12 Making the American Thoroughbred 



stakes, eight of his get were entered for the Peyton stake 

 and three for the Trial stake at Nashville. Three of the 

 entries got by Priam won the Oaks and a son won the 

 Trial stake. Other instances are given in succeeding 

 chapters. All together they show a spirit of enterprise 

 not exceeded by that of any subsequent period in any 

 line of business, in any section of the Union. 



In the publications current between 1830 and 1840 a 

 diversity of opinion, which did not exist in earlier years, 

 is noticed with reference to the wisdom of additional 

 importations. 



The 4-miIer was then playing out in England 

 due to influences that had not yet obtained ascendency 

 in America and to avoid a similar fate here, many 

 experts preferred to breed back as much as possible 

 to the good old 4-mile stock of Jolly Roger, Janus, 

 Morton's Traveller, Fearnought, Diomed and Medley 

 the fountain heads of Tennessee's foundation stock. 



As a general rule races were run in the Atlantic Coast 

 States by horses owned in these states. West of the 

 mountains the contests were between the horses of Ten- 

 nessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Frequently 

 ambitious owners from each of these sections crossed the 

 barrier between them in quest of greater honors, but these 

 were exceptional instances. Between Kentucky and 

 Tennessee there appears to have been comparatively 

 little intercourse. Conditions of settlement, trade and 

 transportation, with which the reader is familiar, made 

 Nashville and New Orleans closer together than Gallatin 

 and Lexington, Kentucky. 



Where there were organized Jockey Clubs, purses were 

 hung up, the average value of which was about the same 

 in all sections from New York to Texas, with New Or- 

 leans, perhaps, a shade more liberal. But these purses 



