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Dr. Deb Bennett PhD in her ongoing
series “Conformation Insights” in EQUUS magazine reported in the August 2017
Issue in “The Stuff of Legends” that the Sir Solomon by Sir Archy and foaled in 1815 was the sire of Thomas’ Big Solomon foaled in 1820 and he in turn is the sire of Von Tromp foaled in 1835. Von Tromp sired Shiloh in 1844. Bennett reported that this Sir Solomon was probably not a full blood Thoroughbred. He is out of what she terms a Mountain Mare, or a Thoroughbred mare who was not in the Studbook, so he was not in the Studbook.
When Shiloh was bred to Ram Cat by Steel Dust, they produced Old Billy or Billy Boy as he is listed above. Old Billy teamed with a mare named Paisiana to produce
20 foals, including Anthony, Red Rover, John Crowder, Pancho, Joe Collins and
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Such noted sires as Sykes Rondo, Little Joe, Possum, Zantanon, King P-234, Jim Ned, Joe Bailey P-4, Weatherford Joe Bailey and Yellow Jacket are important Quarter Horse stallions found in the American Quarter Horse that carry the blood of Old Billy.
Old Billy sired a horse we call today Martin’s Cold Deck, a horse that can be confused with Old Cold Deck by Steel Dust. Martin’s Cold Deck sired Barney Owens
and he sired Dan Tucker, the sire of the
great foundation sire Peter McCue. Thus, depending on the pedigree you believe, Peter McCue traces to either Sir Archy or Tickle Toby in the sire line – Sir Archy being from the Herod sire line or Tickle Tobey being from the Matchem sire line. Needless to say, he descends from a Thoroughbred sire line.
The dam of Dan Tucker was Lady Bug,
or Butt Cut as she was called. She is by Jack Traveler by Steel Dust by Harry Bluff. The dam
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The Colonial Quarter Race Horse
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Frank Talmadge Phelps wrote a series
of articles for Western Horseman titled
“Great Foundation Sires of the American Thoroughbred.” The fifth installment of this series came in the February 1953 issue titled “Sir Archy and the Later Diomeds.” On page 41, he writes the following: “Not only was Sir Archy a great sire of four milers, he was also
a prominent progenitor of Quarter Horses. Quarter Racing was still popular in North Carolina, and Sir Archy’s sons Bacchus, Sir
The first horses from England were imported to the Colonies in 1620. This is 171 years before the General Studbook was published in 1791.
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