8 May 1754 - Jockey Club Plate [4yo division] Newmarket (from Pytho, Brilliant and Ginger); 5 September 1754 - 200 guineas match Newmarket versus Ginger (rec 5lbs)

1 April 1755 - unplaced £50 Prize Newmarket (to Brilliant); 24 April 1756 - beaten 1,000 guineas match Newmarket versus Snap; May 1756 - beaten 1,000 guineas match Newmarket versus Snap

Sire of 154 winners of £71,806, sire of a number of mares which bred on and high class racehorses including Transit (1774 Jockey Club Plate); Shark (19 victories including 1775 Claret Stakes, and winner of over £16,000, a record at the time;

the top class Pretender; and the peerless Eclipse, greatest racehorse of the 18th century, unbeaten winner of 18 races including 12 King's Plates, 2nd in the list of leading sires 11 times, every year from 1778 to 1788, and progenitor of the Darley Arabian male line from which over 95% of the world's current thoroughbreds descend

Champion Sire 1775 and 1776

Died at Rycot in July 1779