| Owner: 1) Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville 2) Charles Fleetwood 3) Frederick, Prince of Wales 4) Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore 5) Benjamin Tasker Breeder: Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville
Imported in 1747 by Benjamin Tasker, he was the first English stallion to stand in Maryland, standing at Tasker's Belair Stud until he died in 1756
Enjoyed a fair measure of success as a stallion, siring a number of progeny which bred on, notably 1) Bessy Bell, 4th dam of [Taylor's] Pegasus, which sired an unnamed mare which bred on as ancestress of some good class winners; 2) Gantt's Mille, dam of top class racehorse True Briton, sire
of two broodmares which bred on successfully
and 3) Moll Brazen, ancestress of the top class racemare Ariel, winner of 42 of 57 career starts
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