52 Making the American Thoroughbred 



County; 1805 at "I. Hoopers," same county; died 1805. "He 

 was grey and very fine." 



GREY DIOMED, foaled 1802, by imp. Diomed, dam by Flag of Truce; 

 bred and owned by Daniel Barksdale "of Tennessee" probably 

 Montgomery County. 



PRESIDENT, ch. by Celer, dam by Mark Anthony. Owned by 

 Simeon Buford, Nashville; 1807 at the upper ferry in charge 

 of a "careful young man"; 1808 at Jesse Mayfield's "on the 

 Franklin road near Judge Overton's." Buford boldly affirms in 

 his advertisement that President beat Truxton in a 4-mile heat 

 race at Clover Bottom "with 160 on each" and in Warren County, 

 Kentucky, with "150 on each" a quarter race. 



RODNEY, imp, foaled 1790, by Paymaster dam Nina by Highflyer. 

 Imported into Virginia. Said to have stood in Tennessee. Pay- 

 master sired the winner of the St. Leger in 1786. 



YOUNG DIOMED, ch. foaled 1804; by imp Diomed, dam Bellona 

 by Wildair. Owned by Jesse Westmoreland; 1808 at Samuel 

 Shannon's 8 miles north of Nashville. 



YOUNG McKiNNEY Roan, by old McKinney Roan by Celer. As 

 property of William Roberts stood 1807-08 at John Shute's, William 

 Simpson's and Col. Joel Lewis', Davidson County. Season pay- 

 able "in produce, cotton, pork, beef, corn, rye, wheat, oats, whis- 

 key or brandy." 



A communication from Judge William Williams to The 

 Turf Register stated that IJryan O'Lynn and Dragon 

 stood in Tennessee in the years named, and that the fol- 

 lowing named horses stood in Tennessee years not 

 remembered between 1805 and 1826: 



BOMPARD, foaled about 1796, by imp Obscurity, dam by imp 

 Fearnought; by imp Janus. 



DUNGANNON, imp b., foaled 1793; by Dungannon, dam by Conduc- 

 tor; by Blank; by Crab. H. M. E. Imported in 1799 by J. 

 Tayloe of Va. Stood in Sumner County. 



HEROD, imp gr., foaled 1792; by Young Herod son of Old Herod dam 

 by Conductor; g. dam by Florizel; by Matchem. Imported 

 1790 by John Hoomes of Virginia. Stood in Davidson County. 



HIGHLANDER, imp gr. foaled 1783; by Bordeaux out of Tetotum 

 (winner of The Oaks in 1780) by Matchem. Imported into New 

 York in 1794. 



