44 Making the American Thoroughbred 



from all three; this fact will not, as a rule, be further 

 noted in pedigrees. Most all of these horses descended, 

 also, from Herod, or Matchem or Eclipse, or from all 

 three. Where the blood of any one of these three horses 

 was prominent in a pedigree, and this fact does not other- 

 wise appear, it will be indicated by the letters H, M or E 

 as the case may be.^ 



STALLIONS BETWEEN 1800 AND 1810 



The most noted stallions known to have stood in 

 Tennessee between 1800 and 1810 were those named 

 below. Except in one or two cases noted the cost of 

 service did not exceed $30 and was always payable in 

 cotton, pork, beef, cattle or other "country produce," 

 as the equivalent of money. 



In this decade and the next, eight grandsons of O' Kelly's 

 Eclipse and numerous representatives of the Herod and 

 Matchem families laid a solid foundation for the Tennessee 

 stock. 



"GREY MEDLEY, foaled 1791; got by imp Medley; 

 dam by True Whig; g. dam Circe by Ariel. True Whig 

 by Regulus (son of imp Fearnought) dam imp Jenny 

 Dismal, by Dismal; g. dam by Lord Godolphin's 

 Whitefoot. Ran at Tappahannock, Va., and taken to 

 Tennessee." 



The above quotation from "Wallace's Stud Book" as to 

 Grey Medley's dam and age is supported by the testi- 

 mony of Dr. R. D. Barry. In The Knoxville Register and 

 State Gazette of March 20, 1799, Dr. Barry advertised 

 Grey Medley to stand that season "at the Brothers 

 Cottage adjoining Knoxville, the seat of Dr. Claiborne." 

 In that advertisement he stated that Grey Medley's dam 

 was by True Whig which is the main point of differ- 

 ence between Wallace and Skinner. Dr. Barry also 



