128 Making the American Thoroughbred 



Pennsylvania, joined the long procession of Northern 

 emigrants attracted to the South during the cotton 

 "boom" days in the early part of the last century. All 

 three of these men became leading citizens in North 

 Alabama. 



From the foregoing it will be seen that many men of 

 eminence, who left untarnished memories, had a very 

 warm appreciation of the "diamonds of the desert"; 

 and although many of them did not race their horses, 

 they helped to give a strong, aggressive force and vitality 

 to "the manly and gentlemanly amusement, the sports 

 of the turf." ' 



