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    CUTTY SARK

    Oct 31, 2021 4 minutes

    utty Sark is considered one of the foundation mares of the Australian thoroughbred and is seen as the mare that gave us the Bruce Lowe colonial number 7 family. There was considerable doubt about her pedigree, although much more is known than modern history will tell. The mare arrived in Australia aboard the Prince Regent under the control of Captain John Lamb on 22 March 1826. According to newspaper reports the ship carried the stallion Peter Fin, who was unloaded in Van Diemen’s Land, and the mare Spaewife by Soothsayer. Spaewife was to found the line that gave us Shannon hence the origins of these mares was again raised when that wonderful

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