| Owner: 1) Monsieur St. Victor 2) Captain William Rider
Purchased from a Monsieur St. Victor (possibly the same man who helped King James II's queen and infant son escape to France in 1688), he becomes a stallion in the stud of Captain William Rider, a warden of Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire, where his influence is extensive despite his limited known progeny
Sire of 1) Bald Galloway (Champion Sire 1725, sire of a) Grey Robinson, dam of Regulus (1745 King's Plates Winchester, Salisbury, Nottingham, Canterbury, Lewes, Lincoln, Newmarket, 1746 King's Plate Newmarket, undefeated in 9 starts and Champion Sire 1754, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1761, 1763, 1765 and 1766);
b) Roxana (dam of Cade - Champion Sire 1752, 1753, 1758, 1759 and 1760, sire of Matchem; of Lath (undefeated in 4 starts); and of Roundhead, sire of high class racehorses Stadtholder and Joseph Andrews; and sire of 2) Points (grandam of the outstanding broodmare Amorett and of the excellent broodmare Sachrissa); and of 3) Rider's Cupid (which sires a couple of mares which breed on)
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