| Probably one of the nine stallions and five mares imported from Barbary by Richard Marshall during his tenure as stud master to King William III, and he stood at Hampton Court
Sire of 1) grandam of Conyers Arabian Colt, sire of Centurion, the sire of Tantivy's Dam (dam of the good class racehorse Tantivy (1753 Great Subscription Purse [4yo division] York and prolific winner of Fifies); 2) 3rd dam of Oberon (1786 Jockey Club Plate); 3) 5th dam of the great racehorse Meteor (1789 Jockey Club Plate, 2nd 1786 Derby, winner of 30 of 33 career starts, which achieved the longest undefeated run by a British racehorse, of 21 races,
winning his last 4 races in 1786, all 5 of his starts in 1787 and his first 12 races in 1786; it took a racehorse of the calibre of the great Sir Peter Teazle to bring his unbeaten run to an end); and 4) Gipsy, the equal sixth earliest mare in the lineage of Family 13 from which branch 13-d descends
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