68 Making the American Thoroughbred 



former; and the offspring of these importations were 

 actually permitted to graze in the same pasture with the 

 Archys and Pacolets and romp and play on terms of per- 

 fect equality. The success, as sires, of several of these 

 early importations brought others from year to year, 

 and in 1840 the foreign horses, not one-fifth in number, 

 did more than one-half in performance. This according 

 to "Frank Forester" who, in summarizing his tabulations 

 in 1857, said: "It is indisputably proved by the above 

 that a far less number of imported stallions have got a far 

 greater number of winners than the American stallions, 

 in the last eight and twenty years. And further, that the 

 winning stock of the English stallions have won rather a 

 larger number of heats and run a greater number of miles, 

 each for each, than those of the Americans." 



Whether these results were attributable entirely to the 

 new blood or, in part, to the "old reliables" with whom 

 the imported horses were mated, is a question the writer 

 leaves to others, while he keeps to the main point, viz. : 

 the effect the conditions set forth above had on the 

 Tennessee stock. 



Between 1825 and 1840 Sir Archy contributed to the 

 Tennessee stallion class 17 sons, 14 grandsons in the male 

 line and 6 in the female line all in the stallion class. 

 His mares not counted. So much for the Archy monop- 

 oly. American Eclipse and six of his sons stood in Ten- 

 nessee so much for the rivalry between the Archys 

 and Eclipses. To show the merit of other horses whose 

 blood permeated Tennessee stock some comparisons must 

 be made. The facts stated are fished out of " Forester's " 

 tables which were compiled from reports in The Turf 

 Register to show the relative rank of native and imported 

 stallions, in the aggregate. "Forester's" tables differ some- 

 what from those printed in The Spirit of the Times, 



