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period, also had a training establishment at Franklin 

 and trained horses for the leading sportsmen of Ten- 

 nessee and other states south of it. 



EARLY DAY NASHVILLE MEETINGS 



Among those who ran horses at the Nashville meetings 

 between 1825 and 1832 were O. Shelby, Thomas Foxhall, 

 George Elliott, Arthur Cotton, Capt. Donelson, Gen. 

 Robert Desha, - - Bledsoe, J. W. Clay, Mr. Cheatham, 

 Mr. Beasley, W. C. Davis, proprietor of the track, Col. 

 J. W. Camp, A. B. Shelby, Major Bibb, S. J. Carter, Mr. 

 McEwen, Mr. Rudd, Mr. Olmstead, Mr. Tompkins. 



The officers of the Nashville Jockey Club in 1829 were: 

 Judges, John Harding, Solomon Clark, Francis Mc- 

 Gavock, Thomas D. McNairy and Thomas Martin; 

 Timers, Gen. Robert Desha, Gov. William Carroll and 

 William Temple. 



In October, 1830 the officers were John Harding, Presi- 

 dent; Dr. McNairy and Duke W. Sumner, Judges; Gov. 

 William Carroll, J. Horton and E. Wilborn, Timers; 

 Judge Phillips and Maj. Marshal, Distance Judges; 

 Messrs. Maxey, Earthman and Brown, Stewards; Messrs. 

 G. Harding, Ewing, Stratton and Higgins, Patrol. In 

 1826 Frank McGavock was Secretary of the Nashville 

 Jockey Club. In 1829 William Williams signed himself 

 "Reporter to the Club"; in 1830 he was temporary 

 Secretary and then Secretary. The Nashville track was 

 then "on a bottom below town on the Cumberland" 

 near the end of the present Jefferson street. 



In The Turf Register of May, 1831, "A Western Sub- 

 scriber" wrote of the Nashville track: 



"The half of the track, next the river, is alluvial, and, of course, 

 deep sand; the other half is a sweet-gum flat, and, from the nature 

 of such soil, very hard, when dry, and very tough, when wet; and 



