| Owner: 1) Mr. Metcalfe 2) Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon 3) Samuel Gist
The name derives from 16th and 17th century literature where it meant "boon companion". The term "my Bully Rooke" is used by Falstaff in William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
24 August 1716 - £30 Plate York
5 August 1713 - 4th £30 Ladies' Plate York; 29 July 1714 - 2nd £30 Ladies' Plate York; 24 August 1715 - 2nd King's Plate York (to Brocklesby); 27 August 1715 - 3rd £40 Plate York (to Bagpiper); 31 July 1717 - 2nd £30 Plate York (to Skipjack); 13 August 1718 - 2nd £40 Plate York
The first thoroughbred sent to America, he was imported by merchant mariner James Patton in 1730, and owned by Samuel Gist, being 21 years old when he arrived in America, having made no impact as a stallion in England
Sire in America of 4 mares which bred on without anything of note being produced, and all three maternal lines perished, the last in the 1830s
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(GB) b. H, 1709
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