| Owner: Matthew Lister Breeder: Sir Ralph Assheton
7 August 1722 - £30 Plate York
13 August 1723 - 3rd £30 Plate York
Sire of 1) fair class racehorses Dunkirk, winner between 1731 and 1736, and Drowsy, winner between 1743 and 1746; of 2) Vixen (1742 King's Plate [mares] Hambleton, 1743 King's Plate [mares] Newmarket); of 3) the dam of Cademus (1759 King's Plate Nottingham) and Priscilla's Dam (by [Hutton's] Spot) through which branches 8-b, 8-f and 8-i of Family 8 descend; and most notably, of 4) the dam of The Ruby Mare, dam of Marske (Champion Sire 1775 and 1776, sire of a) Shark (19 victories including 1775 Claret Stakes, and winner of over £16,000, a record at the time; of b) the top class racehorse Pretender;
and of c) 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
Also known as Squirrel
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