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south, whereas Glencoe spent the last eight years of his 

 life in Kentucky, which, throughout the civil war, sat 

 complacent and comparatively unscathed in her neutrality. 

 Although Glencoe stood in Alabama and Tennessee to- 

 gether, twelve years, and in Kentucky nine years, only one 

 of these 35 native-bred descendants of Glencoe was foaled 

 in the South, outside of Kentucky. 



With the live stock interests of the South wiped out 

 almost entirely by the demands of two contending armies, 

 for four years, it is not surprising that the names of many 

 horses, celebrated throughout the South, do not occupy a 

 more prominent place in the pedigrees of post-bellum 

 thoroughbreds. The infrequency, or entire absence, of 

 the names of many of them, indicates that they are un- 

 known to this generation by reason of the devastation of 

 war. 1 



OTHER DISTINGUISHED SIRES 



Other distinguished horses of this decade were: 



POST BOY. See "POST BOY vs. JOHN BASCOMBE," post. 



PICTON, b. by imp Luzborough, dam Isabella by Sir Archy. Isa- 

 bella's dam was Black Ghost by imp Oscar; Pill Box, by imp 

 Pantaloon by King Herod. Pantaloon's dam was Nutcracker, 

 by Matchem. Up to Nov., 1837, Isabella's produce had earned 

 $75,000, and a $10,000 offer for Picton had been refused. Bred 

 by Col. Wm. Wynn, of Virginia; season 1839 at L. P. Cheatham's, 

 Nashville; $100. See "THE LEVIATHANS vs. THE LUZBOROUGHS," 

 this volume, post. 



1 The destruction wrought by "the" war on the habits and in- 

 dustries of the Southern people is strongly reflected, also, by contrast- 

 ing the facts now to be stated with the figures given on the same 

 subject in Chapter I. Of the entire 88 thoroughbred stallions in 

 1 883, two were in Virginia, three in Maryland, one in Alabama, one 

 in Texas and eleven in Tennessee, those in Tennessee being in 

 Sumner and Davidson Counties. Of the 60 native stallions in 1883, 

 eight were bred in the South outside of Kentucky. Of these eight, 

 two were bred in Virginia, five in Tennessee and one in Texas. 



