48 Making the American Thoroughbred 



be admitted within the gates, but such as contend on 

 the TURF and all perfons are requefted not to bring 

 their dogs to the field, as they will be shot without refpect 

 to the owners. March ift. 1806. 



Ploughboy was not advertised in the Impartial Review 

 after April 3, 1806, nor in either of the two subsequent 

 years. A possible reason for this may be found in the 

 statement of Jackson quoted below. 



TRUXTON, foaled 1800; 15 hands 3 inches in height. 

 Advertised by Gen. Andrew Jackson to stand seasons of 

 1807 and 1808 in charge of John W. Clay "on the hill 

 adjoining town near the College seat"; $20 payable within 

 the season; $30, longer credit, in "merchantable ginned 

 cotton." In 1809 Truxton stood at Clay's at $50. In 

 1816 he stood at Will Trigg's stable, Gallatin, at $10; 

 $20 to insure; all "notes payable to Maj. Gen. Andrew 

 Jackson." 



"We should be pleased to have a minute account of 

 the performances of Truxton," wrote editor Skinner, of 

 The Turf Register, in the December number, 1833, "but 

 the following which we find in the tenth volume of The 

 American Farmer is the only one we have. Every drop 

 of his blood is to be prized wherever it is to be found." 



The article then quoted is one by Gen. Andrew Jackson 

 and is as follows: 



"Truxton is a beautiful bay, full of bone and muscle; was got 

 by the imported horse old Diomed, and came out of the thorough- 

 bred mare Nancy Coleman, the property of Maj. John Verrell of 

 Virginia. Truxton is, however, too well known to require minute 

 description. His performances on the turf have surpassed those of 

 any horse of his age that has ever been run in the western country; 

 and, indeed, it might be said with confidence, that he is equal, if 

 not superior, to Mr. Ball's Florizel horse, who was got by the same 

 Diomed, and who now stands unrivalled in Virginia as a race horse. 



"Truxton, by old sportsmen and judges, is admitted to be amongst 



