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An extremely influential broodmare Dam of Bartlet's Childers (Bartletts Childers/Bartlets Childers), Champion Sire in 1742, sire of many winners and many mares which bred on, but his most enduring significance is as the sire of Squirt, grandsire of Eclipse, through whom the Darley Arabian sire line extends to the present day in over 95% of thoroughbreds; and of his brother [Flying] Childers, considered the greatest horse of the first part of the 18th century, Champion Sire 1730 and 1736 and sire of [Devonshire] Blacklegs (Champion Sire 1746) and Blaze (Champion Sire in 1751 and sire of Cypron, dam of [King] Herod, 8 times Champion Sire).
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