Nimrod Abroad, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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I was also favoured last year with a Copy of the New York Spirit of the Times, a weekly journal, devoted in great part to sporting, containing the pedigree, charac teristics, and performances of a mare called Black Maria, accompanied by a portrait of her. It appears that her Sire was the above named Eclipse, and her dam a celebrated racer of her day, named Lady Lightfoot, who won nearly thirty races, the majority at four mile heats, and was never beaten but once, in her eleventh year, and then by Eclipse, over the Union course. She was also the dam of several other celebrated American racers - amongst them, Shark, by the said Eclipse, sold when in training to J. C. Craig, Esq., for dollars. The grandam of Black Maria was another pro digy as to stoutness, running on to her fourteenth year, when She was sold for 2500 dollars, the highest price ever before paid for an American-bred brood mare.

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