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".
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".
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".
GSB PICK PICK and HEBER PICK GSB
mare mare
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by Place's White Turk by Place's White Turk Royal Mare
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mare mare mare mare mare
by Brimmer by Brimmer by Brimmer by Brimmer by Brimmer
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Brown Farewell Old Scarborough Mare mare mare mare
by Makeless by Makeless by Hobler by Wilke's Hautboy 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 = sister to Comet's dam mare Mother Western
by Belgrade Turk | by Young Greyhound by Black-a-Top 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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Ali Croker ECLIPSE
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 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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LEEDES ARABIAN = Charming Jenny | | YOUNG SPANKER
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Fair Rosamond ROYAL AFRICAN mare Moonah Barb Mare LEEDES BAY COLT
| [MOONAH BAY BARB] | | 1700 | 1703
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ROSAMOND mare Doll mare
[by Hobler] [by Royal African] by Woodcock |
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WOODSTOCK mare RIB Old Leedes Mare
by Woodcock by Crab by Whitefoot
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sister to Comet's dam mare SHERBORNE
by Young Greyhound by Young Greyhound by Hobgoblin
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PRIMATE mare COMET Skewcap
by Young Belgrade by Cade by Cade by Cade
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by Bolton by Tartar
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mare KIPLING PRINCE WILLIAM
by Syphon by Young Snip by Dainty Davy
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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".
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 [Stoole's] dam was got by Bald Galloway, his G. dam 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".
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GREY HAUTBOY mare mare Wyvill's Old Blackatop = PULLEINE'S CHESNUT ARABIAN
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FARMER mare mare BLACK-A-TOP
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Silverlocks mare AYSCOUGH mare CASTAWAY PARSON'S GELDING Wyvill's Golden Dun Mare
by Bald Galloway by Bald Galloway 1722 | 1712 | 1717
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TRUSTY BRUSHWOOD mare
by Young Belgrade
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all duns. The Golden Dun Mare and Silverlocks, who is registered as chesnut in the GSB, mare
were probably palominoes. by Mogul
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
Wyvill's Dun Turk. The Acaster Turk was also known as Lord Carlisle's White Turk.
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.
It has long been thought that Silverlocks was own 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.
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".
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 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 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".
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 and he was the sire of Curwen's Chesnut Arabian.
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".
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
ARABIAN ARABIAN | ARABIAN LEGGED BARB
| | | | |
| | | ------ ------
| CBB | Whiteshirt mare | Vintner Mare | CBB |
| | | | | | | | |
| ------- | ------------ ------- -------------------- | ----------------- |
| | | \ / \ / \ / \ / / | | |
| mare | mare mare mare mare | BLOSSOM | mare
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | ---------> | <----- | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | ---- ---- ------------- ---------- | ----- | | | |
\ / \ / | | | \ / | \ / \ /
JEW TRUMP mare mare FLANDERKIN mare Lightfoot | mare Creeping
1709 | by Curwen's by Curwen's by Curwen's | | Molly
| Grey Turk Grey Turk Spot | | 1700
| | 1707 | | |
| | ------------ | |
| | -----------------------> | <-------- |
------------------- | | | | --------- | |
| | | | | \ / \ / |
Sophonisba mare mare FLATTFACE | MIXBURY mare | HARTLEY'S
by Dyer's Dimple by Greyhound by Curwen's | | | | BLIND HORSE
1717 | 1723 Spot | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| ----- ----- | | | ----------
| \ / | | \ / |
Lady Thigh TERROR = mare | PARTNER Faustina |
by Partner | | by Son of Jigg | 1725 |
1731 | | 1718 | |
-------------------- | | |
| | | | |
HANNIBAL mare = PELHAM'S WHITE BARB | |
1713 | [ALCOCK'S ARABIAN] [BLOODY BUTTOCKS] | |
| | | |
| -------- -------- |
| \ / |
mare mare |
| |
-------------------------- ---------------------------
\ /
BONNY BACHELOR
CBB = CURWEN'S BAY BARB 1730
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 Montagu
| |
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BAINTON'S DIAMOND mare Mother Western
by Whiteshirt by Whiteshirt by Smith's son of Snake
| | 1731
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| | |
mare mare Spilletta
by Curwen's White Legged Barb by Darcy's Chesnut Arabian by Regulus
| | | 1749
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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
| ------------------------
| | |
mare Sophonisba mare
by Curwen's Old Spot by Dyer's Dimple by Greyhound
| 1717 | 1723
| |
| |
mare Lady Thigh
by Flattface by Partner
| 1731
------------------------
| |
mare HANNIBAL
by Terror by Terror
| 1713
|
|
mare
by Pelham's White Barb
|
|
|
BONNY BACHELOR
by Hartley's Blind Horse
1730 PELHAM'S WHITE BARB = ALCOCK'S ARABIAN
The following 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.
HELMSLEY TURK <========================================================================> FAIRFAX'S
| MOROCCO
-------------------------------------------- BARB
| --------------------------- | |
| | | | |
BUSTLER = mare mare = DARCY'S DARCY'S YELLOW TURK = Old Morocco Mare
| | | DIAMOND | |
---> | <----------------------------> | <----------------------------------------> | <------ |
| | | | |
| --------------> | <------------------------------------------- | --------------
| | | | | | |
OLD MERLIN BRIMMER = mare OGLETHORPE'S ARABIAN WHITESHIRT | mare SPANKER
| | | | | | | |
| ------> | <------- | ---------- | | |
| | | ---------------> | <-------------> | <----> | <----> | <--- |
| | | | | | | | |
| mare mare = HAUTBOY MAKELESS BAINTON'S mare = DARCY'S Charming Jenny
| | | | | DIAMOND | CHESNUT |
| -------------> | <----> | <---------- | | ARABIAN |
\ / | | \ / | |
ACCLOM MERLIN | GREY HAUTBOY = mare CURWEN'S BAY BARB = mare JIGG
| | | | |
| | -------------- | |
| | | | | |
WOODCOCK | BAY BOLTON mare DYER'S DIMPLE = mare = GREYHOUND SON OF JIGG
| 1702 | 1705 | | | |
---------. . . . . | | | ------ |
| . | | | | |
Old Montague DARCY'S = mare mare Sophonisba mare = PARTNER
Mare OLD MONTAGUE | by Almanzor 1717 1723 | | 1718
| | | | |
| | ----------------- ----------------> | <------
| | \ / |
| mare TRAVELLER Grisewood's Lady Thigh
| | 1735 | 1731
| | |
| | |
SEDBURY = MOTHER WESTERN = REGULUS Cullen Arabian mare
by Partner | by Smith's Son of Snake | 1739 |
1734 | 1731 | |
| | |
Miss Western Spilletta mare
1746 | 1749 by Snap
| | 1762
| |
| |
ECLIPSE CONDUCTOR
by Marske by Match'em
1764 1767