Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-03-18
TINlOLEON.

WIS celebrated stallion aud horse win Stand m.
- ensuing season at Fairfield, and will serve mare. =,
$1S tho season TO be discharged by the Of ss
when the mare 10 taken from the horse fee a.
Inc season w commence the 10Th Of bruary, and ex.
pre- the ISL OF july Extensive psstursge is provided.
Mares viii be fed with grain, Il required. at 26 cents
day. Black servants boarded gratis, but white serysnts
VIII be charged so cents day.
The performances OF this distinguished horse on tho
TURF are so we'll known, that is unnecessary to relate
them here.
His get occupy that high rank In racing fame. a. "a,
have stamped their sire inferior to no horse
living 1t will be rccollected that Timoeon made but
two seasons before he sold and carried to the West
during those years, his sire Sir Archy was In The
zenith OF his fame, and had the preference Of ell the best
Mares yet Tmoleon in these years. 20, some Off best
race nags oil modern days. out Of untried Sally
Walker ofthe best mile horses that ever RAM ash.
ing'on, but little ncrio Sally McGhee, distinguished
and Louisiana; hospur Of grsa! promise, but broke down
years old, In running miles heats, beating Fiirtilia
the ht 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, attest his
fame.
To show the high estimation in which his colts were
held while on the iurfhere, annex copy 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 to the stallion Washington. His runs,
Of the frs, order. The runs of Aria.ne his dam
gave her high station the turf the races of his SIRE
TmoieOn are acknowledged by all have been the best
ever seen: and the runs OF the colts of Timoeon hereto
fore, and this fall particularly have only been good
but great. Given under hands this 10th November
1926.
Nm. r. Johnson, Il. Il. Wyehe,
Henry ~. Clay, John Worshan,
HIM. Hymn, ~. Gee,
Jas. ,. Harrison, .arihm Taylor,
Robt. r. Johnson, HIM. Nc C;eehee
To prove his being sure oalgeer, give an extract
from letter to me from DR.. John Minge "As to Timo-
ieon do most candidy believe he sure oai. geter
as any horse In America having of IL mares In the
neighborood, mpregnated IL. or the mares left with
the HORSE there was not grea, popoon owing to the
most dreadful dsemper ever saw breaking out among
them. Dec. II, 1888. 80
H. A. Tayioe, Esq. at whose house he stood the last
season. writes me"Mr Key put three Mares and writes
me they are all In foal put FIVE, aud four Of them
proved in iosl. have doubt, myself, of his being
sure osl. getter." ~ 80
Extract Of letter from WIN. Fl. Tayloe, Esq
believe Timoeon sure foal- getter. NV brothers
ana sell put seven TO him last and but one
mas missed One is in foa that bred before though
sent to other staions-Sir Charles was one of them
Mount Airy, January 26ih, 1884.
peagree-Timoleon was got by Sir Archy. his dam
SaI'ram, & dam by wildair, & dam by Driver, ggg
dam b, Falow, g & dam by Vampire. Timoeon Is Tho
only great grandson of the celebrated English Eclipse
now living in the u. States RICHARD ADAMS
rairneiu, reo. 4, 1884 S7-2awSw