8 Making the American Thoroughbred 



stallions, that stood in Tennessee. In several instances 

 both sire and sire of dam were of this Tennessee stock. 

 The number of individuals and entries by Leviathan 

 exceeded the number by any other horse. Notwith- 

 standing this showing Kentucky produced many fine 

 horses and in September, 1839, 250 thorough-breds were 

 said to be in training in that State. 



On the turf, then, as in National politics, Tennessee 

 was a pivotal State. Her race horses were not less famed 

 than were her statesmen, her orators and her preachers. 



As the thoroughbred came to establish a distinct type 

 of work horse in the South, he also created a distinct 

 type of mule. His fatigue-proof and heat-proof qualities 

 were a heritage from his Arabian ancestors. When this 

 blood was transmitted to the stronger mule as was 

 first done in the colonies it made him incomparable 

 for the Southern plantation 100 per cent efficient. In 

 this way he contributed greatly to the growing of 

 tobacco, rice, cotton and sugar, the greatest wealth- 

 producing, mansion-building products of the South. 

 Tennessee being a thoroughbred centre the production 

 of mules for the Southern market came naturally out of 

 the thoroughbred industry. Many Tennesseeans owned 

 cotton and sugar plantations and supplied them with 

 mules from Tennessee throughbred mares. Isaac Franklin, 

 for instance, used Fairview in Sumner County, as a base 

 of supplies for his several Louisiana plantations. 



Out of this thoroughbred industry, also, the trotter 

 came by process of evolution a fact too well known to 

 require extended mention. But it may not be well 

 known that the superiority of the thoroughbred horse 

 gave an impetus to, if it did not originate, the im- 

 portation of thoroughbred cattle, sheep and hogs. As 

 admitted in the North, the South was far ahead of the 



