| Owner: 1) Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville 2) John Colvill Breeder: Leonard Hartley
She was sent to Virginia about 1750 by Charles, Earl of Tankerville, to his cousin John Colvill, who had settled there in 1734
The statement in Wallace's American Stud-Book, v.1 p. 647 [as Miss Colville] that she was imported by Col. Tasker of Maryland is erroneous
3rd dam of the outstanding stallion Lee's Mark Anthony, the sire of Collector, the sire of Snapdragon, winner of major races between 1802 and 1804, but his enduring legacy was as the sire of many broodmares which bred on successfully, permeating relatively early American pedigrees; and ancestress of top class racemare Ariel (winner of 42 of her 47 starts)
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