| Owner: Mr. Johnson & Mr. Craig Breeder: Marmaduke Johnson State Bred: NC
Oct 1816 - 2m stakes Petersburg (from Timoleon, heat times being 3:47, 3:48 and 3:49); October 1820 - 3 mile heats Belfield (from Sir Charles)
Believed to have won other top races in 1817, 1818 and 1819, but records have not survived
May 1817 - beaten 4m heats Petersburg (to Timoleon, in two closely contested heats); Fall 1819 - 4th 4m heats Jockey Club Purse Petersburg (to Contention, Napoleon and Kosciusko); May 1820 - 2nd 3 mile heats Petersburg (to Sir Charles)
Rated by her owner as good or better than the great racehorses Boston and Sir Archy, both of which he also owned
Dam of top class racehorses Slender and Bonnets O'Blue; grandam of Fashion, one of the greatest racemares in American turf history, winner of 32 of 36 career starts, including a celebrated match against the great racehorse Boston on 10 May 1842
Reality's maternal line survives to the present day, producing some good horses but not one of the class of Fashion
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