| Owner: Sir John Parsons Breeder: Mr. Wilkes
Sire of top class racehorse Fox (1720 King's Plates Newmarket, Lewes, 1721 King's Plate Newmarket, Champion Sire 1731 and 1735); and of Fox Cub (sire of an unnamed mare which is grandam of Marske, Champion Sire 1775 and 1776 and sire of 1) Transit (1774 Jockey Club Plate); 2) Shark (19 victories including 1775 Claret Stakes, and winner of over £16,000, a record at the time; 3) the top class racehorse Pretender; and 4) the peerless Eclipse, the greatest racehorse of the 18th century, unbeaten winner of 18 races including 12 King's Plates, second in the list of leading sires 11 times, every year from 1778 and 1788,
and progenitor of the Darley Arabian male line from which over 95% of the world's current thoroughbreds descend)
Full brother to Grey Wilkes, a significant broodmare, particularly as dam of Sister to Old Country Wench, dam of Squirt, grandsire of Eclipse
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