124 Making the American Thoroughbred 



Bradfute of Williamson, and many others prominently 

 mentioned elsewhere in this volume. A famous brood 

 mare owned by Charles Bosley was Madam Bosley, 

 Gamma's dam. Between 1833 and 1859 she produced 

 fifteen foals. A still more remarkable mare was Duke 

 W. Sumner's Matilda, by Greytail Florizel. She was 

 foaled April 12, 1820. Beginning in 1825 she produced 

 a colt every year up to and including 1842. The first 

 four colts (ages not given) when sold, averaged $300. 

 Of the next nine, all by Pacific, one died and the other 

 eight sold for sums ranging from $950 to $2,000, the aver- 

 age for the eight being $ i ,268.75. The twelve colts brought 

 $11,350, an average of about $946. Sales of last five 

 colts not noted. 



NORTH ALABAMA BREEDERS 



James Jackson was born in Ireland, Oct. 28, 1782. His 

 parents were in comfortable circumstances and he was 

 well educated. With Thomas Kirkman, who married 

 his sister Ellen, Jackson came to Nashville well supplied 

 with coin of the realm and began life as a merchant on the 

 Public Square. 



If Jackson did not have the race horse fever when he 

 left Ireland he soon took it in Nashville; as early as 1807, 

 he owned thoroughbreds. Ten years later he was one of 

 the leading horsemen of Tennessee; and, doubtless, it 

 was to take care of his horses that he moved to a small 

 farm called "Green vale" "two miles from Haysboro on 

 the Haysboro road." 



About 1819 Jackson, Gen. John Coffee and others 

 organized the Cypress Land Company that bought a 

 large area of land around Florence, Alabama. At the 

 Forks of the Big Cypress and the Little Cypress was a 

 magnificent building site occupied by Doublehead's wig- 



