| Owner: 1) Christopher Blake 2) John Pratt 3) Sir Richard Grosvenor, Baron Grosvenor 4) Mr. E. Pigott 5) Captain John Allen 6) John Price Hunt 7) Willie Jones
Breeder: George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
1 Aug 1769 - £50 Huntingdon; 4 Oct 1769 - 200gns match Newmarket v Volunteer (con 14lbs); 17 Jul 1770 - £50 Give and Take Exeter; 22 Oct 1770 - 100gns match Newmarket v Warwickshire Wag; 27 Oct 1770 - 100gns match Newmarket v Atrides; 31 Jul 1771 - £50 Give and Take Blandford; 30 Oct 1771 - £50 Epsom
1769:- 4 defeats; 1770:- 2 defeats; 1771:- 2 defeats; 1773:- 1 defeat
Sold for 800 guineas and imported into Pennsylvania in August 1773 by Colonel John Allen. He ran successfully in America and then retired to stud at Allen's stud in Pennsylvania in 1774,
and then in 1775 to 1776 at John Price Hunt's stud in Hopewell, New Jersey and at Willie Jones' stud in Halifax County, North Carolina in 1777 and 1778
His enduring legacy is as sire of an unnamed daughter which is grandam of Messenger, which became the progenitor of the American Standardbred horse
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(GB) b. H, 1765
{17} DP = 0-0-0-0-0 (0) DI = Inf CD = Inf 