Although the
traditional table for American Family 4 ends at Medley Mare Number 2,
circumstantial evidence indicates the mare line continues to Selima*,
and thus to English Family 21.
The American Stud Book
gives the pedigree of Fanny Maria, who was bred and owned by Jesse Cage
of Tennessee as shown above, and notes that "This is one of the
best racing families in America".Fairfax Harrison suggests that
Fanny Maria's dam was Malvina (gr f 1800 by Stirling*), for whom the American Stud Book records no progeny. The compiler of the first six
volumes of the American Stud Book, Sanders Bruce, was mislead by a
discussion of the Mount Airy stud which said that Malvina had been sold
to W Alston, of South Carolina. Malvina did not appear in the stud books
of W Alston, and John Irving did not record her as being on the
Carolina turf.
Her breeder recorded in his own
stud book that Malvina was sold as a three year old to Mssrs Roberts
& Lewis, following her defeat in the Stirling Stakes at
Fredericksburg, in October 1803.
Harrison argues that the
disappearance of Malvina from the Virginia records with the
contemporaneous appearance of an anonymous Stirling mare, whose dam was
by Medley*, and who was further mated with Jackson's Pacolet to produce
Fanny Maria, a mare of the quality of the stock of Selima*, in
Tennessee, is more than coincidence. He suggests that Mssrs Roberts
& Lewis sent her to Tennessee and there she entered the stud of
Jesse Cage [E2:226]. Unfortunately the stud
records of Jesse Cage, a prominent Tennessee breeder [Making the
American Thoroughbred, Especially in Tennessee, 1800-1845:120], did not
survive the Civil War.
Harrison's testimony of the
connection between Fanny Maria and Selima* helps to explain the racing
class of this family.
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