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(USA), WASB 1917
AKA Old Potomac; AKA Wilkes Potomac.
Foaled ~1803-4. The American Race-Turf-Register (by Patrick Nisbett Edgar), 1833, Vol. 1, p. 407.
This was a race-horse of wonderful success; as a stallion, he failed. A bitter controversy prevailed many years about his blood, in which there was too much feeling to evince the truth. Pedigree in Wallaces American Stud-Book [1867], vI, pp306-7.
POTOMAC (USA) Old (b.c. 1803) x *Diomed (ch.c. 1777 x Florizel) - Fairy x Blick's Pegasus - Tayloe's Yorick - *Silvereye - high-bred mare. This is the original pedigree given for this horse by Burwell Wilkes of Brunswick County, Virginia, who also owned Wilkes' Wonder. It differs from the implausible pedigree presented by Edgar and then copied in other stud books, which ends with a plow horse. Hervey notes that this pedigree occasioned a bitter dispute over the bloodlines of Potomac that stopped only just short of bloodshed, and provoked enmities, jealousies, feuds and hatreds, which endured for generations.
Potomac was a celebrated 4-mile horse, racing from three to six. He sired Jenny Cockracy (ch.f. 1813); the dam of Betsey Malone (b.f. 1829); and the dam of Directress (ch.f. 1822).
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