| Owner: 1) John Manners, Marquis of Granby 2) Carter Braxton Breeder: John Manners, Marquis of Granby
Purchased at Newmarket as a 3yo by Carter Braxton and imported by him into Virginia
Won "easily several matches" in Virginia before becoming a broodmare
A great broodmare, she continued a maternal line of Family 40 which survives to the present day
Dam of the successful broodmare sire Wormesley's King Herod; grandam of the very successful early American stallion [Syme's] Wildair; 3rd dam of Hoskin's Melzar, the sire of Maria, the 4th dam of the magnificent sire Lexington, Leading Sire in North America 16 times (1861 to 1874, 1876, 1878, sire of 236 winners of 1,176 races, total progeny earnings $1,159,321);
5th dam of Tuckahoe, winner of high class races between 1812 and 1815; and 6th dam of Boston, one of the greatest of American racehorses, Leading Sire in America 1851, 1852, 1853 and sire of the great racehorses Lecomte and Lexington, the latter 16/times Leading Sire
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