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GREAT SIRE OF OLDEN TIMES A great stallion in his time was Sultan for he was the sire pf no fewer than five Two Thousand winners Augustus 1830 Glencoe 134 Ilbrahim 1835 Bay Miduietqn 1836 and Achmet 1837 No sire before or siiice has begotten five winners of Newmarkets most important threeyearold race four of them being In sntcession and with the ex 1 cuntiou of Augustus which was the property1 of Lord Exeter and a chestnut son of his good mare Augusta and mncn the best of her offspring all were owned by Lord Jersey Sultan too begot the Oc Thousand victresses Galata and Destiny a Derby winner in that highclass horse Bay Middle tori and the Oaks winners Green Mantle and Galata but he got nothing which captured the St Leger Still to most modern followers of racing and breeding Sultans name is probably unknown ex ¬ cept through his sons Glencoe arid Bay Middlcton but nearly a hundred years since the horse had much fume us a racer Horse and Uouud
