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Foxhall is credited by Balie Peyton and others with 

 having bred the four Tonson brothers, whose dam, as 

 shown above, was left by James Cryer to his son, Hardy 

 M. Cryer. 



Jo C. Guild, who served five terms in the legislature, a 

 brief time as Chancellor and one term as Circuit Judge, and 

 who was twice a Democratic elector, actively engaged in 

 raising horses before 1830 and kept at it until after the 

 Civil War. Proserpine (dam by Pacolet) produced for him, 

 besides John Malone, Caroline Malone and four others 

 by Leviathan. Flight, by Leviathan, brought him Oliver 

 by Wagner. A daughter of Black Sophia, bred to Wagner 

 produced a mare that foaled Hiawatha, by Albion, and 

 eight other colts, among which were Capitola, Duke of 

 Orleans, and Nannie Douglass. Gloriana, by American 

 Eclipse, produced for him Jack Malone by Lexington, 

 and Lucille and Patrician by Hiawatha. Hiawatha, 

 Jack Malone and Beeswing were the three most famous 

 horses Guild owned. 



In a race of "two miles and repeat," run over the Albion 

 course at Gallatin, Hiawatha beat Dan Calgy's PotSos 

 and Eli Odum's Mary Wyllie, foaled 1855, by imp Albion, 

 dam by imp Sovereign; by imp Leviathan; by 

 Bertrand. A statement made by Odum to the effect 

 that Mary Wyllie's defeat was due solely to the breaking 

 of her bridle-bit, "brought on more talk" and that of 

 the heated sort between Guild and Odum, and it ended 

 in Guild accepting Odum's banter to run his mare against 

 Guild's horse for $6,000 a side, 4-mile heats, over the 

 Nashville course. Each horse had a host of "friends"; 

 the contest, originating as it did, caused great excitement 

 and much betting. An immense throng witnessed the 

 event. Hiawatha won the first heat. In the second, 

 Mary set out from the first to run him down. For the 



