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Title: American turf register and sporting magazine
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Skinner, J. S., ed
Subjects: Horse-racing Horses Sports
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : J.S. Skinner
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
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nd supposed her sireto be, from that circumstance, DareDevil. Young Director covered nearChurchill, in Abbeville district, S. C.at $10. (No date, as usual, to thehandbill.) He was by old Director,(of Virginia) and he by Sir Archy.His dam was Sappho. Directorsdam Sappho, by Tartar; his grandamSultana, by Spread Eagle; g. gran-dam by Percy; g. g. grandam byBuckskins, g. g. g. grandam by Hero;g- g g- g- grandam by Brutus; g. g.g, g. g. grandam by Tarquin, &.c. Mr. Editor: Petersburg, Oct. 18, 1830. You will correct in your next number of the Turf Register, two or threeerrors, which occur in the publication of the Stud of the late Col. MarkAlexander, of Mecklenburg county, Virginia. The first produce of Opossum and Thrasher, should be by P8s, insteadof PotSos. Vol. 1, No. 12, page 621. The first produce of Martha Jefferson, Cinderilla, should be by Shylock,instead of Spot. Page 622. For Patona, read Potomac, page 621, No. 5 of Thrashers produce. Yours, most respectfully, M. Alexander.
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a AMERICAN TURF REGISTER AND Vol. II.) DECEMBER, 1830. (No. 4. BREEDING FOR THE TURF. Old and new blood—The British racer the most useful species of thegenus—Vulgar errors respecting Arabian horses—The true racerconfined to England and Ireland—Anecdote of a (ierman kill-devil—Of Matchem and Brilliant—Horses of the desert—Anec-dote of the Duke of Cumberland—Form of an Arabian pedigree—The English pedigree—Bay Bolton^ Bonny Blacky and Samp-son—English progenitors of our best modern racers—Disputedpedigree of Eclipse. In the section of the breeding stud, I promised some separate con-siderations on breeding for the turf. All horses intended for this pur-pose, it is well known, must be thorough-bred; in plain terms, boththeir sires and dams must be of the purest blood of the Asiatic orAfrican coursers exclusively^ and this must be attested in an authenticpedigree, throughout whatever number of English descents. The ac-cidental deviations, or exceptions to this gener

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