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Catron, who is on record as owning race "nags." William 

 Carroll, twelve years Governor, doubtless owned a few, as 

 he frequently acted in an official capacity at the races. 



In regard to race horses Henry Baldwin, Jr., of William- 

 son County, followed the example of his father's associate 

 on the United States Supreme Bench, Judge Gabriel 

 Duval, who, during his long service as a member of the 

 highest Court, was one of the Turf leaders of Maryland. 



In The Turf Register of March, 1830, Sir Charles, then 

 the property of Col. W. R. Johnson and B. Moody, was 

 advertised to stand " at the stable of Robert Hurt, Esq. 

 ten miles north of Halifax Court House, Virginia, at 

 $25." This was Rev. Robert Hurt who later moved to 

 West Tennessee. He was tried by his Church, the Bap- 

 tist, for "following the fashion" with respect to breeding 

 race horses, but "came clear" on the plea that he never 

 shared in the purses his horses won. Rev. Robert Hurt 

 was the father of W. W. Hurt who, as elsewhere shown, 

 was a successful turfman in West Tennessee, until he re- 

 turned to Virginia. Rev. Robert Hurt was the grandfather 

 of Gen. W. H. Jackson, of Belle Meade memory. 



Among other prominent breeders before 1840 were F. 

 ZoIIicoffer, J. H. Webster, Nimrod Porter, Thomas C. 

 Porter, John G. and Edward Shegogg, all of Maury; 

 Liles E. Abernathy of Giles; Thomas Mumford of 

 Wilson; William Lytle and J. G. Bostwick of Rutherford; 

 John D. Tyler and George W. Cheatham of Montgomery; 

 M. E. Broyles (or Boyles), of La Grange; Charles 

 H. Dickinson, Charles Bosley, John Bosley, M. R. Cock- 

 rill, Arnold Russell and Col. Henry L. Douglass of David- 

 son; Wilson Cage, Reuben Cage, Orville Cage, James 

 Douglass, B. F. Simpson, Thomas C. Trimble, Henry 

 Duffy, Gen. Joseph Miller, Maj. W. H. Harvey and Eli 

 Odum, all of Sumner; Beverly Reece and James H. 



