The New York herald., 1922-01-08

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equestrian aristocracy in Colonial days
Col. John Tayloe of Mount Airy long
held a prominent place on the turf. There
were three John Tayloes in succession
from the Northern Neck. between the
Rappahannock and the Potomac, and
two of them were called Colonel and
were noted turfmen, not infrequently
confused with each other in the scant
and complex annals of Colonial racing.
To distinguish him from his father, the
first Of the name, who is not known to
have been identified with the sport, and
from his son, the breeder of Sir Archy.
the second of the name was often re-
ferred to as "the Hon. Col. John
Tayloe."
Born in 1871, he came on the turf as
early as 1852, and from then until the
Revolutionary War closed the chapter,
he figured conspicuousy as importer.
breeder and owner OF winning race
horses. The first we know of him in
racing history is as one of the men who
in 1852 took up Col. William Byrd $
bold defiance TO match his chestnu,
horse Tryall. by. Moreton's Traveller.
cut of Betty Blazella. by the renowned
Blaze, against any horse that could be
produced at the Gloucester race ground
en- December 5, to run four miles for
five hundred pistoles. Now Col. Tayloe
probably bred Tryall and certainly
raised him and imported his dam and
also his grandam, old Jenny Cameron,
from England. To match him he selected
Young Jenny Cameron, by imported
Valiant out Of imported Jenny Cameron.
the dam of Betty Blazella. and to make
assurance doubly sure also started his
imported horse Childers. probably full
brother to Betty BlaZella. The horse
vas distanced while the mare ran fourth
when Col. Benjamin Tasker's great
racer. Selma. by the Godolphin Arabian
won the stakes. with Tryall second and
Col. Thorntons unnamed gray third.
Traveller n PrccOcious Horse.
AS showing how early American stud
books were made 1t is worth while right
here to note that Wallace says More
toms Traveller was foaled in England
lust five years before Tryall started at
Gloucester, and that Bruce, following
Edgar, states that he was foaled about
174s," or only four years before his
son was running four mile races in Nir-
ginia Again, II the stud books are
right. Jenny Cameron was old enough
to be the grandam of Tryall. running
in 17-2, and yet not too old to be the
dam of silver Legs, that ran at Upper
Marlboro In 1771.
From this daughter OF Quiet Cuddy
which was among the first and may
have been the first thoroughbred mare
imported from England. Col Tavloe
bred a remarkable galaxy OF stout. feet
runners. including not only Young Jenny
Cameron and Silver Legs. but the noted
race horse and sire. Lloyd's Traveller. a
brother to silver Legs. that defeated
him at Annapolis in 1867 also the wei
known sires Smiling Tom and Little
David. Betty Blazela, the daughter OF
Old Jenny Cameron. produced. besides
Tryall, his full brother. Yorick, referred
to with Galloway's Selim as "the two
most famous horses on the continent"
when Col. Tayloe started him in the
great Interstate match at Chestertown,
Md. in 1865.
Lloyd's Traveller. bred and developed
by Col. Tayloe. ran several winning
races for him before he parted with
the horse. In the first four-mle heat
race on record in Virginia he defeated
Col Lewis Burwell's John Dismal. a
grandson of the Godolphin Arabian. and
Francis Writings Janus, at Williams
burg, as reported In the Virginia
Gazette, on April a. 1866. and the next
year won the purse from three other
horses at Annapolis. Col. Tayloe's
Hero. a horse that cannot be identified
in any of the stud books. defeated Col.
Byrd's Tryall. then not less than eight
cen years old. and Richard Lees Mark
Antony ut the Williamsburg meeting in
october, 1865. when the horses from
Mount Airy we're Mt the flood tide OF
their success. NonpareIl, son OF
Betty Biazella. and Single pepper. the
latter a winner in a field of seven at
four mile heats in Fredericksburg In
l774. were among the other horses cam.
paigned by Col. Tayloc before the War
for Independence. He died in l779 and
thus had no part in the revival Of rae.
Ing after the war
TayIoes bred TO the Turf.
Like the thoroughbreds he raced Col
Tayloe was bred to the turf. his mother
Elizabeth Fauntleroy, having been oil
the family Fauntleroys who owned Miss
Alison. Faithful Shepherdess and other
flyers in the early Virginia meetings. Il
Is said that he was educated at Cam
bridge. England. On the death Of hi.
father, a member Of the Kings Council
In 1747. he inherited n very large estat,
and In the same year married Rebeccf
Platter, the daughter or Col Platter o