SALTRAM
,—the name of a horse who acquired considerable celebrity by his performances upon the TURF, since which he has stood as a STALLION in a proportional degree of estimation. He was foaled in 1780; got by Eclipse, dam (Virago) by Snap grand-dam by Regulus, out of a sister to Black and all Black. He was sire of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's St. David, the Duke of York's Laurustina, and the Duke of Bedford's Sprightly, Lord Grosvenor's Brown Filly (out of Sting,) who won five prizes in 1790, at two years old, amounting to 1100 guineas; Caroline, and Tiffany; Queen of Sheba, (who won 900 guineas, at Newmarket, in 1792;) Rose, Spankaway, Sweeper, and the Prince of Wales's Whiskey, who won in the same year 1000 guineas, 2000 guineas, the 1400 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket, and 50l. at Bedford; Royalist, General, Henrietta, Clytus, Coal Merchant, Tear-Coat, Peeping Tom, Septem, Coiner, Whip, and Oscar; exclusive of many Colts and Fillies, who were winners at Newmarket, and elsewhere, but never were named.