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[James Kyllo]

Here:  http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/selim17

is Selim's pedigree

( and here: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/yorick2  Yorick's)

And a brief account of the race:

"Her most famous son was Selim, a temperamental bay
foaled at Belair in 1759. Sold as a yearling to Samuel Galloway,
proprietor of the Tulip Hill estate near Annapolis, Selim
began competing at age 4 and never lost until he was 9, then
continued with few defeats until retiring at 13. In his greatest
victory, a virtual replay of his dam's finest moment, he defeated
Yorick, a Virginia-bred chestnut, in a Chestertown,
Maryland, race that took place in 1766 when the local gentry
raised 100 pistoles to lure what Culver called "the two most
famous horses on this continent.""

from an interesting article about Selim's dam Selima:

http://www2.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/aug04/pdf/races.pdf


best

James


On 1/14/06, Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
>        Ethelmer accompanied his uncle to horse races in Maryland, where
> he fed apples to a racehorse named Selim, who achieved legendary status
> over the years. Near the end of the book Mason and Dixon remember seeing
> a race involving Selim and another horse named Yorick.

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