| Owner: Thomas Gantt, Jr.
A top racer, who faced Galloway's Selim in a Philadelphia match of 4-mi heats and won top races
'Saturday last [16 April 1763] the great race at Harlem was run between True Briton and Old England, when the latter was distanced' [New York Gazette 18 April 1763]
Sire of 1) Jenny Duter, 5th dam of top class racemare Ariel (winner of 42 of her 47 starts) and of high class racehorse Lance; and of 2) an unnamed mare which is 4th dam of top class racehorse Sir Lovel
Specifically Gantt's True Briton; his name was supposed to be derived from both parents being imported, but in fact Mille was not
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