Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-02-25
TIMOEEON.

' Noio celebrated stallion and race horse. will stand the
ensuing season at Fairfield, aud will serve mares at
$40 the season, TO he discharged by the payment of S6O
when The mare is taken from the borse-Groom fee. 81
Inc season will commence The 10Th Of February, and ex.
pre- The it oil July. Extensive pasturage is Provided
Mares will be fed with grain, il required, at 25 cents a
day. Black servants boarded gratis, but white servants
WIZ be chat sed 90 cents a day.
The performances Of this is,inguisheJ horse ON the
!urf, are so well known, that il is unnecessary 10 relate
them he O..
His get occupy tina, high rank in racing fame. a. n
have stamped their sire a foaI-geiter inferior 10 no horse
living. 1t will be recollec,ed that Timoleon made but
TWO seasons before he was sold and carried to the West
during those two years, his sire, Sir Archy, was in the
zehl'h oil his f'me, and had the preference Of all the best
mares, yet TiInoleon in these two years, got some of he hest
race "a nags Of modern days, out Of untried mares, as Sally
walker, one oil the best 4 mile horses that ever ran; Wash
ington, but little inferior; Sally McGhee,a distinguished
winner in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama
and louisiana; Hotspur, Of great promise, but broke down
at 4 years old, in running 4 miles heats, be atipp Flirtilla
the first heat, and was winning the second when his leg
gave way; Nancy Warren aud others.
In The West, the performances Of MoIa, Sam Patch
Emerald, Susan Hull, Don Pedro and others, attest his
fame.
To show the high estimation in which his colts were
held while on the turfhere, | annex a copy Of the opinion
OF the Turtles in 1926
We, The undersigned, having been in the habit of
seeing and training horses for a time past, take pleasure in
rendering justice 10 the stallion Washington. His runs
two, three aud four mile heats, have Distinguished him as
a racer OF the first order. The runs OF Ariadne, his dam.
gave her a high station on the turf; the races of his sire
Tinoleon, are acknowledged by all to have been tI,e hest,
ever seen: and the runs OF the colts Of Timoleon l,ereto.
lore and this fall particularly, have not only been good,
but great. Given under our hands this 10th November
1926.
Wm. r. Johnson, II. A. Uuche.
Henry NJ. CLAY, John Worsbam.
I'm. Hymn, ~. Gee,
Jas. j. Harrison, Arthur ToyIor.
Ro6t. n. Johnson, Nm. NC Geehee.
10 prove his being a sure foal- getter, give an extract
from a letter 10 me from DIR. John Minge: Gas to limo.
ieon, DO most candidly believe he is as sure a foal. geuer
as any horse 10 America, having on, Of IL mares In the
neighborhood, impregnsied IL. OF the mares left with
the horse, there was not so great a proportion; owing 10 the
most dreadful distcmper | ever saw breaking out among
them. Dec. ii, 1888. e
H. A.. Tayloe, Esq, at whose house he stood the las,
season, writes me-"Mr. Key put three mares, and writes
Inc they are all in foal. l put FIVE, and four of them
proved in fosI. | have no doubt, myself, of his being a
sure foaI. gettcr."
Extract Of a letter from WIN. II. TayIoe, ESQ.
believe Ttmoleon a sure foaI. getter. NV brothers
ana sell put seven mares TO him last season and but one
has missed. One Is In foai that never bred before, though,
sent 10 other stallions-Sir Charles was one of them. y
Mount Airy, January 10Th, 1884.
Pedgree.-Timoleon was got by Sir Archy, his dam
sdItran, & dam by Wildair, & & dam by Driver, n @ q
Dam BY faIlow, g & z dam by Vampire. Tirnoleon IS the
only great grandson Of the celebrated English Eclipse
nov living in the u. States. ICHARD ADAMS
rel'neIo, req. a. 1884. S7-2awSw