Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-02-20
TINOLBlON.

THNdIS celebrated stallion and race horse will stand the
III ensuing season at Fairfield, aud will mares at
SO the season. TO be discharged by the payment $50
when the is taken from the horse-Groom Fee ST.
The season will commence the 10Th of February and ex
Mares Will be fed with grain, il required % cents
day Black servants boarded gratis, but white servants
will be charged so cents a day.
The performances Of this dis inguished horse on the
turf, we'll Known that is TO relate
them he
His get occupy that high rank in racing fame as 70
have stamped their sire geiter inferior no horse
living Ii will be recolected that Timoleon made but
Two seasons before he sold and carried West
during those two years. his sre Sir Archy, was i'm tile
zenith OF his i,ms, and had the preference of all the best
Mares yet Tnoeon in these years. got ofihe best
race nags oil modern days out OF unified Sally
aker, one the best mile horses that ver ran; ash.
ingion but little inferior; Sally McGhce distine
winner in Virginia, orh Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama
anu Louisiana; Hopur, OF great promise, but broke down
al years old in running miles heats, beating Flria
the first heat and 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
lame.
To show the high estimation in which his colts were
hed while on The turiiere, annex copy OF the opinion
OF the Turtles in 1926:
We, the undersigned, having been in the habit of
seeing and training horses for time past pleasure
rendering justice 10 the stallion Washington His runs
two, three and four mile heats, have distinguished him
OF the first order. The runs of AraJne his dam
gave her high station the turf the races of his sire
Timoleon, scknow by all 10 have been the hes
fore, and this fall particularly have only been good
but great Given under our hands this 18th November,
1926.
Nm. r. Johnson, II. H. TTyyche
Henry NJ. Clay, John Worsham
HIN. Hymn, NJ Gee
Jas. j. Horrison, Arthur Tauyor
RObf. X. Johnson, Nm. NC Geehee.
To prove his being oaI-getter, give extract
from letter TO me from DIR. John MiDge: Gas to limo
leoD do canddly believe he is as sure ioa geter
as any horse in America, having of l3 mares in the
neighborhood, impregnaied H. or the mares left Win
the horse there was not so great proportions; owing to the
most dreadful disiemper breaking out among
them. Dec. Ii, 1888.
III. a. Tayloe, Esq, at whose house he stood the last
seasons writes me"Mr. Key put three mares and writes
me they are all in foa put FIVE, and four of them
proved in iosl have doubt myself, of his being
sure foa getter."
Extract OF a letter from VIM. II. Tayloe, Esq.
believe Timoleon sure oal. geucr. NV brothers
and sell put seven TO him last season aud but one
has missed One is IN foa that bred before though
sent TO other sallions-Sir Charles was one of them
Mount Airy, January 26lh, 1884.
Pedigree.-Tmoeon was got by Sir Arcby, his dan,
Saliram, dam by Wilddir, z dam by Driver, q 9 g
dam By Fallow, dam by Vampire. Tmoleon is the
only great grandson of The celebrated English Eclipse
now living in the U. States. RICHARD ADANS
Fairfield, Feb. 4, 1884. S7-2awSw