The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

HEROD

,—commonly called King Herod, was the first horse of his time as A RACER, and afterwards as A STALLION. He was bred by the then Duke of Cumberland, and got by Tartar out of Cypron, who was got by Blaze; he was foaled in 1758, and, after beating every horse that could be brought against him at four, five, and six years old, he became a stallion of the first celebrity, and transmitted a greater progeny to posterity, than any other horse in the whole annals of sporting, unless Eclipse and Highflyer (his son) are admitted upon the score of equality.