[4][5][a] The Prince of Wales, gave the stallion to Lord Baltimore to give to Samuel Ogle, Provincial Governor of Maryland as a present.

[17] This was Ogle's last tour of duty to replace Thomas Bladen, the past governor of the British colony of Maryland.

Historian Fairfax Harrison concluded that Spark was the product of the mare Miss Colville and stallion Aleppo.

[26] The American descendant records of Spark shows he sired a line of horses claimed to be very fast.

[29] The importation of Spark and Queen Mab was the start of the development of the American purebred racehorse field.

[31] The Manor property originally consisted of a Georgian colonial style red brick mansion and 3,600 acres of land.