Thoroughbred Heritage

40. Royal Mare
Jenny Cameron




Mare (f, 173-) by (Lonsdale's) Sultan
  Jenny Cameron (f, 1742) by Quiet Cuddy
   Betty Blazella (f, 1751) by Blaze
   |   mare (f, c1758) by imp Shock [Baylor's]
   |   Tom Jones [Tayloe's] (c, c1759) by imp Tom Jones [Beckwith's]
   |   Nonpareil II (c, 1767) by Nonpareil I)
   |   Yorick [Tayloe's] (c, 1760) by imp Traveller [Morton's]
   Little David [Tayloe's] (c, c1756)) by imp. Childers [Tayloe's]
   Smiling Tom [Tayloe's] (c, 1757) by imp Tom Jones
   Silverlegs [McCarty's] (c, c1761) by imp Traveller [Morton's]
   Traveller [Lloyd's] (c, 1763) by imp Traveller [Morton's]
   Traveller Mare (f, 176-) by imp Traveller [Morton's]*
   |  Silvereye Mare (f, 17--) by imp. Silvereye
   |   (Page's) Jenny Cameron (f, 17--) by imp. Whittington
   |    (Page's) Damon (c, 1768) by imp. Fearnought
   |    Nancy Dawson (f, 17--) by (Wormeley's) King Herod
   |    |  Mendoza (c, 1798) by Boxer [Page's]
   |    |  (Page's) Isabella (f, 178-) by unknown
   |    |   Aspasia (f, 1795) by Bellair
   |    |    (Tayloe's) Polly Peacham (f, 179-) by Patriot
   |    |      Laura (f, 1798) by Grey Diomed
   |    Apollo Mare (f, 17--) by Apollo [Spotswood's]
   |      Shark Mare (f, 17--) by imp Shark
   |       Hamlintonian (c, 1800) by imp Diomed
   Childers Mare (f, 17--) by imp Childers [Tayloe's]*
     Yorick Mare (f, 17--) by Yorick [Tayloe's]
      Clockfast Mare (f, 17--) by imp Clockfast
       (Wilkes') Y. Chanticleer (c, 1799) by Chanticleer [Tyler's]
       Dare Devil Mare (f, 17--) by imp Dare Devil
         Citizen Mare (f, 17--) by imp Citizen
           Caroline (f, 1818) by Ball's Florizel


*
There are more than a half-dozen horses in the ASB reported to have descended from either imported Jenny Cameron, or her daughter, Betty Blazella. Most were discredited, disproved, or emended with more likely pedigrees by Fairfax Harrison (Early American Turf Stock: Mares V.I). The Traveller Mare and the Childers Mare and their progeny noted above were considered at least plausible by Harrison, since, as he says, Jenny Cameron had "...vacant years in which she might have produced fillies, as she is proved to have produced colts, to the covers by imp. Childers and Morton's imp. Traveller..." and because old pedigrees originating in Virginia "purport to trace to fillies out of Jenny Cameron by both those horses; and because the name Jenny Cameron was reproduced in the Rappahannock Valley during successive equine generations following the disappearance of the imported mare. Traveller Mare: Mann Page's Jenny Cameron by imp Whittington includes pieces of pedigrees unknown to the ASB compiler; in addition, Mann Page was a brother-in-law of John Tayloe II. The mare Isabella in this line was a famous racer of R.C. Page's, and her progeny were well-known in the Rappahannock river region in the late eighteenth century. Childers Mare: Harrison proposed a reconciliation of two early pedigrees that lead to a tentative conclusion that Jenny Cameron was the source mare.