| Owner: 1) Colonel Miles Seldon 2) Edmund Brooke 3) Colonel John Tayloe III 4) Major T.E. McPherson Breeder: Dr. Turpin State Bred: VA
Great gelding, still extant United States record holder of consecutive races won, 23 races, all top class, as follows:-
1796 to 1797 - 4 races and 3 matches; then the following Jockey Club Purses:- 3 Oct 1798 - 2m heats Hanover Court; 30 Oct 1798 - 4m heats Annapolis; 20 Apr 1799 - 4m heats Richmond; 9 May 1799 - 3m heats Petersburg; 15 May 1799 - 3m heats Tannahannock; 4 Oct 1799 - 4m heats Hanover Court; 17 Oct 1799 - 3m heats Richmond; 30 Oct 1799 - 3m heats Petersburg; 21 May 1800 - 4m heats Richmond; 27 May 1800 - 4m heats Petersburg; 10 Jun 1800 - 4m heats Tannahannock; 15 Oct 1800 - 4m heats Richmond; 4 Nov 1800 - 4m heats Alexandria; 12 May 1801 - 4m heats Richmond;
Jun 1801 - won single heat 5 mile match versus Brimmer at Tappahannock, Virginia, carrying 180lbs to Brimmer's 90lbs, winning by a head "the most remarkable race run in Virginia" (not Goode's Brimmer, but apparently lowly local horse); 18 Oct 1801 - 4m heats Jockey Club Purse Richmond
Oct 1801 - 2nd 4m heats Jockey Club Purse Fredericksburg (to Fairy, narrowly, ending 23 win streak)
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