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  Foundation Sires of the Thoroughbred: X, Y, Z
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Alphabetized List of Important 17th and 18th Century Stallions

Young Eclipse
Young Eclipse
X
Xanthus
SIRE: (Cornforth's) Forester - (Old) Forester - Hartley's Blind Horse - HOLDERNESS TURK.
DAM: Miss Roan by Cade - Madam by Bloody Buttocks - Miss Partner by Partner - Brown Farewell by Makeless - mare by Brimmer - mare by Place's White Turk - mare by Dodsworth - Layton Violet Barb mare (Family 4).
Chestnut 1766. Sired two unnamed colts in the Leedes stud in Yorkshire.
Xanthus
SIRE: Volunteer - Eclipse - Marske - Squirt - Bartlett's Childers - DARLEY ARABIAN. Darley Arabian Sire Line: Eclipse Branch
DAM: Abigail by Herod - Teresa by Matchem - Brown Regulus by Regulus - Miss Starling Junior by (Bolton) Starling - Ringbone by Partner - Lusty Thornton by Croft's Bay Barb - Chestnut Thornton by Makeless - Old Thornton by Brimmer - mare by Dicky Pierson - Burton Barb mare (Family 2).
Chestnut 1790. Owned by Mr. Graham. Moderate racehorse who ran fifth in the 1793 Derby and second in the Prince's Stakes at Newmarket that same year.
Y
Yellow Jack
SIRE: Dux - Matchem - Cade - GODOLPHIN ARABIAN. Godolphin Arabian Sire Line
DAM: Sally by Blank - mare by Grey Ward - mare by (Ancaster) Merlin - (Young) Lady mare by Pert - (Old) Lady mare by St. Martin - Oldfield mare by Hale's Turk (Family 14).
Chestnut 1773. Bred and raced by Richard, (1st) Earl Grosvenor. Won 1400 guineas and 14 hogheads of claret in a sweep for four year olds at Newmarket in 1777, beating Pot-8-Os and twelve others. Sired around a half-dozen youngsters, born between 1781 and 1789, listed in the GSB, the only named one a colt, Jack's Maidenhead (1781) from Mambrino's dam. There was an earlier Yellow Jack who raced at Newmarket for high stakes in 1704, not listed in the GSB.
Young Belgrade
SIRE: BELGRADE TURK.
DAM: Mare by Bay Bolton - Old Scarborough mare by Makeless - mare by Brimmer (Family 25).
C. 1729. Bred by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill at his stud in Yorkshire. Sired the good racehorse and Irish sire Antelope (1748), his sister (seen in Family 57) and brother, Broadbottom (1743); the racehorse Standard (1736, also called Bashaw); the racehorse Volunteer (1735) and his sister (seen in Family 18); the racehorse Garnet (1738).
(Young) Cade
SIRE: (Old) Cade - GODOLPHIN ARABIAN. Godolphin Arabian Sire Line
DAM: Miss Partner by Partner - Brown Farewell by Makeless - mare by Brimmer - mare by Place's White Turk - mare by Dodsworth - Layton Violet Barb mare (Family 4).
Bay 1747.
(Young) Cartouch
SIRE: (Old) Cartouch - Bald Galloway - ST. VICTOR BARB.
DAM: Mare by Hampton Court Chestnut Arabian - Pet mare by Wastell's Turk - mare by Hautboy - mare by Place's White Turk - mare by Dodsworth - Layton Violet Barb mare (Family 4).
1731.
(Young) Eclipse
SIRE: Eclipse - Marske - Squirt - Bartlett's Childers - DARLEY ARABIAN. Darley Arabian Sire Line: Eclipse Branch
DAM: Juno by Spectator - Horatia by Blank - mare by Flying Childers - Miss Belvoir by Grey Grantham - mare by Pagett Turk - Betty Perceival by Leedes Arabian - Family 6 or Wyvill Roan mare.
Bay 1778. He won the Epsom Derby of 1781.
(Young) Greyhound
SIRE: Greyhount - CHILLABY.
DAM: Brown Farewell by Makeless - mare by Brimmer - mare by Place's White Turk - mare by Dosworth - Layton Violet Barb mare (Family 4).
Brown 1723.
(Young) Marske
SIRE: Marske - Squirt - Bartlett's Childers - DARLEY ARABIAN. Darley Arabian Sire Line
DAM: mare by Blank - Bay Starling by Bolton Starling - Meynell by (Old) Partner - mare by Greyhound - mare by Curwen Bay Barb - mare by D'Arcy Chestnut Arabian - mare by Whiteshirt - mare by Old Montagu - mare by (Old) Hautboy - mare by Brimmer - Royal Mare (Family 12).
Bay 1771.
(Young) Snip
SIRE: Snip - Flying Childers - DARLEY ARABIAN. Darley Arabian Sire Line
DAM: Miss Meredith by Cade - Amoret (Little Hartley mare) by Bartlett's Childers - Flying Whigg by Woodstock Arabian - Points by St. Victor Barb - Grey Whynot by Whynot - Royal Mare (Family 15).
Bay 1757.
(Young) Spanker
SIRE: [probable] Spanker - D'ARCY YELLOW TURK.
DAM: Not known.
Not much is noted about this horse in standard sources; he is seen in the pedigree of a Curwen/Old Spot mare (Family 44), grandam of the racehorse and sire (Bolton) Sweepstakes in the GSB, but he himself is not listed in the GSB. He is recorded in the diary of John Hervey, (1st) Earl of Bristol [C.M. Prior, Early Records of the Thoroughbred Horse], who visited the Leedes stud near Pontrefact in Yorkshire in 1705; Hervey wrote that he, rather than the Leedes Arabian (as indicated in the GSB), was the sire of Bay Peg, an extremely significant mare in Family 6, the dam of Basto (1702) and Fox (c.1714).
(Young) True Blue
SIRE: HONEYWOOD ARABIAN.
DAM: Dam of the two True Blues by Byerley Turk (Family 3).
Grey 1718.

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