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first three miles they ran head and head; then Mary 

 weakened and Hiawatha left her, and, seeing she was 

 done for, came in under a strong pull. If Mary had made 

 Hiawatha run it through, experts it is pleasing to note 

 said he would have equalled Lexington's record of 7:19! . 



After this race Guild sold Hiawatha to Dr. James 

 Bradley for $6,000 cash, but bought him back, after he 

 broke down in a race at Memphis, and put him in the stud 

 where he proved a great success. He lived until his 

 twenty-fourth year and was buried on Guild's farm, a 

 short distance south of Gallatin. 



Balie Peyton's stud usually contained fifteen or more 

 brood mares. Among those he owned prior to 1840 was 

 the aged Lady Burton, by Sir Archy, dam Sultana who 

 was out of the mare and by the horse sent as a present 

 by the Bey of Tunis to President Jefferson, who sold 

 them and deposited the money to the credit of the United 

 States. Others were imp Anna Maria; Maria Shepherd, 

 by Sir Archy; Minerva Chance, descended from Craig's 

 imported Highflyer; and Lilac (by Leviathan), Gen. J. A. 

 Mabry's famous racer, for whom Peyton paid $3,400. 



In 1841 John Q Stevens, of New York, presented Pey- 

 ton with Cora, own sister to Medoc. In conjunction 

 with Gov. Butler of South Carolina, Peyton, in the same 

 year, purchased of Col. W. R. Johnson and Capt. D. H. 

 Branch of Petersburg, Virginia, Trifle, by Sir Charles and 

 Atalanta, by Industry. Atalanta had beat nearly every 

 prominent horse of her day, and it was Col. John- 

 son's opinion that she was the only horse in the country 

 that could possibly compete with Boston. Trifle's reputa- 

 tion on the Turf was second to that of no horse ever 

 bred in this country. Of 24 races run she won 20, 14 of 

 them being of 4-mile heats. Her dam was by Cicero, 

 son of Sir Archy; and she traced, on her dam's side, to 



