Cream Cheeks - Family 6-a

Cream Cheeks

The names "Old Bald Peg," "Old Peg" and "Cream Cheeks" appear for the first time in the fifth edition of Volume 1 of the General Stud Book, published in 1891, some two hundred years after their deaths. "LEEDES ARABIAN MARE (sister to Leedes, sometimes called Cream Cheeks), Bred by Mr Leedes" [GSB1:12]. Leedes Arabian Mare was without her own entry in the General Stud Book until 1891, when she was credited with all the progeny previously credited to a sister to Leedes. It is possible that there was more than one sister to Leedes.

Tifter

Tifter was attributed to Mr Leedes' Cream Cheeks in 1891, although there is some evidence that he was from Sir John Parsons' Cream Cheeks, the 2nd dam of Cinnamon (c 1722). "Tifter, Sir John Parson's, (by the Thoulouse Barb, out of Cream Cheeks, the grandam of Cinnamon)" [Pick1:xxviii].

There is also some evidence that Tifter's dam was called young Cream Cheeks. "Tifter was Son of the Thoulouse Barb, out of young Cream Cheeks which was full sister in Blood to Leeds's" [Pond1754:159].

Supporting evidence for the 1891 version is supplied by an advertisement in the March 6, 1753 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette, in which a pedigree is given for the imported horse, Young Tifter, a grandson of Tifter. "Tifter of Warwick was got by the famous Thoulouse Barb, and bred out of Cream Cheeks, full sister to Leedes and grandam of Old Childers" [E2:53]. However, this may just be an indication of how early Tifter's pedigree became confused.

Tifter was bred by Sir John Parsons and it is reasonable to question whether his dam was Mr Leedes' Cream Cheeks rather than Sir John's own Cream Cheeks. In order to satisfy the "sister in blood" description of Young Cream Cheeks, it is possible that Tifter's pedigree connects at some point to Family 6, although his pedigree should probably look something like this:

Hautboy Mare
   Parson's Cream Cheeks (f Spanker)
     Tifter (c Thoulouse Barb)
        The Ryegate Mare (f Thoulouse Barb)
          Cinnamon (ch c 1722 Wyndham)

Flying Childers

His year of birth, which differs from that given him in the General Stud Book [GSB1:12], was attested to by Leonard Childers in a note attached to his portrait at Chatsworth "Sept ye 28, 1719. This is to certify that the bay stoned horse his Grace the Duke of Devonshire bought of me, was bred by me, and was five years old last grass, and no more Witness my hand, LEO CHILDERS" [Royal Studs:125].

Roxana

Her pedigree is recorded in Edward Coke's stud book as by "the Bald Galloway, her dam by Lord Carlisle's White Turk [the Akaster Turk], out of Sir William Strickland's Blunder Mare". However, Prior notes that Roxana's grandam is said to be by Leedes Arabian in the General Stud Book and that Routh had the same pedigree, which was attested to by Mr Ayscough in 1740 [Royal Studs:139]. Roxana is identified as chestnut, both in the General Stud Book [GSB1:1] and in Edward Coke's stud book; (she was a brood mare in Coke's stud). "ROXANA (Chestnut, 1718) By the Bald Galloway, her dam by Lord Carlisle's White Turk [the Akaster Turk]" [GSB1:175]. "Roxana died after foaling in 1734" [Royal Studs:139].

Silverlocks

The pedigree of Silverlocks given in Edward Coke's stud book shows her dam, sister to Chaunter, being "out of a mare that Sir William Lowther vallued much" [Royal Studs:139].