78 Making the American Thoroughbred 



athan's standing in the United States, as a whole, do not 

 fully signify the point of popularity he finally attained in 

 Tennessee; a rough estimate that he had more winning 

 stock on the turf in Tennessee and farther south, than any 

 other half-dozen or more horses would not be far wrong. 

 Throughout the entire country he was regarded as "the 

 modern Sir Archy." If you don't know the story of 

 Leviathan you don't know the history of Tennessee. 



SON OF A DERBY WINNER 



LUZBOROUGH, imp dk. b., was foaled in 1820; got by 

 Williamson's Ditto, winner of The Derby in 1 803 ; dam by 

 Dick Andrews; g. dam Eleanor by Whiskey; Young 

 Giantess by Diomed (afterward imported) ; Giantess 

 by Matchem; Molly Longlegs by Babraham; by 

 Cole's Foxhunter; by Partner; sister to Roxana; 

 sister to Chanter by the Alkaster Turk; by Leedes' 

 Arabian; by Spanker. 



Williamson's Ditto was by Sir Peter Teazle. 



Dick Andrews was by Joe Andrews, he by O' Kelly's 

 Eclipse. Dick Andrews' dam was by Highflyer. Eleanor 

 won 28 of 43 races; Dick Andrews won 20 of 27. 



Luzborough won 25 of 36 races run and received for- 

 feits from 585 horses, among them many of the famous 

 racers of England. He lost only one race of heats, when 

 he ran second to Presentiment whom he had beat before 

 and beat afterwards. He generally ran handicapped. At 

 8 years of age he was withdrawn from the turf and stood 

 three seasons in England where his colts ran with success. 

 In 1832 he was imported into Virginia by Merritt & 

 Merritt and made two seasons there. He was brought to 

 Nashville in January, 1835 by a company in which L. P. 

 Cheatham was probably interested, as he advertised that 

 Luzborough would stand the season of 1835 at Thomas A. 



