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did not obtain to a great extent in the far South, but 

 here the fortunes made out of cotton and sugar enabled 

 the racing branch of the industry to be developed more 

 extensively than anywhere else in the Union except, 

 perhaps, in Charleston, S.C. Brood mares that were 

 owned in the far South were generally kept in North 

 Alabama or Tennessee but their foals were reared on the 

 plantations of their owners. The number of these, how 

 ever, was insufficient to meet demands of the high lords 

 of the low country whose racing centre was New Orleans, 

 "the Newmarket of the South." The winter race meet- 

 ings at her three courses Louisiana, Metarie and Eclipse 

 drew people from everywhere as the Mardi Gras did 

 in more recent years. This had an important bearing 

 upon the breeding industry of Tennessee. Nearly every 

 good horse bred in Tennessee was eventually purchased 

 for running in Mobile, Vicksburg, Natchez and New 

 Orleans and other far Southern points. One hundred 

 thousand dollars was paid for horses to run in New 

 Orleans in December, 1837. 



"The prevailing opinion in the South," wrote Lewis 

 Sanders, a prominent breeder of Gallatin County, Ken- 

 tucky, in 1836, "is that Tennessee possesses more and 

 better blood than Kentucky. Tennessee stock will fetch 

 more money in the South than ours will. ... At the 

 races two years ago, at Louisville, Tennessee stock had 

 rather the advantage, though we beat them the 4-mile 

 day with a Kentucky-bred horse." 



This preference of the South for Tennessee stock con- 

 tinued. At the three New Orleans courses, on twenty 

 days in December, 1838, there were 62 entries (44 horses) 

 in the 25 races that were run. Thirty-one (17 horses) 

 of these 62 entries were got by (or were out of dams by) 

 one of the horses named in the list (in this volume) of 



