 is 97 years which divided
by 8 gives 12.125 years per generation.
to Pamela (1744) = 6 generations. 1663 to 1744 is 81 years which divided by
6 gives 13.5 years per generation.
to Miss Stamford (1754) = 7 generations. 1663 to 1754 is 91 years which divided
by 7 gives 13 years per generation.
to Faustina (1725) = 4 generations. 1663 to 1725 is 62 years which divided by
4 gives 15.5 years per generation.
Using the above information and the actual years of foaling for Flanderkin (1707) and Faustina (1725), I have calculated probable years of foaling for the early mares.
Mare by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian [Little Barb] [White Legged Lowther Barb] =
1688
Mare by Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian [Old Milkey] = 1690
Mare by Whiteshirt [Vintner Mare] = 1675
Layton Barb Mare [Montague Mare] = 1665
Arlington Barb Mare = 1660