Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-03-08
VHHROEEON.

NHlS celebrated stallion horse will stand the
m ensuing season at Fairfield, and will serve mares az
So the season. TO be discharged by the payment of 500
when Inc mare is taken from the horse-Groom ee 81
The season will commence the 10Th OF February and
pre- the LIST oil July Extensive pasturage is provided
Mares will be fed with grain il required, 25 cents
day Black servants boarded gratis, but white servants
will be charged 80 cents a day
The performances of this distinguished horse on the
turf are so well known, that unnecessary TO relate
them he
His get occupy that high rank in racing fame. as 70
have stamped their sire geiter inferior TO no horse
living 1t will be recolIected that Timoleon made but
TWO seasons before lie sold and carried the West
durpg those two years, his sire, Sir Archy, in the
zenith oil his am", and had the preference OF all the best
Mares yet moleon in these years. got some ohe best
race nags oil modern days. out Of unred Mares Sally
walker one oil the best mile horses that ran ash
ing'on but little interiors Sally McGhee, distinguished
winner in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee Alabama
and Louisiana Hospur Of great PROMISE but broke down
at old, in running miles heats, aDg FIirtiila
the st heat aud was winning the second when his leg
gave way; Nancy Warren and others
In the West, the performances of Mola, Sam Patch
Emerald, Susan Hull, Don Pedro and Others ates, his
fame.
To show the high estimation in which his colts were
held while on the iurfhere annex copy oil the opinion
OF the Turtles in 1926:
We, the undersigned, having been in the habit of
seeing and training horses for time past take pleasure in
rendering justice 10 the stallion Washington. His runs
TWO, three and our mile heats have distinguished him
racer oil the first oder The of Aradne his dam
gave her high station the turf the of his sire
Iimoleon arc acknowledged by all been the best
ever seem and the OF the colts of Tmoeon TO-
iore and this fall particularly, have only good
but great Given under our hands this 10th November
1926
Nm. r. Johnson, n. a. Wyche
Henry ~ Clay, John Worsham,
HIM Wynn, ". Gee,
Jas. j. Harrison, Arthur Tdulor
Root. *. Johnson, HIM. NE Geehee.
10 prove his being sure foal- geer give an extract
from letter TO me from DR.. John Mnge: "As to limo.
leon, DO most canddly believe he as sure ioa eeter
as any horse in America, having l3 mares in the
neighborhood lmpregnated H. OF the mares left with
the horse, there was not great proporon owing TO the
most dreadful dlsiemper ever breaking out among
them. Dec. IL, 1898.
ii. A. Tayloe, Esq, at whose house he stood the last
season, writes me"Mr. Key put three mares and writes
me they all in foa 1 pa, FIVE, and four OF them
proved in oal. have no doubt, myself, of his being
sure loal. geuer."
Extract Of letter from Wm. H. TsyIoe, Esq.
believe Timoleon a sure loagetier. My brothers
u sen put seven TO him last and but one
as missed. One Is IN foal that bred before, hous
SEM 70 o.her staliions-Sr Charles was one Of them.
Mount Airy, January 26tb 1894
lmoleon was got by Sir Archy, his dam
SaIrsm' dam by Wildair, e dam by Driver, q q 2
dam by Faiow, & dam by Vampire Timoleon Is tbe
only great grandson Of the celebrated English FcIip.e
nov living In the U. States. RICHARD ADAMS
ro"no'o, feO. :, looi 87--2awSw