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the best distance horses they ever run or had to train. His speed is 

 certainly known to all of those who have run against him. He has, 

 on the most unequal terms, started against the very best mile horses 

 in Kentucky and Tennessee, and beat them with great ease; and 

 in no one instance has ever run with any horse, when he himself 

 was in order, but he either could or did distance him with ease. 

 Although the four mile heats is the real and true distance for Truxton 

 to run, he has beaten Mr. Gordon's five mile horse, Jack-of-CIubs, 

 and Mr. Cotton's Greyhound, both aged horses, with equal weights 

 of 100 Ibs. on each, the single mile heats. 



"And lastly, to crown the much doubted speed of Truxton with 

 his opponents, he beat, on only two sound legs, on the 3d of April 

 1806, over the Clover Bottom turf, the celebrated horse Ploughboy, 

 who was never before beaten, and beating him without the assistance 

 of whip or spurs. It is now no longer difficult for the numerous 

 concourse of people who were present on that day to say 'whether 

 or not Truxton be the true bred racer.' 



"Truxton's winnings, from time to time, from the most correct 

 information, amount to at least twenty thousand dollars, and his 

 colts are not inferior to any on the continent. 



"ANDREW JACKSON." 



Appended to this communication was this certificate 

 signed by Samuel Pryor: 



"I do certify that I have trained the above mentioned horse 

 Truxton, and with truth can say that I believe him in point of speed 

 and bottom equal to any distance horse in America." 



And a certificate from Maj. John Verrell of Dinwiddie 

 County, Virginia., in which he gave the pedigree of 

 Truxton's dam as follows: 



"Nancy Coleman, was got by young Fearnought; her dam 

 Latona, by old Partner; her grandam by the imported horse Jolly 

 Roger; her g. grandam by the imported horse Skim, out of a Barb 

 mare. 



"Given under my hand this loth March 1806. 



"JOHN VERRELL." 



In no account of the Jackson-Dickinson duel that I 

 have seen is mention made of this last race between Trux- 



