. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. r 604 THE nonsE. tlio case of Morcton's Traveller, is the real pedi^^ree; and that ho was fhi' bay colt got by rartncr out of Uay IJloody but- tocks, ill 1745'40 or '47. own brother to the celebrate<l Wid- diiigtoii mare. Bay Uloody Buttocks, whoso dam was by Giey- houiid, t^c, itc, as above, bore colts or tillies from 17;3;i to '35 inclusive (o Partner, in 1730 missed to Crab, from 1737 to '41 colts or tillies to Partner ; in '4


. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. r 604 THE nonsE. tlio case of Morcton's Traveller, is the real pedi^^ree; and that ho was fhi' bay colt got by rartncr out of Uay IJloody but- tocks, ill 1745'40 or '47. own brother to the celebrate<l Wid- diiigtoii mare. Bay Uloody Buttocks, whoso dam was by Giey- houiid, t^c, itc, as above, bore colts or tillies from 17;3;i to '35 inclusive (o Partner, in 1730 missed to Crab, from 1737 to '41 colts or tillies to Partner ; in '42 missed to Partner, from '43 to '47 inehuive, first a filly and then threo colts to Partner, in '48 missed to Partner, and in '49 boro lier last colt to Forester. Old Traveller of the Stud Book was by Partner, dam by Al- iimnzor. Coatworth's Traveller never camo to America. And Strange's Traveller, first called Charlomont, then Big Ben, and tiien inod ahaurdltj, in America, Traveller, was by O'Keliy's Eclipse out of a Ilerod mare, dam by Blank; her dam by Snip out of Lady Thigh, who was daughter of Grey Bloody Buttocks, own sister to Bay Bloody Buttocks, dam of Moreton's Traveller. These two horses do really trace to the Greyhonnd, &c., lino alluded to above, and I doubt not their excellence and popular- ity, in Virginia,were tho cause of the falsification of above half a score of pedigrees into the like form. This is a matter of very considerable importance to the American Turf; since old, or Moreton's, Traveller got Tryall and Yorick out of imported Blazella, Burwell's Traveller out of a Janus or Lycnrgus mare ; Lloyds' Traveller out of a Jenny Cameron mare, Tristram Shandy out of a Janus marc, Ariel and Partner out of Col. Tasker's Selima. It is remarkable that Mr. Edgar has left, in his invaluable Stud Book, the pedigrees of these two Travellere as question- able. There is, however, no question about it; owing to the fortunate fact of the dam of the one and the great-g


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