| Breeder: Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet
On the frame of a portrait of his son, Bay Bolton, Grey Hautboy is said to have been a "large grey horse" who was bred by "a f_rmer of Sir William Strickland's."
Sire of the top class racehorse Bay Bolton (Champion Sire 1724, 1726, 1727, 1729, 1732, 1733 and 1734); top class racehorse Lamprie (1722 King's Plates Lewes, Newmarket, 1723 King's Plate Newmarket); the fair class racehorse Grey Ramsden; and Sister to Bay Bolton (dam of the useful racehorse Spinner and ancestress of the vast majority of Family 37 including Cato (1753 King's Plate Newcastle, 1754 King's Plates Guildford, Salisbury, York and Winchester), Romulus (1755 Great Subscription Purse [5yo division] York),
Bourbon (1777 St Leger) and Knight of Ellerslie (1884 Preakness Stakes)
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(GB) gr. H, 1693c
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