He was described as a horse of great size and strength, and was owned by Thomas Panton, an extremely popular racehorse owner and member of the Jockey club, who would win the Derby in 1786 with Noble

He covered at Newmarket for a fee of 10 guineas and later for John Knevett of Eye, Suffolk, for a fee of £1, siring around thirty offspring between 1755 and 1768

Sire of Aesop (1760 Jockey Club Plate [4yo division] Newmarket); and of Virago (1765 King's Plate [mares] Newmarket, 1766 King's Plate [mares] Newmarket, dam of Hollandaise (1778 St Leger), grandam of Virago (8 Jockey Club Purses 1796-1798), and ancestress of of Joe Daniels (1872 Belmont Stakes, Travers Stakes), Shirley (1876 Preakness Stakes) and Spokane (1889 Kentucky Derby)