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printed a certificate signed by Lawrence Muse, Secretary 

 and Treasurer of the Tappahannock Jockey Club, and 

 Col. John Tayloe, of Mt. Airy, Virginia, stating that on 

 May 13, 1795, Beckwith Butler's Grey Medley ran as a 

 4-year old at Tappahannock, defeating four competitors. 



The season of 1800 Grey Medley stood at the farm of 

 William Donelson, ten miles from Nashville, on the 

 Gallatin road; and for several years thereafter at the 

 farm of Dr. Barry, in Sumner County. In The Nashville 

 Clarion of March, 1810, he was advertised to stand at 

 William Blackwell's, Parson's Creek, Montgomery County; 

 $8; $12. He was very vicious. Bred by Gov. Williams, 

 of North Carolina. 



Tradition says that Grey Medley was the first thorough- 

 bred stallion brought into Middle Tennessee. Quite to 

 the contrary, yet worthy of consideration, is the state- 

 ment made by Dr. Felix Robertson to Judge William 

 Williams, in 1856, that about 1788 his father, Gen. 

 James Robertson, brought from Maryland to Nashville 

 "a thoroughbred he thinks called Whynot." But it is 

 generally believed that the thoroughbred industry of 

 Middle Tennessee began with Grey Medley and mares 

 already here in 1800 or brought soon thereafter. 1 



It is worthy of remark that Mr. W. O. Farmer's " Eden- 

 wold," the one remaining thoroughbred nursery of any 

 importance in Tennessee, embraces part of the William 

 Donelson estate which is said to have witnessed the begin- 

 ning of the thoroughbred business in this section. 



HORSES THAT OCCASIONED DUELS 



PLOUGHBOY, dk. b., foaled 1798; by imp Bedford, 

 dam Miss Queenland by Gen. Daniel Morgan's celebrated 



1 For other evidence on question here considered see " Panton's " 

 statement, Addenda D. 



