WOLSELEY BARB . C, THOROUGHBRED, ~1752
| This horse was covering mares 1755 - 1769, several for Richard, Earl Grosvenor. He may have been imported or owned by one of the Wolseleys, the family seat at Wolseley Hall near Colwich, Staffordshire; one horse, Sloven (1758), by the Wolseley Barb from a Devonshire Blacklegs mare, was bred by Sir William Bagot, whose family seat was also in Staffordshire.
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