From Lord Godolphin's Stud Book, Royal Studs, p. 138: "27th Apr, 1733. The gray mare ffoled a Colt, got by ye Arabian. A Dun, with a Starr & Blaze.... this fole called Dismal, sold to John South, 1739."
GSB 1891 p.2
Bred by Lord Godolphin and later owned by Mr South he won the 1000 guineas Great Stakes at Newmarket and King's Plates at Ipswich, Guildford, Salisbury, Canterbury and Lincoln. Never defeated, he stood 15 hands and covered in Yorkshire at Denton and later at Doncaster and Pontrefact. He sired Jenny Dismal (b f 1752c).