400 RACEALONG 



in Kentucky, where Axworthy was sent by William 

 Simpson a few years after he purchased him. 



Bettie Wilson 



In 1921, when I was in the south tracing the pedi- 

 gree of Peter the Great, I met Charles P. Warfield. 

 He hved on a farm which his father purchased on 

 the Russellville Pike, about five miles from Clarks- 

 ville, Tennessee. 



A few years after the close of the Mexican War 

 the father of Charles P. Warfield was a merchant 

 in Baltimore. Close application to business shattered 

 his health. On the advice of a physician he disposed 

 of his business in the Maryland city and started 

 south on the back of a saddle horse to find a place 

 where he could live and labor out-of-doors. 



Following the saddle paths, over which the people 

 of that day travelled, this member of the Warfield 

 family after visiting E. Warfield, a cousin at Lexing- 

 ton,! Ky., and who later became known to the turf 

 world as the breeder of the great race horse Lexing- 

 ton, moved on to the banks of the Cumberland 

 River and finally selected thq farm on which I met 

 his son. 



All of the Warfields were fond of horses and while 

 this branch of the family did not race or breed any 

 of that kind they took an active interest in the prod- 

 uct of their neighbors and through it were familiar 

 with the best horses in that section of Tennessee. 



Charles N. Merriweather was a neighbor of the 

 Warfields. He had a large plantation further along 



